Skånska Skafferiet.

After a very long wait, Em & I finally got around to heading to a little local place called Skånska Skafferiet. Last year, we purchased a 3 course meal gift card for Emma's parentals with the idea that we would go along and have a lovely evening out. Life got in the way as well as operations and the next thing we knew, we were quickly approaching the 1 year validity limit of the card. Em's dad decided he didn't want to go so Em's mum invited someone else, we booked in and Saturday night was our night!

My first impression of the table set up was.. umm.. like they were going to serve breakfast. I did love the wooden plates they used as place mats. I wanted to take mine home. The miss-match of chairs are always a hit in the older, friendlier feel of a restaurant. After all, the were serving new takes on old classic regional dishes. 

Soon after being seated, we were presented with the menu and we opted to go with the drinks package as well. If you can't splurge a little in life, then what is the point? I personally think there is something nice to not having to think about what you will be drinking and having something paired to the meal and all 3 drinks were well suited to the 3 courses.. as expected. I am not sure we actually got enough wine for the cost of it but perhaps that was because we didn't drink fast enough? I noticed the table across from us, who seemed to be swift drinkers, were getting refills.

Our server was quietly spoken and I had a hard time understanding him, which at the end of the meal Em told me everyone else did too so I didn't feel so terrible about my Swedish skillz. With wine and water poured, we were soon served our starter. 3 of us got egg and eel, while Em just got egg. Which is a little bit of a disappointment. We were informed that they cater for vegetarians so we were expecting an additional dish that was vegetarian, not just the same dish minus the 'meat' element. This happened on 3 of the 4 dishes served. Which really means, Em got an incomplete dish. I personally don't feel that they should say that they cater for vegetarians. It was a slight cop-out. 

Back to the dish, it was served in a closed glass container, and when you opened the container you got wafted with a smoky scent. It was a fun and rather nice little way to start the meal.

I am not a fan of eel, but I didn't mind this at all. In saying that, I am not now going to try eel everywhere I go. It is not a must eat for me. haha

For the first course we were served cod, that was similar to that we tried at Nordic Taste along with a 1920's carrot pudding. A purple and yellow carrot salad, tomatoes and a chive cream with a splash of burnt butter. There was a real sweetness to the dish, which came from the cod as it was sugar cured. 

In-between the courses we were served a delicious little frozen apple mouthful to cleanse the palette.. which was loads of fun having the hardcore frozen spoon getting stuck to the mouth! They say wait a little.. I say.. no way!! have fun with it! Why not?! Right?!

Second course was nicely sliced soft deer, a little handmade meatball/short as sausage. Accompanied by a celeriac, discovery apple and truffle infused kale.. stack. Pumpkin! All doused in a delicious sauce. Oh and buttery potatoes off to the side in it's own cute little pot. 

I found the vegetables to be a little hard for my personal liking and the awesome wooden plates as place-mats were the wrong size for the main so my plate kept slipping, due to the fact that my veg was a little hard. It was a little annoying.

Before our last course was served we were asked if we wanted coffee, which we said yes to. 4 times over. 3 cups came out. The English at the table threw them. Then another was given once they realised their mistake. We sat there and waited for the cups to actually fill with coffee.. I started to think maybe it was invisible coffee. We were then served a port wine to go with dessert, still no coffee was served. Once the dessert came out, it was only then noticed that our cups were coffee-less and had no signs of there being any coffee in them that they came out and actually poured some coffee in them. That was it. Black coffee. No milk. No sugar. No love.

Dessert on the table and the chef comes out to set off the dry ice effect. The table filled with the 'smoke' and the whole place went "OOOoooooOOooooo" There was a delicious apple scent that was let out and it was a little bit of fun and theatrics. We tucked into our third course of that sea-buckthorn (like I mentioned in my Nordic Taste entry) and pumpkin ice cream, caramelised apple, vanilla pickled pumpkin and honey roasted nuts.. with a little meringue on the edge of the plate.. which I would have liked more of!

Really delicious end to the meal, I could have gone more of that but that would have been piggish! All in all it was a good meal, I would go back again even with the hiccups, however I was a little disgusted to discover that we were actually charged for coffee, we were only charged for 3 not 4 but still.. at the normal price of 40kr a head, it's a little steep.. especially when you have already purchased the drinks package. I know I will never say yes to coffee there again if we do go back again. It is not a place you could go to often, or even afford to go to often but with the new seasons, comes a new set menu and that in itself makes it a little exciting. Supporting a local business who also uses local ingredients is definitely worth it. I just hope that by the time we go to dine there next that they have worked out their kinks, perhaps they aren't kinks and just lapses of concentrating which show that it is more a family run local restaurant. I would like to see them actually come up with proper vegetarian alternatives. In this day and age, there really isn't an excuse. The chef clearly has talent so it shouldn't be that much of an ask.