After a decade in the shadow of the places around Stureplan, Café Opera has started to take back the crown as the party king of Stockholm. The businessmen...

This is the archetypal rock club - stylishly grim and raw, and located under a bridge in an old distillery. It's open seven nights a week with live acts and...

This huge cultural centre is always worth a visit. With three stages, four dancefloors, five bars, a restaurant, a gallery and a cinema, there's always...

As the fading photos on the walls attest, many of the greats have performed at this classic jazz club (capacity 600). Gigs and jam sessions are held every...

The largest and longest-running Latin disco, or 'salsoteque', La Isla is open three nights a week playing Afro-Caribbean sounds for a predominantly Latin...

Midsommarkransen, a former working-class suburb just south of Hornstull, is the hippest part of town right now and Landet, which hosts clubs almost every...

Södermalm's - and maybe Stockholm's - best club venue is a packed basement where the sweat drips from the ceiling every Friday and Saturday. During the last...

A definite winner among musicians and underground types, Mosebacke is Stockholm's hottest venue for cutting-edge performance acts and live music. The...

As the name implies, this is a new venue playing the latest sounds. It's also a bit of a novelty for Stureplan as it's not just for posh brats and pretty...

Riche is one of the most popular places in town for an afterwork drink, but the menu - a fairly ambitious mix of traditional Swedish dishes with...

Scandinavian Leather Men (SLM) is a basement leather bar that brings a little corner of Berlin to Stockholm. A heavy door and flight of stairs lead down to...

In the foyer, bar and basement of this ever-popular cultural centre are clubs you won't find anywhere else in town: Kurdish, Balkan and Indo-Asian, and...

A former favourite of B-celebrities and wannabe stars, the Spy Bar has undergone a remake and nowadays draws a trendy crowd of fashionistas, musicians and...

At the weekend this beautiful, three-storey, five-dancefloor party palace with an elaborate interior of marble, roses and purple is where the rich and...