Every year in early June Stockholm celebrates a several-day long food and restaurant festival with lots of outdoor food vendors. The culinary festival is one of Sweden’s largest annual events and one of the biggest food festivals worldwide. It attracts up to 350,000 people. The festival was originally named “Smaka på Stockholm”, which can be translated as a “Taste of Stockholm”. Then the festival called itself “Smaka Good Food Festival”. Recently it has returned to its original name.
The venue for the Smaka på Stockholm food festival is the city park Kungsträdgården – the Stockholmers just call it the “Kungsan”. It is located in central Stockholm opposite the street from the famous department store NK.
Culinary delights
For four or five days, visitors are given the unique opportunity
- to experience some of Sweden’s top chefs and their cuisine in pop-up restaurants
- follow chef duels and cook-alongs
- take courses
- learn to grill
- sample food from food trucks
- buy food from a salutorget (food market)
- listen to numerous artists from a wide range of music genres
For visitors from the trade there is also an international conference “Sweden Foodtech Big Meet”.
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Mathias Dahlgren serves a National Day cake.
Photos: Peter Backman. The photos are from various years.
