Östermalms Saluhall

Saluhall is Stockholm´s gourmet food covered market, it´s dotted with dozens of stands and bistros all offering excellent products. I believe that a stop at Saluhall should be part of any visit to Stockholm. Under renovation in 2016, it has temporarily moved just nextdoor.

My husband’s coworkers had really hyped this place up and he was really excited to grab dinner there before we left Stockholm for Gothenburg. Maybe it’s because of the hype, but I found it a bit disappointing. I wasn’t thrilled with the amount of vegan options, and don’t really love walking past a ton of dead animal parts. Yes, I know this is not a vegan or even vegetarian food hall, but I’ve been to markets where at least the butcher shops are generally in their own section and not just sort of all over. it was a small food hall, though. we did find some decent food to take with us on the train (notably, the vegan salad at wellme was great), but I would’ve been happier going to elsewhere. we also went to the Gothenburg and Lund saluhallen later on in our trip, and both were bigger and had more variety.

Today I visited the temporary saluhall market. I came here for lunch and had a great surprise to find BBQ ribs on one the restaurants menus.
We got nachos and ribs with a beer and margarita which came to about € 55.
Or 500 krona.
My ribs came with chips or a baked potato and coleslaw. The ribs were good however the marinade was very rich for me.
The nachos were also very good, the beans were delicious but the nachos were quite chewy.
My overall experience here was really good. I would come again. The hall itself is really nicely laid out, lots to choose from and really cool to walk around. I imagine the permanent market was much better in terms of décor and layout but for what it is I really enjoyed it.
–1 for the marinade and the hall feeling a bit rough. It’s really well designed but there are places were it feels like we are visiting a temporary location, which is a shame after the effort that has gone into it. I’m not sure how well it will hold up over 2 years but maybe they will make some tweaks in between.

Super rad food hall. Beautiful old Swedish building. Classy space and visitors, beautiful food. Gertas was where I went, and loved!

When we lived in Stockholm (’94−99) this was the best place to get top quality food… bread, fish, meat, cheese… you name it, but in addition you could eat outside these «stalls» too… always great to do… but of course this all comes at a price… and you are in Stockholm which is already pricey
So we thought let’s have a wander around the market and eat at a stall… ALERT…they are setting up a pavilion and moving the stalls but, we understand, not their cafes very soon… and renovating the whole place… it will take 3 years!!! So go soon and enjoy. Let’s hope it is renovated in tune with the history and doesn’t become a shiny bright place… lots of photos of the market and see also the café we ate at (Tysta Mari)
Hortorget is is good too but this is the best

This is a really nice place to come for a leisurely lunch time stop.
The hall is packed full of stalls with traditional Swedish produce, the majority of it really well priced. There’s everything from a giant fish counter to cakes, fresh salads and jars of pickled unidentifiable produce. FUN.
It took us about an hour to walk around the whole thing, and we ended up buying a lot of souvenirs/​presents from here as well as lunch.
My only criticism would be the lack of seating — we came after the lunch time rush and we still had to do some lurking before we could find somewhere to sit and eat.

Are you looking for some fresh flavours of Stockholm and are you a first time visitor to Sweden who is very unfamiliar with Swedish food culture? This place should probably be your first place for arrival. This is a large market that serves a variety of fresh meat and produce as well as popular Swedish dishes such as open faced sandwiches, Swedish meatballs, and cinnamon buns. If Melbourne, Australia has the Queen Victoria Market, then Stockholm, Sweden has Östermalms Saluhall.
I had to convince a guy and four ladies to come with me to this place before we went to the Stockholm Archipelago. By the time I took them inside, they seemed pretty impressed with the interior and the presentations of the food at this place. I got a salmon open faced sandwich from Tysta Mari and a small bag filled with Swedish meatballs from another stall. The Swedish Meatballs were pretty good, and not too expensive. I remembered the savoury flavour and the warm meatiness. The salmon open faced sandwiches are a little expensive, at 160 SEK, but were pretty delicious. I remember the salmon being so fresh and the flavours from the garnishes were great complements to the salmon.
Overall, this place is probably a good preview of what Swedish food culture is like for the first time visitor to Stockholm or the country of Sweden. I would not come here often if you are on a budget, but I think it’s a great opportunity to sample some of the famous dishes of Sweden before going to cheaper alternatives that you could hopefully find. This place will be memorable to me because it was the starting point of one of my best memories of Sweden and one of the best days I had in Europe.

As a bargain basement mega farmer’s market aficionado… saluhall is a bit too high end for my unrefined tastes. It’s clean, beautiful, great atmosphere, warm and cozy. Food is great!

