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There’s quite a bit happening in Stockholm, the largest metropolis within the Nordic area.
In late 2022, the town skilled the simultaneous closure of 4 of its most cherished eating institutions, which collectively held 5 Michelin stars. These eating places — Oaxen Krog, Agrikultur, Gastrologik, and Ichi — are absolutely missed by their loyal company. However their closures have left area for brand new ventures to flourish, together with relaxed, neighborhood-style eating places led by younger, seasoned, technically proficient cooks. Their emergence is likely one of the most important culinary developments in Stockholm over latest years. Locations like Triton, Gaia Matbar, Bistro Bacchanale, Lilla Ego, Bar Montan, and Prospero provide comparatively inexpensive menus and fashionable interpretations of Nordic delicacies, characterised by skilled craftsmanship and robust relationships with small-scale, native farmers. Whereas diners could also be buzzing round new openings, Stockholm’s restaurant scene additionally advantages from generations of successive waves of immigration, which haven’t solely added to the kitchen workforce but additionally infused most of the metropolis’s most esteemed institutions with a mishmash of cultural influences.
Stockholm residents are obsessed with eating out. Irrespective of which neighborhood or kind of restaurant you select, you’ll be sharing the area with locals.
Per Styregård lives in Stockholm together with his spouse and son. He’s the writer of three books in Swedish, together with Smakens makt, concerning the wonderful energy of the sense of style, and is a wine columnist for the Swedish enterprise newspaper Dagens Industri.
