HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND DESTINATIONS REVIEWED AT THE SPEED OF TRAVEL
Posted in Europe, Hotel, Sweden, Swedish countryside on Mar 5th, 2011
Q: What is it? A: The first five-star hotel in Sweden that perches on a mountain top. What the 1,420 meter high Are Mountain, (by Swedes referred to as Åreskutan), looks like from room #502 at the Copperhill Mountain Lodge, reasonably early in the morning. Nice! A well equipped room if you happen to like [...]
Posted in Europe, Restaurant, Stockholm, Sweden on Mar 2nd, 2011
Q: What is it? A: A place where you’ll worship meat. And it is one of Stockholm’s very best restaurants. A massive meat refridgerator for curing meat is the first thing you will see when entering AG. And that’s a good sign of things to come. Bleak roe for starters. In Stockholm, that isn’t exactly [...]
Q: What is it? A: A smaller, more personal hotel, tucked away on side street of Stockholm, yet very centrally located. The lobby makes the hotel seem larger than it is. Don’t be fooled, though. Hotel Hellsten still has only 30 rooms. Which is a good thing if you ask me. In the booking system, [...]
Posted in Europe, Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden on Jul 12th, 2010
Q: What is it? A: It is run by some of the most competent restaurant people in Sweden. They need a little more training on operating a hotel. Claesson Koivisto Rune designed the interior at Hotel Skeppsholmen. This is room #170. The theme for colours and materials: ”Fog”. Well, OK. The bathroom in #170. Quite [...]
Posted in Europe, Restaurant, Stockholm, Sweden on Mar 3rd, 2010
Q: What was it? A: A well-managed restaurant with an interesting philosophy that closed after losing its Michelin-star. I still miss it. Bread and luxury snacks Leijontornet style: The round thingie that looks like a lollipop is actually fried bass. Cured and smoked halibut from Iceland with raw shrimps in caramelized butter and horse radish [...]