Swedish eateries hottest in the world

Two Swedish restaurants are among the ten top not-to-miss spots in the world right now according to Zagat. 

  • Restaurant Ekstedt in Stockholm ranks second in Zagat's survey of the 10 best eateries in the world.

  • Zagat has lined up the 10 best eateries in the world, from Spain to Singapore, not to be missed by the gastro-savvy. And restaurant Ekstedt in Stockholm comes in second place. Chef Niklas Ekstedt has trained with the best, and after stints at El Bulli with the kitchen run by Ferran Adriá and The Fat Duck with Heston Blumenthal in the ktichen, his restaurant (which bears his name) goes back to basics, cooking all of his fare over an open Scandinavian flame. And it’s not enough with Ekstedt—in third place is Fäviken Magasinet in Järpen, with 28-year-old chef Magnus Nilsson at the helm. Nilsson recently released a stunning cookbook in which you can read about his cooking philosophy of using hyper-local products, some foraged and many farmed on-site, put together in a simple fashion yet daring enough with an unmistakable Scandinavian edge. The Zagat Survey was established by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners.

  • White Guide Global Gastronomy Award for Fäviken Magasinet in Järpen and chef Magnus Nilsson.

  • While Stockholm is known to everyone and accessible through for instance Scandinavian Airlines in under eight hours, Järpen is - if not in the middle of nowhere, at least in the middle of Sweden, close to the ski center Åre northwest of Östersund in Jämtland (literally in the middle of Sweden, an hour's flight from Stockholm)
    For more info on the restaurants, see:
    www.ekstedt.nu
    www.favikenmagasinet.se

  • “Fäviken,” the first major cookbook by Magnus Nilsson, has the same name as his restaurant, located on a 20,000 acre farm and hunting estate in northern Sweden. It was recently called "the most daring restaurant in the world" by Bon Appetit. ISBN-10: 0714864706

  • For the original Zagat listing, see The 10 Hottest Restaurants in the World: Where to Eat Right Now