Scandinavian Kitchen in City of London, Westminster

Absolutely heaven for scandi lovers, lovely staff great selection of scandi sweets and crisps always a favourite go to for my swedish wife.

Great cafe selling treats from across Scandinavia.

Delicious sandwich and salad. The cinnamon bun is one of the best - very fresh.

Excellent food and very attentive service, no complaints. The groceries were well laid out, easy to find and very affordable! Avoid peak lunch/dinner times as it can get a little busy, but even then it is a good atmosphere!

A little flavour of home, thank you. Coffees good, bulla better and open sandwiches delicious. Also stock up on your Swedish essentials in the shop downstairs.

Helpful, kind staff. Nice selection in the shop downstairs.

Latest review: Have been a semi-regular customer since my first review. I love this place. The food is delicious and a good price. I love the downstairs section too. Will continue to visit. Quite easily my favourite spot in the whole of London. Scandinavian food honestly doesn’t get as much love as it deserves. It’s one of the best in the world. Would love to see more salmon. —— Old review: I was looking for some authentic Scandinavian food and I found this place. I ordered the Swedish meatballs and a salmon smørresbrød with a latte. The place was very popular and there was a long line. The staff were helpful, but I didn’t know if I had to wait in line or find a seat. It would be nice to have some signs to make it clear. The meatballs were delicious, with a nice gravy and berries. The mashed potato was smooth and creamy. The only thing I would change is the presentation, which was a bit messy. The smørresbrød was also very good, with fresh and tasty ingredients. The oat latte was smooth and flavorful. I decided to buy some groceries from downstairs, but the register was closed. There was a sign telling me to go upstairs, but I wasn’t sure if I had to join the lunch line or go to the front. I waited in the lunch line, but I think there should be a separate line for groceries, since it takes less time. The staff were friendly and polite, and the place had a nice and cozy atmosphere. I found that the prices were very reasonable as well.

I have been here quite a few times now and enjoy the food and ambiance. The inconsistency is the quality of customer service. Sometimes the staff are friendly and helpful. Other times they do not even greet you hello or smile. It may be helpful to give customers a table number holder so the staff do not have to shout out the orders and customers do not have to keep a lookout

If you’re not local to shop and need to order online for delivery in the S East, this used to be very reliable but since Evri took on deliveries, it has clearly been too much bother for the new contractor to do deliveries ‘out in the sticks’ unless, presumably, it’s worth their while - despite making all the right comms ‘parcel on its way’, ‘… now delivered and in safe place’. Almost invariably nothing is delivered on time (a critical factor where food is concerned), even though they say it has (without giving any evidence), and one is forced to try and navigate the system to try and get the delivery reinstated. The onus is on you to try and somehow sort out their lackadaisical mess.

Beautiful café with super yummy sandwiches. Coffee was ok. The place looks beautiful too!

Lots of staff onside, but hanging around chatting between themselves rather than offering quick service to customers.

I thought I would pop in on Friday as I was visiting Oxford st, I ordered a Latte and a cinnamon bun, the coffee tasted lovely and the cinnamon bun was lovely and soft and fresh, I can highly recommend both, the staff were friendly and the cafe itself was busy but even so you were served quickly, lovely atmosphere, went downstairs to view the shop and was impressed with the selection of items for sale and the helpful member of staff, would highly recommend if your popping by for a takeaway or to eat in.

I 100% recommend the Scandinavian kitchen for authentic, Scandinavian food, especially the meatballs and mash!! It's so cosy inside and the staff are always lovely and helpful. Don't forget to go downstairs and check out the shop they have, my go to place to get proper liquorice!

Tasty herring sandwich. Cinnamon rolls. There‘s also a kiosk downstairs with Scandinavian (mostly Swedish) items like chocolate, sweets, etc

We loved finding this stop on our trip to London. We had great food and coffee. They had a meatball sandwich the first day I went that had a delicious tart and sweet beet spread on it and I find myself thinking about it still!

Quick tasty hot food at a very reasonable price. What more could you want?

Lovely cafe offering a good selection of healthy Danish sandwiches as well as sweet treats. Excellent and friendly service.

Great place for a light meal and coffee!

Great little scandi cafe. Some of the items take you back home. Nice shop downstairs. Dreamcake is very nice. If you are around the area. Try it.

