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Stockholm Food Tour: A Tasty Take on Stockholm!

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I am a huge fan of food tours and try to convince Dan to take them wherever we go!

Now, when planning Sweden, I did not expect a culinary destination, but I was happily surprised!  Luckily, I came across Food Tours Stockholm when doing research and signed us up!  This tour was informative, both in the historical and culinary sense, delicious and pleasantly provided some insight into modern Swedish culture.  I also found this tour to be an excellent way to spend a day in the winter, as there was minimal outdoor walking!

The tour started at the famous Östermalms Saluhall!  This famous food hall is clean, swanky and probably the nicest food hall I have ever been in!  I recommend visiting here even if you do not take the tour!

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In Östermalms, we started the tour with a sampling of Swedish cheese.  Who knew the Swedes make such delicious cheese?  They do.  Believe me.  This stand also sold some delicious jams from things I didn’t even know were real.  Think cloudberries.  Yep, thats are a real, tasty berry.

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Pubologi Restaurant – Tasting Menu & Beer Pairing in Gamla Stan, Stockholm

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I LOVE tasting menus.  I love the idea of multiple course dinners.  I love to try dishes that I wouldn’t normally order.  And I love when the restaurant pairs the menu with drinks!  Not surprisingly, Stockholm has a lot of restaurants offering tasting menus, some costing as much as $1,000 US a person (!).

I decided to find one more reasonable for my trip (and have Dan take me there for my birthday dinner! ). Doing some research, I came across the winner – Pubologi!  Pubologi is a hip gastropub right in Gamla Stan.  Pubologi offers 5 or 7 course tasting menus of “modern nordic food” (plus complementary amuse bouche and tasting treats post dinner) and it pairs the food with either beer or wine.  Sold!  We made reservations online before we left (recommended).  The cost of the 5 course tasting menu was 550 Swedish Crown and the beer pairing (beers from the Pang Pang Brewery) was an additional 355 Swedish Crown when we were there.

For our meals, we both went with the 5 course tasting menu.  That was a good choice.  The portions were LARGE for a tasting menu.  There is no way that I could have finished the 7.  For my drink pairing, I opted for the beer pairing!  Dan went with the wine.  Both were good and a substantial amount of alcohol.

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Stockholm Gastabud: A Good Choice In Gamla Stan

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Sweden is quite expensive – much more so than countries in western Europe.  Restaurants are no exception, so Dan and I were constantly on the hunt for reasonably priced, quality food.

Gamla Stan is the old part of Stockholm, and the most popular with tourists, for good reason.  Its filled with old buildings, quaint bars and coffee houses and the majority of the city’s main tourist attractions.  As a result, finding a reasonably priced, quality restaurant in Gamla Stan was even more of a challenge.  We were lucky enough to find just such a place in Gamla Stan, right on a main thoroughfare, just below the castle: Stockholm Gastabud.

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