Korean restaurants in Stockholm: 10 places from Luntmakargatan to Ringvägen
Korean restaurants in Stockholm in three groups: Vasastan around Luntmakargatan, Kungsholmen with Valhallavägen, and Södermalm. The page shows what separates a set menu with banchan from small plates to share and a quick rice bowl: the cards give the address and a short description, and the phone number and website are inside the card.
Vasastan: Luntmakargatan and Upplandsgatan
Kungsholmen and Valhallavägen: home cooking, banchan and bibimbap
Södermalm: evening kitchens and fried chicken by Ringvägen
Korean restaurants in Stockholm on the map
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Which group suits you
This helps if you want a full Korean meal with rice and side dishes, if two of you want to share a stew, or if you need a quick bowl in the middle of the day.
| If you need | What to look at | Which group fits | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| A full meal with rice and side dishes | The words set menu, baekban or banchan | Kungsholmen and Valhallavägen | Which banchan are served that day |
| A stew to share | The word jeongol and the rule of at least two people | Vasastan | Whether the stew is served at lunch or only in the evening |
| Several small plates over an evening | The sections anju and small dishes in the menu | Södermalm | Which evenings the kitchen is open |
| A quick bowl in the middle of the day | The words bibimbap, cupbap or lunch menu | Kungsholmen and Valhallavägen, or Vasastan | When the kitchen closes for its afternoon break |
| Fried chicken without a booking | The words drop in on the website | Södermalm | That this particular address takes no bookings |
Banchan, bibimbap and jjigae: the words on the menu
- Banchan: side dishes set out with the rice, such as kimchi and seasoned vegetables.
- Bibimbap: rice with vegetables and egg, topped with beef, chicken or tofu and mixed with chilli paste.
- Jjigae and jeongol: stews; on one menu in Vasastan jeongol is cooked for at least two people.
- Japchae: sweet potato glass noodles with beef and vegetables.
- Tteokbokki and jeon: rice cakes in a hot sauce and Korean pancake, small dishes on Södermalm.
Rice is the centre of a Korean meal, and banchan are set out around it. On Kungsholmen one restaurant builds its whole menu on that idea: Korean home cooking as a set menu, always with rice and several banchan that change from day to day, while the main dishes stay the same all month (the restaurant's website, read on 7 October 2026). A kitchen by Valhallavägen describes the same tradition with the word baekban: freshly cooked rice, a main dish and seasonal banchan.
In Vasastan the menus are longer. One restaurant on Luntmakargatan has bibimbap in four versions, with beef, chicken, octopus and prawns or vegetarian, as well as the stews kimchi-jjigae and sundubu-jjigae. As sides you can order kimchi, kkakdugi made of radish, and namul, seasoned vegetables. On Upplandsgatan bibimbap and japchae are on the lunch menu.
On Södermalm the kitchen on Timmermansgatan divides its menu into three parts: anju, meaning small snacks, small dishes such as tteokbokki and kimchi-jeon, and full portions such as bibimbap and sundubu-jjigae. By Ringvägen the main thing is Korean fried chicken.
More Korean kitchens than those shown here are in the catalogue category Asian restaurants and sushi bars: search for the word koreansk and you get about twenty cards. The page about Stockholm gathers the city's other categories, and guides to more cuisines are under Restaurants and cafés.
Set menu, small plates or a bowl: three ways to eat Korean
- Set menu: rice, a main dish and several banchan, at lunch and dinner on Kungsholmen.
- Evening kitchens: two restaurants on Södermalm do not open until late afternoon.
- Rice bowl: a family-run bibimbap place by Valhallavägen, open Monday to Friday.
- Lunch in Vasastan: two kitchens, Tuesday to Friday from 11 am.
- Three kitchens on one street: Luntmakargatan, within about 400 metres.
To taste a lot at once, choose a set menu. On Hantverkargatan it is served at lunch Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 2 pm and Saturday and Sunday noon to 3 pm, and at dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5 pm to 9 pm (the website on 7 October 2026). The signature dishes there are Korean fried chicken and slow-cooked pork.
