A friend of mine and I ended up here after a bit of an adventure trying to get dinner during the rush hour. First we started out trying to get a seat at Burgers, Barrels and Beer. Did. Not. Happen. Of course, why not have another insanely packed burger restaurant in Stockholm!? It was so busy that we stood there for 10 minutes and no one would even look at us to take our names down. We ended up just walking out. THEN, we went over to the Flying Elk and the whole dining room was booked up and the walk-in bar area was completely packed full of people too! I was starting to feel a bit hungry and grumpy about the situation and then the wonderful, wonderful man working the host stand said "hey, why don't you go next door to Gaston? They have the same menu and it's pretty empty!" I was like.... "WHAAAA? You just made my day Mr!"
We went next-door and he was right! While everything else in their big chain of restaurants (Frantzén, The Flying Elk, The Flying Elk Bar and The Corner Club) was packed and totally booked this little wine bar was almost empty! I've been to this wine bar once before and for some reason never knew that they served food too!? Let alone the amazing menu from The Flying Elk!!!? I think I was a little afraid to come back here after the first time because I was scared to drop a serious amount of Kronor again on their bottled wine (Yeah, it's pretty easy when the some bottles are like 2,000-3,000:- or more!) However, Now that I spent some more time in here, I would totally come back!! They do have some economical (and seriously good) wine options to go with the food from next-door. What we had last night was a bottle for about 850:- and I was in love with it! You can also go even cheaper or just do it by the glass (but I always want more than one glass so a bottle makes more sense if i'm sharing!)
The waitstaff were also so nice and totally indifferent to the fact that I didn't want to spend too much money this time. They treated us with the same respect and amount of attention (or, more!) as they had the time before when I was "making it rain" (slang for spending a lot of money--for the Swedes who don't watch rap videos. Haha!) There was better service here last night than I have had at any restaurant in Sweden to this day. Hands down. I kinda wish I could keep my little secret about coming here instead of The Flying Elk, but I just can't! Highly recommend this place to anyone who wants a good meal and good wine--so, like... everyone basically!
TIp: I asked if we could Initial our cork and put it on the wall (the walls are built to hold wine corks) and they let us! Just ask and you can do the same! So cute!
Tip: The BLT and the Fish and Chips will knock your socks off! I'm also pretty sure they have some of the best fries here in Stockholm! ;) read more