Tasty Sweden

The local food is always interesting to tourists. Swedish cuisine, mostly known abroad for the original “Smorgasbord”, has become increasingly important. Still, it´s quite common with menues in swedish only, at least among countryside restaurants. Even if the staff, like Swedes in general, speak english quite well is it always nice to choose your lunch or dinner from a menue you understand. When planning a tour off the beaten track this might be something to take into consideration for your guests convenience.

A number of projects to promote our high quality local dishes has been implemented the last years. Famous TV-chef Tina Nordströms 2001 television series, Mat (Food) With Tina Nordström, broke new ground for cooking shows in Sweden. The series, which took its culinary inspiration from all corners of the world, met with instant success and Nordström subsequently was crowned Sweden’s “Most Popular Female TV Host.” She also appeared in PERFECT DAY, the new food, travel and lifestyle series from the producers of New Scandinavian Cooking, features mouth-watering recipes, breathtaking locales and a rotating cast of Scandinavia´s best-known chefs and food-writers. In each episode, one host embarks on a culinary adventure to an intriguing destination – Nordström was cooking atop a glacier! The series showcases the very best of Scandinavia´s culture and cuisine. (View a clip)

You´ll find the very best, the trendiest, the cosiest, the coolest, the most romantic and the most culturally exotic restaurants in the recently launched White Guide of Sweden, a selection of 250 restaurants all over the country from the annual White Guide, the only authoritative guide to the Swedish gastronomy scene, in total listing more than 530 restaurants.

/Curt Landin