The Beach
In Stockholm you’re never too far from a beach. These Swedish beaches are a lovely place to work on your tan or go swimming and still be close to the city.
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Across the water from Smedsuddsbadet, this tiny but pleasant beach can be found on the island of Långholmen.
Less spacious than its neighbour across the water, it is still one of the most popular beaches in the city.
Also close to the Långholmen Inn’s summer café, where it is possible to purchase ice-cream and kanelbullar and other necessities for a successful day at the beach.
This bijou bathing spot is popular with students and families with children.
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Destinations Stockholm Archipelago
With more than 30,000 islands, ancient fishing villages and centuries-old towns, inviting coves, cliffs and soft sand beaches, the Stockholm archipelago offers something for everyone.
From Öregrund in the north to Landsort in the south, the archipelago offers peace and relaxation, action and adventure, a vibrant community, and also privacy.
Follow along the coast or take a boat out to one of the islands.
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Restaurant review: Gastrologik, Stockholm – Travel Now!
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This hip Michelin star restaurant is run by chef duo Jacob Holmström and Anton Bjuhr, who have a shared pedigree of top fine dining restaurants, having worked with the likes of Pierre Gagnaire and Mathias Dahlgren.
What they also have in common is a singular passion for hyper-local, seasonal, high-quality produce, which is reflected in their food – I can’t say menu, because there isn’t one in the conventional sense of the word, each day’s dishes are developed according to what is available, and tailored to guests’ preferences.
The intimate restaurant is designed in typically Scandinavian minimalist style, with clean lines allowing the food to take centre-stage, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it signage at the door, and an open bar-style kitchen allowing diners to enjoy watching the army of hipster chefs practice their craft.
I left after an 18-course meal with a printed copy of our day’s menu (which had been tailored according to dietary requirements and preferences, naturally); a little booklet introducing several of the restaurant’s key producers and suppliers and the owner’s personal relationships with them; and a feeling of not just being satiated, but more importantly, intelligently stimulated; this isn’t just food that tastes good, this is food that provokes thought.
Pssst: If you can’t snag a reservation at Gastrologik, try Speceriet next door, a casual bistro from the same team (one of many such restaurants in Stockholm, called backfikas, where big chefs and restaurants operate a casual outlet to make their food more accessible), where ingredients also play the starring role.
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Berns Hotel - Norrmalm, Stockholm - Smith Hotels
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Boutiquey but big, with 65 rooms, Berns Hotel was originally built as a restaurant in 1863; it got reincarnated 14 years ago as a unique hotel and entertainment palace.
Our room was cosy but not tiny, and we loved its style: wood panelling felt both modern and warm, and the groovy cylindrical TV console not only looked great, but also provided me with a screen for undertaking mysterious changes of attire while Mr Smith caught up with current affairs from the comfort of the bed.
In the morning, we explored: the museum-like Red Room and Mirror Room (where we breakfasted sumptuously on, oh, the usual – gravadlax, scrambled eggs, reindeer meat), the ON-bar overlooking Berzelii Park, an upstairs bar that was to get seriously crowded later, an outdoor terrace (a summer institution), and the spectacular main restaurant, which can only be described as Conran goes to the Vienna opera.
The vast gilded dining hall at Berns Hotel is ornate, grand and lofty, and the staff (like those in every single shop and restaurant we visited) were sweetness itself.
Of all the Stockholm clichés we were prepared for – beautiful people, sexy design, social equality, fantastic herring – not all are 100 per cent true: you’ll see the occasional kink in a symmetrically beautiful face; there’s some glum Sixties architecture; and while Mr Smith says he wouldn’t object, apparently Swedish women have to do all the running, dating-wise.