Fika is a Swedish word that means having a coffee and something to eat but, more than that, it's a social institution; these coffee breaks (preferably two a day) have an almost sacred place in Swedes' hearts. Of course you can always drink your coffee at home or at work, but nothing beats a creamy cappuccino at your favourite café, a freshly-baked cinnamon bun from the bakery on the corner, or a proper espresso amidst the meetings and emails. Gothenburg is packed with really great cafés and java joints. We show you the way to the city's gems, for the freshest-baked buns and best-roasted coffee beans.
Gothenburg's best cafés
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The best cafés in Gothenburg
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1Da Matteo Great coffee all over town
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2Kafé Magasinet Stylish in Långgårdarna
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3Alkemisten Where coffee turns to gold
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4Viktors Kaffe Black magic at Viktor's place
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5Gerd Watering hole
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6Evas Paley The café queen reigns
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7Steinbrenner & Nyberg Cinnamon buns & champagne
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8Me & the Goat Homemade sweets
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9Café Husaren Historic in Haga
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10Mr Cake American-Swedish fika fusion
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11Konditori Kampanilen Historic patisserie and café
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12Brogyllen Classic in the heart of the city
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13Heurlins Indulge in bubbles and pastries
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14Café Biscotti Award-winning in Majorna
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15Le Petit Café Homebaking and French charm
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16Cykelfiket Bike repair shop and café
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17Roots At the library
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18Kafé Zenit Coffee in culturally historic setting
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19A43 Coffee Award-winning coffee bar
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20Rosenkaféet Romance in the park
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21Restaurang Röda Sten Art + coffee
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22Scandic Göteborg Central Coffee and cake at the hotel Sponsored
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Cafés a little further afield
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1Cum Pane Organic bakery
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2Bertilssons Stuga Coffee cabin in nature reserve
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3Gunnebo Organic in historic surroundings
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4Brödfabriken i Jonsered By Eric Ericsson
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5Portens Bageri Baked on-site in a stone oven
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6Kafé Gapet Arty café
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7Maison Caillard French bakery
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8Café Öbergska Experience the archipelago
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9Systrarna Werner Cosy in Billdal
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10Wærnet Showroom and café
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11Lasse-Maja Freshly baked each day of the week
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The best cafés in Gothenburg
Great coffee all over town
Enjoy own-roasted beans, buns baked from scratch and well-balanced java from Da Matteo's award-winning baristas. This popular coffee chain can be found at several locations around town. You can sit outside all year round at their narrow hole-in-the-wall branch in Viktoriapassagen and the Vallgatan café includes a roastery and bakery.
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Södra Larmgatan 14, Centrum Vallgatan 5, Centrum Magasinsgatan 17A, Centrum Vallgatan 19, Centrum Lindholmsallén 8a, HisingenDa Matteo Viktoriapassagen
Södra Larmgatan 14, CentrumDa Matteo Vallgatan
Vallgatan 5, CentrumDa Matteo Magasinsgatan
Magasinsgatan 17A, CentrumDa Matteo Handel
Vallgatan 19, CentrumDa Matteo Lindholmsallén
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damatteo.seDa Matteo Lindholmsallén
damatteo.seDa Matteo Viktoriapassagen
031-380 33 10Da Matteo Vallgatan
031-380 33 10Da Matteo Magasinsgatan
031-380 33 10Da Matteo Handel
031-382 03 38Da Matteo Lindholmsallén
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Da Matteo Viktoriapassagen Da Matteo Vallgatan Da Matteo Magasinsgatan Da Matteo Handel Da Matteo Lindholmsallén
Stylish in Långgårdarna
This lively former docks area is home to numerous cool restaurants and cafés, including Kafé Magasinet, which has managed to lift unpolished concrete to new aesthetic heights. Sip cappuccinos from china designed by the owners' own in-house designer. In the evenings it turns into a modern beer café.
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Tredje Långgatan 9, Linné
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Kafé Magasinet
031-309 52 40 - Read more on Thatsup
Where coffee turns to gold
At Alkemisten they're passionate about coffee, sourdough and seasonal goodies. Come to enjoy carefully brewed filter coffee, tuck into a delicious brunch or just a yummy cake or pastry to go with your coffee. They work with a hundred percent traceable beans, so you always know exactly where your java comes from.
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Gustaf Dalénsgatan 14, Hisingen
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Black magic at Viktor's place
This stylish spot, with its Nordic tones and large windows looking out over the streets, serves all kinds of coffee. If you're a bit of a coffee nerd, or just curious about the pour-over coffee trend, you've come to the right place. Viktor welcomes you personally and as well as coffee he also serves various tasty snacks.
