What gives with all these low ratings? To me, this restaurant is as good as it gets…read more
After my first day at work on a Monday, I wandered over to the downtown area of Karlskrona, figuring out that there is a theatre and nightlife. I accidentally passed by Niva, where my colleagues and I would be having dinner the following night.
On Tuesday, my colleagues and I first visited the Marine Museum before we walked over to Niva. All that walking revved up my appetite for dinner.
We were a group of fourteen people. Our hosts were kind to tell us to order anything off the menu. Wow! I tried not to be a pig.
Speaking of pig, when you first walk in to the restaurant, hanging, chilled meat greets you. This place is super proud and serious about the meat that it uses.
We were all handed Swedish menus. Luckily, our server had English ones, which I desperately needed.
I ordered a Carlskrona pilsner beer, which is made locally. It was pretty good. I liked how light, crisp, and smooth it went down.
I originally wanted to have fish. However, the sirloin steak caught my eye. My former intern had wondered whether I eat steak. She always sees me ordering chicken or turkey. Yep, I do eat steak! I provided her with proof the other day, which got her approval.
My sirloin steak came with shaved garlic butter, gravy, coleslaw and greens, and potato gratin. This meal was outstanding. The steak is locally raised. It was tender, flavourful, and delicious. I loved the shaved garlic butter. It was fancy and had so much garlic flavour that no vampire would cause my group harm. The gravy was perfect and tasty. I loved getting a mix of greens and coleslaw. Finally, the potato gratin was over-the-top yummy. It was rich, cheesy, and scrumptious.
For dessert, there was vanilla ice cream with raspberry sorbet. I am a huge raspberry sorbet fan and asked that I just get the sorbet. Sure enough, I got two quenelles of raspberry sorbet. Just when you think that things couldn't get any better, they do. This sorbet is the best raspberry sorbet I have ever had in my life. It tasted like ice cream, but it was sorbet to this borderline lactose-intolerant woman.
We had a fabulous night chatting and eating with good company. We were treated so well by staff. If I am ever back in Karlskrona, I'd come back here to eat again.
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