Fuglen

Oslo's most-photographed café, and also, after dark, a cocktail bar — the espresso machine shares counter space with a full bottle wall once the sun goes down. The name means 'the bird,' and the shop has existed since 1963, first as Kaffefuglen, before changing hands and names in 2008 and turning into the vintage-furniture-and-coffee hybrid it is today. By day it runs on 1950s and '60s Scandinavian furniture, most of which has a price tag if you ask — the shop doubles as a curated showroom for the pieces it's decorated with. Coffee comes from Fuglen's own roastery across town in Gamlebyen, housed in a former Tim Wendelboe roaster, sold here by the bag and by the cup.

The concept has since expanded to Tokyo, Seoul, and Jakarta, which says something about how exportable this particular mix of mid-century Norwegian design and cocktail-hour coffee turned out to be. It's the rare shop that changes character entirely between 4pm and closing, so the coffee crowd and the cocktail crowd rarely overlap — ask which one you're walking into before you sit down, and bring the dog if you have one.