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  1. Address
    Hamnvägen 2, Skåne, Skanör, Sweden · Skanör
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–3:30 PM

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    Södra Mellby 26:7, Skåne, Kivik, Sweden · Kivik
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

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  3. Rank 471. Grano

    Pizzeria



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    Kungsgatan 1, Närke, Örebro, Sweden · Örebro
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–Midnight

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    Hablingbo, Stora Burge, Gotland, Havdhem, Sweden · Havdhem
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–8 PM

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    Fiskehamnsvägen 2, Halland, Träslövsläge, Sweden · Träslövsläge
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  7. Rank 471. Kallskänken

    Swedish Pizzeria





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    Smålandsgatan 7, Stockholm, Sweden · Stockholm
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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    Kyrkvägen 5, Jämtland, Mörsil, Sweden · Mörsil
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    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–4 PM

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    Östgötagatan 35, Stockholm, Sweden · Stockholm
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

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  11. Rank 471. La Banca

    Hälsinge Italian




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    Torget, Idre Fjäll, Dalarna, Idre, Sweden · Idre
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11:59 PM

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    Jönköpingsvägen 15, Småland, Värnamo, Sweden · Värnamo
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 7:30 AM–11 PM

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    Gibraltargatan 6, Malmö, Sweden · Malmö
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–9 PM

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    Götaplatsen, Göteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden · Göteborg
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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    Lilla Waterloogatan 7, Sweden · Göteborg
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  17. Rank 471. Oliveriet

    Italian


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    Kungsgatan 48, Värmland, Kristinehamn, Sweden · Kristinehamn
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–3 PM, 4:30 PM–10 PM

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    Drottninggatan 151, Skåne, Helsingborg, Sweden · Helsingborg
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–11:59 PM

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    Folkungagatan 140, Stockholm, Sweden · Stockholm
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–2 PM, 4 PM–11 PM

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    Fiskaretorget 2, Småland, Västervik, Sweden · Västervik
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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  21. Rank 471. Regio

    Italian


  22. Rank 471. Restaurang Apa

    Burger Joint


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    Storgatan 33, Medelpad, Sundsvall, Sweden · Sundsvall
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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    Hakarpsvägen 3A, Sweden · Huskvarna
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–8:30 PM

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    Hamngatan 19, Västergötland, Mariestad, Sweden · Mariestad
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11:59 PM

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  25. Address
    Strandgatan 1, Skåne, Skillinge, Sweden · Skillinge
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–10 PM

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    Gängtappen, Stora Varvsgatan 11, Malmö, Sweden · Malmö
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    Open now, until 3:30 PM

    Friday 8 AM–3:30 PM

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    Lastvägen 54, Lappland, Kiruna, Sweden · Kiruna
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    Open now, until 11 PM

    Friday 8 AM–11 PM

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    Kungstorget, Göteborg, Sweden · Göteborg
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    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–7 PM

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  29. Rank 471. Sukki Ne

    Korean


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    Norra Allégatan 8, Skåne, Gothenburg, Sweden · Göteborg
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–9 PM

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  30. 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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    Address
    Danderydsgatan 25, Stockholm, Stockholm 114 26, Sweden · Stockholm
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–2:30 PM, 5 PM–11 PM

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  31. The bistro inside Stockholm's Grand Hôtel where Mathias Dahlgren runs an informal, modern dining room designed by Ilse Crawford. The menu reads like a love letter to Swedish seasons, moving through medium-sized dishes built on whatever just arrived, langoustines, squid, dry-aged beef. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which tracks: this is serious cooking in a room where you don't have to whisper.


    Address
    Södra Blasieholmshamnen 6, Stockholm, Stockholm 103 27, Sweden · Stockholm
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, 6 PM–Midnight

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  32. 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.



  33. Address
    Lilla Nygatan 5, Stockholm, Stockholm 111 28, Sweden · Stockholm
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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  34. Rank 577. Persona

    French

    A server singing a drinking song while you eat your chawanmushi sets the tone at this 25-seat modern restaurant in Östermalm, named after the Bergman film. French technique meets Swedish pantry in a format where you can build your own menu or let the kitchen decide, with a sommelier co-running the room. It's intimate enough that you'll notice everyone else's order, which you will want to.


