Coffee Collective

The original Coffee Collective, opened in 2008 in a Nørrebro storefront that still looks more like an apartment than a business: big windows, pale wood, not much on the walls. Founded by Klaus Thomsen and Peter Dupont on a promise of full transparency in sourcing, the company still publishes what it pays farmers for each lot, a practice that was unusual in specialty coffee when they started and remains a point of pride now that the company has grown to eight locations across the city. This is the flagship, and the one most likely to have the founders' latest single origin lot on the board before it reaches the other branches.

Jægersborggade itself has gone from one of Nørrebro's rougher streets to a boutique strip of ceramics shops and natural wine bars over the same period the café has been open, and Coffee Collective was arguably part of what tipped it that direction. Beans are roasted in house and sold by the bag alongside branded brewing gear. Come mid morning on a weekday if you want a seat; weekends draw a line that runs past the neighboring shopfronts.