Prinsen

Prinsen is my favorite spot for a business lunch in Stockholm: outstanding service, very good food, and a great atmosphere.
I wandered into Prinsen having never heard of it and quickly knew I had found my kind of restaurant. The decoration is classic without being dated, the formal waiters are pleasantly familiar once you’ve established your relationship.
Starters: veal carpaccio is very well prepared, shrimp spread and scallops are typically excellent Swedish seafood
Entrees: the perfect arctic char — good portion size with lots of vegetables; meatballs here are a classic for a reason
Dessert: Crème brulle is crisp and done just right, a feat during the lunchtime rush
Drinks: All of them? The old fashioned and negroni here are great and worth the price
Favorite indoor seating is the wallpapered booth on the back wall.

Fun place, nice atmosphere. Great Swedish food. The meatballs and veal dish were great.
The waiter was very helpful.
Had a great time.

Went here for kräftskiva two summers ago and it was a great time. I love a place where the waiter will tell you, «wine? no you must have beer and schnapps.»

Traditional Swedish food, mainly a lunch place. Filled with lawyers and finance people at lunch time. Pretty ok!

Delightful dining. The menu had lots of great choices — I had the rib eye with a very tasty creamy mustard mousse and diced roasted potatoes — excellent. And John had no complaints about the lamb. There’s a perfect mix of casual and elegant, and fun window shopping in the neighborhood.

POSH OESTERMALM People watching café, with sidewalk seating off Stureplan exit from Oestermalm subway.
Great 4-​star restaurant combines aesthetic physical site, high value. Add great wines and Swedish menu.

Prinsen is an institution, the place you have to visit sometime in your life, very proffesional staff and great atmosphere

Great authentic Swedish restaurant. White tablecloth fine dining with steak, Swedish meatballs, fried potatoes, and more. Well prepared, unique, and flavorful food.
Great outdoor seating, sidewalk café style, although we sat inside. Interior décor is a classic steakhouse wood paneling, lamps, and portraits all over the walls. Classic waiter style with good service, and a tiny bit upity up place.
Extremely enjoyable and upscale area of Stockholm.

Wonderful atmosphere. Warm friendly and welcoming. Casual yet oozing old world charm. Efficient staff. Fabulous food. I had the bleak roe on toast for a starter and a main of Beef served with caramelised onions, a mustard mousse fried potatoes and an egg yolk. You toss the yolk into the Hot potatoes and let them cook. Voila! The best beef dish EVER! Dessert was a classic Crème Brûlée.
Overall, a fantastic meal. Highly recommended.

So. 12 hours aboard the Dreamliner is quite nice except Norwegian Air charges you for a every little thing and $ 4 for a cup of Lipton is a blasphemy. Upon arrival, I walked and walked and walked until I stumbled upon this great Swedish-​French restaurant with fantastic old-​school (attentive) waiters and delicious hearty food. Traditional shrimp toast was divine; I’m never ever having that horrendous Ikea version again… Main course consisted of three simple European staples: juicy beef, onions and fried potatoes (pictured). I managed to devour an extremely tasty desert (rhubarb + mascarpone n sorbet) and barely had any strength left to walk back to the hotel. Oh, don’t stuff yourself on bread. Fantastic meal in a fantastic city.

Beautiful old-​timey restaurant with a classic Swedish menu. Perfect for a casual or formal business lunch. Downstairs bar works well as a after-​work drinks spot.

This place was recommended by the White Guide (Sweden’s equivalent of Zagat) for their authentic Swedish food. Overall a great place to try some traditional Swedish food.
Food: ⁴⁄₅
STARTER: selection of herrings — if you like herring (like the Dutch), you will enjoy this. It came pickled and also with a salad. I personally do not like herring, but my Dutch counterpart found it to be very tasty. FYI — the starters are TINY
MAIN: meatballs with lingon berries — this was very tasty and a significant upgrade from those IKEA meatballs. they were small and flavorful, the sauce was not overly salty and went very well with the meatballs. the mashed potatoes were perfectly smooth and creamy.
DESSERT: crème brûlée — this was a very good classically done crème brûlée. nothing super special but done well
Service: ²⁄₅
The service in Sweden is terrible (and I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Europe already). The waitstaff is downright rude to you whenever you ask for anything or even order.
On the contrast, the coat staff was very nice and even offered sight-​seeing recommendations.
Atmosphere: ⁵⁄₅
You can feel the history in the building. It used to be a beer hall and it has a very rustic and cosy feeling to it. The clientele was dressed very nicely and it had a very nice buzz to it. Great place to take someone who needs to be impressed.
Value: ³⁄₅
It came out to about 300kr/​person. The Main portions were quite big and filling. It isn’t somewhere that I would go all the time but it is a great place to try good Swedish food.

Food: fresh and flavorful. Staff: fussy and arrogant.
On a very warm evening, and even though we had a reservation, our group of 8 was seated way back in the interior of the restaurant. No A/​C. We asked to be moved outside because of the heat. The reply we got from the waiter was, «It’s hot everywhere.» Not too helpful. Finally we moved outside where the light breeze made for a very comfortable environment. But, we are obviously not locals and we were treated as such, with contempt. This is supposedly a high class place. We’ve been to some very great restaurants and this place is not even in the universe of great restaurants.
It’s too bad the service was not as good as the food. But the snippy, snooty staff overshadowed what pleasure we got from the fresh, well-​prepared food.
Unless you’re one of the well-​known local business folk, AVOID.

