Gulddraken Awards for Best Restaurants 2019

Dish at Rutabaga, one of the nominated restaurants
Photo by Lennart Weibull

Most lists and guides over the best restaurants in a city are generally filled with gourmet and high-end restaurants. For example, Guide Michelin and White Guide. Let's be honest, many of these restaurants, while fantastic, can drain your wallet. That is why Gulddraken is a refreshing change as they offer three categories... budget, mid-price and luxury. The Gulddraken ("golden dragon") are awarded annually by one of Sweden's main daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter. As these are local awards and all of the information is in Swedish, I thought that I would present all the nominees here. EDIT: The winners are marked in bold!

Budget

• Mahalo Vasastan Vegan/vegetarian
• Omnipollos Hatt Craft beer and fancy pizza (a few blocks from the Hotel Rival).
• Scandwich Gourmet sandwich shop
• Soyokafé Sushi, more casual sister restaurant of the high-end Soyokaze (see below).
• The Fishery Brunkebergs torg Casual seafood

Mid-priced

• Rinos casual sister restaurant to Michelin starred Aloë
• Ichi Japanese/Nordic fusion (a few blocks from the Hotel Rival)
• Portal modern, seasonal
• Hantverket modern, seasonal
• Videgård Japanese/Peruvian fusion

Luxury

• Nisch New Nordic
• Gastrologik New Nordic
• Oaxens Krog New Nordic
• Rutabaga Vegetarian
• Soyokaze Japanese/sushi

Every day life in Stockholm
Photo by Rickard Rönnerstam// mediabank.visitstockholm.com

A Gulddraken is also awarded to the best café and the best bar. And the nominees are...

Café 

• Bullar & Bröd
• St Paul Bageri (just around the corner from the Hotel Rival)
• Fosch Artisan Pâtisserie
• Gast
• Café Pascal Södermalm

Bar (compare with this recent list from White Guide)

• Videgård
• Tjoget
• Papillon
• Cadierbaren
• Ambar

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