The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Dashi
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Rank 1. Dashi
Japanese
Dashi, the Japanese broth the place is named for, shows up throughout the set menu here, including as a marinade for amberjack. A Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant on Rådmansgatan, it pairs a spare Nordic-minimalist room with an omakase-style format built around Swedish produce handled with real Japanese precision. A sake list running to some rare bottles rounds things out, and the Mont Blanc dessert has its own following.
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Rank 2. Babette
Pizza
Stockholm doesn't have many spots where you'll step over a dog to reach your table, but Babette, a neighborhood pizza joint on Roslagsgatan, pulls it off with charm. The pizza is Roman-style, thin and crispy with restrained toppings, and the small plates shift with the season. A Michelin Bib Gourmand and a spot on 50 Top Pizza World keep the room packed, so lean in, order a glass from the decent wine list, and make friends with your neighbors.
- 50 Top Pizza 2025 · New Entry of the Year · 50 Top Pizza World Special Awards
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- 50 Top Pizza 50 Top Pizza Europe Excellent Pizzerias
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Rank 3. Farang
Thai
The front door is a relic from when this building housed Stockholm's electric company, which sets the tone for a room that knows it has good bones. Inside, it's a chic Thai and Southeast Asian restaurant with soft lighting, an open kitchen, and cooking that moves across the region, laab, crying tiger beef, Vietnamese-style sashimi. Service is attentive without being stiff, and the prices won't require a sit-down afterward.
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- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- 50 Best #38 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- White Guide Global Masters Level · White Guide
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Rank 6. Allegrine
French
Eighteen counter stools look straight into the open kitchen at Allegrine, a French brasserie on Kammakargatan where the menu runs from a simple lunch dish of the day to evening plates of frogs' legs and steak tartare. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. If choosing feels like too much, there's a surprise menu for two, which is either very romantic or a polite admission that the wine is already flowing.
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Rank 9. Nour
Modern Japanese
On the third floor of a city-centre townhouse, this Michelin-starred tasting restaurant is quiet enough that you notice the silence. The format runs aperitifs and snacks in the lounge first, then a procession of modern dishes that pair Swedish produce with Japanese technique. Vendace unagi and smoked reindeer tartare set the tone early, and the kitchen stays in that register throughout. Not a loud room, not a loud menu.
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Rank 10. Ekstedt
Scandinavian Barbecue
Every dish at this Stockholm fine dining room comes from an open fire, because Niklas Ekstedt cooks without electricity. Visits begin with a kitchen tour and an oyster snack prepared in a flame-licked cone, which sets the tone neatly. Juniper smoke, reindeer, and various Scandinavian ingredients that probably had a better morning than you follow. The room holds a Michelin star, and the service team is warm enough to balance the theatrical primitivism.
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Rank 11. Sushi Sho
Sushi
Thirty seats, three sittings, white tiles, and a chef who serves every diner at the exact same moment. Sushi Sho is an omakase counter where Carl Ishizaki runs a famously tight ship, sourcing ingredients with the kind of obsessiveness that makes the simplicity of the room feel entirely intentional. A Michelin star. The knife work alone gives the game away.
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The windows sit at pavement level, so you watch strangers' feet pass while you eat, which sets the tone for a place that does things slightly sideways. Prospero is a small bistro on Roslagsgatan running a concise tasting menu, priced for regulars rather than occasions. The cooking leans on sauces with a precision that feels more considered than the low-key room lets on. Bring someone who notices that kind of thing.
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The industrial bones here, by architect Thomas Sandell and designer Jonas Bohlin, set the tone before the food arrives: bold, a little theatrical, unapologetically generous. This neighborhood restaurant has been a Stockholm staple forever, and its classic Swedish cooking matches the room in scale and confidence. The Michelin Bib Gourmand keeps the regulars feeling smug, though they'd have come anyway. Tegnérlunden Park is right there for the aftermath.
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The name comes from "petrichor," that specific smell of rain hitting warm earth, and the restaurant carries a similar quality, quiet and close without trying too hard. It's a set-menu spot on Kommendörsgatan that follows the seasons tightly, folding in small-batch ingredients as optional add-ons when they're around. House-made non-alcoholic pairings sit alongside the wine list for those keeping a clear head.
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Rank 18. ergo.
