Top 6 Places to Eat / Drink in Stockholm

1. Espresso House

Espresso House is a popular Swedish coffeehouse that can be found across all the Nordic countries. It's basically a better, cosier, cooler, yummier (we've run out of descriptive words) version of Starbucks.

Just like the locals we've encountered this cafe is so chilled and the minute you walk in you feel relaxed and can find a cute little spot and chill there for hours. We particularly liked this because we could chat without feeling pressured into leaving or buying copious cups of coffee.

As if the amazing vibes weren't enough; the food and beverages are lush. We ordered:

Salted Caramel Latte

Melted Hot Chocolate

Blueberry pie with vanilla sauce (custard yaaas)

Chocolate Mudcake

2. Phil's Burger

Right we know we exagerrate how much we love things a lot but honestly we promise we're not this time... Other than alcohol we cannot name another drink we love more than the Oreo Milkshake from this restaurant. Jesus Christ it was amazing and it's deeply upsetting it's a 2hr flight away

If anyone knows of any UK food chains that do amazing milkshakes pleeeeeeeeeeease help your gals out and let us know! P.S. Mcdonalds doesn't count x

Sorry just needed to give that chocolate cup of heaven a shoutout. Anyway the burgers are insane also. We ordered the truffle sauce burger topped with caramelized onions and cheese accompanied by sweet potato fries.

Lorraine doesn't change her mind easily and doesn't rate burgers but this place is so good she's actually been converted lol

Lorraine and her new and forever bae

3. STHLM TAPAS

We're going to be honest, after eating tapas in Barcelona we thought we'd reached a wall and would ever have top notch tapas dishes until we returned to the beautiful city again. HOWEVER this little Swedish restaurant proved us wrong.

STHLM Tapas is a busy yet intimate restaurant located in the Vasastan region of Stockholm. We visited on Friday night so booked in advance and totally recommend doing this as it was heaving.

The waiter we had totally made the experience for us, literally such a sweetheart. The menu is made out of paper which enables you to tick which tapas dishes you'd like as the waiter goes through each dish explaining what it is.

The tapas is divided into Meat, Vegetarian, Dairy, Seafood etc categories and is derived from various locations worldwide: Sweden, Spain and Brazil are the main ones.

EVERYTHING TASTED AMAZING

We ordered about 9 dishes but our favourites were:

Portobello Mushroom Carpaccio

Pulled Pork Taco

Grilled Halloumi

Seared Beef in Teriyaki sauce

There is also a lovely bar area as you enter which offers cocktails so we were sold the minute we walked in to be honest. PLUS they offered non-alcoholic strawberry daiquris (Amy's fave) which made her night because she's still t-total.

4. Greasy Spoon

Ahh we love this place so so much!! We normally don't rate super hipster places but the staff were soo lovely and the food was i n s a n e.

BRUNCH IS LIFE and Greasy Spoon not only gets this but caters for it. The menu consists of pancake stacks, french toasts, Porridge, Brownies, Eggs Benedict, coffees, cocktails... the lot!

We ordered:

Eggs Benedict with bacon
Blueberry Scotch pancakes with blueberry/pistachio mascarpone AND bacon

Carrot & Orange Juice
Cappuccino
Matcha Latte

We'd also like to add that you cannot pre-book a table so just bear in mind you'll have a little wait before you sit down and order - 15 minutes tops!

5. Joe & The Juice

This is basically a cafe which offers an insane amount of juice variations: fruit and veg, spices, milk, the lot. Coffee and sandwiches are also available.

The staff look like hollister models, the decor is beaut but the thing we loved most of all (other than the drinks) was the music! There was SUCH a good house playlist on blast whilst we sat in the cafe trying to warm up and omg it was such a pleasant surprise.

I kid you not we were dancing in our seats and singing along to those little gems that have lyrics. MADE OUR DAY

We do love a smoothie in Summer so it was nice to have our first one of the year and kid ourselves that we'd undone all the calories we'd consumed over the 4 days lol

We ordered:

Pick Me Up (Strawberry, Banana and Apple)

Sex Me Up (Passion Fruit, Apple and Ginger)

P.S apparently there are a few branches in London! So definitely give it a visit when in ze capital folks

6. Pizzeria Al Forno

Located quite close to our hotel so we ate here on the first night. Basic italian so the menu wasn't massive but oh ma gawd the pasta was insaaane. Totally recommend if in the area