Grodan — Restaurant in Stockholm

Ok so I am breaking down my review into two parts. One for the overall normal experience and the other for the special occasion.

1. Food: All the appetizers and main courses were tasty. The combo of flavors is definitely on point. Though for the lobster bisque I would personally prefer some lobster bits in it and the entrecôte ribeye itself can be a bit higher quality (nitpicking) but the seasoning and taste is good. The portions were just right so we weren’t too full or starving.

2. The service was great. Our waitress was super friendly and knew how to work the table! Honestly I don’t have too much to say because the service was that good.

3. Atmosphere was ok. Nothing stands out too much, it was fine. It could be a bit more spacious, since we bumped into the table behind us sometimes when we got up, but it was not like we couldn’t get out at all. Also parking might be a problem unless you go to the narrow parking garage nearby.

4. Price is high. It is an expensive restaurant but you get what you paid for…sort of. I think some dishes are definitely overpriced like the entrecôte which cost 450kr! Again the restaurant is located in Östermalm, an upscaled area, so what did I expect. Nevertheless, it is pricey but at least you will get good food.

So the special occasion is the reason why I am not giving a five star. It is unfortunate but I can’t ignore it.

We were there because we were celebrating a birthday. We brought a cake and asked if they could refrigerate it and serve it afterwards. Some places would do it for free, some would charge a small service charge. Both options are fine. But for how much we were spending there, I thought they would do it for free. Other restaurants might decline but that’s rare. Instead came the absolute shock of my life.

The waitress told us they could do it for a service fee, which is fine but it was for per person! I repeat, the service fee was for per person! I am not joking. The service fee ended up costing more than the cake. In fact, you could have gotten an appetizer and a main. It was ridiculously expensive. Even the waitress thought it was extremely unfair. But since it was new years soon and we weren’t gonna see each other for a while, and not to ruin the mood, we paid for the service fee.

That why I can’t give a full five star, I mean you are only giving us some plates and cutleries, why are you charging so much?? For per person??? Even though not all of us...

Visited Grodan again for dinner Sep 27 2021

We were met by a very unpolite waitress who just started to argue instead of giving a normal polite approach approach regarding a question about the menu. Do not use persons with really no experience how to handle customers. They should take a course before being allowed to talk to customers.

We were very upset and just left before ordering. We visited another restaurant with much better service and to whom we paid SEK 1,300. So much have changed at Grodan. They were our favorite restaurant earlier but not today.

This is our latest review 25 Oct 2020: The wine and beer was alright We have had a custom to visit Grodan to have Calf's liver during many years. (10-15). Most of the meals have been good and enjoyable. Some have been quite bad as the liver was either badly prepared, cooked or full of tendons.

Based upon our experience we ordered Calf's liver again and pointed out that we did NOT want the liver with tendons.

Guess what happened one of the Calf's liver was uneatable as it was full of tendons which could not be cut nor chewed. The other was with some tendons and not very well prepared. It was a bit raw.

We cancelled the Calf's Liver was full of tendons and kept the other one with fewer tendons. We ordered a potato pancake as a replacement. This dish was acceptable.

Our meal was not a good one and we did not have the dishes at the same time.

Has Grodan changed its Chef?

Why do they not have the custom to offer a small compensation as coffee or a desert or filling up the wine glass when incidents as this happened.

We had high expectations but was sadly very disappointed.

Last Year:

We have visited Grodan many times during the years. Many times I have had Calf lever. Twice I have got bad quality and badly fried liver and yesterday was one time. Visit 12 June 2204:

We were not pleased as the meatballs - were lousy - no taste and the meat was not mixed as most of them had bread crumbs un mixed bunched together.

The Moule marinière was tasteless.

We were very disappointed.

The positive part was that they cancelled the meatballs from the bill.

The dish was rather small full of tendons and raw not fried enough. This in spite of at ordering asking if the calf liver quality was good this time and the answer was “fantastic”. This was not true and again the liver was raw. I informed the staff . I was very...

Usually need to book a table but I went lunch this time and it was available. Good service, good English. I wanted meatballs because it was in the images, but there wasn't any, so I went for seafood pasta.

There was no bowl or plate provided for shells, and I didn't want to put it on the table, so I put it in a butter bowl.

The food tasted great (strong garlic). However, I was disappointed in the size and quantity of the seafood. In the entire dish were only 2 prawns. There's only a few mussels. 1 shell was empty... some other shells were so thin it was almost nothing (1 of them had a broken shell stuck to it). Mussels are usually the biggest in the winter, it was snowing and cold, so I had assumed they would have at least been an average size mussel, but they were all tiny! It was the beginning of April. Perhaps Swedish mussels are this size? It would be better not to have gotten mussels at all. So I felt it was overpriced due to lack of seafood (275)

The video is what I was served so you can see the size of mussels and missing mussels (just a shell). Originally thought it fell out into the dish but there was nothing.

Getting another dish could be...