EBG Rating: 8.1/10

Choice/Quality of Drinks:
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Café style options cover bases rather than offering much depth, but are adequate.

Style/Décor:
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What a venue they have secured! 100m2 of basement vaults. Descend from street level to find an expansive main room, with bar to the right. Further inside you’ll find a performance area with stage, and further behind that, art space. It is truly impressive.

Atmosphere/Character:
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A great location for gigs and the art space also lends it a feel where you can wander around and explore, which is great. A slightly saggy, café feel to the operation means it can lack energy and the early closing hours 5 nights a week remove the potential of evening fun.

Amenities/Events:
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Food, snacks, musical instruments, culture centre, live music venue, art space, books, board games…need any more?

Value For Money:
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Reasonably priced given the central location.

Description:
Despite being part of an old town studden with medieval cellars, Källarbyn could be the standout of the lot. 100m2 of basement vaults. Descend from street level to find an expansive main room, with bar to the right. Further inside you’ll find a performance area with stage, and further behind that, art space. It is truly impressive.

In this venue, ostensibly a ‘culture café’ you’ll find a sprawling vault with niches and antique furnishings, brooding and loungey, with further performance area and stage in the backroom, and further art space and gallery to the rear – it just keeps going.

One night a week this stays open late and surges towards its potential.

What holds it back from an even better score? Well, sometimes trying to be all things to all people can mean the centre of gravity moves towards being undefined and the café format does swing it in that direction. Secondly, a lack of late opening with Sundays-Thursdays shutting shop at 9pm does not feel very democratic or exploiting its potential.

We don’t mean to be over-critical but it is simply through recognising what this already very good bar could be that these aspects come into focus.

Definitely a venue you should be attending in Gamla Stan (Stockholm Old Town).

(Added April 2026)