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There’s rather a lot happening in Stockholm, the most important metropolis within the Nordic area.
In late 2022, 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 certainly missed by their loyal friends. However their closures have left house for brand new ventures to flourish, together with relaxed, neighborhood-style eating places led by younger, seasoned, technically proficient cooks. Their emergence is without doubt one of the most important culinary tendencies in Stockholm over latest years. Locations like Triton, Gaia Matbar, Bistro Bacchanale, Lilla Ego, Bar Montan, and Prospero supply comparatively inexpensive menus and fashionable interpretations of Nordic delicacies, characterised by knowledgeable craftsmanship and powerful 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 in addition infused lots of the metropolis’s most esteemed institutions with a mishmash of cultural influences.
Stockholm residents are passionate about eating out. Regardless of which neighborhood or sort of restaurant you select, you’ll be sharing the house with locals.
Per Styregård lives in Stockholm along with his spouse and son. He’s the creator 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.