  35. Exposed wires and concrete pillars share the room with white tablecloths at this all-day restaurant in Stockholm's meat-packing district, where the team behind Adam / Albin have leaned hard into the industrial-chic look. The menu roams freely, with wood-fired pizzas and tacos sitting alongside more polished modern dishes. On a cold Stockholm day, the fire-lit chimney is the only seat that matters.


  36. Rank 581. Bar Afterglow

    Cocktail Bar

    The sign in the window says "Cancel your plans," which turns out to be less a warning than a preview. This compact cocktail bar in Södermalm's quieter eastern end is the kind of place where good intentions dissolve around the second round. The bartender's Tomato Coffee, a smoky, somehow-balanced thing that sounds like a mistake, has become a calling card. Carbonated, clarified riffs on classics round out a list that rewards the curious.

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  37. Rank 581. Ciccio's

    Italian Cocktail Bar

    The bar runs the length of the room, and the dining room noise behind it is part of the deal. Tucked inside an Italian restaurant on Östermalm and nodding to New York's Little Italy, this aperitivo bar lines the walls with old black-and-white photographs and fills the stools with people who came in for one drink and stayed for three. The bartenders dress the part and pour accordingly.

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  38. Rank 581. Gaji

    Korean Cocktail Bar

    Bare pine, grey banquettes, and thin crystal glassware are about all Gaji offers by way of decoration, which leaves the cocktails nowhere to hide. It's a Korean-Swedish cocktail bar, a combination that sounds like a creative writing prompt but makes a certain sense in Malmö, one of Europe's more genuinely mixed cities. The bar is a sibling to the Namu restaurant next door, and the same cross-cultural logic runs through both.

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    Address
    Engelbrektsgatan 2, Malmö, 211 33, Sweden · Malmö
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–Midnight

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  39. 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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    Address
    Adelgatan 13, Malmo, Skåne 211 22, Sweden · Malmo
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–Midnight

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  41. One chef, one counter, one seating, everyone served together. Essence is a small tasting-menu restaurant built around Stefan Taylor working solo in front of his guests, walking through each dish as he plates it. The pauses between courses, while he catches up with himself, are where the room gets talkative. He dries, pickles, and prepares much of it days in advance, which you'd never guess until he explains it.

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  42. Rank 585. Forma

    Modern Pan-Asian

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  43. Rank 585. Koizen

    Japanese

    A 22-seat omakase counter a short walk from Slottsskogen park, where you watch the chef build each course in front of you and get a quiet explanation of what you're eating before you eat it. The progression moves through sashimi, nigiri, aburi nigiri, soup, and dessert, while someone else steers you through the sake list. Small, unhurried, and very much a reservation-first situation.

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  44. Eight tables is all this cosy Italian restaurant on Skånegatan has ever needed. The family is Neapolitan, and the cooking follows, running toward the rich, southern end of the Italian repertoire with seasonal dishes that change as the markets do. A childhood friend runs the floor while the chef runs the kitchen, which gives the whole room a feeling of a dinner party where you happened to buy a ticket.

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  45. A white building with green balconies in a seaside resort better known for tennis, Pensionat Furuhem is a traditional Swedish restaurant where wood-furnished rooms set a tone that the unfussy cooking matches exactly. The spettekaka is the thing to know about: a local Scanian pastry slowly grilled all day over beech embers, then cut tableside and finished with changing accompaniments, which is a showier finish than the room would ever suggest.

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    Address
    Östermalmsvägen 1, Båstad, Skåne 269 36, Sweden · Båstad
    Hours

    Open now, until 4 PM

    Friday 7 AM–4 PM, 6 PM–Midnight

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  46. A glass-enclosed corner terrace on one of Malmo's main roads signals what's inside: a smart but unfussy Swedish restaurant where natural light does most of the decorating. You can sit at a long counter, perch on high stools by floor-to-ceiling windows, or settle into a proper dining room. The cooking is generous and unshowy, and the room shifts gears toward something livelier once the homemade cocktails get involved.

