Matbaren Mathias Dahlgren

I’d highly recommend this restaurant. We had the 4 course tasting menu and every dish was a pleasure. The food is full of flavour and unique, a nice mix. It started fresh and built up nicely. It was better than some Michelin restaurants I been in. The price was fair.

Good food using fresh ingredients and service is outstanding. Price is similar to other restaurants. Excellent location. High chair is poor designed. Felt backache after lunch. I wish they provide pictures for all dishes on their website (easy to do these days) or digital menu with pictures + ingredient descriptions

As always superbly food and drinks. I had truffle hot dog, zucchini flowers, bun n chicken and last turbot. Apple cider sublime

Skimpy portions and pours but really outstanding food. The pork dish in particular stood out avoiding the extreme saltiness that seems to pervade Stockholm restaurants. Pork bun was delicious, so was the scallop with cheese. Portions were very small the cheese plate ridiculously so. Still worth it. Service at atmosphere excellent at the bar although if you don’t want annoying bar neighbors a table is better

Highly recommended place for lunch or dinner located inside Grand Hotel. Expertly cooked smallish bites of yummy seasonal ingredients. I tried the hot dog, steam bao with fried chicken, grilled squid and finished with Bolivian chocolate lava cake. Excellent service from Eloise and Philip. Part 2: Dinner with wife! Tried the special of the day Grilled Kurama Prawns farmed in Bordeaux..delicious! Followed by Pan seared Turbot, Chanterelles and egg 63deg (special dish), seared lamb chops and finished with Chocolate fondant! Another fab meal with great service from Philip and team.

An exquisite and wonderful experience. The dishes were very intricate and well prepared, very flavorful and perfect size. The atmosphere is easy going and slow moving, and feels very relaxing throughout the meal.

What a lovely experience! I had a cold, and wasn’t really hungry; but Matbaren managed to revive my appetite and mood with an amazing meal and great service. The butter cooked cockles is one of the best things I have eaten recently (the sauce is worth sponging up with bread) and the wine braised ox cheek is hearty and comforting. Small but nice selection of wines too. And the staff were so great- everyone was friendly, helpful and had really good suggestions to offer. The complimentary sweet bits with coffee were a nice touch too. I hope to be back someday .

We had really high hopes coming to Matbaren based on reviews and their Bib Gourmand rating. We were properly seated and were given a brief of the menu quite quickly. The server asked if we had any dietary restrictions, and one of us could not have any raw meat or fish - the server didn't seem to have any problem with the menu regarding this. We ordered our water and wine and all was well. From there, it felt like we were totally ignored in the corner. It took 25 minutes for a server to come back to us before we had to flag someone down to please take our order. It was not anyone that we had been in contact with thus far, but she happily took our order. We felt like a burden and I was very close to walking out. We put in the first course as we were told to order one course at a time. We got the hot dog, which was delicious! After that, it took some more time to flag down another server to get the second course, in which we opted for the lobster soup. We received the soup which was unfortunately way over salty, but we didn't say anything at the time because we did finish it. After that course, we each ordered a fish dish, in which one was the pickled herring. We are not from this area, and we did not know that this was raw, perhaps a flaw on our part but because we had a variety of servers, nobody advised us that this was raw. Perhaps we could have asked but didn't feel the need to, I guess? That was unfortunate. After that, the server came and cleared our plates and took away our cutlery. We thought 'hmm does he think we are done'? We still wanted to order another dish or two, so then we had to flag him/her down again to ask for another dish. Maybe they took away the cutlery to give us a new set, which I know is very normal but it didn't feel that way. We got the final dish to split, which was the squid and that was very good. Overall expectations did not meet reality. We had guests come in well after us and left well before us. We saw other guests interacting quite well with their servers, getting recommendations, etc where we did not receive this type of service. We were often left in a state of confusion at this restaurant as we felt a bit like a burden to order more food or to ask questions, we never knew who our server was. I never write reviews like this, but we just felt the need to explain our situation that is perhaps not normal for this restaurant, but this is what we experienced. Unfortunately, I don't think we will return to Matbaren however I see lots of good reviews so perhaps we just had an off experience. The ambiance is really nice and is an elevated style place.