Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

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 and kitchens serving street food from around the world, backed by beer from small local breweries and wine from independent importers. Weekends tip the place into event mode, and the range is genuinely eccentric - vinyl DJ afternoons with open decks and record markets, concerts, podcast recordings, wrestling galas, beer festivals for 2,500 drinkers and weddings in the same calendar month. The hall's scale and industrial bones let it rebuild itself for almost any format. The location in Kirseberg, north-east of the centre, rides the wave of eastern Malmo's reinvention as the city's creative quarter - proof, as local press put it, that east is the new west. Opening hours run lunch-focused early in the week and stretch to 21:00 Thursday through Saturday; the nearest station is Ostervarn, with bus 4 to Kirseberg stopping close by. Event listings run through the venue's site and social channels. Lokstallarna itself is becoming a destination: the heritage-listed engine sheds and turntable yards are among Malmo's best surviving railway architecture, and the city's plans for the wider Kirseberg station area have made the quarter a watched space for developers and culture operators alike. Matverkstaden got there early, and its mix of everyday food hall and anything-goes event barn has given the district a social anchor while the neighbourhood grows up around it.