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Berns asiatiska

Restaurant · Asian · Norrmalm & City · Since 1944

Berns asiatiska
Photo: Caesar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 07:00–11:40, about 4.5 hours in total. In short: morning sun.

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The story of Berns asiatiska

Berns asiatiska is inside Berns salonger by Berzelii Park. The confectioner Heinrich Robert Berns built the house in 1862–1863 and opened it on 1 August 1863. Its salons, with gilding, mirrors, galleries and tall windows onto the park, rise the full height of the building, and Strindberg's novel The Red Room takes its title from one of them.

In 1944 the restaurant chain Norma bought Berns, and it became the first place in Sweden to serve Chinese food. The new manager, Jonas Folcker, brought in two Chinese chefs from a restaurant in Berlin. Today's Asian restaurant grew out of that beginning, under the same high ceilings and crystal chandeliers.

Berns asiatiska in earlier days
Photo: Gunnar Herbert Lundh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Wikipedia: Berns · Stureplansgruppen pressmeddelande: Berns Asiatiska (2021)

When does Berns asiatiska get sun?

Sun on the terrace on a clear day in the middle of the month. Yellow is sun, light blue is daylight but shade.

April

Sun 07:00–10:40 (3.5 hours)

June

Sun 07:00–11:40 (4.5 hours)

August

Sun 07:00–11:00 (4 hours)

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Berns asiatiska holds a permit for a terrace of about 152 m² at Berzelii Park 1. The permit runs 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029. The first permit in the city's register is from 2023.

Source: the City of Stockholm's register of street-space permits (open data). We calculate the sun where the permit says the tables stand.

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  3. Ricordi Restaurant · Italian · 100 m Evening sun until 19:50 Sun 07:50–09:10 and 11:50–19:50
  4. Nybrogrillen Fast food · Steak & grill · 100 m Evening sun until 21:00 Sun 07:00–21:00
  5. Le Hibou Bar · 100 m Sun at lunch Sun 11:50–18:10
  6. Wedholms fisk Restaurant · Fish & seafood · 100 m Evening sun until 20:00 Sun 13:30–15:00 and 17:40–20:00

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Morgonsol, according to Stoligt

Times look wrong, for example because the terrace is on the other side of the building? Fix the location in OpenStreetMap and Stoligt will follow at the next update.

How Stoligt works it out

Every ten minutes we draw a line from each terrace toward the sun and check whether a building or hill is tall enough to block it. Building heights come from OpenStreetMap and ground heights from Lantmäteriet, the Swedish mapping agency. The times assume a clear day, so clouds are not included here. They are on the live map, which shows today's weather.

Trees, parasols and awnings are not in the model, and we don't know exactly where on the pavement the tables stand. Treat the times as an educated guess, often accurate to within ten minutes.