Best Italian Food in Sweden

[taken from my travel log, dated March 7, 2010]


We arrived in Sweden at around 9am, rubbing our tired eyes and lugging our backpacks and belonging off the ship. My initial reaction to Stockholm was how beautiful it was. The harbor especially. The water ways wove and weaved throughout the city and the inhabitants of Stockholm lived on separate islands and inlets for this very reason. I liked how spread apart and yet somehow centralized Stockholm seemed to me. We decided to walk to our hostel, which was about a mile trek through snow and ice that covered the streets and sidewalks. Breathing heavily, we arrived at the lodging just in time to check-in and after throwing our things into the bedroom, Chelsea and I collapsed on our beds. We were exhausted and ended up taking a nap for 3 hours. We awoke later that night and Mike suggested we grab some chow before the stores close. We roamed the streets, and checked out a few places, but our minds weren't into it. Finally, we found a cozy-looking restaurant squeezed between two large buildings and we shrugged our shoulders and opened the door. Inside was a snazzy-styled Italian restaurant. It was warm and inviting, o we plopped ourselves down into the nearest booth. The waiter came over and greeted us with big smiles and we both soon realized he spoke neither English or German, so we spent the next few minutes pointing at the menu or playing charades to let him know what we wanted. He was really kind and brought us a huge salad bowl and basket of bread. Now, to starving travelers who are use to spending money on a simple glass of water, the salad and bread made us cautious. Was it a trap? Would we have to play for this in the bill? Every other table seemed to have the same salad and bread, so we decided to dig in. It looked so good that at that point, we didn't care if we had to pay for it or not. When our meals came, we were pleasantly surprised by it's large portion sizes and great quality and decided right then that this little shop had the best Italian food in Stockholm =]