With family in Stockholm, this market was one of our first stops to pick up food items for a home meal. It is the première food market in Stockholm.
Open from 9:30 AM to 6 PM most days, and there are many tourist who move through in awe, as demonstrated by prior reviews. My advice here is to go in with a meal plan in mind. Choose your raw ingredients and head off to one of the many parks in the area for a shared meal.
We like to stop in before heading back to the States to pickup salads, breads, and sandwiches for the flight back. Ask your hotel kitchen to store it in the fridge overnight if needed.
Premium wines, meats, cheeses, breads, fish, and greens can all be sourced within the market. Be prepared to pay. Prices are fair for the quality, but they are not cheap. This is where the locals go when preparing meals for guest they choose to impress.
Pictures say it all so be sure to review them.

Love love love! A must spot if visiting — but be aware! Very expensive…
Extremely clean & delicious, fresh amazing seafood!

Holy Swedish Heaven On A Stick, this place blew our minds. My traveling companion and I are from San Francisco, a resoundingly foodie city, so we were prepared to be underwhelmed with Swedish food but we were blown away everywhere we went in Stockholm to eat, and the Saluhall was a highlight of an afternoon spent wandering through town (Rolf’s Kok was our other favorite; see my review). The food is so PRETTY (from the charcuterie to the pastries to the berries to the fish), all arranged like jewelry, with a particular emphasis on fresh seafood — my friend had her birthday lunch at one of the stalls there (salmon and shrimp smorrebrod, a seafood stew, and a lobster roll she kept calling a ‘little lobster burrito,’ to my amusement) and it was just delicious. We had champagne with our lunch and that felt very civilized.
The Saluhall was the only place she came even close to hunting down a cloudberry — in the form of a cloudberry jam, which that girl dragged through five European cities in her suitcase to get home, mind you — and featured fresh produce and charming little cakes from an outpost of Vete-​Katten, I believe. There were also just quirky (Scandinavia does quirky so well) little items all over (see my ram’s head photo) to enjoy. This was one of our favorite places in Stockholm; well worth a visit and a leisurely lunch after browsing around.

Para quem conhece o Mercado Municipal em São Paulo este lugar é bem parecido, mas em uma versão mais bonita e menor. Um monte de stands de vendedores locais com suas frutas, verduras, peixes e carnes para você levar pra casa ou comer por ali.
Como já falei o lugar é lindo, e com certeza vale uma passeada. Os restaurantes são caríssimos e os ingredientes para levar pra casa também são. Eu acabei me deixando seduzir pelo rackmalan de camarão e paguei 150 SEK (quase 17 euros) por um pedaço de pão com camarões e caviar de salmão em cima. Na verdade estes camarões são colhidos e limpos a mão, por isso o valor.
Ainda que tenha sido os olhos da cara adorei minha experiência e recomendo que um turista a passeio em Östermalm venha aqui.

I wandered into this marketplace late in the afternoon just before they were closing. It was not very busy, but there were a lot of different foods, deserts, and wines to sample. It’s good place to sample some local food so, its a must visit for any tourist in Stockholm.

Walked in the door and smelled tourist trap immediately. I was with friends who had check-​marked this as a place they «had to visit». Sat down to a 115kr IKEA quality swedish meatball plate that was microwaved in front of my eyes. WHY would you come here when there are SO many great lunch deals around Stockholm where you get so much more high quality food for less! Why is this place rated well?
I would never come here again and would never send anywhere there on my recommendation.

I am rating Östermalms Saluhall based on the produce, because I have never really eaten here. The meats are the freshest and of very high quality. The fish section has a lot of variety, and the little cake shop has some of the best tasting cakes I have had in Stockholm. But, and it is a big BUT, everything is pricey. It’s something I would buy once in a while to treat myself or for special occassions. Not where I would get my meat for everyday consumption.

Walked around the area trying to find this indoor market and lo and behold there it was in this inconspicuous door. Walking in you are greeted with stands and stands of meat counters, seafood counters, cheese, restaurants, and more. After walking around for a bit, we decided to eat at Lisa Elmqvist Fisk, Skaldjur, Delikatesser o. Restaurang. After being seated, the waitress brought over a basket of bread and we looked over the menu. Decided on the Toast Skagen and the Avocado Alexandra. The Toast Skagen was amazing. Mixed shrimp with mayo, dill, and other herbs atop a piece of toast. The shrimp was piled high and enough to feed two people. The Avocado Alexandra was less salty and equally amazing. A bit sweeter with a mixture of seafood and mayo mixed into a halved avocado, a slice of salmon and a few springs of arugula. After eating salty fish throughout the Nordic, it was good to finally have something not as salty. The service was pretty good. It was pretty busy but they came around once in a while to check in. You have to try one of the restaurants in this indoor market and grab some meats, chocolate, or cheeses. A great place to relax and recharge for more sightseeing.
Also, they have wifi for those that are traveling with an international data plan. Always a plus!