A nice place for lunch, or a coffee/snack to get you by in your day. Staff were extremely lovely and helpful in explaining all the different food options, and we definitely got to travel the world with our tastebuds! I originally came for the Pickled Herring, however these apparently go like hot cakes so the early bird gets the fish! Having said that, the Swedish meatballs were also divine, accompanied by some pickled beetroot on slice of rye bread. If you can’t get enough of their food, you can also purchase ingredients to bring the taste of Scandinavia to your door. Look out for the stairs and head down to find the hidden gems!

Cute. Love the store downstairs. The Cafe is warm and cosy. The food in itself is not exactly complex nor highly technical (dare I say, just a step above Ikea level), which doesnt do justice to the Nordic gastronomy, but it's nice enough for its price point. My hotdog's low quality sausage was bland, with the mustard and ketchup the only thing giving it flavour. Still worth a visit if you from the North beyond the wall and desperately missing home.

Cute fun lil cafe with reasonable prices for food food. The meatballs were lovely and I hope to try the open sandwiches

The hotdog was good but missing a bit of taste. Unfortunately it didn’t have the raw onions and the mustard was way too sweet. They should allow customers to choose between sweet mustard and spicy mustard

really good coffee and service, thank you to amalie for introducing me to the sweet treats. the berry cardamom cake is soo good and really cheap for what you get

It’s a popular outlet with my scandi friends who would like to shop for their home treats here. There is a coffee shop with good brunch options at the top and a basement grocery store with Scandinavian treats. Coffee is as good as always, but somehow the cinnamon bun didn’t look v enticing and we needed up having some chocolates from the grocery store.

Very bad experience ordering from here. I was told three times my order would be delivered and waited at home for it. The customer service I received when I contacted Scandi kitchen about this was so poor and no attempt was made to compensate for the terrible experience and provide customer satisfaction. Can do a lot better

Cute little central find. Great cinnamon buns. Would recommend

One of my favourite places in London. Shop the mini mart downstairs before grabbing an open prawn sandwich with some dill potato salad.

Always great food and service! The shop downstairs is very useful to stock up on Scandinavian specialities!

This is a Scandi gem in the heart of London. I'm not local, I live on Merseyside. I've mail ordered Swedish, Norwegian and Danish foodstuffs from here on their own line store in the past, but I always wanted to visit the café. I finally made it and it didn't disappoint. If this was closer to where I live, I'd definitely be a regular. The café is on street level, and the food store is in the basement. If you're a Scandiphile, this place is a must. The food is delicious, the staff are just delightful and obliging. Perfect for a light lunch.

Always a favourite when I visit London

My favourite place for scandi treats and vibes in London

Lovely Scandinavian cafe with excellent and generous open sandwiches, good coffee and fine pastries. Really friendly and welcoming staff. My go to cafe in this area.

No need to hike out to IKEA for your meatball fix; this place has delicious meatballs and more. The menu's great, the vibe is fresh and relaxed. One of my favourite lunch spots.

Very cute place with a good selection of food and a mini Nordic supermarket in the basement. Service was a tad low energy, loses one point for refusing cash payment

Ordered some Estrella crisps to be delivered. Delivery was efficient and even got a hand written note! Will buy again! X

It's good value for money and the food is delicious :)

Easily one of my favourite places in London. Everything the homesick Nordic could want. Great coffee and kanelboller. Takk

Love Scandinavian Kitchen, feels like home and great to be able to pick up some Scandinavian snacks.

A wonderful little corner of Scandinavia in the awful bustle of London

The staff are really sweet and clearly have fun working here ☺️

Love this place, tried the meatball open sandwich and it was delicious, can't wait for my next trip to London so I can go back

What I most enjoyed of this place was the mini Scandinavian market and the minimalist decoration.

- cappuccino £3.50 (+40p for oat milk) - swedish meatballs open sandwich + side salad £6.50

All kinds of preparations are delicious. Especially what we call bruschetta. Slices of varied bread with exceptional toppings.!

Food was incredible! Such a beautiful place!

I make a special trip there every time I'm in London and also use the online shop regularly.

