18 Dec 2024
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Save Food with Too Good To Go

How much of the groceries you buy every week end up in the bin, because you didn’t manage to consume them before they went off? Imagine then the amount of food that restaurants and shops have to trash for the same reason… Saving food has never been as imperative as it is today and companies […]

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Staycation: Rånäs Castle

Rånäs castle is an elegant hotel, restaurant, spa, as well as a venue for weddings and conferences. It once belonged to the Reuterskiöld family, who were fascinated by culture and travel. And you can see the family’s passion reflected in the Italian-inspired 19th century manor house . In each article of the Staycation series, we […]

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Fashionable Places to See and Be Seen in Stockholm

Sweden is host to an array of fashion firms, from H&M to small independent designers. In the report The Spaces and Places of Swedish Fashion, Hauge Atle says, “Alongside the mass market retail chains, there is a cluster of niche-oriented, small- and medium-sized Swedish fashion firms with a brand-focused business strategy.” The idea that independent designers have always […]

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Support Your Local Restaurant

With people being quarantined in their houses and advised to avoid being in places with large crowds, plenty of local businesses are being seriously affected by the lack of customers and visitors, with restaurants being among the most affected. Restaurants, especially in the city, are normally flooded at lunch time by workers and tourists. But […]

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Raggare’s Role in Stockholm’s Classic Car Scene

Roughly 5,000 classic American cars are imported into Sweden every year. Most often, they are bought by car lovers who have an affinity for a period in the 1950s and 60s when full-bodied, colorful, powerful vehicles were mass-produced by American automakers. Sweden didn’t follow this trend, which is one reason that explains the existence of raggare, a popular Swedish […]

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Shockholm 2019 Highlights

Scandinavia’s largest Halloween event, the Shockholm parade took place for the 9th time now and brought out thousands of people joining in on the ghoulish fun. Creative performances took place on the stage at Kungsträdgården, including Bollywood dance, live music and acrobatics. After that the crowds joined in a world-first, when the parade actually split […]

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Album Review: Yngwie Malmsteen’s Blue Lightning

Yngwie Malmsteen is mostly known as a shredder by nature who is notorious for putting together pieces that seem like they were composed for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Think Apocalyptica but with Malmsteen alone on his humble electric guitar instead of a cello quartet. Ever the virtuoso, it seems Malmsteen has decided to diversify his […]

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Chelas – There’s a New Mexican in Town

Located at the trendy Hornstull neighbourhood of Södermalm, at Verkstadsgatan 4,  you’ll find Chelas, Stockholm’s newest Mexican restaurant. Chelas opened its doors in July of 2019. The name comes from the Mexican slang word for beers and a phrase the Mexicans use when they want to socialise with friends and family: “Saca las chelas”. Literally […]

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Top 10 Nightclubs in Stockholm

A very well known fact about Swedes is that they do like a good party and when we say a good party, we don’t just mean a typical gather the friends and pay a visit to a hang-out in town. We mean a big fat EPIC party! Swedes wait all month long until payday weekend […]

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Living The City: Stockholm’s Top Cocktails 2019

In this episode of our video series Living the City, we present to you Stockholm’s Top Cocktails 2019. Three different cocktail experts prepare for us the cocktails that Stockholmers love the most. Our cocktail experts are: Jorge Enrique Quintana and Love Wesström preparing a Barranco Bowl at Videgård Milan Markus preparing a Neon City at […]

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