Gothenburg's best cafés

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. Cykelfiket can be found at several locations around the city.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Homemade food with a sea view - that's what you get if you visit Nimbus Öckerö in the Gothenburg archipelago. Come here by car or boat, or by bus and ferry. As well as simple lunches such as quiches and salads, they also serve tasty cakes and pastries, sandwiches and waffles.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.