A properly wonderful place!
This is a two-themes-one-bar kind of place. Framsidan is more burlesque, happy-party and the Baksidan is a medieval, vaulted-basement-dungeon-with-long-tables-and-period-clothing.
If you're here for the food, it's absolutely amazing! If you're here for the drinks and atmosphere, you can't go wrong!
I and the wife have been to many great restaurants all over the world, it's one of our main goal when traveling (we love good food and you have to get a lot of it to support event packed traveling, so why not do both and enjoy both parts?). With that in mind, this place is on a different level.
They also have a good assortment of drinks, several kinds of mead and a mead-beer (braggot, which is what I honestly think is what the Viking populace actually had, outside of special parties and the very well off).
If you come here, try and find a good hotel nearby (Scandic is quite nice, see my other review for that one), Come here and have a great evening! Do you want to dance, there are plenty of alternatives, but few places can beat the atmosphere, staff and food at this place! Absolutely...
Read moreThe worst christmas dinner I have ever eaten! My group of friends try a new christmas dinner every year at places in/around Stockholm and this was by far the worst experience we have ever had. We payed 800 SEK for a Christmas dinner package with 5 courses where 2 courses were basically bite sized. There was nothing of what you typically expect or want from a christmas dinner and the portions were so small none us felt the least bit full after this, we had to go get some burgers to help with the hunger and to cover the bad taste left in our mouths afterwards. I would not recommend anyone to go there! Even if you would have liked the bad food presented it would still not be worth paying 800 SEK those tiny portions. The main course (biggest portion we got) and the dessert portion in pictures. Pathetic.. if I would have gotten more food maybe I would have had the energy to fight them...
Read moreThis is just such an amazingly magical experience. The ambience, in a cellar clearly hundreds of years old, is something between generically Medieval and Middle Earth. It felt almost as if Gandalf could be walking in any minute now. The thought alone made me feel half as tall, as if I were Frodo or Sam. The lovely Celtic music coming from the loudspeakers completed the magical atmosphere. But don't be mistaken: this is not Disneyland Middle Ages or your average Renaissance Fayre stuff. These people have seriously studied their 14th-c. cookbooks, and made a choice selection of exquisitely flavorsome dishes that would put the best Thai restaurant to shame. The home-brewed ale is so richly spiced and flavored that I couldn't stop ordering more. Believe me: you haven't seen Stockholm until you've seen this restaurant. Don't leave the city without having...
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