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THE BUZZ | TASTE BUDS Fika Seeker For the Swedes, coff ee is more than a drink – it’s a way of life. And the best place to experience that life is in one of Gothenburg’s independent cafés UNTIL 2010 THERE were no branches of Starbucks in Sweden, but that doesn’t mean the Swedes don’t thirst after coff ee. On the contrary, Sweden consistently ranks among the world’s biggest coff ee-drinking countries (usually outdone only by Finland), and the fi ka, or coff ee break, is a national institution. To see the fi ka in action, head to Gothenburg, the city generally reckoned to be Sweden’s coff ee capital. Hang around its independent cafés, and it won’t be long before you see the obsession at fi rst hand. “If we want to meet up we’ll say, ‘Let’s have a fi ka!’” says Gothenburg resident Lena Larsson as she orders her favourite, a cappuccino and an apple bun, in Mauritz Kaff e (2 Fredsgatan, tel: +46 (0)31 806 971). “In some countries people usually meet in the pub, but here we’re more likely to catch up over coff ee and a bun.” Larsson agrees that Gothenburg is Sweden’s coff ee centre, with even more high-quality, independent coff ee shops than Stockholm. Maybe it’s because it’s a university town (students are reliable café customers) that the cobbled streets are now chock-full of espresso bars, and the Old Town still houses places such as Le Petit Café (2 Haga Nygata, tel: +46 (0)31 127 191), all chintzy wallpaper and vintage chairs. To experience it for yourself, follow Larsson’s example and start in Mauritz Kaff e, the city’s longest-running coff ee 34 | TRAVELLER | MARCH 11 shop. “I opened this place 34 years ago,” says Tord Mauritz Wetter, the charismatic, white-haired owner/manager. “But this is an old company,” he adds, as if three decades of business made him a newbie. “My great grandfather, Mauritz Svensson, started importing coff ee to Gothenburg in 1888. We’re still doing the same, importing from Ethiopia, East Africa and Indonesia, but whereas he was selling to shops, we serve it here.” Wetter says that the popularity of coff ee in Sweden started with King Charles XII. “He went on a trip to Turkey and there he learned to love coff ee. By 1800 or so, because of him, coff ee became a big thing in Sweden. And now it’s very big.” Wetter bakes his own bread and fruit buns on the premises, and customers can also buy beans here. Like many in the trade, Wetter believes in roasting and grinding your own beans at home, and sells them in their raw, green state. Speaking to him it quickly becomes clear that leaving ground coff ee to sit around is a no-no: “Old coff ee loses all of the natural aromas!” I dip my hand into the pile of beans that are about to be ground for the espresso machine; they’re toasty-warm, having emerged from the small roasting oven just moments earlier. IN THE EARLY 1970S Wetter took a trip to Rome and brought the espresso bar concept back to Gothenburg. “We imported the Italian way of making coff ee, so to speak,” he laughs. To the uninitiated, that means no seats, just high tables at which to drink your espresso fast, Roma-style. “So we were the fi rst,” he continues. “Some 20 years later, in the 1990s, the other coff ee bars came along, like da Matteo.”
PHOTOS © TIM WHITE Left, Le Petit Café, one of the Old Town’s oldschool options THE BUZZ | TASTE BUDS Clockwise from top left, Adam at Doppio, Mauritz Kaff e, da Matteo’s bakery, Café Kringlan, Bar Centro MARCH 11 | TRAVELLER | 35
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