Functionalism arrived on Rundelsgatan in 1931, when the fraternal order Sirius-Orden commissioned architect Gosta Olson to build it a headquarters on the corner of Rundelsgatan and Kattsundsgatan in central Malmo. Completed in October 1932, the Siriuspalatset (Sirius Palace) is considered a fine example of Swedish functionalism, its clean facade carrying decorative traits of art deco - a dressed-up variant of the otherwise austere style. The Sirius Order itself was founded in Ystad in 1906 and .....

Sweden's first vermouth bar sits just off Mollevangstorget in Malmo's Mollevangen district, where founders Filip Akerblom, Stefan Forsberg and Daniel Jonsson pooled their respective passions for coffee, cocktails and food into a concept borrowed from the vermuterias of southern Europe. Artisan opened as an all-day cafe, restaurant and bar: morning espresso flows into weekday lunches, afternoon aperitivo and late-night vermouth without the room ever really closing between services. The drinks li.....

Malmo's most danced-in church stands on Spangatan: a red-brick former church building that reopened in September 2008 as Babel, a combined concert hall, nightclub and culture house that quickly styled itself the city's "partykyrka" (party church). It rose from the ashes of the culture house Jeriko, whose bar and club operators had long dreamed of an internationally credible concert and club room for a music-hungry audience; during the conversion the entire sound and light rig was replaced to mat.....

Alfajores, medialunas and empanadas made from scratch bring a corner of Argentina to Falsterbogatan in Malmo's Mollevangen district. Cafe Dulcita is a family affair, run by Nelson, Silvia and Nino, who pair classic Argentine baking with espresso from Swedish roaster Bergstrands Kafferosteri and street food centred on empanadas with traditional chimichurri. The philosophy is simple - quality, tradition and love of food made from the ground up - combining South American recipes with produce from .....

Chateau Nubbgatan is what two former sommeliers call their urban cidery in central Malmo - a cellar stacked to the ceiling with fermentation tanks, oak barrels, amphoras and bottles, a few minutes from Malmo Central Station. Fruktstereo was founded in 2016 by Karl Sjostrom and Mikael Nypelius, restaurant-trade veterans who set out to challenge how the Nordics think about wine and cider by fermenting the region's own fruit: apples, pears, plums, berries and the few grape varieties that ripen this.....

A 1908 machine factory that later spent decades as a bus garage now houses one of Malmo's most unusual public rooms. Garaget on Lonngatan in Sofielund is a municipal library and open meeting place that deliberately offers more than book lending: the model was inspired by London's Idea Stores in Tower Hamlets, and the venue opened on 8 February 2008 as an experiment in what a neighbourhood library could be. The building works like an extra living room for the district. Alongside the library shel.....

House of Mica is the working studio of contemporary artist Mica Stojanovic, tucked into Mastgrand in Malmo's Vastra Hamnen district, a couple of minutes from the Ica Maxi landmark. Stojanovic's own practice - bold, expressive portraiture exploring feminine strength and cultural identity - fills the walls, and her paintings are collected internationally with pickup available at the studio. The space runs a busy public programme alongside the easel work. Guided sip-and-paint parties, held in the .....

The old locomotive sheds of Kirseberg have traded steam for street food. Matverkstaden - "the food workshop" - occupies 800 square metres of industrial-romantic space in Lokstallarna at Sodra Bulltoftavagen 51 in Malmo, the engine sheds raised around the turn of the last century, and has run since 2021 under founder Tomas Gustafsson, a chef and restaurateur with a stated bias toward quality and locally produced ingredients. The everyday offer is a food hall: a rotating line-up of food trucks an.....

Seven towers of orientalist fantasy rise from the middle of Malmo's Folkets Park, built by the labour movement for workers who were not welcome in the bourgeois salons. Moriska Paviljongen - Moriskan to the city - was commissioned in 1901, when the Social Democrats who had bought the park a decade earlier decided their members deserved entertainment as well as politics. Polish-Jewish architect Aron Wolff Krenzisky answered with an orientalist fairy-tale palace, unique in Sweden, inaugurated on 1.....

Malmo's answer to a Beirut supper club hides behind a golden doorway on Kalendegatan. OCCO Dinner Club at Kalendegatan 12, a block from Stortorget, has spent a decade building the format it now defends as Scandinavia's best Lebanese restaurant - a title it claimed in 2024 - pairing Middle Eastern fine dining with full-blown live entertainment in a room styled like an oriental palace, golden tones, luxurious interior and famously theatrical rainforest restrooms included. The kitchen celebrates t.....