Yesterday we took a trip to Hötorgshallen because we were looking for a special product for today's party in the houseboat (we'll tell you more tomorrow!). But oh how fun it is to walk around and look in the small exclusive food shops in Hötorgshallen! Do you want to join us for a while...?
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ShareWhat can you buy in Hötorgshallen?
Hötorgshallen has all kinds of specialities, and we usually go here if we want something extra good for a party or if we are looking for something that is difficult to find elsewhere. In Hötorgshallen you will find fresh fish dishes, Italian delicacies, game meat, cheeses, chocolate and exotic products from all corners of the world.
You will find shops like Melanders Fisk, Hellbergs fågel & vilt and Fromageriet, but also for example the Finnish shop, Latin American food and Turkish delicacies. It's really fun to walk around here and browse the counters, and if you want, you can sit down somewhere for a glass of wine, a seafood toast or maybe an extra good falafel.
History and location of Hötorgshall
Hötorgshallen as it looks today was completed in 1958 and underwent a thorough refurbishment in 2012-2013. The hall is centrally located at Hötorget, and just outside you'll find plenty of stalls where vendors are noisily trying to sell bags, flowers, vegetables and mushrooms. We don't shop here very often, but a few chanterelles have probably come home with us at some point. Do you usually shop in Hötorgshallen or Hötorget?
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Matts Torebring says:
We usually get a bunch of flowering Gladioli, from the daughter in Stockholm, purchased right there. At the right time, towards closing time, it's pretty cheap too. Merry Christmas.
19 December 2015 - 17:36
Lennart says:
I spent some time there when the office was 25 metres away.
Could be a lunchtime kebab.
19 December 2015 - 19:37
BP says:
I think you understand that we shop quite regularly at Hötorgshallen. I mean why stand at the stove and make Christmas food for hours when you can buy different delicacies there instead. My favourite is Hav. The fish soup at Kajsa is still the best in town. Thanks for the tour. We are going there on Tuesday:-)
19 December 2015 - 19:55
Åsa says:
We found two hands of yellow chanterelles in the Portuguese forest the other day! Gold!
19 December 2015 - 21:57
Ditte says:
Surely Hötorgshallen is delicious! And perfect when you have guests and want that "little extra". But you want that for yourself too.
For me it will probably be a weekly visit there and preferably in combination with lunch at Kajsas fisk, a lunch consisting of fish soup. Saw that BP also liked it ...
The Östermalmshallen is also nice, but their prices are too high in my opinion.
Thanks for the tour, it's been a while since I was there so it was good to visit. Exciting to see what you found.
19 December 2015 - 23:04
admin says:
Matts, that sounds nice! At Hötorget you can probably get good prices, especially just before closing time!
Lennart, so you work there in the neighbourhood? I have eaten falafel there a few times, which I think is super good 🙂 .
BP, you can probably find a lot of goodies here for Christmas, I really think so! Thanks for the tips about Hav and the fish soup at Kajsas!
Åsa, oh fantastic! Do the Portuguese eat chanterelles themselves?
Ditte, now that we have received two tips about Kajsa's fish soup, we have to try! 🙂 I have hardly been inside the Östermalmshallen. Would be fun to look in sometime, but if the prices are better in Hötorgshallen, it is more likely that we will continue to shop there, when shopping in the market hall (not super often for our part).
20 December 2015 - 9:38
Ama de casa says:
The first 2.5 years after we moved here, we went to Sweden one week per month (for work). Then we stayed at Rica (which is now Scandic?) at Hötorget. So it feels a bit like "home" for me there 🙂.
When it was in season, I used to "hoard" chanterelles with me to Spain. There are not so many of them here, you could say 🙂 .
20 December 2015 - 10:24
Mr Steve says:
Thank you for that tour. I could easily spend a day there.
20 December 2015 - 9:33
Elisabeth says:
Since I stopped working, I don't get to Stockholm so often, but sometimes you want a little extra goodness.
20 December 2015 - 10:41
admin says:
Ama de casa, then I understand that it feels a bit like "home". And chanterelles are indeed one of the things you can miss from Sweden when you don't live here!
Elisabeth, a little gold edge is not wrong sometimes, and you can definitely find it in Hötorgshallen! 🙂
20 December 2015 - 11:04
Henny says:
A trip to Stockholm has almost always included a trip to Hötorgshallen. Lovely to just walk around and look at all the delights. I have of course eaten and enjoyed the fish soup. But the capital is a bit off-centre for us Norrbotteners, so it's been a while since I was there. Something I should do something about next year. Thank you for the past year and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your readers.
20 December 2015 - 12:01
admin says:
Henny, so you have also eaten the fish soup there! Oh yes, now it's time for us to try it I think 😉 We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
20 December 2015 - 12:36