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Geijersgatan 7, Centrum
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Viktors Kaffe
076-268 68 67 - Read more on Thatsup
Watering hole
This popular café serving breakfast, coffee, pastries, and grilled sandwiches is named after the owner's grandma Gerd. Their egg sandwich has made quite a name for itself and, together with the other items on the menu, attracts a lot of regulars.
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Linnégatan 7, Linné
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Gerd
076-021 90 40 - Read more on Thatsup
The café queen reigns
With a prime position on Avenyn, this long-running café reigns supreme on the city's café map. Drink freshly-pressed juices, munch buns and muffins or enjoy a proper breakfast, lunch or dinner. The café is licensed and you can sit and work here all day long, refuelling with both coffee and more substantial alternatives.
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Kungsportsavenyen 39, Centrum/Avenyn
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Evas Paley
031-16 55 70 - Read more on Thatsup
Cinnamon buns & champagne
Steinbrenner & Nyberg can be found at several different addresses in Gothenburg and Mölndal. Some of their outlets are bakery stores but at this branch you can sit and enjoy a great cup of coffee with your bun, or a glass of champagne - which may just be the perfect accompaniment to a classic cream-filled pastry. You'll also find their popular soup buffet and accompanying dessert buffet here.
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Östra Larmgatan 6, Centrum Stora Saluhallen 90-92, Centrum Södra vägen 47, Centrum Vintergatan 6, Hisingen Centralstationen, Centrum/Gullbergsvass Linnégatan 2, Linné Alfagatan 22Steinbrenner & Nyberg Östra Larmgatan
Östra Larmgatan 6, CentrumSteinbrenner & Nyberg Saluhallen
Stora Saluhallen 90-92, CentrumSteinbrenner & Nyberg Södra vägen
Södra vägen 47, CentrumSteinbrenner & Nyberg Sannegården
Vintergatan 6, HisingenSteinbrenner & Nyberg Centralen
Centralstationen, Centrum/GullbergsvassSteinbrenner & Nyberg Linnégatan
Linnégatan 2, LinnéSteinbrenner & Nyberg Mölndal
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steinbrenner-nyberg.se/butiker-bageriet/ostra-larmgatanSteinbrenner & Nyberg Saluhallen
steinbrenner-nyberg.seSteinbrenner & Nyberg Södra vägen
steinbrenner-nyberg.se/butiker-bageriet/sodra-vagenSteinbrenner & Nyberg Sannegården
steinbrenner-nyberg.se/butiker-bageriet/sannegardenSteinbrenner & Nyberg Centralen
steinbrenner-nyberg.se/butiker-bageriet/centralstationenSteinbrenner & Nyberg Linnégatan
steinbrenner-nyberg.seSteinbrenner & Nyberg Mölndal
steinbrenner-nyberg.seSteinbrenner & Nyberg Östra Larmgatan
031-80 20 28Steinbrenner & Nyberg Saluhallen
031-711 19 31Steinbrenner & Nyberg Södra vägen
031-16 56 20Steinbrenner & Nyberg Sannegården
031-787 83 78Steinbrenner & Nyberg Centralen
031-787 81 30Steinbrenner & Nyberg Linnégatan
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Homemade sweets
At this charming café in Majorna, everything is baked on-site with a generous amount of love. Both breakfast and lunch are served buffet-style with everything from salads and soups to filled croissants and freshly baked bread. If you come here for a coffee break, you can choose from various rolls muffins, soft cakes, and sandwiches. During the summer months, the outdoor seating area is a delightful oasis.
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Karl Johansgatan 95, Majorna
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Me & the Goat
070-884 07 17 - Read more on Thatsup
Historic in Haga
Imagine sinking your teeth into a cinnamon bun as big as your face. Here, at this historic café in Haga, you can do just that. Husaren is well-known for their gigantic buns, but they also serve other kinds of fika, as well as sandwiches and light meals.
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Haga Nygata 28, Linné
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Café Husaren
031-13 63 78 - Read more on Thatsup
American-Swedish fika fusion
After their success in Stockholm, Roy Fares' café chain has now established itself in Gothenburg. The concept is a sugary sweet meeting between Swedish fika and American café culture, in the form of indulgent cakes, glazed buns, cookies, and other pastries. If you're craving something savoury, they also serve sandwiches, salads, and wraps.
