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Café Ferdinand and Strandflickorna Hotel, Lysekil (West Sweden, Part 2)

by Jeanne Horak on October 27, 2011 7 Comments in Sweden, Sweden restaurants

StrandflickornaHotelSweden © J Horak-Druiff 2013

[The registration phase for the South African Blog Awards 2011 closed today.  I have registered my blog on the (admittedly illogical) advice of organiser Chris Rawlinson.  But I have every reason to believe I will be disqualified.  The Best Overseas Blog category has been scrapped and the new rules introduced this year require bloggers to be resident in South Africa, thus effectively banning the entire (and substantial) South African blogging diaspora. So despite my long standing support for the Awards and for food blogging in South Africa; despite my regular posts about South African foods and destinations; and despite planning my annual trip to Cape Town around the Food Blogger Indaba dates, I am no longer welcome at the Awards. Thanks guys.  I’m feeling the love.]

This is the second in a series of posts covering a Shellfish Journey to West Sweden on which I was very kindly invited by the West Sweden Tourist Board and Visit Sweden, together with five other food bloggers.  Further posts will follow over the next couple of weeks. An album containing all my shellfish journey photos is available on Flickr. 

After working up an appetite travelling in trains, planes and automobiles (and boats!) all day, we were a little weary by the time we disembarked from our mussel safari that afternoon – good thing it was only a short walk from the harbour through pretty Lysekil to the Strandflickorna Havshotell where we would be spending the night.  The hotel was built around the turn of the 19th century the wooden building has been restored as a labour of love.  One of the charming owners told us a little about the history of the hotel over a glass of pre-dinner bubbly and about how she had planned only to run a hostel for one summer but ended up running the hostel AND the hotel as a full-time job.  The adjacent hostel (Strand Hostel & Hotel) has 70 beds divided among 20 rooms varying in size from single rooms to dormitories; but we stayed in the hotel itself.  There are 15 rooms in total, each individually decorated – to a theme, as we discovered.  Themes include Hannah the Maid’s Room (vintage muslin clothes hanging on a line against one wall); the Captain’s Room (bold nautical stripes on the walls, gleaming wood and brasswork elsewhere); and the Turkish Consul’s room (a red canopy bed, a Bokhara rug and your own fez!).  There was also what appeared to be a Scottish Laird’s Room with tartan touches and a stuffed pheasant :o). It’s all slightly bonkers but in a good way – like the period cap and apron that our hostess wore.  There are conference facilities and free wi-fi throughout the building, and it’s also possible to book spa weekends at Strandflickorna (there is a hot tub on the rocks at the ocean’s edge, just below the hotel).

 

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LisekilHotelView1SuLinPhoto courtesy of Su-Lin

Strandflickorna Havshotell
Turistgatan 13
45330
Lysekil
Sweden

Phone  +46 (0)523 797 50
Fax: +46 (0)523 142 04

E-mail: info@strandflickorna.se
 

Having finished our bubbly, we headed out for dinner at Café Ferdinand.  Cafe Ferdinand is situated in Gamla Stan, or the Old Town, in Lysekil.  I loved our short walk from where the taxi dropped us to the restaurant – the narrow cobbled streets and the wooden clapboard houses were so incredibly… Swedish! I do so love the Swedish habit of putting small lamps on almost every windowsill – it makes the interior of almost any house look warm and twinkly and inviting.  (On that note, all my staring through random windows in Sweden also taught me that IKEA is not just an idealised vision dreamed up my the marketing department of what Sweden looks like – great chunks of the country truly do look like that! Too marvellous.) Café Ferdinand is situated in one of the clapboad buildings in the old town and is run by Johanna Hallerod.  The interior is warm and inviting with lots of wood, twinkly candles and beautiful vintage (or at least vintage-style!) crockery. There is no dinner menu here (or at least we didn’t see one) – it’s all about the seafood buffet.

 

FerdinandAmbience

Now if I mention seafood buffet to you, what springs to mind?  Large dishes of cheap things like fish pie or anonymous grilled fish fillets with mounds of tartare sauce?  Not at Café Ferdinand.  This is the Real Deal.  A seafood buffet that you are invited to visit as many times as you like, positively groaning under its load of premium shellfish.  A crate of seafood, anybody?  Prawns, crab claws or luscious large langoustines? Help yourself!  Or maybe some warm langoustines, already split and seasoned for you?  Take one – or two!

 

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There was smoked mackerel and a dill-heavy shrimp mayonnaise salad – but not the sadly spongy shrimps we get here in the UK – sweet, dense little pink crescents packed with flavour. There were boiled eggs nestled in fresh dill leaves and little pots of shrimp pannatocca; a parade of sauces to complement the seafood; luscious gravadlax that melted on your tongue like fishy butter; and cute Caesar salads served in small glasses, topped with the plumpest seared scallops I have seen in a long time. Just figuring out what to have first was a challenge.

 

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In the end I opted to start with the mussel soup bubbling away in its pot.  It was a good plan.  The soup was rich and creamy and packed with mussel flavour – I slurped up every last drop and then wiped the bowl clean with my bread. Waste not, want not 🙂

 

FerdinandMusselSoup

“Do you want to try some oysters?”, asked Johanna.  That was a rhetorical question, right??  Fresh native oysters promptly arrived, as bright and briny as the ones we tried on the mussel safari earlier, like a wake-up call for your palate.  In case anbody was not too keen on raw oysters, we also got a plate of gratinated oysters – a deliciously crunchy, garlicky treat, but I still prefer them au naturel. ANd then it was back to the buffet to try and make a dent in all that lovely seafood.

