Café Øredev

Was hanging out at the gourmet coffee bar on the side of the exhibition floor.  For the past three years Øredev has asked Johan & Nystrom to set up shop here for everyone to enjoy (what? developers like coffee?). The guy behind the bar is Mattias Sjöbäck, the Manager for Southern Sweden for Johan & Nystrom – a rather special kind of coffee company.  And their elixir, served by heroes of the craft (yes, only an artist can foam like that) is incredibly delicious.  I was walking around like an idiot saying “I think this is the best I’ve ever had.  I think this is the best I ever had.” 

The company is a specialty roasterie (sp?) that actually goes and visits each of the farms from which they purchase.  They do this for quality assurance, but also to make sure the farm is operated in a socially responsible manner.  That way they can deal directly with the farm allowing it receive an even better deal than certified fair trade. 

But I think that’s not the best thing that is making a stop at the Øredev branch of Johan & Nystrom cool:  Mattias and his partners consider themselves coffee geeks analogous to the techie geeks gathered at Øredev.  Of course they don’t know what any of the tech talk is about so the conversations that happen while they make your cappuccino slide over to the more personal.  It’s a spot in the Øredev mix of talking, listening, sharing, where we’re just plain hanging out with new people – over the best coffee you’ve ever had.