Gastrogate

What Gastrogate does

Gastrogate operates a restaurant discovery and table booking platform serving the Swedish market. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Västerås, the company maintains a directory of more than 900 restaurants across 40+ Swedish cities including Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Uppsala, and Västerås. The platform is self-described as "Sweden's leading restaurant guide" and is operated by the privately held Gastrogate AB under founder and owner Elias Norstrom. The company employs between 11 and 50 people and has no disclosed external funding, parent company, or M&A history.

The platform consists of a consumer-facing website (gastrogate.com), native mobile applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, and a dedicated restaurant management portal (chef.gastrogate.com). Core features include city- and category-based restaurant search (lunch, dinner, catering, conferences, banquets, business lunches, cafes, breakfast, brunch, hotels, and Christmas buffets), menu browsing, user reviews and ratings, online table booking, and exclusive offers distributed via a weekly consumer email newsletter. Restaurant operators manage listings, menus, and bookings through the Chef Portal; consumers manage accounts and subscriptions via admin.gastrogate.com.

Gastrogate operates a B2B/B2C subscription model. Restaurants pay recurring subscription fees to join the marketing platform and access subscriber and promotional opportunities; consumers can subscribe to receive exclusive partner offers by email. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. Distribution is digital-only and self-serve, relying on SEO-optimized city-based URLs, social media (Facebook), and the mobile apps. No AI/ML capabilities, partnerships, integrations beyond social login, or recent funding activity are evidenced in the input.

Name

Gastrogate

Legal name

Gastrogate AB

Website

https://gastrogate.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gastrogate operates a Swedish restaurant discovery and table booking platform, connecting 900+ restaurants with diners across 40+ Swedish cities through web, mobile apps, and subscription-based marketing services for restaurant partners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Restaurant Discovery and Booking Platform

NAICS

Restaurants and Other Eating Places (7225)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Restaurant Reservations & Dining Booking Platforms (BPAMAIAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Restaurant/Table Reservation & Booking Engines (THALADAH), Dining Reservations & Restaurant Booking (HSACALAF)

Keywords

• Restaurant discovery platform
• Online table booking
• Restaurant marketing services
• Swedish dining guide
• Restaurant subscription

Headquarters

HQ city

Västerås

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Restaurant Subscriptions and Memberships: Restaurants pay to join Gastrogate's marketing platform and appear in the directory. The platform offers subscription services for restaurant owners to manage their presence, access subscriber data, and receive promotional opportunities.
2. Restaurant Marketing Services: Marketing tools and promotional placement for restaurants on the platform to increase visibility and attract more customers.
3. Subscriber Services: Users subscribe to receive exclusive offers and deals from restaurants via email newsletter, with weekly updates on new offers from restaurant partners.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Gastrogate operates Sweden's leading restaurant discovery and table booking platform, aggregating over 900 restaurants across 40+ Swedish cities. The service allows consumers to search restaurants by category (lunch, dinner, catering, conferences, banquet halls, business lunches, cafes, breakfast, brunch, hotels, Christmas buffets), browse menus, read user reviews, and make table reservations. The company monetizes by charging restaurants subscription fees to join the marketing platform and access partner tools via the Chef Portal.

Product overview

Gastrogate operates as a unified restaurant discovery and table-booking platform serving the Swedish market. The core product is the Gastrogate Platform—a restaurant guide connecting diners with over 900 restaurants across Sweden. This is complemented by native mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone that provide on-the-go access to restaurant discovery, menu browsing, and table reservations. For restaurant partners, Gastrogate offers the Chef Portal (chef.gastrogate.com), a management platform for restaurants to control their listing, menus, and bookings. An optional subscription service delivers exclusive restaurant offers via email to registered users.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gastrogate Platform Sweden's leading restaurant discovery and table booking platform enabling users to find restaurants, browse menus, read reviews, and make table reservations across more than 900 restaurants in 40+ Swedish cities.
• Gastrogate Mobile App Native mobile application available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone that allows users to discover restaurants, view menus, book tables, and access exclusive offers on the go.
• Chef Portal (chef.gastrogate.com) Restaurant management platform enabling restaurants to join Gastrogate, manage their listing, update menus, view bookings, and access marketing tools to attract more guests.
• Restaurant Subscription Email Service Email subscription service delivering exclusive offers and deals from partnered restaurants directly to subscribers' email addresses on a weekly basis.

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Yelp: Yelp is a global business discovery and review platform that surfaces restaurants, reviews, and bookings — comparable to Gastrogate in restaurant discovery/content, though its scope spans all local services rather than restaurants alone.
• Tripadvisor: Tripadvisor is a global travel and restaurant discovery/review platform — a broad incumbent whose restaurant review and meta-search layers compete with Gastrogate's discovery offering across Sweden, though its focus and tooling extend well beyond restaurants alone.
• Google Maps: Google Maps is the dominant global restaurant discovery surface — menus, photos, reviews, hours — competing head-on with Gastrogate for diner discovery queries in Sweden and increasingly hosting booking functionality via partners.

Direct peers

• Quandoo: Quandoo built a restaurant booking and marketing platform operating across Europe and Asia with a similar dual-sided marketplace model — directly comparable to Gastrogate in restaurant acquisition, diner booking, and SaaS-like restaurant tools.
• OpenTable: OpenTable, owned by Booking Holdings, is the incumbent global restaurant reservation and discovery platform with diner reviews and restaurant marketing tools — directly comparable product/market overlap with Gastrogate, though at much larger US/global scale.
• Bookatable: Bookatable operated a Europe-focused online restaurant reservation platform with discovery, reviews, and table booking — directly comparable to Gastrogate in product/category, though its market share has fluctuated after ownership changes.
• ResDiary: ResDiary is a restaurant reservations and table-management SaaS used across the UK, Europe, and APAC — a direct peer given its restaurant booking focus, diner-facing tools, and recurring SaaS revenue model that parallels Gastrogate's offering.
• TheFork: TheFork (La Fourchette, owned by Tripadvisor) operates a leading restaurant discovery and online booking platform across Europe — directly comparable to Gastrogate in core functionality (table reservation, reviews, restaurant marketing), although at much larger multi-country scale.

Emerging players

• SevenRooms: SevenRooms is a restaurant CRM, marketing, and reservation platform serving hotels, restaurants, and nightlife — comparable to Gastrogate on the restaurant-side subscription/marketing layer and on diner reservation flows, though stronger in premium/hospitality verticals.

Regional players

• iMeny: iMeny is a Swedish restaurant and dining content platform, closely comparable to Gastrogate as it operates within the same Sweden-only market with overlapping restaurant discovery and menu content.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/gastrogate
• Xx.com/gastrogate
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gastrogate-ab

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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