Despite being a remote chain of islands in the Atlantic Ocean, there is no shortage of great coffee on the Faroe Islands. In this post, I’ll highlight three favorites.
Best Coffee On The Faroe Islands
The capital city of Tórshavn served as my base during my trip to the Faroe Islands and in town I enjoyed two great coffee shops. My first stop was at Brell Café.
Brell Café
9 Vaglið
Tórshavn 100, Faroe Islands
+298 220800
10:00 am – 6:00 pm (Monday – Thursday)
10:00 am – 8:00 pm (Friday, Saturday)
12:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Sunday)
Brell comes closest to “third wave” coffee and not only boasts a cozy café but also a back room selling all sorts of coffee from around the world.
My flat white was delicious and I loved sitting and sipping coffee on a cold, bleak afternoon.
On the morning before we departed, we stopped at the grass-roofed Paname Café.
Paname Café
4 Vaglið
Tórshavn 100, Faroe Islands
+298 788288
9:00 am – 11:00 pm (Monday – Friday)
10:00 am – 11:00 pm (Saturday)
11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Sunday)
Panamae Café is connected to a cool bookshop, so you can browse books and drink coffee at the same time. If you want to send a postcard from the Faroe Islands, you can also buy one here (and stamps).
The coffee, however, was excellent. My friend skipped breakfast at the Hilton Garden Inn and enjoyed a croissant with his cappuccino. Knowing that I would not have any coffee until I reached the SAS Lounge in Copenhagen (if the barista was even on duty in the afternoon…), I started wtih a flat white adn then moved to a cortado. The cortado, a more concentrated espressos drink wtih less milk than a flat white or cappuccino, particularly hit the spot.
Perhpas Faroese people drink coffee later in the day? The coffee shop was empty in the morning, but when we stopped by the previous evening (to browse the book shop), the café was fairly full:
Finally, I enjoyed delicious coffee (and juice) at Fríða in Klaksvík.
Fríða Kaffihús
Klaksvík, Faroe Islands
+298 333344
9:00 am – 9:00 pm (Monday – Saturday) – closed Sundays
After a day of driving and sightseeing, I was ready for a nice cup of coffee. Fríða offers not only coffee, but freshly-squeezed juices and a full menu of food.
I stuck to flat white to start, followed by a cortado wtih fresh-squeezed orange juice. Each was about $7, so $21 for three non-alcoholic beverages was not cheap, but it really it the spot. I’d come back here for food too.
CONCLUSION
With a population of less than 53,000, you won’t find many people on the Faroe Islands, but the coffee culture is superb and you cannot go wrong at any of these three cafés.
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