Restaurants, cafés and bars in Sigtuna

Dinner

• Båthuset Krog & Bar, the steamboat jetty. A floating restaurant with 42 seats, an open kitchen, a fireplace and windows onto the whole of Sigtunafjärden. Nordic food by the season with produce from Roslagen, and a bar where you can have a glass and a snack without booking. Terrace on the jetty. Open mainly spring to autumn.
• Restaurant 1909, Sigtuna Stadshotell, Stora gatan. The 1909 hotel calls itself Sweden's smallest five-star, and the restaurant has been listed in the White Guide. Swedish classics from local produce, a dining room overlooking the lake inlet, the Sjösidan terrace in summer, afternoon tea, brunch and a Christmas buffet. The most expensive in town.
• Farbror Blå Restaurant & Bar, the main square. The neighbourhood restaurant in the wooden house next to the Town Hall, under new owners since 2023. Home cooking with international touches, a menu where everyone finds something, live music now and then, a private room, and outdoor seating straight onto the square.
• Kopparkitteln, by the main square. Family-owned, classic cooking with a Mediterranean streak and personal service, a snug dining room and a summer terrace overlooking the bay. Good for larger groups.
• Bistro & Café Valvet, Stora gatan. Bistro with southern European influences, a salad bar, lunch, dinner and after-work drinks. Dogs welcome.
• Cicciotto, Stora gatan. Neapolitan pizza, pasta and Italian charcuterie to eat in or take away.
• Prik, Stora gatan 31. Sushi and Thai in the same small room. Closed on Mondays.
• Paco's, Sigtuna. Tex-Mex, grill, pan pizza. Child-friendly.
• The Sigtuna Foundation's restaurant, on the hill. Well-cooked food in a setting inspired by Italian monasteries, open to everyone, not just hotel guests.
• Restaurang Skog, at Sigtunahöjden on the forest edge above town, with the lake as the view. A hotel restaurant open to everyone.
• Hotell Kristina, on the hill overlooking the town and the lake. Dinners, a bar with snacks, the courtyard in summer.

Lunch and lighter

• Plåt-Pelles Mat & Café, in the centre with a view. Lunch, coffee, a menu that suits a quick stop or a long sit in the sun. The building also holds a small cultural venue with music and events.
• Strandvillans Café, on the waterfront path. Since 1994: coffee, ice cream, salads and sandwiches in a leafy garden overlooking the lake. A summer place.
• Våfflan Hamnkrog & Bar, the steamboat jetty. Prawn sandwiches, burgers, ice cream and cocktails on the big terrace by the water. Only open in season, and then full.
• Better Meal, Silvertorget 18 at Stadsängarna, the new district north-west of the centre. Sushi and poké to take away, ordered in their app or by phone.
• Valvet, Farbror Blå and Kopparkitteln serve a lunch of the day on weekdays all year.

Coffee, bread and sweets

• Tant Bruns Kaffestuga, Laurentii gränd 3. A timbered 17th-century cottage with low ceilings, lace curtains, an open fire and a garden of flower-filled wheelbarrows. Cakes and sandwiches from its own bakery. One of Sweden's oldest cafés. A queue at weekends.
• Café Myntet, Stora gatan 52. Coffee, pastries and meals, open every day.
• Balders Bröd, Stora gatan 45. Craft bakery: fresh bread daily, buns, sandwiches, salads, cakes and an award-winning gelato.
• Pelle och Maries brödbutik, in the centre. Sourdough, buns, croissants and mazarines, baked with plenty of butter by master baker Pelle.
• Sigtuna Gelato, Stora gatan. Italian gelato made on the premises.
• RC Chocolat, Stora gatan. French chocolate café with pralines, desserts, ice cream and milkshakes. The modern alternative to Tant Brun.
• Augusta Jansson, Stora gatan 35. An old-fashioned sweet shop with pralines, liquorice and pick-and-mix from another era.
• The Sigtuna Foundation's library, coffee among the books. Bring a book, stay an hour.
• Marie and Pelle's café in Viby village, in the 18th-century village next to Wenngarn, four kilometres north. Open on certain Saturdays and special occasions, with animals in the yard. The dates are on Instagram.

Bars and after work

Sigtuna has no bar district, but there are places for a drink. All are within a few minutes' walk of each other.

• Farbror Blå, the square. Bar with wine, cocktails and snacks, terrace on the square, live music.
• Båthuset, the jetty. The counter by the open kitchen, a glass of wine and something small with the water outside. Summer evenings on the jetty.
• 1909, the Stadshotell. Bar and lounge in the hotel's salons, the terrace in summer. Classic drinks, slow pace.
• Bistro & Café Valvet. Bar and after-work drinks.
• Kopparkitteln. Terrace with a view over the bay.
• Cicciotto. Italian wine and Aperol.
• Sigtuna Krog och Sportbar, Stora gatan 34. The town's sports bar: matches on screen, beer, pub food.
• Hotell Kristina. Bar with snacks, the courtyard in summer, views over the town.

The state liquor shop, Systembolaget, is at Stora gatan 56C. Terraces open in May and close in September. Out of season it is indoors.

Delivery and takeaway

Friday nights and rainy Sundays. These deliver to Sigtuna town, most via Foodora, a couple with their own online ordering.

• Paco's, Stora Brännbovägen 31, +46 73 781 44 81. Tex-Mex, pizza and grill. Its own online ordering for both pickup and delivery, every day 11:00 to 20:45, Friday and Saturday to 21:45. Also on Foodora.
• Pizzeria Calabrese, Granitvägen 28 in Norrtil, +46 8 592 529 99. Pizza, kebab and salads, open every day 11:00 to 21:00. Delivers itself, and is on Foodora and Uber Eats.
• Cicciotto, Stora gatan. Neapolitan pizza and pasta to collect, or delivered via Foodora.
• On Foodora there are also Sigtuna Grill & Pizzeria, Ett Brasseri, Sibylla Sigtuna, Plåt-Pelle's and Strandvillan's café. What is available varies with the time of day. The app shows what is open.

The restaurants in the old town, Båthuset, 1909, Farbror Blå and Kopparkitteln, do not deliver. Several of them will do food to take away if you call ahead.

Outside town

• Steninge Bruk, Steninge slottsby. In the big stone barn below the palace: lunch every day from Sweden's largest indoor grill, a café buffet of home baking, brunch at weekends, the garden in summer. Five minutes by car.
• Steninge Brygga, Steninge slottsby. Restaurant in the old early 20th-century pottery works, family-run.
• Wenngarn, four kilometres north. The castle restaurant with vegetables from its own kitchen garden, Dammstugan with wood-fired pizza, pasta and gelato, and the bakery with its pantry shop.
• Rosersberg palace café, in the palace rooms. Coffee on soft sofas in royal surroundings, in summer. The palace hotel restaurant all year.
• Herresta Lada, a café in a barn that opens a few weekends a year. Waffles and cakes from organic ingredients.
• Österby farm, farm shop Fridays and Saturdays, five kilometres north. No café, but meat, charcuterie and eggs from the farm.