This place is coolness on a stick.
It is a coffee house coffee roastery in the University of Bergen student district.
I walk into the roastery at 10 in the morning on a Monday, and there is a live DJ laying down a fine electronica dance track.
A live DJ on Monday at 10 in the morning?
At a coffee and work establishment?
Behind him, the coffee roasters are doing their roasting.
The crowd is artist/intellectual/progressive types.
No one is solo and no one is working alone.
The crowd is mixed between purely social visits and people who seem to be working on various projects.
The eminently listenable music is at dance hall volume but nobody cares. Earnest conversation continues.
It being a coffee roastery, I should have had a straight black coffee or an espresso to test the beans.
But I felt like a latte, and a latte is what I got. The latte was fine.
The tomato soup that I had for lunch was OUTSTANDING.
Among the garnishes available on the garnish table were butter (!!), homemade croutons, toasted pumpkin seeds, and two types of flavored olive oil.
The butter, the croutons and one kind of olive oil all went into the soup.
Was it good, butter and all?
OOOOOOO BABY!
Add Good Norwegian bread, which they had, and I was one happy Yelper.
Sometime I will have to come back ostensibly to check out the black coffee and have some more soup.
Really, all I want to do is listen to the DJ. read more