The place the cooks eat: Bar Bulot
The tasting menu: Human
The espresso store: Da Matteo
The no-frills meal: Fiskbar 17
The place the locals actually eat: HOZE
The bakery: Cum Pane
The brunch spot: Kafe Magasinet
The pre-dinner drink: Champpagnebarren Forssen Oberg
The date evening spot: Koka
The brewery: Spike taproom
The place to remain in Gothenburg
Clarion Resort Put up
This iconic constructing is ideally situated subsequent to the central prepare station, botanical gardens and Gothenburg’s outdated city and restaurant hub. The rooftop is residence to a pool with spectacular metropolis views in addition to an area for cooks to develop components for the glamorous on-site restaurant, Vra, the place Nordic and Japanese influences fuse collectively. The restaurant stays true to the resort constructing’s former life as a put up workplace, embellishing authentic pillars, lights and ceiling with Icelandic lava tables and hanging glass partitions above the round cubicles.
Doubles from £171, examine availability at reserving.com.
Resort Flora
This uber-trendy boutique resort, within the centre of Gothenburg, combines an ethereal workspace, buzzy bar and rooms kitted out with big beds, monsoon showers and Swedish teas and occasional stations. In summer season, the shaded terrace on the resort’s first flooring is a nice, secluded spot to get pleasure from some quiet al fresco time (at evening it’s lit by flickering lanterns). Come morning, the breakfast counter is laden with chilly meat cuts, tubes of Kalles caviar to unfold on skinny wheels of Leksands crisp bread, and freshly baked croissants from Johnséns within the metropolis’s Haga district. Add in your selection of Bramhult Swedish juices, or speciality teas from Johan & Nyström.
Doubles from £85, examine availability at reserving.com.
Foodie day journeys from Gothenburg
Styrsö island – for a style of the archipelago
Catch the ferry to the archipelago for a style of Styrsö’s car-free island life. There are cinnamon buns, Swedish BBQs and a pop-up g&t bar and on-site ice cream parlour at charming Café Obergska. Stroll by forested nature trails and take a brisk dip off one of many sandy seashores.
Jonsered – for a riverside brewery and bakery outing
Hop on the prepare from Gothenburg to Jonsered, a tiny riverside hamlet residence to standard Poppels Bryggeri, the place you possibly can style a spread of Swedish beers matched with the likes of torched shrimp, ricotta and chanterelle ravioli, and Swedish roe scooped up with crisps. Not far away is Brödfabriken, the place you possibly can relax with basic cinnamon bun and occasional fika below a blanket by the river.
The Gotaleden strolling path – for foodie strolling trails
From Jonsered, observe the Gotaleden strolling path, treading by forests blanketed with tiny flowers, winding alongside rivers and clambering over rocks round Lake Aspen. Reward your self at Storage Fromage, the place proprietor Hans curates speciality cheeses from distant elements of Sweden to promote in his transformed storage store. Proceed the riverside trek or take a brief prepare journey to spend the evening at Nääs Fabriker, an outdated cotton manufacturing facility in-built 1890, now residence to a trendy resort with onsite eating places, outlets, bakery and brewery. Wrap up in your gown and pad to the al fresco lakeside spa earlier than having fun with a seasonal Swedish dinner within the plant-adorned conservatory room. Doubles from £107, examine availability at reserving.com.