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Femmanhuset, Centrum Lilla Badhusgatan 2, CentrumMr Cake Femman
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Historic patisserie and café
Kampanilen has been at the same premises since 1936, and underwent a major renovation in 2019. Good ingredients and plenty of love form the basis of the ambitious pastries, buns, cakes, and sourdough bread they bake. If you have a weakness for chocolate (and who doesn't?), you should check out the café's homemade pralines.
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Karl Johansgatan 5, Majorna
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Konditori Kampanilen
031-14 48 11 - Read more on Thatsup
Classic in the heart of the city
The huge windows at this classic café look out over the canal and Västra Hamngatan. Te counter is filled with tempting pastries, sandwiches and smoothies. They also serve lunch and if you want to kickstart the day with a city breakfast, sink into one of their armchairs and enjoy some freshly-baked goodies.
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Västra Hamngatan 2, Centrum
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Brogyllen Västra Hamngatan
031-13 87 13 - Read more on Thatsup
Indulge in bubbles and pastries
Satisfy your sweet tooth at Heurlins with a sugar rush of lavish pastries and desserts, served with bubbles on tap in a playful setting. Created by award-winning pastry chef Patrik Fredriksson, the menu mainly focuses on reinterpretations of éclairs, but also features other cakes and confectionery treats.
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Heurlins Plats 11, Linné
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Award-winning in Majorna
This popular corner café is a favourite among fika fans and office workers alike. The small kitchen one floor up whips up delicious pastries as well as lunch dishes for meat-eaters, fish-lovers and veggies. During the summer months you can sit out on the sunny al fresco dining area.
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Allmänna vägen 34, Majorna
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Café Biscotti
031-14 44 75 - Read more on Thatsup
Homebaking and French charm
You'll find this delightful café in French rustic style at the start of Haga's most lively street. Everything is baked on site and it's easy to while away the day here once you've managed to bag a seat. During the summer months the pavement seating area is full of tourists and fika-mad locals.
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Haga Nygata 2, Linné
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Le Petit Café
031-309 91 44 - Read more on Thatsup
Bike repair shop and café
This spot combines a bike repair shop with a café. Of course, you don't have to cycle here to enjoy a cup of really good coffee and a bun from their partners Kampanilenn, but they may just taste even better if you do.
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Sten Sturegatan 1, Centrum
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Cykelfiket På Heden
031-711 56 26 - Read more on Thatsup
At the library
Somewhat unexpectedly, you'll find this popular café serving delicious pastries and café dishes such as buns, cakes, salads, wraps, sandwiches, and croissants at Gothenburg City iIbrary. The space features large windows facing Götaplatsen and is decorated with large, lush plants. There's also a balcony to enjoy your coffee on.
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Götaplatsen 3, Centrum/Avenyn
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Roots Café
031-788 85 85 - Read more on Thatsup
Coffee in culturally historic setting
This café next to Djurgårdsparken is within walking distance of Gothenburg's Maritime Museum and several exciting music venues. It's a well-loved watering hole for students, music fans and Majorna locals. There are also plenty of parents here as the café is next door to a popular playground.
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Allmänna vägen 11, Majorna
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Kafé Zenit
031-14 56 60 - Read more on Thatsup
Award-winning coffee bar
The team at A43 are proper coffee nerds, sourcing beans from carefully selected micro-roasters who are passionate about both quality and sustainability. They've won several awards for best barista awards. There's seating available both indoors and outdoors, and if you really want to take a deep dive into the world of coffee, you can attend a coffee tasting.
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Kungsportsavenyen 43, Centrum/Avenyn
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A43 Coffee
031-24 46 24 - Read more on Thatsup
Romance in the park
In Sweden's oldest public park, with a rose garden just inside the entrance, you'll find one of the park's oldest buildings housing Rosenkaféet. Enjoy coffee, cakes and pastries, hot food and drinks in beautiful, leafy garden surroundings. Numerous happy couples have celebrated their wedding parties here under the scorched wooden beams, which survived a fire in 1967.
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Slussgatan 1, Centrum
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Rosenkaféet
031-80 29 70 - Read more on Thatsup
Art + coffee
Check out the current exhibition in the art gallery before you sit down for a warming cup of coffee, or perhaps a cheeky Kaffe Karlsson (coffee with Baileys and Cointreau). During the summer months you can sit outside and look out over the entrance to the city's harbour.
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Röda Sten 1
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Restaurang Röda Sten
031-12 00 12 - Read more on Thatsup
Scandic Göteborg Central
SponsoredCoffee and cake at the hotel
Enjoy a coffee or a light lunch in Scandic Göteborg Central's light, airy café area. Choose from smoothies, wraps, bowls, cakes and pastries and hot and cold drinks - to eat in or take away. There are also work spaces where you can charge your phone or laptop.
