I randomly took a day trip to the charming little town of Orebro when I was visiting Stockholm for…read morea few days. After visiting the castle & doing some shopping, I wanted to warm up with a nice meal and a local suggested this food hall. It was quite spacious with a warm atmosphere, featuring several options, such as Italian, Japanese, burgers, but I was craving traditional Swedish cuisine. There was one place offering an awesome lunch special of entree, salad, coffee or tea, and cookies for only around $14. The person I spoke with at the bar was welcoming and let me have a sample of the beef dish, served with tortilla chips, which was very tasty. I decided to go with the Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes, and it was absolutely delicious! The meatballs were a substantial size and covered in this wonderfully well seasoned, savory gravy sauce. The meat was tender, full of flavor, succulent, as well as juicy. I definitely can no longer eat Swedish meatballs in the States and think they are good. Mashed potatoes were thick, nicely creamy, but not all that flavorful. The salad was fresh and crunchy. I also enjoyed the coffee. The little cookies were a lovely treat. I'm glad I found this place to enjoy some home style cooking and relax a bit before heading back out in the snowy, chilly weather.

Örebro Open Art is an open art exhibition that was first arranged in Örebro in 2008. Since 2009 it…read morehas been arranged every other year. The exhibition is free of charge and invited artists from all over the world show all kinds of creative installations all over the city during some months. The creativity and inventiveness varies greatly, so does sizes. Still nothing so far has remotely been able to compete with the Big Yellow Rabbit from 2011 - a huge happiness instigating toy rabbit sculpture in wood that lighted up the city square. Unfortunately it was simply torn down after the exhibition was finished. It really is a well worth outing to see the Open Art and I love how you get a map and then can walk around the city explore and delight (or in some rare cases not at all) over the different artsy expressions. Some of the open art remain permanently, so even if you haven't been fortunate to visit the exhibition itself some artsy glimmers remain all year round. And so do the great trash vans all over Örebro where you can sort glass - paper - metal - plastic even when out and about. Yes Örebro is certainly a city with a lot of interesting projects on many levels, not only the fab Open Art. Which btw will take place next time in 2017, don't miss!