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Matbaren

Restaurant · Swedish · Norrmalm & City · Since 2007

Matbaren
Photo: I99pema, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 09:40–21:00, about 11.5 hours in total. In short: evening sun until 21:00.

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The story of Matbaren

Matbaren opened in 2007 as the more casual half of the restaurant Mathias Dahlgren, on the ground floor of the Bolinder Palace next to the Grand Hôtel. The formal half was called Matsalen. Both rooms were designed by the British interior designer Ilse Crawford. Matsalen closed in December 2016; Matbaren carried on.

In its first year Matbaren won Dagens Nyheter's Gulddraken award in the mid-range category, and in 2009 it received a Michelin star. The menu is built around smaller seasonal dishes, and the wine cellar holds around 2,500 labels.

The building went up in 1874–1877 as a grand apartment house for the industrialist Jean Bolinder. Helgo Zettervall designed it with the palaces of Venice in mind, and it has been part of the Grand Hôtel since 1889.

Sources: Wikipedia: Mathias Dahlgren (restaurang) · Wikipedia: Bolinderska palatset · Mathias Dahlgren: Matbaren

When does Matbaren 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 09:30–18:50 (9.5 hours)

June

Sun 09:40–21:00 (11.5 hours)

August

Sun 09:30–19:20 (10 hours)

Opening hours

Mon–Tue18:00–24:00
Wed–Fri12:00–13:30, 18:00–24:00
Sat18:00–24:00
Sunclosed

Regular opening hours from OpenStreetMap. Check with the place before you go, especially around holidays.

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Matbaren holds a permit for a terrace of about 60 m² at Södra Blasieholmshamnen 6. The permit runs 25 April to 27 September 2026. The first permit in the city's register is from 2025.

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

More terraces nearby

  1. Lydmar Restaurant · 80 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–08:20 and 10:10–17:20
  2. B.A.R. Restaurant · Fish & seafood · 80 m Sun 07:00–16:00
  3. Blasieholmen Restaurant · 90 m Sun 10:20–12:20, 16:00–19:30 and 20:20–20:50
  4. Kanvas Café · 220 m Afternoon sun Sun 13:40–19:00
  5. Arsenalen Restaurant · 230 m Afternoon sun Sun 13:40–18:20
  6. Le Hibou Bar · 240 m Sun at lunch Sun 11:50–18:10

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Kvällssol till 21:00, 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.