Potato supper, a simple dish of Bacon, Potatoes, Onions to which I added a good quality Italian sausage. The idea came from Nigel Slater’s book Appetite
Spinach and Blue cheese tart. Next time I will use the recipe from here I think.
Chicken chow mein – not up to the standard of a really good chinese, or the rest of the food here but still perfectly nice.
Next up is chicken cacciatore and a sausage dish that I saw being cooked on one of Nigel Slater’s programmes – with roasted onions and bell peppers. Awesome.
So another week goes by and some more food eaten. First up is Östgöta Källaren on Östgötagatan, and basically we didn’t eat here because of the extremely rude service we received upon trying to find a table. I would avoid this place in the near future as there are so many other places worthy of your business in the area. Vampire Lounge underneath though can be recommended for the great cocktails available.
Back A Yard on Folkungagatan 128 is the exact opposite, the service was great, the hostess extremely friendly and as long as you are not in a rush for the bill (perhaps to give an authentic Jamaican feel) its very good. They serve a nice range of Jamaican style food like Jerk Chicken and Ital Stew, though Curried Goat was off the menu they did manage to serve up a very tasty Curried Lamb stew which went great with Red Stripe. This is definitely one I would go back to and try the Red Snapper.
Koh Phangan was a slightly different affair, but again very pleasant experience, this time Thai food which went down well with sitting outside on a sunny day. Can’t exactly remember what noodle dish I had but it was good, and if I feel like Thai I might be inclined to visit again if I was at Skånegatan 57 Stockholm.
Stiernan at Renstiernas gata 22 – as they say in other reviews about this, don’t look for the name – just a star above the door and you will find this restaurant bar. Again a pleasant well priced experience, I like the beer menu with Newcastle Brown Ale on tap, and the food menu for the restaurant looked great, both of us choose Pork Medallions mine with port sauce and the other with Chilli Bernaise. I say I would prefer the port sauce if I could choose again but that largely down to personal choice. Service was good enough to leave a good tip. If you are tight for money the bar menu is very cheap.
So this weekend went to a few more places, after work I went to Belgobaren (Bryggargatan 12 just off Vasagatan), not the first time that I have been there but its a good place with an excellent range of Belgium beer and it was located very close to T-Centralen. Unfortunately the service that we got for food was non-existant so we left as it took 20 minutes to get just a menu, so I would recommend it for the excellent Kwak, Chimey or Duvel they have but I am not so sure about the food.
From there we went to meet some friends at Akkurat on Hornsgatan in Södermalm, a place which I wasn’t particularly happy about going to – it doesn’t seem to have the best clientele from walking past but in its favour you can get Chimey and Guiness there and seems to sport a broad range of drinks, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
And I revisited Indigo Bar, on Götgatan in Södermalm, a nice little place although everytime that I have been there its been packed. Still its easy and one of the better places at the north end of Götgatan.
Looking for a brunch spot in Södermalm we decided to try Dolly’s Saloon on Götgatan, probably way after brunch time as it was advertised as having brunch, though I can’t say anything we saw to eat there was brunch and we ended up ordering lamb racks with potato wedges and a steak with fries – it was priced the same as a normal priced good meal in Stockholm, but was probably less than average and way more filling than we needed at the time. I don’t think that I will be going back as we have had far better meals for less. Some of the paintings inside though are laughably bad..
Following on from this we went shopping in Söder and including the usual places ended up in the Adidas originals shop and on Sunday Filippa K in Bruno mall, Götgatan 36. It also houses Whyred, Reiss, Stuk and American Apparel amongst others.
Last night we went out shopping, ended up buying something in Keihls store in Stockholm. As always the service was great and we found out that if you are not happy with a product you can take it back and exchange it for something different. Very unusual for a cosmetics company.
After that we went to find some food, originally we thought about going to get some Tapas, but instead ended up around Rådmansgatan, and after a short walk decided to try Paladar de Cuba, Tegnérgatan 19 and I must say that we were quite impressed. Both ordering the same thing, Beef with Chorizo and with Cassava and it was excellent, particularly the Cassava – I think the first time that I have tried this root vegetable and hopefully not the last. The surroundings in the restaurant and the service was both good, so I would definitely recommend Paladar again
From here we went around the corner to the Cinema on Sveavågen, and choose to see Before the Devil knows you’re dead and what a disappointment that was, its probably one of the most pointless and boring movies I have seen at the cinema and the only highlight was getting to the end of it and going home. One to miss at the cinema, ignore for rental and definitely don’t buy it in the shops…
Looks like Google are doing the same with their New Drink as they did with gmail – letting everyone else do the hardwork in getting one ;-)
Already there are caps for sale on ebay.co.uk and I expect to see plenty more and plenty more stupid bids.
Happy 1st April.
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Well the sun has finally decided to make an showing in London to warm up the capital, and very nice it was too. Spent a nice day walking down The Thames and along Southbank taking in the views, the beach or what you can call a beach though I am sure the reclaim the beach parties are in aid of something and generally enjoying the weather before it takes a turn back to the norm.
As I have just started readingLondon: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd I felt like I had a little more knowledge on how London has been in times gone by, it certainly is a good read if you want to get to know more about the capital, and if you have a passing interest I recommend it.
After Southbank we ended up in Borough Market heaving as always with busy people looking for something rather good to eat. We ended up getting a nice Sea Bass, vegetables and flowers. I have never been disappointed with the food there yet, unfortuntely so perhaps for the waistline but the surrounding Pubs and Coffee bars are also worth a visit on their own merit and we ended up having a much needed Bitter in the Market Porter, founded in 1620 it still serves up some interesting ales and beers. One thing that would approve Stoney Street and the ajoining streets would be to get rid of the cars, and of course restrict access to the street for the market place traffic so we could get some much needed Benches and chairs out for a sunny day.
Rounded off the day by visiting Tas for a spot to eat, which has actually killed my appetite for the Steak and Guiness pie I was going to bake tonight.
