Stockholm, Sweden
All the Michelin star restaurants in Stockholm – 2026 edition
Stockholm’s so-called fine dining death was always the wrong diagnosis. The 2026 Michelin list shows something more specific: the city still has serious cooking, but less lift. Frantzén and Aira remain the anchors, Aloë disappears from the active map and Adam Albin arrives as a polished return, but not a new rupture. Here’s the full list.
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Top photography courtesy of Adam Albin
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Frantzén
Frantzén is a 23-seat, three-Michelin-starred restaurant – Sweden’s only one at this level – set across three floors of a Stockholm townhouse designed by local interior architecture studio Joyn. Chef Björn Frantzén’s food is a hybrid of Nordic cooking and Japanese elegance, but what makes the meal memorable is how the whole building becomes part of the experience. Guests move between the lounge, dining room and loft as the evening unfolds, with the service as controlled as the cooking. It is immersive without turning into pure theatre, and still sits at the top of Swedish fine dining.
Read the full article on Frantzén.
Frantzén
Klara Norra kyrkogata 26
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Martin Botvidsson, Erik Lefvander, Joyn and Frantzén
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Aira
In the light and airy dining room of Aira, on Biskopsudden at Djurgården, chefs Tommy Myllymäki and Pi Le serve a two-Michelin-starred menu shaped by Nordic produce, global techniques and spices. Designed by Jonas Bohlin, the low waterside building brings concrete, corten steel and generous glass into a room that feels calm without going soft. The cooking is more concrete than the old wording suggested: dill croustade with langoustine and browned butter, halibut with caviar and chives, hiramasa with fermented grapefruit and lemon verbena, plus quenelle with scallop, caviar and king crab show the register.
Aira
Biskopsvägen 9
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Aira
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Adam Albin
Adam Albin is the sharp comeback story in Stockholm’s 2026 Michelin list. After closing Adam / Albin at the end of 2025, chef duo Adam Dahlberg and Albin Wessman returned with a more ambitious restaurant overlooking the Royal Palace, the Royal Opera and the Swedish Parliament. Michelin gave it one star and Opening of the Year 2026 within months. The cooking keeps their ingredient-led logic, but gives it more range: blue-shelled lobster with smoked reindeer and blackcurrant leaf ponzu, grilled Swedish squid with Noir de Bigorre lard and scallop with wagyu cooked in elderflower juice show the register.
Adam Albin
Regeringsgatan 2
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Adam Albin
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Celeste
Celeste sits high above Södermalm, with a Michelin-starred dining room and rooftop bar from the team behind Etoile. It earned its first star in 2024, and the kitchen is led by Jonas Lagerström, whose cooking keeps the tasting-menu format playful without turning vague. The restaurant offers five- and eight-course menus in the dining room, while the rooftop has its own à la carte and cocktail life. That split gives the place useful range: serious dinner inside, Stockholm skyline energy outside. The mood is young, polished and slightly mischievous, which suits a restaurant whose name literally points upwards.
Celeste
Torkel Knutssonsgatan 24
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Celeste
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Dashi
Dashi earned its first Michelin star in 2024 and remains one of Stockholm’s most focused small restaurants: 16 seats, an open kitchen and chefs Harry Jordås and Nathan Turley working through a Japanese-inspired osusume menu, meaning “chef’s recommendation”. Set in Östermalm, the room is spare rather than sleek, with the attention placed on the counter, the broth and the produce. The menu changes constantly, but the register is clear: Nordic ingredients, dry-aged fish, meat, dashi, umami and carefully chosen saké. It is intimate, serious and unshowy, with enough edge to avoid becoming polite.
