La Cabra Coffee Roasters

Bright, crisp roasts inside a fashion store

The counter at Møntergade sits inside the Another Aspect store, in Copenhagen's fashion district, which makes this branch of La Cabra a coffee bar and a design-led retail floor at the same time. The partnership began in 2020 with café uniforms and curated merchandise, and the room still reads that way: clothing racks, a compact bar, and a queue that overlaps the two.

The coffee language is direct. Møntergade pours bright and crisp coffees drawn from a roasting philosophy built on transparency, green coffee quality and decisions made at the cupping table. Rather than roasting one way for filter and another for espresso, the company looks for the most transparent expression of each coffee and serves it that way on both. Roasting, resting time and freshness are treated as one question rather than three, and the cup on bar is the answer the roastery has settled on that week.

An Aarhus roaster with a Copenhagen address

La Cabra was founded in Aarhus in 2012 and began sourcing and roasting its own coffee in 2013, curious about what lay further down the chain than a café counter usually reaches. The company now ships to home brewers and subscribers in more than sixty countries, with cafés running from the original Aarhus base to Copenhagen and on to New York, Bangkok and Oman.

Møntergade is the compact inner-city expression of that, not a one-off neighbourhood café. It is worth knowing the scale before ordering, because the bar behaves like part of a roastery rather than a shop buying someone else's beans: the retail shelf changes with the roast list, and the coffee on bar is the coffee the company is selling that month.

Order a bun with the filter

The most grounded order is coffee with a bakery item. La Cabra runs as a specialty coffee roaster and bakery, and the Copenhagen branch is tied into that wider bakery programme. The almond bun is the strongest pastry to ask for at this counter.

The cardamom bun is the older signature, Scandinavian in style and running back to the original Aarhus branch in 2014. Take either one with the bright, crisp coffee the branch leans on, sit at the counter, and let the roast rather than the milk do the talking. If the filter list has an interesting lot on, that is the cup that shows the roasting approach most clearly.