Where to Rent a Lab or Test Kitchen in Stockholm (and Why Lund Is Actually the Answer)
If you're searching for how to rent a lab or test kitchen in Stockholm, here's the direct answer: Embassy House doesn't run a standalone laboratory or test kitchen at its Stockholm site. The dedicated lab and food-testing facilities sit further south, at Embassy House's location in Lund. Stockholm's Medborgarplatsen site gives you full coworking, private offices, and meeting rooms - in other words, exactly the office facilities that food startups in Stockholm are looking for. Lund gives you the lab bench and the test kitchen. Most research and foodtech teams end up using both.
This isn't the answer people expect when they search "where can I rent a lab or test kitchen?" hoping for a Stockholm address. But it's the honest one, and it matters more than a vague yes: knowing exactly where the equipment is, what it costs, and how to book it saves weeks of dead-end calls to labs and kitchens that don't exist with the right permissions.
If you're asking the broader version of this question, “where can I rent a lab or test kitchen with office facilities for innovative research projects in Sweden?” the answer is the same setup, just framed nationally: Lund and the surrounding Skåne corridor, not Stockholm, is where dedicated lab and test kitchen space actually lives in Sweden's coworking market. That holds whether you're a two-person startup or an established R&D team. Startups in particular don't need to commit to a long lease or build out a facility: lab space rents monthly and the test kitchen by the day, so you can start small, keep costs down, and scale the booking up as the project grows.
What's Actually in Stockholm at Medborgarplatsen
Embassy House's Stockholm location is at Östgötagatan 12 in Södermalm. It's a full coworking and private office setup: 24/7 access, WiFi, a shared kitchen, meeting rooms, a printer with 100 free pages a month, security, a member app, lounge areas, ping-pong, gaming, a nap room, showers, and bicycle parking. Dog-friendly, too.
Pricing (excluding VAT):
Fixed desk in open coworking: from 3,750 SEK per person, per month
Fixed desk in a private office: from 4,750 SEK per person, per month
Lounge membership: 2,350 SEK per person, per month
Virtual office: 750 SEK per month
Private office (small): from 9,950 SEK per month
Private office (medium): from 18,500 SEK per month
Private office (large): from 28,500 SEK per month
The shared kitchen is a coworking amenity: a coffee machine, fridges, somewhere to heat lunch. It isn't a licensed test kitchen or a lab bench, and it was never built to be one. If your project needs food-grade testing equipment or analytical lab space, Medborgarplatsen covers your desk and your client meetings, not your R&D.
The Lab and Test Kitchen at Embassy House Lund
Embassy House's laboratory in Lund runs 8 to 55 square meters, from 7,200 SEK per month, described on the site as a dedicated laboratory with formulation equipment available to rent. That monthly structure suits ongoing product development rather than a one-off experiment.
The test kitchen is about 11 square meters and is priced from 1,450 SEK per day. Full equipment specifications aren't published yet on the site, which is worth flagging. If your recipe testing depends on a specific piece of kit, confirm it directly with the Embassy House team before you book.
Laboratory tenants also get a discounted member rate on meeting room bookings, useful if your work involves pitching to investors, confidential team meetings or briefing a client between lab sessions.
The address is Scheelevägen 22, a short walk from the nearest bus stop and about 10 minutes from Lund Central Station. The Embassy House membership includes “Extended Access” so moving between Stockholm and Lund feels natural and not a separate outpost you have to readjust to. A direct train connection links the two cities, so the occasional lab visit doesn't require relocating a team permanently. Most companies hire specialist researchers based full-time in Lund while the company management and sales team sit in Stockholm.
Inside Foodworks: The Foodtech Hub Behind the Lund Labs
The Lund site operates under the joint brand Foodworks Foodtech Hub and Labs, launched in 2026. It combines coworking, lab access, and a member community built specifically around foodtech and product development, not general research.
Alongside lab access, the workspace pricing (excluding VAT) provides a private office from 7,790 SEK per month, a fixed desk at 2,950 SEK per month, a lounge membership at 1,490 SEK per month, and a virtual office at 750 SEK per month.
