The guide to Stockholm's best chef's tables

With Stefan Taylor at the helm, the chefs at Essence serve an exclusive tasting menu at the large counter dining table, which also forms the heart of the entire business. The eight set dishes include both surprising elements that are regularly updated, and a couple of signature dishes that have been refined over several years. Guests are served directly by the chefs themselves, and have can watch the action in the open kitchen from their seats

At French Bar Allegrine you and your party can book the chef's table right next to the open kitchen. A set, specially- composed menu is served to the whole table, inspired by owner Danyel Couet's French grandmother's family dinners in Paris.

Enjoy top-notch meat, beer and red wine sitting in the larder at restaurang AG. Their chef's table is cosy and intimate and diners get to soak up the atmosphere of the packed, buzzy restaurant - while at the same time enjoying being private and slightly separate.

Alongside sister restaurant Tak you'll find Unn, a mini restaurant which presents an exclusive reinterpretation of Japanese teppanyaki using the finest nordic ingredients. With just eight seats, this is a great choice for a gastronomic chef's table experience.

This popular neighbourhood restaurant next to Tegnérlunden park has a distinctly Scandinavian menu and feel. If you want to go all-in, book one of the places next to the pass and watch the chefs at work. They serve an experimental six-course menu which varies from day to day.

India's is a modern Indian restaurant at Elite Hotel Stockholm Plaza run by restaurateur Jonas Svensson. You can book the chef's table and watch the chefs prepare Indian classics in their own unique style. Don't miss the restaurant's exciting cocktails with Indian flavours.

If you're a small group with a passion for natural wine and food, the chances are high that you will have a lovely evening at Savant's chef's table. Over the course of an action-packed evening, you will be served the chef's selection of dishes from the current menu, accompanied by carefully chosen wines. As well as being based on seasonal organic ingredients, the menu is almost entirely vegetarian and can often be adapted for various allergies.

Warm, intimate Noorm is like a second living room where everyone's made to feel welcome. The menu's influenced by cuisines from around the world, and if you want to embark on a gastronomic journey you can book the chef's table, where head chef Palle selects his favourites based on the current à la carte menu. Dinner is served sharing-style and consists of smaller snacks, a couple of larger dishes, and dessert.

At Frantzén the kitchen and the chefs are surrounded by long, high tables where guests sit in rows to witness the magic being created. An out-of-this-world experience which all foodies should treat themselves to at least once in a lifetime, despite the excessive price of 3000 SEK per person (just for the food!).

It's not easy bagging a table here, but seats at the bar are reserved for drop-in guests who sit here right next to the kitchen. Despite the hyped concept, the atmosphere is relaxed, with mismatched tables, industrial elements and hand-written menus.

A slightly more luxurious option for a large group planning a dinner is so-called private dining, when you get the whole room to yourselves. At K-märkt you don't just get a room - one of the rooms even has a chef's table. Let the chef take care of you with a chef's choice menu, which can be combined with pairing drinks and rounded off with the dessert served at the Nobel banquet from the year of your choice, created by K-märkt's own pastry chef, Daniel Roos.