Food tours and tastings to book

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All 18 bakeries

Ranked by our editors.

SOL Bageri och Kaffe

SOL Bageri och Kaffe bakes long-ferment sourdough loaves and laminated pastries in Vasastaden, drawing a devoted queue of Goteborg bread lovers.

Vete-Katten

  • ★ 4.8
  • Classic Swedish konditori baking
  • Norrmalm
  • Stockholm

Vete-Katten on Kungsgatan in Stockholm's Norrmalm has baked the classic Swedish konditori canon since 1928; the semla in Lent and princess cake year-round.

Cafe Husaren

Cafe Husaren in Haga has served the largest cinnamon bun in Goteborg since 1890, a plate-filling hagabulle that has become the city's most photographed fika.

Steinbrenner och Nyberg

Steinbrenner och Nyberg is a long-running Vasastaden favourite baking European-style loaves, tarts and croissants in a bright corner shop that doubles.

Lillebrors Bageri

  • ★ 4.7
  • Sourdough and viennoiserie
  • Vasastan
  • Stockholm

Lillebrors Bageri on Rörstrandsgatan in Stockholm's Vasastan bakes the Vasastan cardamom bun the city's food press argues about; the brown-butter cardamom.

Da Matteo Vallgatan

Da Matteo Vallgatan combines Sweden's finest espresso with house-baked pastries and breads in a handsome corner premises that anchors the Goteborg specialty.

Tössebageriet

  • ★ 4.6
  • Classic Swedish konditori
  • Ostermalm
  • Stockholm

Tössebageriet on Karlavägen in Stockholm's Östermalm has been a working bakery since 1920; the Tössetårta layered cake and the saffron semla in February.

Brogyllen

Brogyllen has anchored Vastra Hamngatan since 1962, turning out cinnamon buns, cardamom twists and rye loaves from a stone-floor bakehouse at the heart.

Fabrique Stenugnsbageri

Fabrique on Odengatan in Stockholm's Vasastan is a branch of the stone-oven bakery chain that now has bakeries in Stockholm, London and New York.

Rosendals Bageri

  • ★ 4.4
  • Wood-fired sourdough
  • Djurgarden
  • Stockholm

Rosendals Bageri on Rosendalsterrassen in Stockholm's Djurgården bakes wood-fired sourdough in the biodynamic orchard cafe; cardamom buns, levain rounds.

Vagas

Vagas occupies a classic Haga wooden house and bakes traditional Swedish buns alongside modern laminated pastries, making it a quieter alternative to Husaren.

Bröd och Salt

Bröd & Salt on Odengatan in Stockholm's Vasastan is a branch of a craft bakery chain: buns, pastries, sourdough sandwiches and a salad bar sold by weight.

S:t Paul Bageri Götgatan

S:t Paul Bageri on Götgatan in Stockholm's Södermalm runs the bakery-cafe locals send neighbours to; cinnamon and cardamom buns, sourdough sandwiches.

Svedjan Bageri

Svedjan Bageri on Brännkyrkagatan in Stockholm's Södermalm bakes the Zinkensdamm kanelbulle the city cafe press cites, from a Västerbotten farm dairy family.

Specerihandlaren

Specerihandlaren is a popular Linnegatan deli-bakery hybrid serving house-baked bread, pastries and open sandwiches alongside a selected selection of Swedish.

Valhallabageriet

  • ★ 4.0
  • Swedish bread and konditori
  • Ostermalm
  • Stockholm

Valhallabageriet on Valhallavägen in Stockholm's Östermalm is the neighbourhood bread-and-bun bakery; the kanelbulle, fresh sourdough and Lent semla pull.

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