 

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I had kind of guessed the Swedes would  be big on seafood (and as every IKEA customer knows, they are big on meatballs and Daim chocolates ;)) – but what I had not expected was their love of cheese – served alongside seafood!  It was to be a recurring theme throughout the weekend – an unusual combination perhaps, but one that I fully support!  So after we had eaten out fill of seafood, our attention turned to the cheese buffet.  The cheese were lovely (especially the goats cheese) but the complete highlight for me was the Brynt smör or browned butter (buerre noisette).  It’s just butter that’s been melted and allowed to cook till it caramelises and browns slightly, then cooled down again till it solidifies – but the process changes its flavour unrecognisably, making it slightly caramelly, slightly salty and very nutty.  I could have eaten the entire bowl myself (sorry, coronary artery!)

 

FerdinandCheese

To accompany that, I had some Punsch, a traditional Swedish liqueur that has as its basis arrack – and Indian distilled spirit originally imported into Sweden by the Swedish East India Company in the 1700s. And then it was all over, with only a mound of empty langoustine shells on the table as incriminating evidence.

 

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Johanna later explained to us that all the seafood we had eaten that night had come from within an hour of Lysekil – very impressive and depressingly rare.  This is why it is not possible to just drop in for dinner here – letting such wonderful seafood go to waste would be criminal, so they need to know exactly how many they are catering for.  Dinners have to be pre-booked as a group booking, something which can usually be arranged through your hotel.

Café Ferdinand
Gamla Strandgatan 20
45334 Lysekil 
Sweden

Tel. +46 (0)523 17172
E-mail: johanna.hallerod@telia.com 

All posts in my West Sweden series:

  • Villa Sjotorp and a mussel safari in Lysekil, West Sweden
  • Café Ferdinand seafood buffet and Strandflickorna Hotel, West Sweden
  • South Koster island and lunch at Koster garden
  • Lobster safari and lobster lobster dinner at Sydkoster Hotel Ekenäs
  • An oyster experience with Everts Sjöbod in Grebbestad

DISCLOSURE:  We travelled to Sweden and enjoyed our Shellfish Journey as guests of the West Sweden Tourism Board and Visit Sweden

Flights from Heathrow to Gothenburg fares incl taxes and charges on SAS (https://www.flysas.com/en/) start from £63 one way or £103 return
 

Please also visit West Sweden Tourism’s:  

  • Website: www.westsweden.com
  • Information about the Shellfish Journey:  www.westsweden.com/shellfishjourney  
  • Facebook page: www.facebook.com/westsweden
  • Twitter: www.twitter.com/westswedentb 
  • Blog: www.explorewestsweden.com 

Please also visit Visit Sweden’s:

  • Website: www.visitsweden.com 
  • Facebook page: www.facebook.com/visitsweden
  • Twitter: www.twitter.com/Sweden

 

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  1. Coco Cooks says

    October 27, 2011 at 3:01 am

    You did Sweden proud with this post! Still looking forward to the day I can host you on the other side of the cost.

    Reply
  2. Kit says

    October 27, 2011 at 7:14 am

    My first thought when I read the new SA Blog Awards categories was ‘But what about Cooksister?’! It won’t be the same !!! I registered anyway, but with the slimmer number of categories there isn’t really a niche for a mixed personal/food/farm life blog, so I’m up against all the serious food bloggers! They’d better bring the overseas and the personal blog categories back next year!
    Looks like a shellfish feast of note – great photos!

    Reply
  3. Firefly says

    October 27, 2011 at 7:31 am

    That truly is a seafood selection of note and quality. Add to that the amazing views of the second picture and I would agree that this is a winner.
    I saw the blog award for the first time two days before closing and registered both my blogs, but although I get lots of hits I don’t have the regular visitor types that will go and vote for it if that is how it will be done again. Also it always seem that the CT and Jhb blogs get more interest from the officials in these type of competitions. But that’s that case of anything that happens in SA.

    Reply
  4. Diane says

    October 27, 2011 at 2:03 pm

    The Blog Awards situation totally sucks, Jeanne! Just know that you are loved by your readers, family and friends! We would vote for you a million times if it would help!
    Chin up!!
    xo
    Diane

    Reply
  5. Pieter Sanders says

    October 28, 2011 at 4:12 pm

    Yeah Sweden is really beautiful, especially Stockholm and the north as well… but its damn cold out there, last time I went there it was so cold that I was playing slots in my hotel room all day without going anywhere… 🙂

    Reply
  6. Gourmet Chick says

    October 29, 2011 at 4:57 pm

    Wow what an amazing trip – those Nordic countries really know how to do seafood. Sad to miss it!

    Reply
  7. Pia says

    October 30, 2011 at 11:11 am

    Hi Jeanne
    After the complete shambles of last year’s awards, I thought we might at least see SOME improvement this time around… Seems not, though, what with the ridiculous whittling down of categories (from 24 last year to only 10 this year), and this SAResidency requirement. My guess is they thought about it all at the last minute, decided to make things easier for themselves, and don’t really care that much about the outcome. I haven’t even registered – as a form of (probably futile) protest.
    I get that this is not a commercial enterprise, but doing it half-heartedly like they’re doing now seems worse than not doing it at all.
    Such a pity!
    PS beautiful pics – salivating!

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