6 new restaurant openings in Malmö to watch in 2026

Olá Cervejaria Rua do Rei starts with Ola Rasmusson’s Lisbon link: years of eating, drinking and family visits through his wife’s Portuguese family, then a Malmö room built around the kind of cervejaria logic he missed at home. The name translates Kungsgatan into Portuguese, and the room follows with patterned tiles, Super Bock, Portuguese wines, Port & Tonic and food built for passing plates: bifana in papo seco, olives, conservas and pastel de nata from Malmö baker David Fernandes of Patisserie David. Order Chouriço à bombeiro, the sausage grilled at the table on a clay dish over a flame. Don’s miss: Cristiano Ronaldo gets a large, almost devotional bathroom cameo.

Coffee, wine, bread and flowers is the brief, but the Gothenburg link is what gives Altona some backbone. This is the Malmö cousin to Cum Pane, the long-running Gothenburg bakery, with Cum Pane owner Robin Edberg also part of the setup here. The courtyard, taken over from old Liket territory, has exactly the sort of easy pull Malmö likes to pretend it discovered first. Go for bread and pastries, stay for wine and accept that half hip Malmö will be fighting for those tables once summer settles in properly.

Pink marble, spritz energy and a touch too much in the right way set the tone at Osteria Amore, the Milanese-leaning restaurant on Malmö’s canal edge. The project comes from Nicholas Hertzman, who previously made noise with Amore Fantasia in Helsingborg, and it carries the same sense of dinner drifting towards a party. Start with the charcuterie and a Negroni, then move into house-made pasta or the crisp pizza milanese the restaurant pushes hard. The room is pitched as a palazzo rather than a trattoria, which tells you plenty. Come for lunch if you must, but this place is built for later.

Inside Börshuset, the 1862 trading house by Malmö C, one address runs on three speeds. Niclas Jönsson, best known from two-starred Aloë, leads the food with Micke Björkman, whose CV runs through Nobu London, Vassa Eggen and Riche. Margaux handles the classic side, with three-course cooking and dishes such as duck liver brûlée, grilled beef tartare, red sole with Champagne sauce and grilled beef with café de Paris butter. Como comes in looser, serving lunch, from grilled sourdough with tomato, roasted garlic and anchovy to calamari fritti, beef tataki and grill skewers. Then comes Delibaren, for breakfast, lunch, coffee, bread, pastries and smaller sweets baked downstairs.

With fifteen seats and eleven courses, this omakase counter in Malmö neighbourhood Gamla Väster keeps the focus on craft, pace and the pleasure of watching dinner take shape. Umenoya is chef Takao Fujii’s set menu, shaped by his grandmother’s izakaya recipes and a fixation on tsukemono, Japanese pickles paired with seasonal local produce for bite and texture. Fujii grew up on a small island near Hiroshima, worked in Paris for Comme des Garçons, then moved into kitchens including Nobu Milan. The space is designed by Malmö architect Jonas Lindvall, with stone, wood and ceramics keeping the mood calm. Drinks run champagne, wine, sake, shōchū and thoughtful non-alcoholic pairings.

Canal-side beer is the first move because Bärstronomi is not a random bar with a tap list; it is Hyllie Bryggeri’s Södertull outpost. The independent Malmö craft brewery also runs its Stormgatan taproom by the tanks behind Malmö C, while this city taproom sits on the main pedestrian stretch with the canal in front and a sunny patio made for lingering. The kitchen pulls from Central Europe and the British Isles: schnitzel, club sandwich, langos, fish and chips, fries and small plates. On our visit, the food looked the part, though some flavours needed more bite. At Bärstronomi, the beer does the heavy lifting.