In Japan, they have a word just for this certain thing, depachika: they’re massive floors, sometimes two, in the larger department stores that densely house a glorious diversity of prepared foods from vendors affordable and upscale, though usually upscale. It’s like a charming, highly walkable neighborhood with narrow streets and no cars, cept this is indoors and everything is food. It’s one of my favorite ways of eating, eating out by eating in: picking food from a stunning variety of foods...
MoreI guess the indoor food markets (saluhall) are closest, they have various prepared food too. Hötorgshallen and Östermalmshallen are the biggest ones in Stockholm.
