Original Coffee Postbyen

An inner-city coffee bar in Postbyen for espresso, hand brew and organic pastry, calm enough to sit in despite the station traffic outside.

Coffee, hand brew and pastries

The coffee programme runs in three lanes: espresso-based drinks for quick orders, batch brew for straightforward filter coffee, and hand brew filter for a slower cup made to order. The beans are roasted locally by Kontra Coffee, and the range is selected and developed in house rather than taken off a supplier's list, which is the difference between a coffee bar and a café that happens to sell coffee. Ordering here is therefore a question of speed as much as of style: espresso if the train is close, hand brew if it is not. Food follows the same logic. Organic pastries come from the group's own organic bakery in the Meat Packing District, and the daytime menu widens into cakes, breakfast and lunch for anyone who wants more than a cup.

A casual Copenhagen coffee stop

Original Coffee Postbyen sits in a busy central corridor, a short walk from Copenhagen Central Station and Tivoli Gardens, and yet the room itself stays calm. That contrast is the appeal: quiet, modern surroundings a few steps from the heaviest transport and leisure traffic in the city, which makes it as useful for a Vesterbro morning as for a pause between trains. The space is stylish and comfortable, closer to a quiet pocket of the inner city than a grab-and-go kiosk, and it can absorb a coffee to go, a laptop or a table of friends without losing its casual format.

Start with the cortado, then choose a pastry

The cortado is the first order, small and milk-tempered enough to show what the roast is doing. For a milkier cup, take the caffe latte; for reading or working, order the hand brew filter and let it arrive slowly; batch brew covers the simpler filter lane when time is short. Pair whichever it is with an organic pastry from the bakery, which is the part of the food menu with the most behind it. If the stop stretches into a longer daytime sitting, breakfast and lunch are both there, and neither pulls the focus away from the coffee. The range is wide enough that the same room can be used three different ways in a week.