Just had a very good lunch in Prinsen.
I wanted a Swedish lunch, so my two Swedish guests suggested WALLENBERGARE ORIGINAL, it was very good, very moist veal, lovely flavor. My companions ordered the grilled Char and the pan fried Seabass. They both seemed very happy with their lunches.
Nice coffee rounded off a fine lunch.
Excellent service.
Nice old fashioned interior, comfortable, also a good outside area for alfresco eating.

Prinsen restaurant is centrally located, a couple of blocks from the main train station, in posh Ostermalm district (e.g. one block from a Louis Vuitton store).
It has a nice traditional upscale bistro/​brasserie décor, with old polished dark wood and white cloth (no red-​and-​white plastic checker here!). Nice relaxed quiet atmosphere indoor (at least on a Sunday evening). Service was truly excellent. They went out of their way to accommodate all our requests.
Wine and bread were good (not excellent).
We had the equivalent of the «shrimp cocktail» appetizer, which includes a small mountain of tiny shrimps that you have to un-​shell yourself, with a really nice saffron aioli dip, and (overly) buttery toasts. Overall, very good if you don’t mind the required handwork. And generous portion: this is great to share.
Then we had the «seafood burger», which was more of a light breaded fish cake. As long as you don’t care that it’s not a burger, this was actually a nice dish. It was supposed to be served with spinach but they brought boiled potatoes instead (don’t know why), which were good. We also tried a side of French fries, and they were truly excellent.
Overall, a solid address. I would happily go back. It wasn’t cheap, but what is in Stockholm?

Man mag mich für verrückt erklären, aber ich habe hier nicht von den schwedischen Spezialitäten genascht, sondern eiskalt eine Bouillabaisse bestellt. Und ich bereue nichts!!! Eine derart feine Fischsuppe habe ich noch selten gegessen. Preis-​/​Leistungsmäßig war es wirklich fair. Gut, die Flasche Champagner dazu hätte nicht sein müssen und war natürlich nordisch ausgepreist, aber das wusste ich schon vorher. Sehr lecker war die Baiser-​Torte, die in der Tat in sehr großen Stücken serviert wird.
Der Gastraum ist gemütlich und versprüht den Charme der 50er-​/​60er-​Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts. Der Service war freundlich und bemüht, aber teils ein wenig lahm und unmotiviert. Dafür wurden uns beim Eingang die Jacken abgenommen und fein säuberlich in der Garderobe aufgehängt.
Insgesamt eine Empfehlung für Stockholm. 4 Sterne!

Eine sehr gute Adresse, um schwedisches Essen kennen zu lernen. Um es vorweg zu nehmen: Falls ihr Euch für ein Stück von der Baisertorte entscheiden solltet, die jedem Süsschnabel unweigerlich sofort beim Betreten ins Auge sticht, lasst das Hauptgericht weg.
Die Stücke sind riesig, wir haben zu fünft kaum ein Stück zusammen geschafft (obwohl ich zugeben muss, dass die meisten von uns vorweg schon eine Vor– und eine Hauptspeise hatten).
Ich hatte als Hauptgericht das, ja wie hies es nun, Wallenbergä oder so ähnlich. Das ist eine Boulette (naja…) aus Kalbfleisch und Sahne, schwer zu beschreiben, aber sehr lecker, sehr zart, paniert, in noch leckererer Sauce und mit hausgemachtem Kartoffelschnee. Sehr lecker und potentiell geeignet für den schwedischen Winter zum Kalorientanken und gegen Winterdepressionen.
Und dann die besagte Torte… was soll ich sagen… der Kellner räumte die Reste ab und ich hatte das Gefühl, mich von ihr wie von einem guten Freund verabschieden zu müssen. Lecker, lecker und nochmals lecker, für alle Liebhaber des süßen Lebens ein absolutes Muss. Meine Bauchspeicheldrüse winselte zwar um Gnade, als sie zur maximalen Insulinproduktion genötigt wurde, und meine Jeans kneift heute irgendwie so komisch, aber das war es wert. Da darf man nicht pienzig sein!

Dieses Essen gehört in meine Top Ten! Noch nie habe ich so leckere schwedische Klassiker auf dem Teller gehabt.
Das Restaurant betritt man durch einen riesigen Windfang, der auch als Gardrobe genutzt wird. Ohne Reservierung ist hier leider in den allermeisten Fällen Ende des Besuches. Das Prinsen ist sehr gemütlich, nicht modern eingerichtet. Ich habe mich sofort an die Paris Bar in Berlin erinnert gefühlt.
Wir hatten das «Prinsens Klassika Meny»: Toast Skagen, Byff Rydberg und Chokladtryffel”. Es war ein Traum! Dazu leckere Cocktails, einen ganz guten italienischen Wein und viel zum Gucken.
Leider war die Bedienung unmotiviert und missmutig. Deshalb der Punktabzug.
Eine Empfehlung für Stockholm!