Literal theives with no morals. Placed an order for delivery to a buisness PO box. Only Royal Mail can deliver to a PO box...so of course they sent it via a courier instead of querying or rejecting the order, then blamed me for their compounding ineptitude. Not even a single apology for their mistake. These people are crooks who will refuse you a refund because they are beyond incompetent at what they do. Avoid at all costs.

Lovely fresh & different selection of foods.

Fast service, unpretentious environment and food. Top quality and healthy dishes. I managed to get a seat during a busy lunchtime and left feeling very satisfied.

Placed a late order of Marabou which I didn't expect to arrive in time for Easter, but amazingly it arrived the next day. Perfect! I was very impressed and very happy. I will order from here again. Thank you!

Great service, helpful friendly, customer service gets back to you so quickly could not recommend more and the products and food are great !

If you're in the area, avoid all the chains and head here - you won't be disappointed, and don't forget your pick and mix from downstairs! Love this place, the food is amazing, it's hard to find open sandwiches this good outside Scandinavia and when it's Semla season I've not found better! The little grocery section is great for picking up some hard to find bits and the Swedish pick and mix is normally a great selection, as are the big selection of bagged sweets. But, the really amazing thing are the people who work here, it's always a cheery service but with a nice bit of chat.

A lovely little café and shop dedicated to Scandinavian cuisine. We always try to stop here when in central London, both for a drink and snack, and to visit the little shop downstairs with Scandinavian food items, not available in our normal supermarkets.

Quick stopover here, I got a coffee and cinnamon roll. Both very good! Love the vibes here, very peaceful and love the decorations! Will be coming here again!

A lovely little café and shop dedicated to Scandinavian cuisine. We always try to stop here when in central London, both for a drink and snack, and to visit the little shop downstairs with Scandinavian food items, not available in our normal supermarkets.

On a busy Sunday afternoon the Scandinavian Kitchen is still a great treat. The friendly staff and a range of good quality food is just what the doctor ordered when you need a touch of hygge in your life. Enjoy.

Took them 17 minutes to serve 2 cups of coffee, claiming they were busy. Unorganised is what they meant.

Tidy Scandinavian food shop in the basement where I picked up some tasty items for the fridge. Good choice of herring and crispbread if that is your thing. Coffee, open sandwiches, cakes etc are in the Scando style and are tasty.

One of my favourite cafes. Great open top sandwiches, delicipus cakes & pastries, and good coffee. Cute cosy cafe, staff are always lovely and great having the shop to buy my Danish food!

Great availability of Swedish and Scandinavian snacks, sweets and produces :)

The carrot cake was absolutely delicious! Open sandwiches looked very tempting and fresh, and the location makes it a great place to stop by while walking around Central :)

Cinnamon bun is great, but that weird saffron-pistachio semla bun is awful. Inedible.

We haven't visited the cafe yet, but we do order online shopping. I have managed to mess up both orders so far and the staff have gone above and beyond, to re send to my new address and add items onto my order that I forgot, nowhere else gives such good service. The food is well packed and kept fresh, good variety, we have had great fun sending salted spunk and plops to our English friends. My partner loves the scandi sausages. I love the cherrysauce. Our child loves the frazer chocolate, we also recommend the cinnemon buns, we are always excited for our Scanndi order. Highly recommended.

Finnish candies and other produce downstairs and reasonably prices. They got even lonkero!! Great!

Shockingly bad service and responsiveness . On 3 occasions we had problems with online deliveries, and we constantly had to chase for answers and resolutions. They either don’t come back or provide irrelevant solutions and not helpful responses.

Incredible selection of Scandinavian groceries. Came on Semla Day "fettisdagen", and damn those were some good semlas. Spot on Swedish interior with all the art work and decor, really had me missing home. Giving 4/5, because the staff just seemed like they were absolutely hating life, miserable service.

Really nice food, grwat place to pick up some treats.

Great place for coffee and cinnamon rolls! The staff are really friendly too. The downstairs shop is full of great food.

Do not buy anything online from them! Their customer service is awful. I ordered some chocolates from them and they arrived completely broken into several pieces. Their attitude was you should have collected them instore, if you did not want them broken.

I'm afraid I have to echo the comments of the previous poster. I love the Scandi Kitchen and have been coming here for years, but our visit yesterday was pretty much ruined by the rudeness of one staff member (dark hair) on the till in the afternoon. She even had a sarcastic comment for my husband when she forgot the milk for his tea. The other staff members were lovely, and the Semla buns fab as always.

