Sjöpaviljongen — Restaurant in Stockholm

Sjöpaviljongen has been my favorite restaurant where I used to invite my friends and visitors at different occasions. We used to be very happy with their friendly staff and good food. However, something must have happened at the restaurant since my previous visit a few months ago, because yesterday I couldn't recognize the place. We didn't get an acceptable service. When we arrived we ordered the food and the wine to our dinner. We've got the wine but we needed to wait for more than one and a half hour for the food. Besides, my dietary restrictions, i.e., my food allergy (which I specified both when I booked the table and when I ordered the food) were not addressed properly. I clearly repeated the problem again, but after a while I was served the same food on a new plate. Fortunately, I noticed this and called the waitress again. She took my plate but didn't come back for a while. So I found her and asked about my dish. She checked again and told me that they will prepare a new dish for me. When I finally received my dish everyone in my company has already finished their food...

We got a hint from the owner of the Airbnb that we rented during our stay in Stockholm to keep Sjöpaviljongen in mind when in search for a place to eat.

And boy, are we glad that we followed up on that. We are quite critical when it comes to food, but there weren't any points of criticism to be found.

We had a simple, yet very fine Red Grasshopper cocktail with tequila, lime juice and honey as a pre-dinner drink.

Our starters were the truffle risotto with scallops and the steak tartare with pickled chantarelles and browned onion cream. We both were saddened to see our plates empty so quickly.

We both ended our night with a beautiful main course which were poached pike-perch with scallops, a miso broth and dill cream and a premium sirloin steak with crispy mushrooms, pickled onion and a truffle gravy respectively.

Friendly and fast service, exquisite flavours and perfectly cooked meat and fish. We couldn't have asked for more.

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Great fried herring with potato puree and lingon berries. Nice to sit outside when the sun is shining, best during daytime and afternoon, shady in the evenings.

Updated - lower rating: However, service and the term "Customer first" can be sketchy, we arrived at 20.55 on a Saturday, 5 minutes before the kitchen closed and 1 hour and 5 minutes before the restaurant closed. We had to beg to get served a simple dish.. when it was obvious that we where before the kitchen closed. Once we had placed the order (all three persons took the same main dish) we were reminded about that we had to be out of there before 22. All this "resistance to service" was not communicated in a socially friendly way. We completed the meal at 21.25.. but then they asked if we wanted desert.. We took the...