In Stockholm you're going to find some excellent places to eat, and I'm going to start with the best place: Ekstedt. Which, I confess, is a real treat to go there, and one that you're going to need to save up for because it's not cheap.
And it is all rather delicious. Ekstedt, you see, is the Michelin starred restaurant by Niklas Ekstedt, and everything is cooked by using natural heat sources. So only soot, ash, smoke and fire. That's literally is. Which does make it all taste rather scrumptious.
The other great thing about the restaurant is that you're taken through the restaurant on the journey, starting in the lounge for snacks and apéritifs (we went for champagne - it was my birthday, after all), before moving to the kitchen (just your table) to see their rather special flambadou. Now, a flambadou is a cast-iron cone in which the chefs cook wild oysters over the open flame. It's all very dramatic, and oh-so-delicious. And it's what is pictured at the top of this post.
After that you head to your table - if you're doing wine pairing, like we did, this is where that will begin. It was all so, so yummy, but I especially have to call out the following courses: The charcoal cream, buckwheat and reindeer snack. The coal fired sea crab, carrot and sea buckthorn dish with an epic king crab doughnut. And the wood oven baked sourdough bread, butter and chicken broth. But it was all so, so yum. Truly.
Next up in the Gamla Stan area (the Old Town), you want to head to Stockholms Gästabud for traditional Scandinavian food. Swedish meatballs are obviously on the menu, though I went for the slow-cooked pork cheeks (below). And expect lots of things with lingonberry sauce. In Gamla Stan we also had more Scandinavian food at The Hairy Pig, which included us ordering reindeer tacos - sorry Rudolph! - and we enjoyed burgers in the Old Town at Barrels Burgers & Beer if you fancy something a bit more casual.
Finally, after a snack? Fika is, of course, what you have to embrace when in Stockholm. We found Bröd & Salt to be a great spot - there's several dotted around the city - but most tourist places with a cafe will have a decent cinnamon bun on the menu!
Which of these would you eat at in Stockholm? x
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