Posts Tagged "coffee shops"


FIKA. A swedish verb to describe the taking time out of one’s day to enjoy coffee and sweets over conversation. We learned that tasting a bit of the coffee culture in Northern Europe. We definitely embrace the fact that we could use a little moment to slow down and enjoy the little things in our life, and a coffee shop is a great place to do so– thus we couldn’t be more happy to be part of the FIKA Coffee Passport program...

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The pace starts to change at this point when there’s less planning and more doing. We’ve signed our lease, got our permits from the city to start build out, and now are getting those projects in line. After our last trip to Northern Europe, we weren’t expecting to go anywhere for the next couple years because of the shop. Yet a year later and approaching build-out, we’re finding ourselves getting tired— and we haven’t even...

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Scandinavia has an incredibly rich coffee culture. The Nordic countries actually consume the most coffee globally per capita. Norwegians created the format for the World Barista Championships that are highly esteemed throughout the world. In Swedish, the word “fika” is an actual verb to describe the taking time out of one’s day to enjoy coffee and sweets over conversation. Pausing time to shut out the turmoil and...

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Nordic Coffee Shops After exploring coffee shops in Scotland and England, we continued our journey to Scandinavia, where we met a whole different coffee experience. The Nordic coffee culture integrates coffee as part of the daily life, and values bringing people together over a cup and conversation. There is a high standard for passion, sophistication, and precision over this craft and social art that is obvious throughout the shops...

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Must-See Coffee Shops in the United Kingdom (London & Edinburgh) We just got back from our Northern Europe adventure, where we saw countless beautiful and historically rich places, and visited around 25 to 30 coffee shops! We had previously researched and planned to check out a few well-esteemed ones, but most of them (as there were too many coffee shops to see), we decided to find through locals and barista recommendations. As we...

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