Talormade

Overview

Talormade is the Oslo roastery, doughnut bakery and cafe chain founded by Australian-born Talor Browne after she lost her previous company Talor & Jørgen following a court settlement with her former business partners. Browne came up under Mark Dundon, Bridget Amor (Brother Baba Budan, Seven Seeds) and Fleur Studd in mid-2000s Melbourne, opened Coutume's second site in Paris in 2011, then moved to Oslo in 2012 to become head roaster at Tim Wendelboe before launching Talor & Jørgen and, in 2019, Talormade — built around a Loring S15 Falcon installed in June 2019 that hit 1,000 batches inside six months.

Known for

• Founded 2019 in Oslo by Talor Browne after losing her previous company Talor & Jørgen in a partner dispute and court settlement
• Browne is a former head roaster at Tim Wendelboe (Oslo) and former opener of Coutume's second Paris cafe
• Roasts on a Loring S15 Falcon installed June 2019, in a converted early-1900s textile factory by the Akerselva river
• Doughnut programme born from Browne's pastry training at Duchess of Spotswood and a stage at All Day Doughnuts in Melbourne
• Three Oslo cafes opened during Covid, scaling to over 50 employees roasting and shipping 700+ kg of coffee weekly

Why it matters

Specialty coffee is full of stories about founders who lost the company they built; Talormade is the rare second act where the same person rebuilt a more deliberate, more ambitious operation in eighteen months. Browne is also, separately, one of the more visible critics of the speciality industry's gatekeeping, and Talormade's combination of Loring-driven roast quality, doughnut-shop accessibility and explicit hospitality intent is the working version of the argument she has been making in talks and interviews for years.

Production

destoning

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head roaster

Matt and Ida (trained from scratch by Talor Browne)

color sorting

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roaster machine

Loring S15 Falcon (June 2019)

filter equipment

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cupping frequency

Weekly Monday morning team cuppings

roastery location

Akerselva riverside, Oslo (former early-1900s textile factory)

espresso equipment

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annual volume tonnes

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Café

Bjørvika, Oslo (bakery + cafe)

Sources

• https://talormade.no/about
• https://www.kofio.co/talormade/about-us
• https://keystotheshop.com/2020/02/overcomingtragedy/
• https://www.coffeeinsurrection.com/talormade-oslo.html
• https://www.yonder.coffee/global-roaster/archive/09-2021-oslo-norway