I've been coming here for years and generally love the food/atmosphere. It pains me to say that I left feeling disgruntled today after finding the service quite rude! Edit 2: I understand it may have been busy during the day but I came towards closing when it was not busy. Like the previous poster, I am referencing one particular staff with dark hair and I think a nose piercing. She rolled her eyes at me when I asked for a bag and shoved it towards me in a hostile way after payment (happened to be all meat products which makes me wonder if there was an another motive for such rudeness). Nonetheless, it was totally unacceptable on even a busy day!

Really really good open sandwiches! great balance of flavours, breads are great textures and very flavourful. I'm usually a dill hater but these sandwiches use it so perfectly it had me craving more the next day. Love cake also really delicious too!

Apart from a shop in Tavistock (Devon) its the only place you can get Brown Cheese. Always pop in if visiting the concrete metropolis. Coffee to drink in wasnt bad either

Over-priced, and not very authentic, Ole & Steen much better …..

Really cool cafe with seating on ground floor with shop in basement. Delicious Scandinavian hot and cold food, coffee and cakes, friendly welcoming staff. Busy at weekends, be prepared to wait for a seat (staff will keep am eye out for spaces becoming available for you

My favorite Scandinavian place in London

Yummy sweedish meatballs and economical prices.

Nice affordable breakfast options.

very good semlor buns. place was packed full on a Sunday lunchtime, so had them to take away. wonderful array of open sandwiches, though have not tried them yet. service was super friendly

Amazing meatballs and chai latte!

Brilliant afternoon food very good and staff are lovely

Open sandwich and salad is the reason to go! Great place.

Fantastic customer service from Emma, recently placed a order on line and for some reason it altered the delivery day for delivery, after sending a email Emma managed to quickly respond and to turn the delivery around to the original urgent delivery I needed. Really impressed and happy to have used this company

A little bit of scandi away from home ❤️

Staff were great in helping me find the cookbook I needed for a Christmas Gift. When I was here earlier in the year some the food was good, though some items were sold out (salmon). However, what we ordered instead was very tasty.

We just love this place. Getting a taste of Denmark when we haven't visited there for a while. Our treat when we come into London. Beautiful open sandwiches (little works of art on your plate that taste as good as they look) and a great shop for all your Scandinavian treats. Fabulous and fun (sign up for their newsletter!). 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 ❤️

Sample some wonderful takes on Scandinavian cuisine. This place always delivers and it is extremely popular. A fantastic place for Mysa.

Great place and friendly staff, but they don't allow dogs. It is what it is.

Great staff who are very friendly. The cinnamon buns are the best I have had in England. Lots of specialty Scandinavian food products available.

Great fresh food, love the hot chocolate, very friendly staff. Well stocked little specialty grocery shop downstairs.

Very tasty and healthy food. Cozy environment ❤️

Ordered a grocery delivery. Packaged very nicely. Would definitely order from Scandi Kitchen again!

I come from Finland and finding a nice scandi spot has been a real struggle for me. Their filter coffee and open sandwiches are super yummy. The kahvi ja pulla on the cup is a nice touch. Also their pulla is really good (but we all know pulla in Finland tastes so much better )

Went for a late breakfast / early lunch, great selection of open sandwiches. Couldn't resist the cinnamon bun - lovely with a cup of tea.

Great open sandwiches and can buy Scandinavian food

Scandinavia in London! Had a coffee, an open sandwich (smörgås) and a cinnamon rolls! If you haven't been I urge you to visit! There's a shop downstairs as well, where you can get Scandinavian delicacies 😋

Best place to explore new cuisine, authentic little shop in the basement. Great menu, fast service. Atmosphere is amazing.

Little gem of a store that is well worth the visit especially around Christmas. They have a great selection of traditional Scandinavian and Norse Food and the famous Tuborg Christmas Beer! Well worth the trip and the cafe on the ground floor is a great little place for a treat with the weather getting cold! As close to the Scandi and Nordic countries you can get without leaving London!

This place sells great food, the little shop is lovely. Sometimes hard to find a free table though! Toilet is in the basement so not wheelchair accessible.