- Written by: Chefluencer Editorial Team
On 3 December at 07:30, Store Kongensgade will wake up a little differently. Between offices, galleries and late-night kitchens, a new light will switch on at number 32. Behind it: CABIN, a compact coffee bar from the team behind Bar Vitrine, sitting directly next to Riccardo Marcon’s late-night Italian landmark Barabba at number 34.
For a city already thick with cafés, CABIN is not trying to shout. It is a deliberate move from a trio who know exactly what they are doing when they choose a small space and a narrow focus.
Marcon’s morning move
CABIN extends the constellation that Marcon has been building across Copenhagen for nearly a decade. After running the wine programme at 108, he opened Barabba in 2017, turning Store Kongensgade into a place where chefs and insomniacs could eat pasta and drink serious wine until two in the morning.
In 2024 came Bar Vitrine on Møntergade 5, designed with FRAMA and run with chef-partner Dhriti Arora, which quickly became one of the most talked-about small bars in the city’s centre. Now CABIN fills the missing slot: a morning and daytime counterpoint with coffee and a short list of things to eat, shaped by the same partnership of Marcon, Arora and FRAMA founder Niels Strøyer Christophersen.
The ambition is modest on paper – coffee, pastries, a few savoury pieces – but if you know the trio behind it, you know it's far from average.
“CABIN feels like a natural continuation of my friendship and partnership with Niels. After Bar Vitrine, we wanted to create something new together – a place where coffee becomes a daily ritual that brings people together in a simple, honest way. Having Dhriti as part of the project makes that feeling even more complete,”
says Riccardo Marcon
Who is Tim Wendelboe
The headline for coffee people is simple: CABIN will be the only bar in Copenhagen to serve coffee from Oslo roastery Tim Wendelboe on a continuous basis.
For anyone outside the industry, that needs translating. Tim Wendelboe is not just a respected roaster; he is one of the defining figures of Scandinavian specialty coffee. Based in Oslo’s Grünerløkka district, his roastery and espresso bar are credited with putting the city on the global coffee map.
Wendelboe won the World Barista Championship in 2004 and the World Cup Tasters Championship in 2005, then spent the next two decades refining a very light roast style that foregrounds acidity, clarity and sweetness rather than weight. He now runs a roastery, espresso bar, training programmes and even a coffee farm in Colombia, making his name a kind of shorthand for seriousness in sourcing and roasting.
For visitors to Copenhagen, CABIN essentially saves a flight: instead of planning a pilgrimage to Grüners gate 1 in Oslo, they can taste Wendelboe’s coffees prepared by a team trained directly with the roastery, in a FRAMA-designed space two minutes from Kongens Nytorv.
Leading that programme is head barista Jun Nishimura, who arrives with years of experience from Japan’s specialty scene and three years behind the bar at Prolog Coffee in Copenhagen, plus training with the Wendelboe team. His profile suggests a service built on repetition and precision rather than latte-art theatrics.
Dhriti’s pastries
If Wendelboe sets the tone in the cup, Dhriti Arora defines what sits beside it. After time at Kinship in Washington, D.C., and a formative stretch at noma’s research kitchen, Arora opened Bar Vitrine as her first independent project in 2024.
At CABIN she moves into a smaller, more domestic register: a handful of pastries and savoury pieces baked each morning, changing with mood and season. The launch examples say a lot about her approach. An apple tart with star anise, nutmeg and cinnamon in a Basque-style crust feels more like something from a generous home kitchen than a pastry lab. Coconut cream-filled doughnuts and a leek tart with parmesan read as comfort first, technique second – the sort of things you might order twice if a meeting runs late.
Nothing here is about display. The food exists to fill the space between sips, not the feed.
FRAMA’s pine retreat on Store Kongensgade
Design-wise, CABIN marks another hospitality chapter for FRAMA, whose work runs from its own St. Pauls Apotek space to Yaffa and Bar Vitrine.
CABIN’s interior is described as a pine-framed structure with built-in furniture, darker timber details and a slim aluminium rail running the length of the bar to hold objects and tools. The studio describes it as a “quiet architectural gesture”: a small, tactile interior where the materials and light do most of the talking, so the coffee and people can do the rest.
For a street better known for late-night plates of pasta and wine bottles emptied at 01:30, CABIN gives Store Kongensgade a new early-day habit. Locals can slip in for a quick filter and a pastry. Industry staff can reset between shifts. Travellers curious about the Nordic coffee wave can now tick off one of its key names without leaving the city centre.
If Barabba shows how far a plate of spaghetti can go in Copenhagen, and Bar Vitrine proves how sharp a 16-seat bar can feel, CABIN suggests something simpler: one carefully chosen roaster, a handful of pastries, and a room that takes the morning seriously.
Opening date: Wednesday 3 December 2025
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, 07:30–16:30 (closed Sunday)
Address: CABIN, Store Kongensgade 32, 1264 Copenhagen K
Cabin Website
Instagram: @CABINcph