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    Address
    Fersens väg 4, Malmo, Skåne 211 42, Sweden · Malmo
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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  47. A converted East India Company warehouse on the Gothenburg waterfront, Sjömagasinet is a wooden, chalet-style seafood brasserie where the harbour view does a lot of the heavy lifting. The menu runs from lobster bisque and langoustine on toast through steamed cod and seafood platters sized for however hungry you're feeling. Lunch is lighter; evenings lean into the signatures. Grab the terrace or a first-floor window seat before someone else does.

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  48. Rank 585. Washoku TOMO

    Japanese

    Fresh wasabi from Japan alongside Argentinian prawns and Canadian black cod makes a quietly globe-trotting argument for omakase in Södermalm. This intimate Japanese counter keeps the format approachable in price without shrinking the ambition, and the chef-owner runs both the kitchen and the room herself, which gives the whole evening a particular warmth. Seafood anchors the menu, though it doesn't stop at sushi.

    The awards


    Address
    Timmermansgatan 15, Stockholm, Stockholm 118 25, Sweden · Stockholm
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    Closed now, opens 5:30 PM

    Friday 5:30 PM–10:30 PM

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  49. Rank 594. 450 Gradi

    Neapolitan Pizzeria

    A wood-fired Neapolitan pizzeria on the island of Lidingö, sitting in the old AGA industrial area with water views that do most of the decorating. The dough is the project: light, high-crusted, and built for digestion, cooked at the 450 degrees the name promises. Some pies lean Naples, others lean Nordic, and the version with Kalix vendace roe and dill is the kind of menu decision that shouldn't work and does. Artisanal gelato and a full Italian menu round it out.


    Address
    Brostugevägen 1, 181 55 Lidingö, Svezia · Lidingö
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9 PM

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  50. You walk through what appears to be a flower shop, find the basement door, and descend into a purple-lit cocktail bar that takes its botanical theme more seriously than most. The menu runs to nine drinks, each one built around naturalistic technique without making a fuss about it. A Difford's Guide five-star rating and a White Guide Exceptional Level nod confirm the crowd already knows the way down.


    Address
    Birger Jarlsgatan 20, Stockholm, Sweden · Stockholm
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–1 AM

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  51. Rank 594. Pharmarium

    Cocktail Bar


    Address
    Stortorget 7, Stockholm, Sweden · Stockholm
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    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Friday 3 PM–1 AM

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  52. Blå Porten is a cafeteria-style cafe on Djurgården where you grab a tray, pick a salad or entrée, and work your way down a lineup of cakes and cardamom buns. It sits on a sprawling property with a long dining room and a garden, a short walk from the Vasa Museum, so the crowd is part tourist, part fika devotee. Eat outside by the fountain, since the indoor seating has the energy of a very nice school lunch.


  53. Günters is a sausage stand on Karlbergsvägen, the kind of place where lunch costs less than the coffee you'd have after it. There are more than ten sausages on offer, from merguez to currywurst, and the man behind the grill will ask whether you want spicy, mustard, and sauerkraut, so you'll want to have answers ready. There's a small counter and a patch of sidewalk, both patrolled by pigeons with excellent manners and zero shame.


  54. This is a casual Södermalm meatball joint where the menu runs from veal and pork to reindeer, boar, and, if you're feeling brave, bear. Everything arrives with mashed potatoes, cucumber salad, and lingonberries, and a plate usually lands around $30. The space leans hard into ball puns and merch, which sounds like a warning but somehow stays on the right side of cheesy. Yes, it's a step up from the IKEA version.


  55. This is a pastry-case cafe in Norrmalm where fika is treated as a daily obligation, with cardamom buns on the larger, sweeter, less spiced side. It's smaller than the other branches in this little Stockholm chain, but it suits a coffee before the shops on Gamla Brogatan. The princess cake arrives in full green-marzipan regalia, stacked high with raspberries and cream, and nobody makes eye contact while eating it.


    Address
    Gamla Brogatan 32, Stockholm, 111 20, Sweden · Stockholm
    Hours

    Open now, until 8 PM

    Friday 7:30 AM–8 PM

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