If you’ve strolled along Västerlånggatan (the main thoroughfare in Gamla Stan), you have probably walked right past an unimposing darkish looking restaurant or else wondered what a Scottish-inspired whiskey bar is doing on one of Stockholm’s most touristic streets.
But don’t expect Scottish delicacies inside Glenfiddich Warehouse No 68. Instead they serve Swedish dishes like reindeer, crayfish, Baltic herring, elk carpaccio, cloudberries, Wallenbergare and meatballs. And of course, it’s also a whiskey bar with an impressive array of whiskies from Ireland, Scotland, Japan, the US and even from Sweden.
I dined there last Saturday with some friends from London who were on a first trip to Stockholm. While one person stuck into a steak with fries and pepper sauce, the other was happy to eat his first reindeer steak ever.
I chose this place as it came recommended by two of my friends. Did I like it? Well, my food was pretty good but not mind blowing for the price (we paid SEK 820 for two starters, two main courses and two glasses of Sauvignon white wine). For me the biggest turnoff was the decor – the lighting is quite dark and the wood furnishings don’t really give off a cozy feeling. (The restaurant is tucked away at the very back of the place). Would I go back? Probably yes, but not for a while. But if you are a whiskey lover, I’d definitely recommend checking out their impressive whiskey menu!
Tags: Gamla Stan, Glenfiddich Warehouse No 68, reindeer, Swedish food, Västerlånggatan, whiskey bar
Do food reviewers ever write about vegetarian restaurants assuming there are some .Would rather see the reindeer running about and havivg it’s life span .
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So you removed my comments but maintained the so called review’s incompetence in persisting to spell whisky with an ‘e.
What a bunch of ignorant wankers you are.
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FYI..
With few exceptions, the spelling is Scottish, Canadian, and Japanese whisky (plural: whiskies), but Irish and American whiskey (whiskeys). At no stage in this text do I refer to Scotch whiskEy.
(I am Irish and use American English in this blog!)
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Hi Jean!
On April 23, I wrote about Herman’s vegetarian restaurant. If you have some favorite vegetarian restaurants, feel free to share them with us!
/Alannah
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I can understand spelling whisky the wrong way if your Irish…
But why write in American English, surely Hiberno English would be much nicer, just don’t go all James Joyce on us…
I worked in Ireland a couple of years ago and had real trouble logging on to the patient medical management system as part of the password was whiskey, it took me months to remember not to type in whisky ( I am a wee bit dyspepsic).
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Hi Alanna,
Actually, either spelling is correct for whisky from Ireland. It is only recently that the Irish stopped using the no-e spelling and that was only because the three remaining distillers merged to form a single entity when Irish whisky was going through very tough times. There are still lots of bottles of Irish whisky out there with the no-e spelling though.
Similarly, according to what we read on the labels, both spellings are ‘correct’ for American whisky. Most use the ‘e’ but at least five popular brands do not.
Legally, in Scotland, according the the Scotch Whiskey Order, Scotch whiskey is spelled with and ‘e’ although you never see this on the labels. Similarly, according to the Standards of Identity, legally, in America, Scotch whiskey is spelled with an ‘e’.
In Canada, where I live, you rarely see a whisky label with an ‘e’ in whisky anymore, but it used to be quite common.
The idea that whisky has to be spelled a certain way depending on the country of origin is one of the great myths about whisky, but in practice the dearly held rules that bring the wrath of blog commenters when ‘broken’ simply don’t exist.
Here is an article I published about this a few years ago on the maltmaniacs website:
http://www.maltmaniacs.org/malt-109.html#0810
So let’s just enjoy the posts and comments and not worry about who is breaking rules that don’t really exist anyway.
Davin
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Alannah,
Now if only I could learn to spell your name correctly.
Sorry.
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I’m used to getting many spelling variations on my name, no problem. It’s almost as tricky as “whisky”
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Does anyone know what a reindeer steak tastes like in comparison to venison/deer in the US? I would think it’d be very similar, if not the same, but I’m not sure. The Australian Meat Council says venison is deer, elk, moose, caribou and reindeer meat–so the same?
http://www.amic.org.au/Content_Common/pg-GameMeat.seo
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