Restaurants come and go but some stay for a very long time. In Stockholm you find one of the world's oldest restaurants, Den Gyldene Freden. Other iconic restaurants in Stockholm are Tennstopet, Sturehof and Hasselbacken.

In Gothenburg, on the west coast, you can find fantastic seafood prepared fresh at for example Fiskekrogen or the restaurant FeskeKörka – Fish Church.

In Malmö you will find the classic restaurant Bullen from 1897 where you can find traditional Swedish food, "husmanskost".

If you're out for a truly spectacular restaurant experience you can go far north to Jukkasjärvi and make a dinner reservation at the Ice Hotel, a hotel built completely of ice and that is rebuilt every year. If you are lucky, you may even get to see the northern lights at night in the winter.
Depending on who you ask you would probably get a completely different recommendation, so make sure to get recommendations from people who share your preferences.

If you're into the most exclusive kind of dining, with exceptional service, wine and exquisite courses from starter to dessert, Sweden has no less than 19 Michelin Star Restaurants.

The restaurant Franzén can even boast with three stars. Other examples are Vollmer in southern Sweden not far from Malmö, Ekstedt in Stockholm, where the food is prepared over open fire or similar traditional technics, and Sushi Sho, which serves sushi but with Swedish and European ingredients.

Many of these restaurants are part of the New Nordic Cuisine, a movement that dates back a couple of decades and that promotes local, natural and seasonal produce.

Like most countries, today Swedish street food has influences from all over the world. If you want to try something typically Swedish that you have never eaten before, you can try Swedish varieties of the hotdog, served with mashed potatoes, ketchup, mustard and shrimp-and-mayonnaise salad.

Or eat your hot dog in a flat bread with mashed potatoes; this combination is called "tunnbrödsrulle".

Breaded and fried herring with mashed potatoes is another typical Swedish street food that you may want to try.

You will also find Swedish varieties of dishes from all over the world. Try for example a "kebabrulle" (kebab in flat bread), pizza with pineapple or kebab pizza, different kinds of wraps, burgers, poké bowls and sushi.

We all have different tastes and perhaps this is most apparent when it comes to food and the whole experience we want from a restaurant.
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