Our choose of the very best eating places, cafés and bars in Gothenburg
Bar Bulot – for Swedish bistro vibes
Cooks Gabriel Melim Andersson and Emil Bjelke each grew up on the west coast of Sweden. They showcase their homeland’s components in up to date French-inspired dishes, each on the fundamental restaurant and in an informal market bistro. On the latter, a set lunch kicks off with golden yellow, home-churned kefir butter to slather onto selfmade sourdough together with a cup of the soup of the day. Subsequent, choose between the likes of glazed pork stomach in a spiced tomato and aubergine ragu, baked ling with remoulade sauce on unripe tomatoes and rhubarb, and apple-braised endive topped with roast Jerusalem artichokes, chestnuts and honey-infused raisins. The smarter – but nonetheless unstuffy – expertise on the restaurant correct affords a tasting menu of uncooked shrimp with tempura-fried corn; wild mushrooms with caramelised onions; halibut with vin blanc sauce; and dry-aged côte de boeuf with tomato salad and caramelised wild pepper jus. End with a seasonal dessert similar to blueberry sorbet with malt cookie or apple financier and fig leaf mousse. bulot.se
Swedish chef of the yr winner Martin Moses headed up Michelin-starred SK Mat & Människor earlier than opening his personal restaurant in late 2021. The small house has a very cosy vibe, with a velvet curtain on the entrance, brass oil lamps and a hushed however blissful environment; it’s as in case you have been eating in Martin’s residence. A classic drinks trolley stocking the likes of Hernö gin sits within the nook and a deep blue tiled counter offers a stage for Martin and his crew to arrange new Nordic dishes. A succession of snacks to begin embody lamb coronary heart grated onto buckwheat crackers, a picture-perfect mini hamachi fish tart, and tiny crab croquettes topped with langoustine emulsion. Subsequent, a few of which Martin brings to the desk himself, comes Swedish peas and beans with burnt lardo, buttered onion beurre blanc and uncooked liquorice powder; fired Arkør prawns with tangy fennel salad and native tomatoes; and turbot on a mattress of untamed foraged mushrooms, crisp fava beans and dill flowers. Dessert on our go to was tart raspberry sorbet to chop by wealthy white chocolate mousse and a heat, silky caramel sauce to pour excessive. humanrestaurang.se
Da Matteo – for espresso
It’s arduous to overlook Da Matteo Espresso Roasters in Gothenburg, so many branches are there. Sit excessive on a stool within the authentic Victoriapassagen department and watch folks squeeze by the tiny passage whereas eyeing up smooth stationery in Rum for Papper reverse. Alternatively, recline on the terrace exterior Da Matteo Panetteria, or jump over to Da Matteo Torrefazione to get pleasure from cinnamon and cardamom buns contemporary from the on-site bakery and brews straight from the in-house roastery.
Interiors in each match their Scandi-cool clientele all the way down to a T – concrete, uncovered brick and stainless-steel are cosied up with Swedish throws and cushions to sink in to. Blends rotate seasonally and, fairly than ordering a flat white, cappuccino or macchiato, the home mix is served in three sizes solely, together with filtered espresso by the cup.
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Be sure to wind your means by the warren of espresso sacks to the sun-soaked courtyard behind Da Matteo Panetteria. Right here you possibly can get pleasure from your brew surrounded by potted timber and completely trimmed bushes spilling out from neighbouring plant emporium, Floramor & Krukatös. damatteo.se
Cum Pane – for eco Swedish fika
This natural eco bakery is well worth the fast tram journey out of town centre for a few of the metropolis’s most wanted cinnamon and cardamom buns and rustic sourdough bread. Slide into the only desk to get pleasure from your fika (Swedish afternoon tea) with a entrance row glimpse into the small open bakery on the again. In the event you’re visiting with mates, purchase a big cardamom, vanilla or darkish chocolate poppy wreath to drag aside and share. cumpane.coop
Spike Brewery and taproom – for progressive Swedish craft beers
Gothenburg boasts 40 breweries, making it the Swedish capital of craft beer, in addition to a vacation spot for beer lovers throughout Europe and past. Town’s beer scene is primed for innovation – fairly than seeing new breweries as opponents, established manufacturers welcome them as colleagues and all of the small breweries work collectively and share components, clients and information. It is this type of collaboration that enables artistic considering and high quality to thrive.
