I take food very seriously. Embarking on a culinary adventure is another way of exploring various cultures. Here is some of the finest Swedish cuisine which Kay and I had stumbled along.
We start a day with Swedish typical breakfast, which consists of fruit-flavored yoghurt, several types of bread (which I find they are often ‘hard’), sliced cheese, slice meat (like ham and smoked reindeer), pickled herring, liver pate and cured salmon. Needless to say, there’s always good food in Stockholm to start the day.
The Lonely Planet had ranked Nystekt Strömming as one of the top five best places in town for fried herring. It is located just outside the Slussen metro station. Since it’s only a stall without any indoor facilities, we have to run back into metro station with the food to keep ourselves warm.
Fried herring on toast. Price starts from SKR27
Hot Dogs are available almost everywhere we go and are cheap as well. Pretty convenient especially if you are on the go and you are dying for hot food instead of cold sandwiches.
There are a variety of restaurants we stumbled upon as we walked along the main cobblestone street of Gamla Stan (old town). As the price was fairly expensive, we got off the main street and tried some other smaller less visited streets. This is where we were lucky enough to find a small bar restaurant which serve good food and the price are reasonable (main meal is from SKR149 compare to the main street price which is above SKR200).
The restaurant is called Magnus Ladulas, located somewhere along Osterlånggatan at Gamla Stan which serve Swedish cuisine. It was so good that we've been there twice!
I've tried the elk rib-eye, something you don't get in Malaysia. Unless you prefer otherwise, the meat are always prepared medium. Compared to beef, the meat is much sweeter and juicier. The elk is served with mashed-roasted potatoes and lingonberries (a distinctive fruit which adds sweet taste to the food).
Elk served medium with potatoes and lingonberries
Kay had the fried duck which is served with pickled red cabbage and potatoes. It tastes excellent as it was succulent and juicy.
Another recommended dish is the roast lamb. Those guys in the kitchen know their stuff because the lamb came out really good. It’s juicy and tender. The sour-ish sauce that goes with it makes it a perfect partner as it complements the lamb's strong flavor.
I you feel like having seafood, try the seafood casserole. It consists of 3 different fishes with mussels and squids served on thick tomato puree and cheese.
Although the portions of these dishes are fairly big, we still managed to get hold of some desserts to end the tasty meal.
Tiramisu
Crème Brule
Kay arranged for a Christmas buffet at Stockholm at Verandan at Grand Hotel since it was recommended by Lonrly Planet for it’s year round dinner buffet. It has a range of pickled herring, sliced ham, venison, gravadlax (cured salmon), smoked salmon, caviar and many more. Nut if we were to compare with any Malaysian hotel buffet, the spread is nothing to shout about.
Nevertheless, we were fairly disappointed with the service as it took them ages to refill our water nor we were offered to put our coat and jackets into the cloak room.
Grand Hotel
Range of delicacies for you to indulge in a Verdana dinner buffet.
We went to Hötorgshallen which host several fine specialist food shops selling meat, seafood cheese and the like. There, we head for Kajsas Fiskrestaurang, a shop which serve fisksoppa (also known as fish stew). It’s not a big place so the queue can, at times, be really long during lunch time.
Fish stew with fishes and mussels.
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