A long evening with several dishes works best on Södermalm. The restaurant on Tjärhovsgatan is open Monday to Saturday 5 pm to 11 pm and Sunday 3 pm to 9 pm, and the kitchen on Timmermansgatan Tuesday to Friday 5 pm to 10 pm and Saturday from 4 pm. Neither of them opens for lunch.
Short of time? By Valhallavägen there is a family-run place that has made bibimbap with its own sauce since 2017, to eat in or take away. It is open Monday to Friday 11 am to 8 pm and closed at weekends. In Vasastan two restaurants serve lunch Tuesday to Friday from 11 am, one until 2 pm and the other until 2.30 pm with soup included.
The oldest in the selection is a family business on Luntmakargatan that, according to its website, has been there since 1975. Two more Korean restaurants are on the same street, all three within about 400 metres, along with a shop selling Korean groceries.
Drop in, afternoon break and soy: good to know before you go
- Without a booking: the restaurant on Kungsholmen is mainly for drop-in guests, and the place by Ringvägen takes no bookings at all.
- Online booking: two restaurants on Södermalm and one by Valhallavägen.
- Booking by phone: one restaurant on Luntmakargatan.
- Afternoon break: five of the kitchens close for a while between lunch and evening.
- Soy and gluten: one kitchen writes that all its dishes contain small amounts of gluten.
Getting a table works differently from place to place. On Hantverkargatan the restaurant writes that it mainly takes guests without a booking and accepts only a limited number of dinner reservations. By Ringvägen it is drop in only. On Tjärhovsgatan you book online, by phone or by email, and parties of nine or more are asked to call or email. One restaurant on Luntmakargatan takes bookings by phone (the websites, 7 October 2026).
Check the hours before turning up mid-afternoon. Five of the kitchens pause between lunch and evening: the bibimbap place by Valhallavägen from 2.30 pm to 4 pm, the chicken place by Ringvägen from 2 pm to 3 pm on weekdays, and the two lunch restaurants in Vasastan and the restaurant on Kungsholmen until 5 pm. Monday is also a closed day at four of the seven restaurants that state their hours.
Soy sauce, the chilli paste gochujang and the soybean paste doenjang are basics of Korean cooking. The restaurant on Tjärhovsgatan writes that all its dishes contain the three, that these have small amounts of gluten and cannot be left out of the food. The same restaurant is cash-free and does not admit dogs.
Take away is ordered online from the restaurant on Hantverkargatan and from the kitchen on Timmermansgatan, and one restaurant on Luntmakargatan has a take away menu of its own. On Hantverkargatan there is also a fridge with kimchi and house-made sauces to buy and take home.
Questions and answers
Banchan are side dishes served together with the rice, such as kimchi, radish and seasoned vegetables. On Kungsholmen several banchan come with every set menu, and they change from day to day.
Bibimbap is found in all three groups. In Vasastan one menu has four versions, by Valhallavägen the dish is the whole idea of a family-run place, and on Södermalm it is served with beef, chicken or tofu.
Yes, at six or more of the ten restaurants. Two in Vasastan serve lunch Tuesday to Friday from 11 am, and on Kungsholmen lunch is also served on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 3 pm (the websites on 7 October 2026).
Not as a matter of course. Soy sauce, gochujang and doenjang are used in many dishes, and one restaurant on Södermalm writes that all its dishes therefore contain small amounts of gluten. Ask the kitchen before ordering if you avoid gluten.
Yes. In Vasastan vegetarian bibimbap is on two menus and a tofu dish on one of them, and on Södermalm there is bibimbap with tofu.
Yes, at several places. One restaurant on Kungsholmen is mainly for guests without a booking, and the chicken place by Ringvägen is drop in only. The evening restaurants on Södermalm, on the other hand, have online booking.
On Södermalm, where a place by Ringvägen has it as its speciality. It is also a signature dish at the restaurant on Kungsholmen, and chicken wings are among the small dishes on Timmermansgatan.
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