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Food & Drink
Once you get past the salmiak and surströmming there’s plenty of delicious eating and drinking opportunities - we like the following places (all listed in our map).
- Ritorno Restaurant & Konditori - one of our favourite traditional cafés. The cake is good and Dave is fond of the meatballs.
- Café Saturnus - a bistro, bar, and café. A good place for breakfast.
- The Golden Peace (Den Gyldene Freden) - a posher restaurant owned and frequented by the Nobel committee. Traditional Swedish cuisine.
- Luzette - a good restaurant inside the main station (Centralen).
- Nybergs Konditori - a café and cake shop.
- Erlands - a tiny bar with occasional jazz bands crammed into the corner.
- Thai House Wok - a cheap and cheerful Thai food restaurant near Mariatorget station (walkable from our wedding venue).
- Judit & Bertil - a trendy restaurant and bar.
- Bistro Barbro - a recommended bistro.
- Därmedpasta - a cheap and cheerful pasta restaurant.
- Restaurant Pelikan - a restaurant serving classic Swedish cuisine.
- Materiet - a lunch restaurant.
- Café Rival - a bar, bistro, and café. They do great coffee and good croque monsieur. Next door to a nice hotel and bar!
- Häktet - a bar and restaurant with live Gypsy Swing music on Monday evenings.
- Mister French - a restaurant and bar.
- Tweed - a swanky cocktail bar; busy but you can ring ahead and book a chesterfield armchair!
- Delikatessen - a bistro and bar.
- Folkbaren - a tiny bar and restaurant (with excellent oysters) adjacent to a theatre where we often have a glass of prosecco.
- Mosebacke Terrassen - an outdoor bar with a view.
- Bellmanmuseet - a café next to a popular and sandy city beach.
- Akkurat - a trendy-casual bar and restaurant.
- Lasse i Parken - a cheap outside bar and restaurant with live music.
- Tjoget - a bar with award winning cocktails.
Shopping
- Old Touch - Hanna’s favourite vintage store (ladies and gents).
A Marchesan - a Gent’s vintage store (convenient for Erlands bar if you find shopping to be thirsty work).(Closed for refurbishment)- Myrorna (Sodermalm) - a second hand store that always seems to have a stock of nice old suitcases, radios, and other knickknacks.
- Stadsmission (Odenplan) - a good sized second hand store with a good mix of items and some curated records.
- Herr Judit - a Gent’s vintage store (convenient for our wedding venue and often open on Sudays if you’re on a flying visit).
- Lisa Larsson Second Hand - a ladies vintage store.
Scenic viewpoint
- Skinnarviksberget - a nice viewpoint often frequented by the locals.
For more generally touristy things to do see the Visit Stockholm website (it’s in English).
Map
Our map of all of the above places: