The story of Espresso House stems from the desire of two students, Charles and Elisabet Asker, to find a favourite place to spend time. They opened a small café in Kyrkogatan in Lund, inspired by the Italian coffee culture and leisure environment. Since then, this small café has become the largest coffee chain in the Nordic countries, with nearly 500 types of coffee in five different countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and more recently Germany. They opened their first café in the Kamppi shopping centre in 2015 and since then they have expanded beyond the Helsinki metropolitan area in Finland.
We discovered Expresso House for the first time in Turku in a shopping mall and then we also found it in Helsinki in a shopping mall. You can see it everywhere, even in the streets, the atmosphere and appearance is always the same, the nature and comfort is always present. Indeed there are a lot of plants, comfortable sofas and armchairs.
They offer their own bakery products and the quality level of our coffee is very high. We felt it when we went there, their sandwich was fresh and their dessert very good. As for their coffee, only Mathilde had one.
They offer their customers coffee from only selected farms and cooperatives. Their coffee meets the quality rating of specialty coffee, and only 5% of all coffee in the world meets this quality requirement.
The environment and the employees are very welcoming, the atmosphere is very friendly. You can feel that the atmosphere is very relaxed between them which makes them very pleasant and smiling. The environment is important to them and this is a positive point.
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