Chez Madame - unfortunately closed for the time being

Chez Madame has wonderfully big panoramic windows. Even though you're inside it feels light and spacious, but there are a lot of outside seats as well. Even non-smokers can enjoy the long outside-benches as the area towards Falsterbogatan is a non-smoking area.

My favorite cake is Skördekakan (The Harvest Cake). Everything is baked in the café and if you have special requests, the staff are happy to help. For example, if a family wants plain buns with butter for their kids, that can easily be arranged.

What is really awesome about this place is their brunch where everything is vegetarian. There are things like Scones, French Toast or Greek Yoghurt with fruits. You get to choose whatever you like from a menu and each plate costs 45 kr. Coffee included. Affordable, tasty and irresistible! Get  there in time or visit the second serving. One idea is to gather four or more friends and each order one brunch alternative. You may then share like a "brunch tapas".

Some info

Americano 25

Three breakfast options

50/75/90 kr

Served 9-11

Brunch 45 kr/ plate (two are more than enough)

Served each weekend 10-14

Wi-Fi - Yes

Getting there

Falsterbogatan 1

Monday closed

Tue-Fri: 9-18

Sat-Sun: 10-17

040-611 70 09

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Kaffebaren på Möllan

Kaffebar (Coffee bar) is a suitable name for this café. They focus on coffee and inside you sit on bar stools. One reason why this place is so popular, is of course the location, right on the corner of Möllevångstorget (where there is a large food market). But also the simplicity. There is not too much to choose from och just by looking at the place one knows what to expect. If you want something with your espresso, then there is a limited selection of croissants or toasts.

Most of the time there is a short queue, probably because this place has managed to keep an constant and high standard on the coffee. Kaffebar has their own coffee blend from LOVE Coffee Roasters, and you can buy that and the lovely cups to bring back home. Recently they also started serving filter coffee. For those who dare to try new flavors, there is hand brewed coffee.

This fall Oskar took over the after the former owner Samir. But much is the same. Like the very mixed clientele or as Malmö Town said in their nomination "it is an urban melting pot". This place has many regulars who live or work around the square. Go here when you want good espresso or if you want to sit and look at people walking by or just need more ground coffee at home. 

Some info

Americano 24

Breakfast sandwich 8-11

No toilet

Wi-Fi - No

Getting here
Ystadsgatan 9
Mon-Fri 8-7
Sat 9-6
Sun 10-6
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Coffee Joint

A great way to start the day is to sit at this café and watch the busy vegetable market at Möllevångstorget; open 9 to 3 daily except Sundays. Coffee Joint's breakfast special is very good value. It is actually a small buffé with boiled eggs, bread, yoghurt, granola, fruit etcetera. And waffles that you prepare yourself. Coffee is also included. Good deal! Tastes great and you are not hungry when you leave.

They also bake their own cakes, like the Oreo Cheesecake. If the sun is out, you may catch it all day here. First on the outside tables and later in the backyard. Sitting at the bar stools by the enormous windows, is not bad either.


Some info
Breakfast special - 69
Including freshly squeezed juice and choice of coffee
Is served

Mon-Sat 9-13

Sun 10 - 13
Wi-Fi - Yes

Getting here
Möllevångstorget 3A
Mon-Sat 9-6
Sun 10-7
Phone 040-96 65 00
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Melvins

Have new new owners since December and it is St. Jakob's bakery in Lund, who runs the place. Lucky Malmö! St. Jakob is the best café in Lund. They will keep the name Melvin though. Here you can buy leaven bread and wonderful Mazarins to take home. Or stay for fika. The carrot cake is still from Olof Viktors. Why change a winning recipe? The cardamom buns sell the best. There are Kokostoppar too, with or without dark chocolate.

If you like warm chocolate, then I really recommend the variation they serve here. Made with foamed milk and pieces of real chocolate. The coffee is from Koppi in Helsingborg, who only deal with plantations which do not ruin any rainforest. The tea is replaced with Prime Tea from Lund, with flavors like Leopard Snow Buds, a green tea.

Otherwise, all is as it used to be. After deciding what to eat and drink, I can sit down and start relaxing. In a little while my order is brought to the table. And I feel taken care of, which is why this is such a popular place for fika.

