Office breakfast with falu house
Office breakfast usually starts with good intentions. There’s coffee somewhere. Maybe pastries get ordered once a week. There are probably a few snacks in the kitchen. It works, but it rarely feels like much of a moment. At FELFEL, we think the smaller parts of the workday deserve more attention. A good coffee in the morning. Something sweet between meetings. Ten minutes away from your screen with a colleague.
That’s one of the reasons we love working with Falu House.
Meet Falu House: a little bit of Scandinavia in Brooklyn
Falu House is a neighborhood café with Scandinavian roots and a very simple approach to food. Good ingredients. Really good coffee. Recipes with a family history behind them.
There’s nothing overly complicated about it, and that’s part of what makes it work. Their food draws inspiration from Scandinavian heritage, including recipes passed down through generations. And then there are the morning buns, which have become a favorite for good reason.
They’re the kind of thing you want next to a coffee when you have a few minutes to yourself. Or, even better, with someone else.
The Swedish ritual we could use more of at work
There’s a Swedish tradition that captures a lot of what we like about Falu House. It’s called fika.
The closest translation might be a coffee break, but that doesn’t quite do it justice. Fika is an intentional pause in the day. Usually there’s coffee, often something sweet, and ideally another person to enjoy it with. In Sweden, it’s a normal part of everyday life, including the workday. The point isn’t really the coffee or the pastry. It’s the break itself.
A few minutes to step away, talk about something other than the meeting you just left, and reset before getting back to whatever comes next. We think there’s something pretty great about that.
Why we partnered with Falu House
We spend a lot of time looking for food partners who bring something more than a good product. Falu House has that.
There’s a sense of place behind the food. Scandinavian heritage, family recipes, a neighborhood café in Brooklyn, and this idea that taking a break together can actually be part of a good day.
It fits naturally with how we think about food at work.
Because a workplace food experience isn’t only about solving lunch. It’s also about the first coffee of the morning, the afternoon snack, and the moments when people actually step away from their desks and spend a little time together.
Bringing fika into the office
Most office breakfast and snack programs are pretty fragmented. Coffee comes from one vendor. Pastries arrive occasionally. Snacks come in bulk. People head out when they can’t find what they want. With FELFEL, breakfast, meals, snacks, and drinks are available throughout the day in one place, including products from partners like Falu House.
But the part we like most isn’t simply that everything is convenient. It’s what happens around it. Someone grabs a coffee. Someone else decides they could use a break too. A morning bun gets involved. Ten minutes later, two colleagues who spend most of their day in meetings have actually had a conversation.
Maybe that’s not quite a Swedish fika. But it’s a pretty good place to start.
Try it for yourself
We host tastings across NYC where teams can experience the food and see what FELFEL could look like in their workplace.
