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Tennstopet

Restaurant · Swedish · Vegetarian-friendly · Vasastan · Since 1867

Tennstopet
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 07:00–16:20, about 9.5 hours in total. In short: sun at lunch and afternoon sun.

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The story of Tennstopet

Tennstopet started in 1867 as a billiard hall at Fredsgatan 9 in the Rosenbad block, opened by the sergeant Sven Gustaf Högberg. It was soon renamed Rosenbads Schweizeri, even though no pastries were served. In 1891 it was bought by the pewter engraver Bror Axel Santesson, who filled the room with pewter pieces. The nickname Tennstopet (the pewter tankard) stuck and became official when the place moved to Vattugatan 8 in the Klara district in 1895.

When Klara was torn down in the city's redevelopment, the restaurant moved in 1965 to Dalagatan 50 in Vasastan. The interior was packed up and rebuilt to look as much like the old one as possible, and the old signs came along.

Tennstopet became a haunt for journalists and artists. Regulars included Slas, Beppe Wolgers, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Vilhelm Moberg and Fritiof Nilsson Piraten, and Expressen's first editor-in-chief, Ivar Harrie, had his own table. Traditional Swedish home cooking and the yearly fermented herring have long been part of the menu.

Sources: Wikipedia: Tennstopet · Tennstopet

When does Tennstopet 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 09:20–16:40 (7.5 hours)

June

Sun 07:00–16:20 (9.5 hours)

August

Sun 07:00–16:30 (9.5 hours)

Opening hours

Mon11:30–23:00
Tue–Thu11:30–24:00
Friclosed
Sat12:00–24:00
Sun12:00–23:00

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

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Tennstopet holds a permit for a terrace of about 28 m² at Odengatan 74. The permit runs 13 July to 30 September 2026. The first permit in the city's register is from 2021.

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. Tennstopet Grill Restaurant · Vegetarian-friendly · 20 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–16:30
  2. The Italian Cousins Restaurant · Pizza · Vegetarian-friendly · 50 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–16:20
  3. Främmat Restaurant · 50 m Afternoon sun Sun 11:30–16:40
  4. Guru Restaurant · Indian · Vegetarian-friendly · 60 m Afternoon sun Sun 09:20–18:30
  5. Kumo Ramen Fast food · Sushi & Japanese · Vegetarian-friendly · 60 m Sun at lunch Sun 11:20–15:00 and 15:50–18:30
  6. Esperanza Restaurant · Vegetarian-friendly · 60 m Sun 07:00–16:00

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Sol vid lunch, 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.