No trip to Stockholm is complete without porridge. Thick-cooked, old-fashioned oats in a pool of frothy milk, with toppings that range from sour raw lingonberries to toasted semla “hats” – try these porridges and leave with bags of inspiration for your own at-home morning meal.
Swedish apple pie porridge: Pom & Flora
Apple pie porridge with spiced applesauce, almond butter and wedges of soft, caramel-y apple, served on a cloud of skimmed oat milk.
Bondegatan 64, 116 29 Stockholm; Odengatan 39, 113 51, Stockholm; Rörstrandsgatan 34, 113 40, Stockholm
Oat and almond porridge: À la Lo café & cantine
Oat and flaked almond porridge with sour raw lingonberries, hemp seeds and almond butter, served in a pretty pool of steamed pink milk.
Birger Jarlsgatan 77, 113 56 Stockholm
Semla porridge: Stora Bageriet
Semla porridge with whipped vanilla yoghurt, hidden pockets of almond paste, salty roasted almonds and the reverred semla bun “hat”.
Sibyllegatan 2, 114 51 Stockholm; Sankt Eriksgatan 88, 113 62, Stockholm
Seeded porridge: Fabrique Stenugnsbageri
Seeded porridge with apple compote and almond paste crowned with skin-on almonds.
Multiple locations
Semla porridge: Pom & Flora
Semla in porridge form, featuring whipped vanilla yoghurt, skimmed oat milk, fragrant cardamom and a housemade almond butter.
Bondegatan 64, 116 29 Stockholm; Odengatan 39, 113 51, Stockholm; Rörstrandsgatan 34, 113 40, Stockholm
Oven-baked oats: Mahalo
More of a pleasingly dense cake than porridge; a bed of ovenbaked chia and banana oats heaped with fresh green apple, spiced apple sauce, almond butter and steamed oat milk.
Odengatan 26, 113 51, Stockholm; Hornsgatan 61, 118 49, Stockholm
Semla porridge: Grain café
Thick-cooked jumbo oats topped with roasted almonds, vanilla yoghurt and almond butter, awaiting a generous splash of hot, frothy milk.
Hantverkargatan 32, 112 21, Stockholm
