Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Specialty coffee roaster and coffee bar in Kødbyen, Vesterbro, Copenhagen
Prolog Coffee Bar
One Roast for Every Cup
Most roasters keep two profiles, a lighter one for filter and a darker one for espresso. Prolog roasts once and uses the result for both. They call it omni roasting, and they wrote a long, slightly nerdy post explaining why, covering quality, equipment and how they think about a bean. I respect any company that argues with itself in public and then publishes the minutes.
The company line is about adding to the quality of life with better coffee, and there is a lot of talk on the site about culture, curiosity and musicality. Ignore the poetry and taste the cup. The Kødbyen bar sits on Høkerboderne in the old meatpacking district of Vesterbro, where the old butchers' halls now hold restaurants and galleries. There are three more bars, on Papirøen by the harbour, on Randersgade in Østerbro and on Marguerite Vibys Plads in Frederiksberg. The current shelf leans hard on Colombia, with a Caturra natural from El Paraiso, a washed lot from La Indonesia and a rare Laurina from El Turpial.
Their beans turn up all over town. Lille Bakery out on Refshaleøen pours Prolog as its house filter, which tells you what bakers who care about grain think of it. Order a black filter first, since an omni roast has nothing to hide behind milk. The bar opens at seven on weekdays. Go then, before the district wakes up and the lunch crowd arrives.
- Order this
- A black filter, An espresso, Whatever Colombian lot is newest
- The damage
- $$
- Go
- Early on a weekday, when the meatpacking district is still half asleep
- Find it
- Høkerboderne 16, 1712 København V, Denmark
- Website
- prologcoffee.com