Dashi
Rådmansgatan 23
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Dashi
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Ekstedt
Chef Niklas Ekstedt built his eponymous Stockholm restaurant around fire, smoke, ash and old Scandinavian cooking techniques. The idea comes partly from his upbringing in Järpen, a small village in Jämtland, and partly from his research into 18th-century cookbooks, where Swedish cooking existed before modern electricity. At Ekstedt, the New Nordic template gets charred, smoked and deepened through a wood-fired oven, fire pit and chargrill, with seasonal Swedish flavours pulled through heat and soot. The result is more refined than rustic. Book the counter if you want a close view of how much control sits inside all that flame.
Ekstedt
Humlegårdsgatan 17
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Ekstedt
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Ergo
In a city where fine dining can feel rehearsed, Ergo does things differently. Set in Östermalm, in the former Gastrologik premises, the one-Michelin-starred restaurant feels more like a confident side-street find than a formal destination. Chef Petter Johansson, whose CV includes Per Se, Zén, Gordon Ramsay and Frantzén, offers a seasonal five-serving menu with two choices at each course. The room is low-lit, with 30 seats and Ergo Salon for private dining. The useful twist is lunch: a three-course prix fixe menu that makes Michelin-level cooking feel less like a full-evening commitment.
Ergo
Artillerigatan 14
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Ergo
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Etoile
Etoile
Norra Stationsgatan 51
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Etoile
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Nour
Anyone who has tasted Swedish chef Sayan Isaksson’s cooking knows it carries a refinement and lightness that suits Nour, his one-Michelin-starred restaurant on the third floor of an inner-city Stockholm townhouse. Named after Isaksson’s daughter, and from the Arabic word for light, Nour brings together Nordic and Asian flavours and techniques, with a clear pull towards Japan. The room keeps things intimate and low-key, closer to spending an evening in a very good friend’s home than entering a grand dining room. Expect five- or eight-course tasting menus where Swedish produce meets Japanese precision, including dishes such as okonomiyaki with Gotland black truffle.
Nour
Norrlandsgatan 24
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Nour
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Operakällaren
A favourite hangout among artists, politicians and celebrities in the 1930s, Operakällaren, set within the historic Royal Swedish Opera House, retains its history as one of Sweden’s most famous dining rooms. And what a dining room it is. Original gilded oak wall panelling, murals, coffered ceilings and chandeliers are still part of the grand restaurant, where Executive Chef Emanuel Tärnqvist now leads the kitchen. The food stays close to Operakällaren’s role as a classic institution: French-rooted, polished and contemporary enough to feel alive rather than preserved behind glass.
Operakällaren
Operahuset
Karl XII:s torg
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Operakällaren
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Seafood Gastro
Seafood Gastro, in the heart of Stockholm at the Grand Hôtel, is Mathias Dahlgren’s aquatic fine-dining project, with head chef Jonas Hedenqvist leading the kitchen. Opened in 2023 in the former Rutabaga space, it earned its first Michelin star in 2024. The menu pushes seafood beyond the usual fish-and-shellfish script, working with ingredients that live in, by or on the water: langoustine, raw shrimp, Osetra caviar, seabirds, seaweed and coastal greens. Japanese touches such as wasabi, yuzu and chawanmushi appear too, giving the restaurant a sharper register than “hotel seafood restaurant” might first suggest to sceptics.
Read the full article on Seafood Gastro.
Seafood Gastro
Södra Blasieholmshamnen 6
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Seafood Gastro
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Sushi Sho
One of Stockholm’s smallest sushi bars is also one of its most serious. Sushi Sho, a compact counter restaurant with room for around twelve guests, is the work of Japanese-Swedish chef Carl Ishizaki, often called the “sushi jedi”. Meals are served omakase-style, a Japanese format where guests leave the menu in the chef’s hands. Here, that means seasonal sushi and small dishes shaped by Edomae technique, Nordic seafood, rice, vinegar, temperature and timing. The room is tight, the pace is direct and the pleasure comes from watching precision happen right in front of you.
Sushi Sho
Upplandsgatan 45
Stockholm
Sweden
Photography courtesy of Sushi Sho
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