🦤 Pelikan
Looking for authentic Swedish cooking? This is the place.
If you're on Sodermalm and wish to visit a real Stockholm culinary institution then head to the Pelikan.
This restaurant and beer cafe dates back well over 300 years and had its first start on Gamla Stan around the mid-17th Century, with Hans Georg Cron opening a wine cellar called the Pelikan on Ă–sterlĂĄnggatan in 1664.
Today it resides in the Obelisk neighborhood on Blekingegatan in an Art Nouveau-inspired building with elegantly curved eaves and a large arched window to the dining room. Designed in 1904 by the architect Sam Kjellberg, the building is 'grönklassad' (green-classified) by the Stockholm City Museum, meaning that the property is particularly valuable from a historical, cultural, environmental, or artistic point of view.
As for the food?
Well, it's here where you can enjoy some of the best Swedish 'husman' (traditional home-cooked Swedish food), to the uninitiated, that includes hand-rolled meatballs, flounder, herring, calf's liver, pork leg with root mash, SmĂĄland cheesecake, and rhubarb pie are all on offer here, and all of it is delicious.
Address: Blekingegatan 40
Webpage: www.pelikan.se
Tunnelbana: Skanstull
