Tastebud : Renard Bistro

27 November 2025

Dinner at a French restaurant as a belated birthday treat to me. I can count the number of times I ate at a French restaurant and I have vague memories of the restaurant. But with my blog, I can easily read back on my experience. My first experience with French food was at Relais de la Gare where I had work lunch here three times and the last time having beef tartar, and the second restaurant is at Cassi restaurant. I find nothing exciting with French food. 

Today's French dinner started with appetiser - croquette filled with chicken, sprinkled with truffel and served with mayonnaise SEK120. The crispy layer was yummy as all crispy layers should be. Croquette is deep-fried patty made from mashed potatoes.

Main meal is flounder fish cooked Meuniere style SEK285. Meuniere means to bread and fry in butter. My dish was very buttery and I was full from the meal, probably from all the fatty butter. The fish fillet was quite thin almost flat to the plate. It was surrounded by small slices of beetroot. They could have been more generous with the size of the beetroot. The dish is served with lemon, capers and boiled potatoes. They were generous with the lemon because the sour lemon was very strong.

 

My drink is sparkling apple juice SEK60. I like the candlelight. It does not give much warmth but it is pleasant to the eyes.

Tastebud : Gunnarssons

18 November 2025

After our dinner at Mormors restaurant, we had cake at Gunnarssons. This bakery and cafe has been around since 1946 at the same place. But Vetekatten is still older being established in 1928. I am aware that the prices in Gunnarssons are not cheap. But we were here because it was still open and it is near the train station. We shared a Catalan for SEK48. Small and expensive. A sort of mazarin with raspberry jam under the icing sugar glaze. There is not much of a jam on the pastry. Just lots of icing sugar glaze. Very sweet. Good thing that we shared it. 

Tastebud : Mormors Restaurang & Dumpling

18 November 2025

Yesterday, my friend and I had dumplings and beef noodles for dinner. I read good reviews about Mormors restaurant and I have seen the queue outside and inside the restaurant. I went to two restaurants (Chao Na and Dionysos) that are located next to Mormors restaurant and on both occasions, the dumpling restaurant has always a queue.

The restaurant opens at 5pm and when I arrived at 5.10pm, the place was full. There are several tables in the restaurant, not many, but the owner maximised the space as possible so it was quite narrow to walk between the tables. We shared a bowl of 10 pork and 10 chicken dumplings SEK149 each and a bowl of noodles with marinated beef SEK159. I was pleasantly surprised by the size of the bowl. I like big portions. But I was cheated by it. The dumplings have thick skin dough and the slices of beef are very thin, probably 0.2mm. 

I started my meal with complimentary miso soup that does not have seaweed. It gave me some warmth.

I prefer the noodles soup at Tan Tan Dan. It is not very flavourful here. I think the relatively affordable price makes it a customer favourite. 

This is what I meant by thick skin dough. I reacted to the thickness when I took my first bite. I make dumplings and I know that the skin can be thin. 

I was happy before I dug into the food.

Tastebud : Farsi

15 November 2025

Random weekend dinner at Mall of Scandinavia. Tried Persian food from Iran. I had lamb stew with a large portion of rice that is sprinkled with saffran rice on top that came with cucumber yoghurt and salad SEK179. The lamb stew came with kidney beans and according to the menu, it has dried lime but I tasted nothing sourish. The food was good but it was not exceptional to me.

Stockholm Food & Wine, Baking & Chocolate Fair 2025

9 November 2025

6 years later, I visited the fair again. This time, the fair includes food and wine. The ticket prices have went up. When I went there in 2019, the ticket was SEK135. Today, it is SEK250 but I got it for half price as it was an offer for Sunday's entrance. I thought that I should get out more in November as it is a dark and cold month. Barely any sunlight. Since it was SEK125, I decided to go for it. Unfortunately, it was not as fun this time. There were no mini competitions or lucky draws that can win prizes on the spot. Instead, one needs to buy and participate in the booth's lucky draw or spin the wheel.

My post in 2019 had a similar photo. I suppose my taste in colourful food has not changed. The price then was SEK20 and today's price is SEK30. I had the white ball - it is vanilla and white chocolate. Very sweet and it is a huge ball.

A large area for potatoes. Lots of space were wasted here. The booth had advertisements for potato chips and a very sharp potato peeler from the Kitchen Lab. Nothing exciting. 

There were some food and chocolate samples. After a while, the sampled chocolates tasted the same everywhere. We sampled noodle in kimchi soup, and tempeh.

There were food trucks at the end of the hall. I had a sandwich that has fillings of lightly smoked shoulder pork, cabbage with mustard vinager, BBQ mayonnaise sauce and topped with chips. Bread is sourdough bread. I was very full from the sandwich. SEK170.

I had sour beer from Nya Carnegie Brewery. They had a beer truck here.

We were here for two hours only.