Spike launched the primary taproom within the metropolis, and proprietor David has devoted his time to reworking this space of town, beforehand a group of slaughterhouses, right into a artistic and enjoyable hub for meals, artwork and music. His brand-new brewery and taproom, subsequent door to the unique, would be the point of interest for an eclectic mixture of reside music, pop-up kitchens and artwork exhibitions. His ethos is to open up folks’s minds to nice beers. Spend a night on the taproom tasting the likes of Again in Enterprise double IPA, refreshing Aciid lemon and lime bitter and the vanilla and occasional notes of the velvety Doppler Effekt stout. spikebrewery.com
Vrå – for Nordic Japanese fusion
Nordic and Japanese influences fuse collectively on this glamorous restaurant on the vigorous Clarion Resort Put up. The restaurant stays true to its former life as a put up workplace, embellishing authentic pillars, lights and ceiling with Icelandic lava tables and hanging glass partitions above the round cubicles, made by the identical producer as the fragile glassware, Orrefores. Begin by choosing your sake cup from a variety curated from Tokyo’s Kappabashi Road. The four-course menu modifications each season to work in components grown on the resort roof. Even the soy sauce is created from Swedish fava beans and umami-rich miso soup from regionally grown yellow peas. Issues kick off with sashimi, similar to yellow fin tuna with Swedish autumn tomatoes and shiso leaves, each grown on the roof of the resort. Subsequent comes wild chanterelles and frizzled leeks in a mushroom soup, adopted by butterflied pine perch with cauliflower purée, Savoy cabbage and selfmade tare sauce. Dessert is a refreshing end, on our go to raspberry ice cream, contemporary cheese and yuzu with citron verbena oil, fluffy white chocolate and macademia nuts. restaurangvra.se
Wine mechanics – for city wines
Sweden’s solely city vineyard celebrated its first classic in 2017 and has been making distinctive bottles ever since. Grapes are transported from eight vineyards throughout Europe to press in Gothenburg metropolis centre. Proprietor and former skilled footballer Kenneth Gustafsson and his mates have a maverick angle to wine, with loads of enjoyable concerned, from the grape mixtures to labels designed by native artists. Sustainability is essential in Gothenburg, and Wine Mechanics is dedicated to popularising climate-friendly cans, together with the funky Loire chenin blanc, Actual Dangerous Trying.
Wine tastings are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays, or you possibly can attempt in numerous eating places within the metropolis centre, together with at Clarion Put up resort. In the event you’re on the town on the final Saturday of the month, be part of one of many leisurely lunches on the vineyard, with themes similar to lobster and chardonnay or barolo and truffle. winemechanics.se
Koka – for Michelin-starred eating
Koka is Bjorn Persson’s informal and up to date eating affair. The smooth, quintessentially Scandi, room is lined with planks of pale fir whereas dramatic panels of burgundy cloth framing an authentic, nineteenth century, glass ceiling hinting at extra conventional influences. Cutlery sits on a bit picket field that slides open to disclose the menu of the night. Within the kitchen, Koka focuses on up to date gastronomy from West Sweden, with many regionally foraged components. Candy and crunchy charred white asparagus is served with butter mushrooms shavings, grated egg yolk and nettle emulsion. Juicy slow-cooked charcoal pork stomach is sweetened with a purée of beetroot and Koka’s distinctive blackcurrant mustard (it’s price going for this alone), or served on a mattress of cabbage with an emulsion of blue mussels. Blueberries are semi-dried and soaked in Scandinavian spirit Akvavit.
Wine pairing is a should, completely complementing the wonderful dishes – Chenin Blanc is contemporary and fruity, terracotta-aged Chardonnay lets the grapes communicate for themselves fairly than including oaky notes and a dessert wine has fig and plum notes with nuttiness from the oak barrels. Viktoriagatan 12, restaurangkoka.se
Kafe Magasinet – for lunch and aperitifs
Head by an archway off fashionable Tredje Langgatan and transport your self into a big conservatory brimming with vegetation and flooded with gentle from a glass ceiling. There are cosy seating areas in all places you look, and shaggy fur throws to snuggle into. The café’s easy menu options bagels (brisket and mushroom, turkey and mango, salmon and cucumber), salads and creative pizzas. We propose the gorgeous vegan pizza slathered with silky artichoke cream and topped with crispy onions, crunchy asparagus, radishes, new potatoes and dots of citrus cream. Maintain it vegan and tuck right into a bowl of Asian-style coconutty tomato stew with lentils, crunchy toasted peanuts, cauliflower florets and attractive toasted nut crackers to complete. Head right here within the early night to benefit from the lengthy summer season nights and take in the thrill of the attractive younger crowd sipping on Aperol Spritzes. Tredje Langgatan 9, kafemagasinet.se
HOZE – for Scandinavian sushi
With solely six seats on the counter, this minimalist sushi bar is mighty troublesome to get into. In the event you’re fortunate sufficient to safe a spot, count on conventional sushi crafted utilizing the freshest Scandinavian fish. Chef José Cerda was born in Gothenburg however marries this Scandinavian affect with a Mallorcan heritage – and has a ardour for the Japanese idea of attaining kaizen (perfection). These three strands meet in a conventional omakase menu that leaves the selection to the chef however might properly embody the likes of seared halibut, mackerel roe, Scandinavian-style sushi and kakigori or strawberry dessert, all served on stunning handmade Japanese crockery.
