Showing posts with label Hötorget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hötorget. Show all posts

20130504

Digital Inn

Address: Sveavägen 35
Telephone:
Opening Hours: 10-19 / 11-17 / closed
Nearest Station: Hötorget

If you want to buy or fix Apple products, go to Digital Inn, one of Apple's premum resellers in Stockholm. This branch on Sveavägen has a spacious showroom along with the counter to which customers bring in their broken Apple gadgets.

Other branches are located in the basement of Kulturhuset and in the Västermalmsgallerian shopping center at Fridhemsplan.

The shop used to be called inLife, by the way.

20120204

PUB

Address: Hötorget 13-15
Telephone:
Opening Hours: 10-19 / 10-18 / 11-17
Nearest Station: Hötorget

PUB, one of the three major department stores in Stockholm, alongside NK and Åhlens City, has recently undergone a radical makeover. If NK is classy and Åhlens is trendy, then PUB is funky. Here is the list of shops housed in PUB by Visit Stockholm Blog.

20100815

Akademibokhandeln

Address: Mäster Samuelsgatan 32
Telephone: 08 613 61 00
Opening Hours: 10-19 / 10-17 / 12-16
Nearest Station: Hötorget (take the exit to Malmskillnadsgatan)

Akademibokhandeln has seven branches in Stockholm (the list of branches in Sweden can be seen here), and the one on Mäster Samuelsgatan is the largest. It stocks books and magazines in English. Travel guidebooks in English are all available (Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Time Out City Guides, and even Wallpaper* City Guides). The store houses Wayne's Coffee, a Swedish answer to Starbucks.

20080810

Kajsas fisk

Address: Hötorgshallen
Telephone: ?
Opening Hours: 10-18 / 10-16 / closed
Nearest Station: Hötorget

Kajsas fisk is one of the restaurants housed in Hötorgshallen. Its signature menu is fisksoppa (fish soup) for 80 krona. It's worth joining the queue (there's almost always a queue for this restaurant).

20080805

El-Giganten

Address: Kungsgatan 12-14
Opening Hours: weekdays 10-19 / Saturdays 10-17 / Sundays 12-17
Nearest Station: Östermalmstorg / Hötorget
Website (in Swedish): www.elgiganten.se

The best electronics and household appliances store in central Stockholm. The ground floor sells mobile phone handsets, Windows PCs, digital cameras, etc. There's also an Apple store section. Go upstairs, and you'll find audio-visual equipments, microwaves, fridges, irons (with ironing boards), vacuum cleaners, and even cooking stoves and washing machines. And this is a Stockholm store, so you'll also find some crockery and cooking tools as well as blenders, toasters, etc. They also sell movie DVDs and, for some reason, laundry detergent.

20080719

Hötorgshallen

Address: Hötorget
Telephone:
Opening Hours: 10-18 / 10-16 / closed
Nearest Station: Hötorget

Hötorgshallen houses fish shops, butcher's shops (including Latin Amerikanska Livsmedel), cheese shops, a bakery, a fruit and vegetable shop, tea leaf & coffee bean shops, a Turkish mezze shop, delicatessens (selling Italian salamis, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, various spices, etc.), a Systembolaget, and lunch restaurants including Sushi Bar Ishi (run by a Japanese chef!) and Kajsas fisk.

Finding an entrance can be tricky for the first timer. One entrance is on Slöjdgatan, the street the PUB department store faces. Enter the building from there and go downstairs by an escalator.

20080703

Sushi Bar Ishi

Address: Hötorgshallen
Telephone: 08 641 34 04
Opening Hours: 10-18 / 10-16 / closed
Nearest Station: Hötorget

There are many, many sushi restaurants in Stockholm, but very few serve sushi made by a Japanese chef. The exception is Sushi Bar Ishi, housed in Hötorgshallen. Eight pieces of sushi for 70 krona, eleven for 96 krona, with a bowl of miso soup and a cup of Japanese green tea for free. Visit this place when you are fed up with sandwiches and pasta salad for lunch.

20080325

Village

Address: Kungsgatan 27
Telephone:
Opening Hours:
Nearest Station: Hötorget

Village is a pleasant interior goods store. It mainly sells products made by Serholt Sweden, ranging from curtains to colorful bamboo baskets, from tea pots to vases, in several themes of color (pale blue, lime green, reddish purple, black, etc.). It may be for girls, but I like it.

Kjell & Company

Address: Kungsgatan 41
Telephone:
Opening Hours: 10-19 / 10-17 / 12-16
Nearest station: Hötorget

Kjell & Company specializes in PC peripherals such as printer papers, various cables, blank DVDs, flash memories, USB-LAN cable converters, etc. It seems this is the place to go if you don't know where to buy a very specific item for your PC. (A shop attendant at ComputerCity recommended this store when he learned his store didn't have what I was looking for.) There are several branches in Stockholm (here is the list on their website), but the one on Kungsgatan, housed in the Konserthuset building, is probably the most accessible.

Hemtex & more

Address: Sergelgatan 17
Telephone: 08 21 1944
Opening hours:

Hemtex sells anything textile: bed linens (also duvets and pillows), curtains (including shower curtains), towels, bath robes, table cloths, and so forth.

There are several Hemtex branches throughout the city, but this one on Sergelgatan is the largest, and in my opinion the display is also the best among all the branches (so you are tempted to buy many things here).

And, as the shop name suggests, there are more. This store even sells stationery and some glassware including Iittala.