Best Stockholm Restaurants in the White Guide 2018

While the Michelin Guide is very popular with travellers visiting a foreign city and searching for the best restaurants, the White Guide is another good tool for finding great restaurants in Sweden. In some ways it is even better than the Michelin Guide as it is Swedish critics that rate the restaurants in the White Guide (local knowledge in other words) and they test hundreds of restaurants throughout the country and region. You also get restaurants rated/awarded in several categories, including several that concentrate on environmental sustainability which is fantastic. The trouble is that the White Guide is published in Swedish which makes it a little difficult for non Swedish speaking visitors to access the information... but here is a break down of the Stockholm restaurants that nabbed the top awards and made the lists in this year's guide:

• Best restaurant in the category gastronomy  (Årets Bästa Mästarklass - Gastronomi): Frantzén
• Best service experience (Årets Bästa Serviceupplevelse): Frantzén
• Newcomer of the year (Årets Stjärnskott): Ichi
• Best restaurant, with emphasis on sustainability (Årets Hållbara Gastronomi): Volt (2nd year in a row)
• Seafood restaurant of the year, with emphasis on sustainability (Årets Merroir Award): Unn and Tak.
• Pioneer of the year (Årets Banbrytare): Rutabaga

Best service and Best restaurant: Frantzén
Photo by Markus Crépin Sundström

Here are the Stockholm restaurants that made the list of Swedish restaurants with the highest rating of Global Master Class (number in paranthesis is their rank on the list of restaurants from all of Sweden):

• Frantzén (1)
• Esperanto (3)
• Gastrologik (4)
• Oaxen Krog (5)
• Adam/Albin (9)
• Ekstedt (100)

"Årets stjärnskott"- Restaurant Ichi
Photo by Markus Crépin Sundström

And these are the Stockholm restaurants that made the list of Swedish restaurants with the rating of Master Class (number in paranthesis is their rank on the list of restaurants from all of Sweden):

• Ichi (13)
• Unn (14)
• Imouto (17)
• Operakällaren (18)
• Aloë (19)
• Agrikultur (21)
• Flickan (23)
• Mathias Dahlgren Matbaren (24)
• Fotografiska (25)
• Volt (26)
• Sushi Sho (27)

While the White Guide for Sweden is in Swedish, they have published a White Guide Nordic in English which covers all of the Nordic region. For past White Guides or other restaurant guides and awards, click here!

White Guide 2018-19 winners.
Photo by: Markus Crépin Sundström