HOZE has a back-pocket eating idea, Bifangst, permitting simply two diners at a time to get pleasure from a menu pushed by the Nordic seasons, utilizing home-grown and foraged components alongside leftovers from the primary restaurant to make sure that every ingredient fulfils its objective. These might embody elderflowers, unripe strawberries, spruce shoots and scallops. Stigbergstorget 17, hozerestaurant.com
This champagne bar was arrange by two feminine mates who needed to take the stuffiness out of the champagne world. The result’s a tiny bar in a reasonably flower-filled courtyard the place locals sip from flutes below the shade of timber. The ladies usually go to the Champagne area to make sure they’re bang on pattern with the newest vintages and unbiased producers. There are at the moment over 775 bottles to select from, with loads by the glass (together with a posh and briochy Guiborat).
Salty Swedish oysters from Grebbestad and a glass of champagne make an ideal pre-dinner pairing. Or bask in a cheese and charcuterie board. In any other case, you possibly can get pleasure from a three-course seafood menu of mackerel with radishes and buckwheat, artic char with summer season cabbage, beurre blanc, trout roe and delicate elderflower, and a Swedish-style eton mess of strawberries with meringue, crème fraiche and lemon verbena. The bar additionally has a repute for reside jazz, to the extent that final yr they opened a jazz bar in the identical courtyard, with reside music each evening. Kyrkogatan 13, forssenoberg.com
Tacos and tequila – for Mexican
This vigorous taco joint has a round the clock celebration vibe, with laidback employees carting a relentless stream of sloshing margaritas (there are 5 varieties) backwards and forwards between tables and out onto a suntrap terrace. The meals is contemporary and vibrant, specializing in ceviches (spicy tuna, scallop, salmon) and, after all, tacos. Tuck into roast pork stomach, spicy pineapple, roast coconut flakes and grilled bell pepper cream; panko-fried cod with watermelon and ginger mayo; or grilled Portobello mushroom with black beans, roast almonds and chipotle salsa. There are sharing bowls of corn chips and guacamole, pimped up with uncommon toppings similar to strawberry and feta or papaya and pickled crimson chilli, and a home chilli for one thing a bit heartier. Tredje Langgatan 9, tacosandtequila.se
Folks – for vegetarian meals in a theatre
Make like a stylish Gothenburg native and revel in vegetarian meals within the lobby of arts theatre Folkteatern under a glittering disco ball. The tasting menu at Folks is a superb worth means of attempting the vegetarian small plates on provide – uncooked celeriac with basil pesto, hazelnuts and watercress; butter baked cauliflower with mushroom mayonnaise and punchy items of fried ginger; and fried butter ice cream with skin-on poached pear topped with bursts of pomegranate seeds and crunchy caramelised hazelnuts. Pair the meals with pure wines: we loved the fragile citrus and mineral notes of Domaine Montanet-Thoden Bourgogne Vezelay Le Galerne 2014. Olof Palmes plats 3, folkgbg.se
Alvar & Ivar Surdegsbageri – for sourdough and buns
Although these guys concentrate on sourdough bread, this tiny neighbourhood café additionally sells the very best cinnamon buns on the town. In-the-know metropolis dwellers queue around the block each morning to bag one in all Alvar & Ivar’s natural, freshly-baked loaves. Attempt the fruktbröd sourdough filled with fruit and nuts, or bask in a semla cream bun. In the event you’re fortunate, bag one of many two seats inside, or take your bread to the gorgeous native park, apparently residence to one in all each kind of tree in Scandinavia. Kastellgatan 11, alvarochivar.se
Café Husaren – for large cinnamon buns
Take a stroll by the movie set-worthy cobbled streets of Haga and chances are you’ll properly stumble throughout this café. Its giant home windows are piled with big cinnamon buns and we strongly advise you go inside and check out the doughy, sugar-sprinkled spirals for your self. Slide your tray, canteen model, previous show cupboards brimming with baked items (together with candy vanilla drömmar biscuits and dense and sticky chocolate kladdkaka cake) and prawn sandwiches. Settle right into a sales space with a sizzling chocolate and take within the café’s gorgeous nineteenth century glass roof and stucco work. Haga Nygata 28, cafehusaren.se
