Restaurants
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jackWhere have I eaten the last two weeks?
Thai restaurant in Kiruna
Not traditional Arctic food, but traditional Arctic food isn't very exciting to two vegetarians. On the other hand, the Thai restaurant was really nice. I don't know if I was fortunate in my choice of dish or restaurant, but the Pad Thai was yummy, succulent, tasty tofu, really peanutty granule "sauce", interesting salad, good noodles. I can't remember what the restaurant was called, but it's probably the only Thai restaurant for 340 miles in any direction, so that doesn't really matter.
Reindeer pizza, burgers, and steaks
We didn't try them. But they exist, if you want.
The cute slightly hippie vegetarian buffet lunch/dinner restaurant overlooking the indoor market near the synagogue
Don't worry, I'll get better with names when we get back to England. I mean, what are the odds of a vegetarian friend visiting Stockholm and not visiting livredor? There's a wide variety of hot and cold foods, that are not fnacy but are interesting and well-made. Don't make my mistake of wanting to try a little of everything, try some things you like, and it'll be good to yuo.
The Bridge, on the river at the edge of Waterbeach
This is very nice, especially if you want to sit near a cosy pub in a veranda overlooking the river. The food was well done, but though the garlic-mushroom-bread starter was amazing, they unfortunately didn't have any vegetarian main courses that really suited our tastes.
Anatolia's
I'd never been back since we were taken out to dinner there by CUIS, which I didn't remember well, on account of a buffet-style dinner (iirc) (which is always awkward if you have to keep checking what's vegetarian), and the alchohol flowing overfreely.
It's a little expensive, but was very nice. The starters were really lovely, I really want to just eat every combination of those. But the main course was quite good too.
They vary a little, but understand catering gluten-free.
Trinity High Table
For the first time, several of us invoked our dining rights. It is very civilized, sipping sherry beforehand, in leather-sofa wood-panelled combination rooms.
It's free if you have rights (ie. Trinity MA), and expensive (£30) as a guest of one, but that includes three courses, cheese, and two different, good, wines.
You're no doubt supposed to engage whichever fellows are present in intellectual debate, but there was no-one we knew, and stuck mainly to catching up with each other.
The food is interesting, well-done, but canteen-produced, and it varies a lot if you happen to like what they make that night.
Clowns cafe
I visit every so often, but never eaten here except for post-cusfs-wake breakfast. The food is very simple, and not as cheap as it used to be, but cheaper than, you know, other places. But the soup is very good, and the other meals nice.
Tatties
Likewise, I'd had coffee, but not eaten; it does traditional cafe food quite well (but not as cheaply as when my Cambridge friends were teenagers :))
The Orchard, Grantchester
Just a suggestion that if you go, consider sharing a large bottle of lemonade if you want any cold refreshment. It's really lemony lemonade, and you might as well share a whole large bottle as get two small bottles.
Thai restaurant in Kiruna
Not traditional Arctic food, but traditional Arctic food isn't very exciting to two vegetarians. On the other hand, the Thai restaurant was really nice. I don't know if I was fortunate in my choice of dish or restaurant, but the Pad Thai was yummy, succulent, tasty tofu, really peanutty granule "sauce", interesting salad, good noodles. I can't remember what the restaurant was called, but it's probably the only Thai restaurant for 340 miles in any direction, so that doesn't really matter.
Reindeer pizza, burgers, and steaks
We didn't try them. But they exist, if you want.
The cute slightly hippie vegetarian buffet lunch/dinner restaurant overlooking the indoor market near the synagogue
Don't worry, I'll get better with names when we get back to England. I mean, what are the odds of a vegetarian friend visiting Stockholm and not visiting livredor? There's a wide variety of hot and cold foods, that are not fnacy but are interesting and well-made. Don't make my mistake of wanting to try a little of everything, try some things you like, and it'll be good to yuo.
The Bridge, on the river at the edge of Waterbeach
This is very nice, especially if you want to sit near a cosy pub in a veranda overlooking the river. The food was well done, but though the garlic-mushroom-bread starter was amazing, they unfortunately didn't have any vegetarian main courses that really suited our tastes.
Anatolia's
I'd never been back since we were taken out to dinner there by CUIS, which I didn't remember well, on account of a buffet-style dinner (iirc) (which is always awkward if you have to keep checking what's vegetarian), and the alchohol flowing overfreely.
It's a little expensive, but was very nice. The starters were really lovely, I really want to just eat every combination of those. But the main course was quite good too.
They vary a little, but understand catering gluten-free.
Trinity High Table
For the first time, several of us invoked our dining rights. It is very civilized, sipping sherry beforehand, in leather-sofa wood-panelled combination rooms.
It's free if you have rights (ie. Trinity MA), and expensive (£30) as a guest of one, but that includes three courses, cheese, and two different, good, wines.
You're no doubt supposed to engage whichever fellows are present in intellectual debate, but there was no-one we knew, and stuck mainly to catching up with each other.
The food is interesting, well-done, but canteen-produced, and it varies a lot if you happen to like what they make that night.
Clowns cafe
I visit every so often, but never eaten here except for post-cusfs-wake breakfast. The food is very simple, and not as cheap as it used to be, but cheaper than, you know, other places. But the soup is very good, and the other meals nice.
Tatties
Likewise, I'd had coffee, but not eaten; it does traditional cafe food quite well (but not as cheaply as when my Cambridge friends were teenagers :))
The Orchard, Grantchester
Just a suggestion that if you go, consider sharing a large bottle of lemonade if you want any cold refreshment. It's really lemony lemonade, and you might as well share a whole large bottle as get two small bottles.
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Date: 2008-08-17 05:20 pm (UTC)Non-zero. I'm quite tempted to visit Stockholm (I want to go to more places by overnight ferry, ferries are the best motorised mode of transport ever). But probably not until next summer at the latest, and if I did remember to look this recommendation up, that description ought to do.
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Date: 2008-08-18 01:47 pm (UTC)Indeed, I think/assume it's one of the most prominent vegetarian restaurants in Stockholm. I think it's Örtagården. (http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://ortagarden.gastrogate.com/page/3&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://ortagarden.gastrogate.com/page/3%26hl%3Den)
It's, um, five minutes walk north of the heated, androgynous, cloaked statue, iirc, but the map is probably more useful.
L also mentions Hermans, which has an incredibly romantic view overlooking the inland sea.
I never managed to ferry yet, probably the best time would have been when we were going to Amsterdam, but it didn't turn out to be convenient then.