Swedish fika

Walk around Vasastan in Stockholm enjoying the architecture and stopping regularly for coffee, cake, and ice cream.

Theme
Food & Drink
Location
Vasastan, Stockholm
Duration
2 hours 10 minutes
Designer
Uptaste

Experience

Local Mia is a food writer and pastry chef with a passion for Swedish fika - the tradition of having a cake and coffee at all hours of the day. She’s written guide books about Stockholm, holds baking classes, walking fika tours, and writes about café and restaurant news and trends for White Guide. She loves to help people find the right spot for the best pastries in Stockholm, and the blocks in Vasastan that her tour revolves around are packed with great stops for having a fika.

Route

Lillebrors Bageri

This bakery makes everything fresh throughout the day and has the best cream buns in town.

Mellqvist kaffebar

This place is a bit of an institution that has been open every single day for 20 years.

Kaffeverket

Great place for a coffee, breakfast, a healthy lunch, or decadent pastries.

Supermarket Cajsa Warg

Have a stroll around this delicatessen and enjoy all the local produce, chocolates, cheese and well bred meat.

Snö

There’s so many fabulous flavours to choose from at this artisan ice cream shop.

Fabrique

You can find this chain of bakeries on many locations in Stockholm and they’re a trusty place to buy bread and buns.

Café Pascal

This coffee shop has everything one can wish for: quality coffee, lovely pastries, and great sandwiches and lunches in a nice surrounding.

Practicalities

  • Make sure to have a sweet tooth and a yearning for coffee when taking this tour

About

This route was designed by Uptaste.

Uptaste

What is Uptaste? We’re something like a travel agency business (although we don’t sell flights or hotels). Instead, we specialise in finding the right place to eat, wherever and whenever you are, using location intelligence combined with expert and community curation. Uptaste destinations will rarely be restaurants; they’ll be shops, they’ll be street traders, they’ll be local markets, or some other easy-to-miss but hard-to-forget place.

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