I'm no food snob. I'm just as happy to eat from a crappy hole in the wall joint as a posh restaurant (actually, a lot of the time I prefere the hole in the wall!) - just as long as the food is GOOD.
And the food was great on this magic day. It was Monday.
I set out alone to check out an actual museum - only my second one in Stockholm (not a big muesuem gal) - it was the a weaving museum, Almgrens Sidenvaver Museum. And take it from an expert, one never goes to a museum on an empty stomach. So luckily, in the same area as the weaving museum, that's the cool and hop Sodermalm area, is a little food cart that TMW pointed out to me a few days before.
You can see it up there above, Nystekt Stomming. Apparently this is a southern Swedish thing. They serve fried herring on soft or hard bread (like a boring chrispbready Ryvita thing), with sweet mustard, red onion and fresh dill. These guys are famous for it. Sooooooooooo...I had to get me some of that. And I did. OH MYYYYYYYYYY....absolutely delicious, I chose the soft bread (of course), it's a yum sweet brown bread and the herring is butterflied, crumbed and fried...oh my it was AMAZING. I ate everything on my plate. It was the perfect snack pre-museum, and pre-SMAK.
SMAK.
No, it's not a naughty slap, nor were we doing illicit drugs.
Smak is swedish for "taste" and that's the name of one of Stockholm's top restaurants. We dined there Monday night (after the museum, which was fascinting btw). Now this is a very special place to go. It's sorta the perfect restaurant for people like TM, TMW and myself. Why???? Well, it's obvious isn't it?? You get to "taste" like a billion things!!!!
Well, ok, perhaps not a billion. The premise is that you select a range of "tastes" from the menu, 3, 5 or 7, both savoury and sweet, and you can choose "tastes" of wine or beer to complement as well if you wish. It was UNREAL.
Of course, us foodies (read pigs) went for 7. I should have known better. Let me just save all the raving...IT WAS BLOODY GREAT FOOD. Beautifully presented, incredibly good staff, great ambience, well priced, and the food was AMAZING. My favourite was definitely the Wild Pepper taste, closely followed by the Cinnamon taste - but I couldn't do all 7. I hate to admit, but I couldn't eat Juniper. I tried. But it was just too much. So, sportsfans, if you go, I'd recommend you go for 5 tastes, 3 savory and 2 desserts. That's what I'll do next time.
Now, to keep things quick and simple...I've told you it was amazing...I'll give you the list of my meal in the order it was eaten (and as it's explained directly from the menu), which follows the order of the pics above:
Cocktail: Melon - "Martini" Pisco, melon, grape, bitters (mmmmmmmmm)
Bread: check out that bread...it looks like bloody dessert and tasted AMAZING!
1. Horseradish - "Caviar" trout roe, blini, sour cream (I'm totally getting into caviar)
2. Lemongrass - "Hot pot" duck dumpling, shitake (OMG, SOOOOOO GOOD)
3. Coriander - "Crab cake" avocado, lime, chili (FRESH AND SO TASTY)
4. Wild Pepper - "Dolmades" mushrooms, lingonberry (MY TOTAL FAVE)
5. Juniper - "Pate de Campagne" pheasant, foie gras, cranberry (couldn't get this one down...too heavy when I was soooooooo full, though the foie gras foam was a thing of beauty)
Dessert
6. Roquefort - "Cheeseburger" brioche, fig (OH MY, this was just insane...a lump of roquefort between sexy brioche with figjam that I dunked it in!)
7. Cinnamon - "Beignet" (that's the french word for donut)apple, lingonberry icecream (I'D KILL FOR THIS DESSERT, really.)
God it was a good meal. One of the best.
TM, TMW and I spent hours mmmmm-ing and ahhhhhh-ing as we demolished our 7 courses - it was a "taste" orgy, soooooooooo good and oh-so-bad!!!!
SMAK is a must do - it's right in the centre of town, fellow foodies, so THERE ARE NO EXCUSES!!!! GO AND SMAK.
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