Writer: Helena Bergström
Updated: October 2026 | Stadshuskällaren in Stockholm treated us to a fantastic tasting menu when we visited the restaurant in 2017. Here we tell you about our dinner and about the opportunity to order Nobel menus today – served at Nobelservisen, in the same building where the Nobel banquet is held.
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Dinner at Stockholm City Hall
We visited Stadshuskällaren to celebrate the merger between Sveriges Turistjournalister and the travel bloggers in Swedish Travel Bloggers. It was an evening of really good food, fine wines and good company.
The restaurant is located in the basement of Stockholm City Hall. We have also visited the City Hall itself, which is a beautiful building with a nice view over the water. It is a special environment to come to, even without a dinner waiting!
Our tasting menu at the City Hall Cellar
During dinner we tasted a range of dishes including mushrooms, fish, shellfish and game. We were served creamy mushroom soup with pickled yellow chanterelles, scallop and lobster tartare, smoked char, beef tartare and red deer with a Jerusalem artichoke variation.
It's hard to choose a favorite when so much tastes amazing! We were really impressed by the food and how the different ingredients came together.
The menu seemed to be specially composed for our evening. We have not returned to the restaurant since then, so the photos and our review describe the experience in 2017.
Tasting menu and Chef's Table today
The City Hall Cellar still offers a tasting menu inspired by Swedish nature and seasonal ingredients.
There is also a Chef's Table with two seats in the kitchen. Here you sit near the serving counter where the dishes are laid out and you get to eat a tasting menu with selected drinks. We didn't try this ourselves, but we got to see the table during our visit. Contact the restaurant for available dates and current schedule.
Have a Nobel dinner at the City Hall basement
A special opportunity at the Stadshuskällaren is to order a Nobel dinner, served on Nobel service. You also eat in the same building where the Nobel Banquet is held every year on December 10th.
The restaurant offers Nobel menus from 1901 onwards. The latest Nobel menu can be ordered for smaller parties, while older vintage menus require larger groups and longer notice.
We haven't tried this yet, but wouldn't it be cool to be able to choose a dinner from the history of the Nobel Banquet?
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Steve says:
Fantastic, what deliciousness! Char is my absolute favourite fish. However, real Arctic char is hard to come by. In my youth I fished it myself.
Tartar on cow, that was a new one for me.
Peter would look great in one of those chef's hats as he prepares his delicious meals.
18 November 2017 - 8:05
Helena says:
I agree that char is a fantastic fish! And haha, maybe Peter should wear such a hat when he cooks here at home! 😉
18 November 2017 - 15:11
Matts Torebring says:
How festive and certainly delicious... Not least the table setting, the eye eats as much as the stomach. For me it is very strange, almost incomprehensible, that the production of Nobel tableware was discontinued three or four years ago. We bought up the entire last remaining stock. Although there was a lot of some parts and less of others, not even one plate remains in our stock today.
18 November 2017 - 8:25
Helena says:
Well, interesting, and strange, that they stopped production. I had no idea about that.
18 November 2017 - 15:12
Kenneth Risberg says:
What wonderful and different experiences! Stewed char, cow and hay mayonnaise, black root and spruce shoots that can also be eaten in the kitchen.
You really have a sense of different food experiences and nice events, fun!
18 November 2017 - 8:51
Helena says:
Of course it is fun with food experiences, food is so much more than just being full! 🙂
18 November 2017 - 15:14
FrkM says:
Oh, I remember from childhood when we went for dinner in the city centre cellar sometimes. Not that I appreciated it right away, but I also remember them when, at least as a really small child, I did not stick to the menu and sometimes wanted pancakes or so ... I also inspected the chefs sometimes when I special ordered so it would be right.
18 November 2017 - 9:22
Helena says:
What fun that you have memories from here as a child! There were other owners then, but I hope they made good pancakes! 😉
18 November 2017 - 15:15
Nils-Åke says:
The part where you sit and watch the chefs prepare the food and feel involved. We did this in Oslo at a restaurant on Acke Brygga.
How exciting to be able to eat in the City Halls and that there is a Nobel menu.
18 November 2017 - 9:29
Helena says:
Glad you tried a similar concept, eating in the kitchen!
18 November 2017 - 15:16
Ditte says:
Sounds like both very good and very nice.
We visited the Stadshuskeller a lot "in the past" but now it hasn't happened for a long time. Has kind of fallen into oblivion. But certainly worth coming back.
Enticing pictures!
I have eaten Nobel dinners a couple of times at the Nobel party but then it was "included" so to speak. But it was very good and an experience in itself.
18 November 2017 - 9:35
Helena says:
Oh, you've been to the Nobel party? What fun! My parents have been there a few times. Must be an experience!
18 November 2017 - 15:17
Kors och Tvärs says:
Fantastic how good and nice it seems. I would love to sit in the kitchen and watch the chefs work 😀.
18 November 2017 - 10:06
Helena says:
Very good food and we also liked the concept of sitting in the kitchen 🙂 .
18 November 2017 - 15:18
BP says:
God soooo good! A really fun experience to sit in the middle of the kitchen and eat - a different approach. Superb what you get to experience. Maybe I should start a travel blog;-)
18 November 2017 - 14:16
Helena says:
Haha, yes it is not so stupid to have a travel blog! There will be a lot of experiences! 😉
18 November 2017 - 15:19
Rolle o Carina says:
That looks undeniably good, nice to sit in the chefs' kitchen!
Enjoy your weekend......
18 November 2017 - 14:35
Helena says:
Thank you, and I wish you a nice weekend too!
18 November 2017 - 15:20
åsa i åsele says:
It's fantastic. The food looks very good.
Too bad Stockholm is so un-centralised 😉.
Hungry for some snow 😉 look in with me to get an aha experience about how beautiful it can actually be in Norrland during the grey, dull month of November 🙂.
18 November 2017 - 15:07
Helena says:
I'm actually hungry for snow! Hope we get snow in Stockholm this year! Will peek in with you!
18 November 2017 - 15:20
Rantamor på näthinnan says:
Well, now there's a flood on my keyboard...all the water running down and causing a mess on my keys.
What an incredible amount of goodies you got to taste.
And in such an environment.
Here at the Dandelion Restaurant, we are serving a pie tonight with chicken chanterelles and Västerbotten cheese. May well be good enough.
But now I'm going to wipe the keys clean of all the drool !!!
Have a good time...yes, you do...both of you.
Tjingelingen from Rantamor and Rantafar.
18 November 2017 - 17:26
Lena - gott för själen says:
It looks really delicious. Cool with the Nobel menu!
Hug Lena
18 November 2017 - 18:23
Kattis says:
How good it both sounds and looks, you couldn't say no to that evening! ☺ It's great to be able to have a Nobel dinner at the "chef's table" in the kitchen too!
18 November 2017 - 21:48
Lena i Wales says:
Wow, what food and what a beautiful presentation!
Wishing you a nice Sunday!
19 November 2017 - 10:19
Liniz Travel says:
Wow so good & nice so sorry I missed. My friend's boyfriend is one of the chefs! Life ... had rather hang out with you than work this evening! Hugs
19 November 2017 - 14:17
Annika says:
Gosh, what a cool thing! Cool that you can eat the Nobel dinner here too!
19 November 2017 - 19:24