The 5 Best Matcha Cafés in Gothenburg (2026)

Gothenburg's most consistently praised matcha, sitting on Kungsportsavenyen — the Avenyn, the city's main boulevard and the street visitors actually walk. That location could easily have produced a mediocre tourist café, and A43 is the opposite: a modern room where the matcha is good enough that locals describe it as the best in the city, backed by a pastry counter strong enough to justify the stop on its own. The combination is the point. Sweden's café culture is built on the drink-plus-something-sweet pairing, and A43 handles both halves properly rather than treating the food as an afterthought to the drinks. It is the easiest recommendation in Gothenburg — central, reliable, and the place to start if you are working through the city's matcha in a single day.

The first restaurant in Sweden built around Japanese matcha as its main ingredient, and a genuinely unusual proposition anywhere in Europe. Rather than serving matcha as a drink beside a Japanese menu, Matcha-Ya integrates it throughout — into sushi, into desserts and into the drinks list — which forces the kitchen to understand matcha as a savoury as well as a sweet ingredient. That is a harder problem than it sounds: matcha's bitterness and umami work against sugar in ways that are easy to get wrong and striking when done right. Go for the full menu rather than dropping in for a latte, because the restaurant format is the whole argument for the place. The most ambitious matcha cooking in Sweden, and worth booking rather than chancing.

A warm, creative neighbourhood café in the Lunden district in eastern Gothenburg, and the clearest example in the city of matcha slotting into Swedish café tradition rather than displacing it. The brief is traditional fika meeting modern influences, which here means matcha and dumplings sharing a menu with the cinnamon buns — an unlikely combination that works because everything is baked on site and the coffee comes from local Gothenburg roasters rather than a national supplier. The room is described by regulars as inclusive in a way that reads as genuine rather than marketed; this is a local café with a local constituency. Lunden sits outside the central tourist circuit, so it is a deliberate trip, and the reward is seeing how Gothenburg actually drinks rather than how it presents itself.

Inside Nordstan, the large central shopping centre by the station, which makes this the most convenient matcha in Gothenburg and the one you will pass without planning to. The format is Taiwanese rather than Japanese — bubble tea as the foundation, with matcha running through it — and the menu extends into waffles and toast, which is an unusual pairing that customers rate highly. The matcha rolls are the item regulars single out alongside the drinks. This is not the place to look for a formally whisked bowl, and it does not pretend otherwise; it is a well-run bubble tea and matcha counter in the busiest indoor space in the city. Useful for a break mid-errand, or for anyone arriving at Central Station with time to fill.

Gothenburg's benchmark specialty roaster and one of the most respected coffee operations in Sweden, with several central locations of which the Victoriapassagen site is the best known. Da Matteo is a coffee business first by a wide margin — it roasts, it bakes its own bread, and its reputation rests on espresso rather than tea. It belongs on this list because it is the city's quality reference point: the matcha is made with the same care as everything else, and if you want to know how good a well-run Swedish café can make a green drink without specialising in it, this is where to find out. The sourdough and pastries are the other reason to go. Busy from morning onwards and deservedly so.