Everywhere We Ate In: Gothenburg, Sweden

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Seventh in our ‘Everywhere We Ate In…’ travel series - all snappy overviews and informative one-liners in a listicle rather than long rambling guides full of prose - is Gothenburg, Sweden’s second city and the largest port in Scandinavia, strategically set between in the North and Baltic Seas. In this ongoing series we list ‘n’ link every place we ate in and often include a suggestion of where to stay and an activity or two.

Gothenburg/Göteborg? Same thing, just one is English and the other is Swedish, pronounced ‘yut-a-boary’. We have been to the city twice now, first in early 2018 during our Six Weeks of Sweden trip (click to read more background about that adventure) then again for a week in February 2020 just before the pandemic locked down Europe. As these trips were five and seven years ago respectively, some places we would have included have since sadly closed. Return trip required!

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Restaurants

• Toso, an elborate pan-Asian sharing menu restaurant stunningly set on Götaplatsen, the public square with the main cultural buildings of the city (theatre, concert hall, library and museum of art) anchored by the Poseidon statue

• Koka (*) a one Michelin-starred dining room that has a super refined Scandi-Japanese feel and a menu that’s all about organic and supporting local farmers and producers with pretty exceptional value for the quality of cooking and service