I don't know why...

...but updating this blog mostly involve grading food-experiences...
This time around I'll comment on a few new places visited and tasted recently. First out is Restaurant Sjöjungfrun (Mermaid) by the sea in Hammarby dockside.

The reason we ended up there for lunch was that Coffeeclub café in Hammarby sjöstad was closed for unknown reasons that day. We also wanted to eat outdoors since the weather for a day in Stockholm in the middle of October was absolutely fantastic!

My mum choose perch with couscous, vegetables and creamy mint-sauce. I tasted the sauce and found it really good and with lots of flavour - not for the ones who don't like strong flavours and spicy food though!

I choose vegetarian pasta with spicy red tomatoe sauce and parmesan. It was quite ok in taste, and really hot, especially for a lunch alternative! But since tomatoe sauces aren't one of my favourites (not counting in the fantastic one I got at Carrabba's Italian Grill in Fort Lauderdale...heavenly!) maybe I'm not the right person to comment on this dish really...
One thing I really appreciated though, was the strong flavours and not the bland, non-salted dishes you usually get at lunch-time in restaurants.

For dessert we walked to Nytorget and 7 knop café. We had great caffee lattes and a lovely raspberry-toffee pie with whipped cream. The sweet toffee mixed perfectly with the sort of sour raspberries - yum! We sat outdoors in the sun and chatted some time away.

BIG WARNING for this café though, if you're not a fan of screaming babies in huge prams with parents who don't really know the word "consideration"...

In that case you should visit the 7 Knop at S:t Eriksgatan instead, the cakes being equally good, sadly not the coffee though...

The other day we ended up at Café Kladdkakan (in lack of a better word, Café Sticky-cake) in Gamla Sta'n (Old Town, the beautiful very center of Stockholm), Stora Nygatan 32.
It was a mixed experience, but mostly a positive one I think. I didn't find anything appealing vegetarian food-like, so to accompany our jumbo latte (served in a huge pink or lightblue ceramic mug, yummy!) and smoothie (lovely, creamy, icy raspberry) we shared a cinnamon bun (a bit dry and too sweet for my taste) and a raspberry pie (lovely home-made looking, but with with a strange bitter tang). They had so many appealing cakes, pies and puddings, so maybe something else would have tasted better... Amicable staff and a nice interior I might add.

Today is the first really chilly Autumn day here, and what fits better than a picture of some colourful, warming hats. Time to put the thinking-caps on!