Lonely Planet Asia - June 2016

MINI GUIDE

Eating & drinking in Stockholm

COMPILED BY NATALIE MILLMAN, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BECKY OHLSEN. PHOTOGRAPHS: AKE E SON LINDMAN, JOHNER IMAGES/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO, HAMPUS ÖBERG, LEONARDO PATRIZI/ISTOCK IMAGES

Stockholm essentials The know-how

FURTHER READING

Lonely Planet’s Sweden

(US$24.99) has a chapter

on Stockholm,

downloadable from

lonelyplanet.com

(US$4.95). Pocket

Stockholm (US$13.99) is

well suited to

a city break. To discover

where the locals like to fill

up, see likealocalguide.

com/stockholm/eating.

Wunderkind director Lukas

Moodysson’s We Are the

Best! is a thrilling and

heartwarming movie about

three high-school girls in

1980s

Stockholm

who form a

punk band

out of spite.

CLASSIC SWEDISH FOOD

Historically in Sweden, the

growing season was short due to

harsh weather. The country’s

eating and cooking habits

developed around a reverence for

local, seasonal ingredients and

methods of preservation.

OMeatballs Strictly speaking,

traditional Swedish meatballs

are made with ground beef, pork

and veal, and are served with

gravy, lingonberries and boiled or

mashed new potatoes.

OHerring This little fish is fried,

pickled, mushed in salads or

rolled up in wraps. In Swedish it’s

either called sill or strömming,

depending on which coast it

comes from.

OReindeer It’s prepared in every

imaginable way – dried, cured,

pickled, smoked, roasted – and

served with berry sauces.

OEach province makes its own

type of cheese;

Västerbotten

is a favourite (you

can find it in Ikea).

Clarion Hotel feels like an art

museum, with a huge wall mural in

the foyer and sculptures by Kirsten

Ortwed. The hotel has several bars

and restaurants, and a spa where

you can book ayurvedic treatments

(clarionstockholm.com; Ringvägen

98; from US$166.60).

Owned by Benny Andersson of

ABBA fame, Hotel Rival is a design

hotel complete with a ’40s movie

theatre and Art Deco cocktail bar.

The bakery-café and restaurant

attached to the hotel are prime

people-watching spots (rival.se;

Mariatorget 3; from US$260.77).

WHERE TO STAY

Just off Götgatan, Hotel Anno

1647 has labyrinthine corridors,

gorgeous wooden floors and spiral

staircases. Standard rooms have

Rococo wallpaper, chandeliers and

mod cons, while economy rooms

are simple with almost comically

tiny, shared bathrooms (anno1647.

se; Mariagränd 3; from US$94.17).

TRANSPORT

Turkish Airlines flies with one

stop from both Singapore and

Kuala Lumpur to Stockhom's

Arlanda airport, 28 miles north of

the city (from US$619;

turkishairlines.com). The Arlanda

Express train takes 20 minutes to

reach Stockholm’s

Centralstationen (US$32;

arlandaexpress.com), the

Flygbuss about 40 minutes to

Cityterminalen (US$16;

flygbussarna.se). Stockholm is

easily walkable and well served

with bicycle routes, trains, buses,

tram and metro: a one-day travel

card costs US$14.45 (sl.se/en).

Eating Sleeping

Rooms at Hotel Rival feature

posters from Swedish films

who

punk

out

makes its own

ou

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