Restaurang Hantverket — Restaurant in Stockholm

Not sure really why I didn't get very good impression of the resturant. It seems that this a very popular place and one should make a resrrvation in advance, like 2 month earlier.

We started the night by a nice greeting from the personal and it was explained to us how ordering works. One can select from different courses. Like first dish, second dish, third and the forth one which is dessert. It is also possible to choose several food from each dish.

In every step one have 4 options to select. We started with cocktails and wine after. The cocktails wasn't so wow and wine was ok. Maybe we selected wrong red wine that does not come with the foods.( i doubt that)

First dish Häselbacke potatis so tiny and disapointing. The design was not so impressive as well. Just have to mentioned that in this type of resturant the portion are usually small and food looks amazing with high price. The taste should be a bit unique. I like the duck liver. Tasteful and well designed.

Second dish: Makril: the taste was good but nothing special. The design was good as well. It was served in a cold temperature. Fish: dont remember the name, Struva maybe. It taste spicy and taste was not very good. Moreover, design was not impressive. Soup: very spicy and cold! We didnt eat it completly.

Third dish, Torskfile: taste was excellent. I m impressed by how they make a tosrk (fish) very delicious. But lack of design.

Cow steak: taste good and served with delicoius potatos. Design was good as well.

Fourth dish (dessert) Ice cream with white choclod: This was the best dessert. Everything was great.

Donut: nice design, the souranding taste good however, I did not like the marmelad at the center.

Pancake: it was bizzar! Looks like someone throw up at your plate. The cubic pancake was hard and feels like gum. This was very dispointhing.

Overall, I think the best dish was third one and some of the dessert. I don't...

Hyped by the recommendations online and the great rating on Google I was really excited to try out this seemingly high class restaurant. And yes, on the surface everything appeard to be perfect. The location is designed very stylishly and classy, the staff is well trained and accommodating, the cocktails are delicious (!) and the presentation of the food is very inviting.

But were it failed for me was the actual food itself, the flavours, the most important part about a restaurant.

As recommended I ordered 1 dish from each of the 4 groups (snack, starter, main, dessert).

As a snack I went for the signature hasselback potatoes. As mentioned the presentation was delightful and I had high hopes for these ones so you can imagine my disappointment when I bit into the first one and tasted... barely anything. The potatoes were cold (I guess that's a choice) hard and chewy and the only flavour came from the sour cream. I thought maybe the chef just had a bad day but the few low-rating-reviews on here agree with me so I am not the only one.

Next the lemon cured mackerel. I could kind of taste the idea behind the dish but even for me as a salt lover this dish was almost inedible because it was so salty. I know a lot of people who couldn't have finished it.

As my main I chose the pork chop which tasted alright but not special and the mix of different ingredients didn't work together very well for me.

The dessert was good but you can't really mess up ice cream and berries.

I really don't know if I caught a bad day, if my taste works differently from most reviewers or if everyone simply thinks they have to give 5 stars because it's a posh restaurant with fancy looking and sounding food.

Very disappointing and not worth the money (except for the...

Hantverket means "The Craft". This restaurant of culinary crafts is well worth a visit if not two. The top stars for our dinner experience are #1 - Dessert of "Apple sorbet with almond cake, apple compte and ginger-(foam),

#2 Cold starter of "Thinly sliced raw beef with Jerusalem artichoke, gruyère cheese and hazelnuts" and

#3 Warm main of "Grilled tenderloin with pumpkin, mushroom, polenta and crispy kale".

We shared a few other dishes like Hasselback potatoes, scallops and isterband that were a little too salty but interesting to taste. Food quality overall is high and fresh.

The only dish that I would not order again is the dessert of "Coffee ice cream sandwich with white chocolate, cacao crumble and chocolate crust". For an ice cream sandwich, it was too warm and the overall flavors and ingredients didn't complement each other.

The servings here are small so expect to have at least 4 dishes for a more filling meal. To be fair, we were informed to expect a small plate size.

There is a cosy bar area that has a good selection of alcoholic beverages. Our cocktails each cost as much as a dish but the drinks were skillfully made and tasted good. Even the ice cube that came with the drinks was pure and high quality.

We went for an early dinner service at opening at 5pm and liked that it was calm and relaxing. By 7pm, it becomes rather crowded with higher noise levels.

Service is attentive, professional and personable. We were never kept waiting too long after ordering.

The restaurant is large with artistic touches. You can choose to sit at the counter and watch how the food is prepared or be seated at a table in the main restaurant or adjoining hall with a...