Some info
Americano 28
Several breakfasts to choose from:
Continental breakfast 70 kr
Big breakfast115
Wi-Fi - Yes

Getting here
Skvadronsgatan 16
Mon-Fri 8-6
Sat-Sun 9.30-5
Telephone 040-26 12 12
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Lilla Kafferosteriet

The scent that meets you when you open the green wooden doors, is seducing. The reason for this might be that there has been a coffee roastery here before. In 2006 there was almost only Espresso House to visit for people in Malmö who wanted fika. Filip Åkerblom then decided to start a local roastery where coffee would be served as well. This turned into Lilla Kafferosteriet, situated in a yellow 17th century building on Baltzarsgatan. He thought that knowledge about coffee was very limited at the time and wanted to increase the knowledge among people in general. But first he himself needed to get entirely educated. For several years Filip Åkerblom travelled to meet coffee planters in Central and South America. Then later to Africa and now lately to Asia. Next week's destination is Indonesia.

In the beginning the roastery lay in the café, like an open kitchen in a restaurant, but then it got too big. Therefore the shop next door was bought and the roastery and shop moved over there. But soon this was not large enough either. So now the roastery is down in the harbour. Together with a coffee school. People from all over the world come here to learn about coffee. A fun fact is that it was Filip who wrote the rules for the World Cup in coffee brewing!, a competition that was last held in Rimini, Italy.

The customers also get educated. For each filter coffee there is one refill, and in that way we get to flavor different blends. Maybe someone will dare try a lightly roasted coffee, if one first have tried medium roast. But the most important thing is that everyone should feel welcome and that there are no no-noes. Like for example - pouring milk in the coffee. Even though it is nice when someone in the clientele discovers that there are coffee qualities with very little tannin acid (grown on the lowlands in Brazil), where milk is not needed.

The pastries are carefully chosen, like the Cardamom bun from the bakery around the corner, the bread from Organic bakery and the Carrot cake from Olof Victor's out on Österlen. The café itself has many smaller rooms (you might get lost) with eclectic furniture. It is a little like coming home to an old aunt on the country side. If you sit down, you might have trouble getting up again. So cozy.

Filip does not want to get too big, but it seems he has difficulties to stop expanding. Next year he will open a coffee bar close to the new Concert Hall - Malmö Live.

Some info

Americano 26

Breakfast 60

Served all day

Brunch or Scanian breakfast buffé 95

Served Sat 10-13 & Sun 11-14

Wi-Fi - No

Getting here
Baltzarsgatan 24 A
Mon-Fri 8-19
Sat 10-17
Sun 11-17
040 - 48 20 00
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Café Grannen

Café Grannen is really charming and more charmed you will get, when you understand how altruistic Sami works. The paintings hanging on the walls for example, are for sale. The café was already from the beginning a café and a gallery. Sami, who also paints, only had the opening of a gallery in mind, but also kept the café. To help "struggling artists", she sells their paintings without any commission. If you do find a spot on the wall, you're welcome to share your art with the public.

But it's also a café. Sami, the owner, makes and bakes everything herself. Like the three types of cheesecake that are usually on display, one with an exotic new flavor. If you pick a piece of that one, you have to give some feedback. And if at least five customers say they would buy the same cake again, then that variety will be on next week's menu. There are also vegan "Swedish Chocolate Balls".

If you choose the Scone buffé or brunch, you will have the possibility to taste Sami's home-made marmalades. Take the chance while you're here! Good tasting, unusual combinations like pear&cinnamon or banana&nectarin. If you prefer gluten-free scones or vegan - just write a message to the café on Facebook a few days before your visit, and they will prepare it for you.

Other charming details are the bookshelves, where you are allowed to leave or borrow book. Remember to tell Sami before you take a book, since some customers keep their reading material here to use on their next fika. Also don't forget to adore the restroom before you leave, because it is charming and unusual as the rest of this place.

Some info
Americano 20
Breakfast:
Scone-buffé 55
Served 9-11 (Sometimes longer)
Brunch 85-95
Brunch served 9.30-14 on weekends
Wi-Fi - Yes

Getting there
Östervärnsgatan 5
Mon-Thu 9-17
Fridays closed!
Sat-Sun 9.30-15.30
040 - 602 37 34
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