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There are as well as thus many things happening this calendar week that I am killing 2 birds alongside 1 rock inward this post... Smaka på Stockholm, photograph past times Peter Backman The showtime festival of the summertime starts today as well as runs through Sunday, June 9th: A Taste of Stockholm  ( Smaka På Stockholm ). This is 1 of my favorite festivals... specially if the weather condition cooperates! The festival takes house inward the common Kungsträdgården as well as features xx unlike local restaurants, representing a broad diversity of cuisines: Swedish, Mexican, Vietmanese, Chinese, South American, Castilian as well as more. Besides the restaurants, at that topographic point volition move several bar tents to proceed y'all hydrated equally good equally alive music to proceed y'all entertained! The festival is opened upwardly each hateful solar daytime from 11am to 11:30pm except on Dominicus when they unopen at 10pm. This is a smashing peril induce got an cheap me...

Photo yesteryear Marie Andersson, Skansen The biggest vacation inward the Swedish calendar is only a niggling over a calendar week away: Midsummer (June 21st to 23rd)! It rivals Christmas every bit a vacation to pass alongside friends in addition to family, filled alongside age-old traditions. On this weekend, Swedes flee the cities in addition to caput to their solid set down homes to celebrate inward the outdoors. Unfortunately, every twelvemonth Stockholm is filled alongside tourists who are unaware of this vacation in addition to are confused why the metropolis resembles a ghost town. While it has teach improve inward recent years (as Swedes teach to a greater extent than capitalistic inward their mind-set), many restaurants in addition to shops are all the same closed in addition to fifty-fifty a few museums. But non to worrry, at that spot is all the same enough of things to produce & meet in addition to ways to sense traditional Swedish midsummer. Here is a niggling guide t...

This is Midsummer weekend... when the days are the longest ( summer solstice ) too Swedes brand the close of beingness outdoors. They don't telephone band Sweden the province of the midnight Sun for nothing. The pictures below were taken final black at midnight, past times yours truly, on Södermälarstrand looking at the City Hall . Here is wishing everyone a fantastic Midsummer! And, if you lot are inwards Stockholm, click hither for tips on what is opened upward too unopen during the weekend. Otherwise, halt past times too beak to me if you lot are staying at the Rival Hotel . And speaking of the Rival... our Bistro is opened upward for the full general populace all weekend long (opening at 4pm each day).

Last calendar week I was invited to the premiere of a novel eatery on Södermalm called Tradition . This is their instant eatery amongst the master copy Tradition l ocated inwards the Norrmalm district . This "sister restaurant" is located correct adjacent to the SoFo district of Södermalm, an slowly fifteen infinitesimal walk from the Rival Hotel . Swedish design... Their motto is " Svensk husmanskost. Punkt slut. " which basically translates to "Swedish traditional cuisine. Period.". Well, kind of. I genuinely accept a difficult fourth dimension translating husmanskost . It is 1 of those words that I mean value is solely constitute inwards Swedish... similar lagom together with fika . There are several ways I piece of occupation to depict this concept to visitors... rustic cuisine, meals your grandmother would make, workers' fare, traditional cuisine, historic cuisine, etc; Sometimes I compare it to types of dishes from the visitor's domicile so...