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Vikingsgatan 7, Centrum/Gullbergsvass
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Scandic Göteborg Central
031-751 56 00 - Read more on Thatsup
Cafés a little further afield
Organic bakery
At Cum Pane they only use organic ingredients. Each ingredient is carefully selected to bring out the very best flavours in their baked goods, whether sweet or savoury. Although it's more a bakery than a café, both their branches also have a few seats for guests craving a coffee break.
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Coffee cabin in nature reserve
This little red-painted, early 19th century cottage within Delsjön nature reserve is straight from the pages of a fairytale. Stop off here when you're out for a nature walk and enjoy their buns and sandwiches all made in their own mini bakery. During the winter months you can warm up next to the open fire and in the summer you can borrow picnic blankets and eat and drink al fresco.
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Delsjökärrvägen 26
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Bertilssons Stuga
031-98 70 74 - Read more on Thatsup
Organic in historic surroundings
The park and beautiful walks around Gunnebo Slott & Trädgårdar are worth a visit in themselves. After a stroll around the park a cup of freshly brewed coffee tastes specially good. Everything is organic and vegetables come from their own gardens.
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Christina Halls Väg
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Gunnebo Kaffehus och Krog
031-334 16 00 - Read more on Thatsup
By Eric Ericsson
This bakery and café, run by actor Eric Ericsson, is housed in the Jonsereds Fabriker former factory area. Stop by to enjoy breakfast, lunch or coffee in light, airy industrial premises. While you're there, buy some sourdough bread, buns and cakes and pastries from the artisanal bakery.
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Fabriksstråket 27, Partille
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Baked on-site in a stone oven
Portens Bageri in Munkebäck is a modern café with white-tiled walls, industrial lamps, leafy plants, and naturally, a counter filled with sweet and savoury treats. Everything is baked in a stone oven on the second floor, offering a mix of classic and modern treats that vary depending on the season. To find out what's available on any particular day, just give them a call or check the bread schedule on their website.
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Munkebäckstorget 8
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Portens Bageri
031-21 11 20 - Read more on Thatsup
Arty café
Admire the art at Kafe Gapet, or just pastel colours and simple, straight shapes of the decor. They display art by various artists hanging on the walls, and the view through the arched windows isn't too shabby either. Enjoy avocado toast, ice cream in the summer, homemade crispbread, yoghurt with toppings, sandwiches, cakes, and lots of other seasonal baked goods.
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Silverkällegatan 4, Majorna
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French bakery
If it's French pastries you fancy, Maison Caillard is the place to go. They serve delicacies such as croissants, brioche, eclairs, tarts, and other typical, seasonal French pastries made according to the season. The owners import their flour directly from Foricher in France, and all bread is baked using owner Vincent's sourdough. The delicious creations are displayed in the minimalistic café for you to take home or enjoy on-site; there are seats available both at tables and by the window. Check out Vincent and Jenny's baking schedule on their website.
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Mölndalsvägen 89, Centrum
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Maison Caillard
031-52 60 00 - Read more on Thatsup
Experience the archipelago
Between March and October you can enjoy the salty island life at this picturesque garden café. This yellow-painted wooden house serves up everything from coffee and cakes to classic dishes such as Västerbotten-cheese pie and pickled herring to fish soup and pastries. The house band plays live at regular intervals, along with other musical performances.
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Brattenvägen
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Café Öbergska
031-90 00 82 - Read more on Thatsup
Cosy in Billdal
You'll find Systrarna Werner in a cosy villa in Billdal, a homely café with a retro feel and mismatched furniture. The house was built in the 1860s and has been through several incarnations before finally becoming a destination for coffee and lunch. During the summer, you can sit outside in the lush garden.
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Billdals Allé 40
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Showroom and café
Wærnet combines a showroom for hand-built kitchens with a café, resulting in beautiful interiors with white walls, concrete floors, and wooden furniture. The menu includes breakfast, lunch, and fika with both vegan and gluten-free options.
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Waernsgatan 1
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Freshly baked each day of the week
The smell of fresh baking wafts out over the neighbourhood from early in the morning, all week long. On Fridays there's always a long queue as people stock up on sourdough baguettes and sweet treats for the weekend. Fairtrade organic coffee is served.
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Billdalsvägen 2 Långedragsvägen 134Lasse-Maja Bageri & Café Nya Hovås
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