Falu House

Cardamom buns, kladdkaka and open-faced smörgås fill the case at Falu House, a Scandinavian deli and café that opened in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in July 2024. It shares its floor with Teak, a Scandinavian furniture and homeware store launched at the same time, so the room reads as one continuous space: coffee and Nordic food at the counter, design objects all around it.

Nordic filter coffee, built for the counter

Coffee is the spine of the place, and it is classic rather than showy. Nordic filter coffee is the house pour, with iced coffee beside it, and both are made to sit next to something baked rather than to be studied on their own. That suits the deli format, where the usual order is a cup and a bun taken at the counter, then a table if one is free.

The rhythm is daytime throughout. This is a deli that happens to pour good coffee rather than an espresso bar that added sandwiches, and the two halves of the menu were built to be ordered together.

The pastry case is baked in house

Falu House bakes its own pastries daily rather than buying them in, which is why the case turns over and shifts with the seasons. Cardamom buns are the Swedish default and the best first choice, with cinnamon buns running beside them. Kladdkaka, the dense, sticky Swedish chocolate cake that sits closer to a brownie than a sponge, is the other sweet to know.

Seasonal dishes push the kitchen past the buns, and the cooking leans on a short list of good ingredients rather than a long menu. The result is a small, rotating selection, so the case is worth reading before you decide.

Smörgås, tinned fish and the Teak side

The savoury half runs to smörgås, the Swedish open-faced sandwich, plus sandwiches and seasonal plates in the same register. The Tinned Fish Club is the clearest signal of where the kitchen is looking: preserved seafood is ordinary Nordic deli food, and Falu House treats it as both a menu item and a recurring event theme.

The Teak partnership is not decoration. Guests move between a coffee counter and a room of Scandinavian furniture and homeware, which gives a visit a slower, browsing rhythm than a grab-and-go espresso bar. A first order that covers the ground is filter coffee and a cardamom bun, then a smörgås or something tinned-fish-led when savoury is the goal.