Xentas Kaffebar

Specialty coffee at the centre

Coffee is what the bar is built on and what it wants to be judged by. Xentas Kaffebar describes its own programme as specialty coffee with beans that are anything but ordinary, and the recognition has followed: it was named in the European Coffee Trip Awards in 2025, which put a small Swedish opening in front of a much wider audience. Guests come back to the same points, high quality cups and staff who can talk about them, which is the combination that separates a specialty bar from a place that simply sells coffee. The wider frame is broader than an espresso counter, taking in fika, a kitchen and a drinks list, but the coffee is the spine.

Indoor tables, a terrace and a family feel

This is a family run business and it reads that way. The house word for the atmosphere is familjär, and visitors describe it as warm, relaxed and easy to fall into, with seating both inside and out on the terrace. The design detail is light rather than elaborate, with a considered colour scheme and the feel of an oasis in the middle of town rather than a formal dining room. Its position near the harbour and a park makes it a natural stop for anyone moving through central Borgholm, whether that is a morning coffee, a mid-afternoon fika or a pause between other things. Service is the part people single out most: professional, friendly and knowledgeable.

Coffee and fika, then something later

A first visit works best as a coffee stop that can grow. Start with whatever the bar is pouring as its specialty coffee, because that is the reason the place has a reputation beyond the island, and take fika alongside it. Food is real but not itemised, presented as fika and mat rather than as a fixed menu, so it is worth asking what the kitchen has that day rather than arriving with a dish in mind. Later, the same room shifts easily: cocktails, wine and beer are part of the offer, and the terrace is where that transition happens most naturally. The through line is that nothing about the change of gear feels forced. It is a central Borgholm room that works at several points in the day without pretending to be a different place at each of them.