Johan & Nyström – for espresso
This natural espresso roaster and tea service provider from Stockholm slid into the West Coast metropolis in November 2017 with three new idea shops. Modern picket interiors adorn an area the place you possibly can study beans and blends, in addition to discovering the right brewing technique, from Aeropress to Syphon. When you’ve discovered your most well-liked espresso, browse the smooth cabinets for packs to take residence, or linger over a cup and a cardamom bun at one of many jade inexperienced tables. Kungsportsavenyen 21/Östra Hamngatan 46-48/Nordstadstorget 10, johanochnystrom.se
Hagabion’s Cafe Kino – for Swedish craft beers
On busy purchasing avenue Linnegatan, inside an enormous crimson brick constructing, is that this indie cinema with its personal, pint-sized, cellar bar. The pull right here is the Swedish craft beer and imaginative vegetarian meals (goat’s cheese on selfmade walnut bread and wild mushroom tortellini with a cream sauce). The bar’s arty clients perch wherever they will within the tiny room – on the bar, on a piano stool or round low tables on mismatched chairs. When it’s heat sufficient, additional pull-out chairs spill onto the huge cobbled pavement exterior and the clear Swedish air fills with animated chatter. Linnégatan 21, hagabionscafe.se
Brewers Bar
At this specialist beer bar on fashionable Tredje Langgatan there’s a rotation of worldwide and native brews on faucet, together with a variety of bottles from throughout the globe. Some native breweries to look out for are Beerbliotek (attempt its Whoop Ass bitter or the citrusy and fragrant Bobek citra American pale ale), Orebro Brygghus in central Sweden, and All in Brewing, providing a variety from Hustle imperial chocolate hazelnut stout to the SOMA Indian pale ale. Take part in a two-hour beer tasting, and be guided by 8-10 beers, from treacly stouts to IPAs. Brewers Bar does fairly nice sourdough pizzas too, so it’s a super spot for an informal night out together with your beer-loving mates. Tredje Langgatan 8/Magasinsgatan 3, brewersbeerbar.se
Olstugan Tullen
This conventional Swedish pub is extraordinarily standard, so put together to play sardines at its lengthy, beer tap-lined bar when you wait in your ale of selection. The pub dates again to 1892, and these days hip younger issues squish in subsequent to outdated timers. If it’s good exterior, line up on the picket bench that hugs the constructing’s exterior, throw a blanket over your lap and benefit from the bar’s tackle basic Swedish consolation meals (attempt the meatballs!). Andra Långgatan 13, olstugan.se
Cielo rooftop bar
This rooftop bar on the seventh flooring of glamorous Resort Bellora, is the place to go for upmarket cosmopolitan vibes. Gothenburg’s party-goers pack themselves into the slim house to benefit from the 180 diploma views of town and groove alongside to the reside DJ. There’s a bar at one finish, well-stocked with Italian liqueurs and aperitivi. Slide into one of many white cushioned seats set below a flower-strewn pergola. Sip a refreshing cielo summer season cocktail of aperol, gin, elderflower, lemon and soda and watch the solar set over town’s rooftops. Kungsportsavenyen 6, hotelbellora.se
Café Obergska
Catch a ferry out to tiny Styrsö island and head straight for Café Obergska, a captivating café that sits in a picturesque white picket-fenced herb backyard. Calm down on a squishy classic armchair on a raised platform set right into a dramatic rocky backdrop and hear as reggae pulses by the air and kids clamber over flowerpots to eye up their dad and mom’ platters.
Order a burger from the bearded Swedish blokes on the BBQ and deal with your self to a G&T from the tiny picket bar within the nook. Suited and booted gin grasp Olof crushes juniper berries, liquorice and peppery paradise seeds right into a tea strainer earlier than infusing the combo into Tanqueray gin and selfmade tonic. Don’t miss pillowy, candy, flippantly spiced carrot cake, and ensure you go to the tiny pastel-coloured ice cream parlour inside for a DIY ice cream cone to accompany your stroll by the island’s woodland and fisherman’s homes.
Styrsö island, obergska.se
First revealed Could 2016, up to date June 2018, October 2022 and July 2023
Written by Alex Crossley
Photograph credit: Semrén & Månsson, Tina Stafren, Sofie Flensburg Mantzaris
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