Modern French
Net curtains on Artillerigatan 14 give almost nothing away from the street, which feels like a deliberate choice. Inside, this fine dining room is quiet and elegant, the kind of place where the open kitchen hums along without theatrics. The cooking sits on a classic French base but pulls in modern technique and unexpected flavors, with acidity doing a lot of quiet work to keep things lively. It holds a Michelin star.
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Open-flame cooking in a dark-wood-panelled room beside the Stockholm Opera, with the Swedish parliament directly across the street, which is a lot of gravitas for one dinner reservation. This Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant runs seasonal tasting menus built around fire, with dishes that land somewhere between precise and quietly wild. The wine cellar behind glass is serious enough to stop the conversation.
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Rank 24. Operakällaren
Modern New American
Gilded oak paneling from 1895 lines the walls of this grand fine-dining room inside Stockholm's Royal Opera House, where chandeliers and enormous paintings set a scene that could not be more celebratory if it tried. A young team runs it, the music leans cool, and the cooking is modern and international rather than stiffly formal. It holds a Michelin star and a White Guide Global Masters distinction. Dress up; the room will notice.
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Rank 25. BORD
Mediterranean
A communal table anchors the room at this relaxed bohemian bistro on Roslagsgatan, where the daily menu blurs the line between starters and mains. The kitchen makes its own ricotta and runs a wood-fired oven from morning bread to evening langoustines, keeping the cooking pared back enough that the ingredients do the talking. Dinner is the main draw, with Saturday lunches a quieter bonus for those who know.
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Rank 32. Brasserie Astoria
Modern French
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The kitchen and dining room share the same open space here, so you watch every plate come together while you eat. It's a relaxed Swedish restaurant in Östermalm where the cooking leans on seasonal produce and lands somewhere between farmhouse and finessed. The four-course nightly menu keeps things affordable without shrinking the ambition. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of neighborhood spot that makes the neighbors insufferably smug.
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Rank 37. Minh Mat
Vietnamese
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Rank 52. Seafood Gastro
Nordic Seafood
Inside the Grand Hôtel, this Michelin-starred seafood restaurant stakes its whole identity on the tasting menu, a procession of langoustines, raw shrimp, and Oscietra caviar with Japanese touches folded in, wasabi here, a chawanmushi there. The kitchen treats every piece of fish and shellfish as though it cost a small fortune, which, to be fair, it probably did. Dress accordingly and go hungry.
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Rank 59. Restaurang B.A.R.
Seafood
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The name is set into a black iron gate so discreetly you could walk right past it. Once through, a courtyard garden leads to a trio of Arts & Crafts townhouses converted into a boutique hotel, where the restaurant runs across two rooms: one all sheepskins and candlelight, the other a country-house kitchen, open and unhurried. The cooking is seasonal and considered, the kind of dinner that makes a Stockholm Tuesday feel like a genuine occasion.
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Rank 78. Sperling & Co
Steakhouse
Red leather banquettes, panelled walls, and a wood-fired grill open to the room set the tone at this upscale Stockholm steakhouse. Nordic beef gets top billing alongside Japanese Wagyu and American imports, most of it dry-aged and kissed by flame with the sort of restraint you'd expect from a culture that considers minimalism a moral position. It landed at number 69 on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which is a fine thing to be.
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Rank 84. AG
Steakhouse
A former silver factory in Kungsholmen, now home to one of Stockholm's serious steakhouses. The in-house butcher shop and ageing room are visible from the dining room, which is either very honest or very confident, probably both. Swedish dairy cow aged up to 90 days is the signature, though the list runs to Galician old cow and Japanese A5. Ranked eighth on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which narrows the crowd considerably.
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Rank 86. Bistro Leoparden
Modern Pizza
The airy, well-laced crust is the tell at this modern Stockholm pizza bistro, where the dough gets enough time and attention that it actually feels light rather than like a dare. The room is contemporary and comfortable, the kind of place where a relaxed evening doesn't require a dress code or a prior commitment to silence. Service is informal and switched-on, handled by a young staff that keeps the energy up without making it feel like a theme. Named among 50 Top Pizza Europe's Excellent Pizzerias.
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Rank 99. AIRA
Swedish New American
A boathouse-shaped building of Corten steel and glass sits on the water near Royal Djurgården, Stockholm's old royal hunting ground turned city park. Inside, this two-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant is light-filled and precise, the kind of room where the cooking matches the architecture in its sense of occasion. The waterside terrace handles pre-dinner drinks beautifully, and the non-alcoholic pairing, built from garden ingredients, is worth serious consideration.
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