The Saluhall in the Ostermalm neighborhood of Stockholm is awesome. Since 1888 it has been filled with Swedish vegetables, dairy products, and meats. And of course they have Swedish fish and seafood. They have so many different types of sill fish and strömming, it’s hard for me to choose. And now at this time of year, be on the lookout soon for kräftor (crayfish). Summer is the time to party and eat kräftor in Sweden!
The market is a short walk from Central Stockholm. And don’t forget there are also restaurants inside where you can have lunch or a snack. And watch in the next few years as the Saluhall is restored to its original star design and adds more restaurants and covered courtyards.
If you’re in Stockholm, just go here. Take my word!

Really fun place, definitely worth a trip if you’re visiting Stockholm. This market is a combination of small markets and casual, sit-​down restaurants inside the market. There’s a lot of chocolate, baked goods, produce, cheese, and meat for sale, anything you’d normally expect to find in an open market like this. Very fun to just walk around.
We decided to eat at the seafood place for lunch, I can’t remember the name unfortunately, but they had blue and white check tablecloths, if that helps. It was one of the best places we ate while in Stockholm. They have generous portions, so you should arrive hungry. Everything was very fresh as well.

We had the köttbullar with mashed potatoes and gravy. They were just fantastic! I had a chocolate mousse with a raspberry gelee on the bottom which was nice and tart.

It’s a beautiful red brick building with it’s Neo Gothic architecture style, built by both architects Kasper Salin and Isak Gustaf Clason. There is a good choice of all kind of fish, cheese, meat, patisserie etc. and there are also some restaurants where you can take a seat and enjoy some meal. Service is in this food and delicatessen market really very friendly.

Good place to find great fresh fish, cheeses and all sorts of meats.

I’m a sucker for markets, but a old school (thanks, Janice C. for the specific date: 1888) market? I’m in, hook, line and sinker.
And speaking of hooks (lines, sinkers)…this market really celebrates seafood. I saw some beautiful fish that I had never before seen. So fresh, so beautiful. Smoked salmon. Caviar.
For the picnic-​minded, there is a great opportunity to purchase some wine, cheese and other nibbles here. Add to that list: baked goods and little canapes with smoked fish.
If the weather isn’t the best you can stay put and have a (short) respite from the hustle-​bustle of the market sitting in the cordoned-​off area and enjoying a glass of something with a smorrebrod. Fresh, fresh is the order of the day. All the food spied on tables was beautifully presented.
People are exceptionally nice, too. I got two iced lattes at the coffee shop within the market and the woman working there offered her last buns 2-​for-​1 to the couple behind me. I’ve seen attitude from vendors at UK markets towards people taking photos of everything around them (even though, yes, I can concede that the ‘Instagram papparazzi’ can sometimes be too much at markets). Here, all the kids with their iPhones raised were greeted with smiles. It was nice to see.
Unilocal note: the building itself is beautiful in all of its high-​ceilinged and red-​bricked glory.

The difference between a foodie back in 1888 til now?
None.
Stockholm’s love for food and design aesthetic runs deep in their veins. Back in 1888 when this indoor market was constructed, the red brick design was way ahead of its time.
Inside you’ll find well organized, wooden food stalls selling the finest wines, cheese, desserts, cooked food for take out, Smørrebrød, meats, coffee and seafood. Lisa Elmqvist is a nice sitdown restaurant/​deli where you can sample the best toast skagen (prices are slightly higher than other stalls).
But it was Husman’s Deli that caught our eye and we loved sitting at the counter! We tried the traditional Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs) and Kåldolmar (cabbage roll filled with minced beef) The house pickled cucumber and lingonberry jam made my mouth very, very happy. A crisp Italian white wine helped cut through the richness of the gravy.
If I had another day in Stockholm, I’d spend it here. Just being in the presence of the heady aromas, the interesting sights and sounds from tourists and locals alike, makes you feel alive. This is what traveling is all about.

I simply cannot understand what was wrong with me and my husband last time we were there…9 years ago…
We did NOT eat there?! We took tons of photos… we must’ve just eaten or something…
But the aromas… oy vey… it’s an amazing market!