Café Tårtan — Restaurant in Stockholm

While Tårtan’s location and interior warrant positive acknowledgment, the management needs to sharpen up. They need to make sure their vegan offerings are actually vegan; they served the only vegan lunch dish, the lentil stew, with non-vegan butter, which is unacceptable. Their failure to provide an actually vegan lunch likely speaks to a more fundamental management shortcoming.

I urge the team to review their practices and reach a professional level of service in line with Stockholm’s competitive café scene.

For example, many items on the menu could easily be offered as vegan but are not: the yoghurt with granola could be done with vegan yoghurt, the vegetarian meat patties could be offered with oat-based cream sauce. And with every vegan option, it should be clear to the kitchen what a customer...

We stopped by around 8:30 in the morning because most other places do not open till 9. The place has an empty feeling on a Monday morning, probably because it's too early for the Swedish. The lady behind the counter didn't seem too energetic or happy to take our orders. Probably too early for her too. The coffee was ok, nothing to rave about. There was a sour acidic taste to it. I heard the Swedish like it this way, not sure. My suggestion is to wait till 9 & go find a different place. This area is full of coffee places. The cinnamon bun was also nothing special either. This is probably a good place for the early risers or...

On an almost rainy Stockholm day I was looking for a place to lunch and since on both Trip Advisor and Google reviews it was listed mostly as "fika place" I wasn't necessarily going in there, cause I wanted a place for lunch. However, passing by I saw the outside board saying there was the vegetarian lunch buffet for sek 130 I think (?) So I decided to give it a try. The interior was very inviting, old building with lots of space and plants and nice art. The food was good (coffee and water included in the lunch buffet, as it should be). When in Stockholm, i will definitely visit this...