The pitch for the labs themselves is speed. FoodWorks positions its labs as ready for immediate use, built around the idea of starting testing within weeks, not months. That's a real argument against building your own lab from scratch: a standalone lab buildout means procurement, permits, and fit-out before you run a single trial. Renting means you're testing in week two.
Why Lund, Not Stockholm, for Research and Foodtech Projects
Lund sits inside a recognized science and innovation corridor in southern Sweden, close to food science and biotech research talent, with rail connections to Malmö and Copenhagen. That's part of why the lab landed there rather than in Stockholm.
Sweden's overall standing is backed by the European Commission's European Innovation Scoreboard, which places the country among the EU's strongest innovation performers. The specific pull for foodtech and life-science teams is the concentration of research infrastructure in the Lund and Skåne corridor itself.
That infrastructure runs wider than Embassy House. Krinova Food Studio in Kristianstad, roughly 50 kilometers from Lund, is a food-approved test kitchen serving both incubator startups and established food producers running product trials. Pricing there varies and is often available on request rather than published, but its existence confirms the pattern: dedicated, food-grade test kitchen and lab space is a real feature of the southern Sweden ecosystem, not a one-off offering. There isn't a comparable dedicated lab and test kitchen facility inside Stockholm's own coworking market, which is why the search for one keeps leading south. Embassy House's Stockholm-and-Lund setup is one of the few in the region combining general coworking with a dedicated laboratory and test kitchen under one membership, worth confirming directly with Embassy House if a comparison to another provider matters to your decision.
This is also why it's common for a company to headquarter in Stockholm and base its research team in Lund rather than pick one city. Stockholm keeps you close to startup talent, investors, and client meetings, while Lund sits inside a dense research talent pool tied to the region's food science and biotech scene.
For a team headquartered in Stockholm, the practical question isn't whether Lund is "too far." It's whether the train connection and the base-in-Stockholm framing make a two-site rhythm workable. For most product development cycles, where lab days are periodic rather than daily, it does.
Deciding Between Stockholm Coworking and Lund Lab Access
If you're an innovative researcher or product developer weighing this, the setup isn't a compromise between Stockholm convenience and Lund lab access. It's a two-site model: Stockholm covers your daily desk, meetings, and client-facing work, and Lund covers the hands-on lab work that research projects in Stockholm and Lund actually need equipment for.
Match the rental model to your project cadence. If you're running continuous R&D, book the lab monthly. If you need one focused formulation trial or a recipe test, the day-rate test kitchen fits better. If equipment specifics matter to your protocol, ask before you book, since the full test kitchen spec sheet isn't public yet.
Quick Answers
Where can I rent a laboratory and test kitchen for startups in Stockholm? Not directly at a Stockholm address. Embassy House's Stockholm site at Medborgarplatsen covers coworking, private offices, and meeting rooms, but no lab bench or test kitchen. The dedicated lab and test kitchen are at Embassy House's Lund site, bookable monthly (lab) or by the day (test kitchen), which suits a startup's need to avoid long leases and scale spend with the project. Most Stockholm-based startups pair a coworking membership there with lab bookings in Lund rather than searching for a Stockholm-only option that doesn't yet exist.
Where can I rent a lab or test kitchen with office facilities for innovative research projects in Sweden? In the Lund and Skåne region. Embassy House in Lund combines a laboratory (8–55 m², from 7,200 SEK/month) and a test kitchen (11–17 m², from 1,450 SEK/day) with coworking-style office facilities, including desks, meeting rooms, and a discounted member rate on bookings. Krinova Food Studio in Kristianstad, about 50 km away, is another food-approved test kitchen option in the same corridor. Together they make Lund/Skåne the practical answer for research and foodtech teams anywhere in Sweden, not just those already based in Stockholm.
Book Your Lab or Test Kitchen Access
Contact Embassy House to check current lab and test kitchen availability in Lund and confirm whether a monthly lab rental or a day-rate test kitchen booking fits your project. If your team also needs a Stockholm presence, pair that Lund booking with a coworking membership or virtual office at Medborgarplatsen so your desk, meetings, and lab work all run on one account.
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