View on our walk to dinner
We were curious to try the restaurant Esperanto (now permanently closed) for dinner while in Stockholm. Esperanto is a one Michelin star restaurant that specializes in a fusion of Japanese and Swedish cuisine.
Our menu:
‘Season no 26’
“We turn’ to the ocean”
The winter theme is with a maritime focus. Together with the preserved late summer and autumn harvest we create a gastronomy that is “here and now” with an echo of last season.
Ready for dinner
My handsome date
Prologue
Cold cut of pork belly in soy & mirin dried for 145 days
Quail egg marbled in black vinegar
Beetroot grilled on wood
Frish skin, chervil & garum
Ocean broth
Sunchoke & winter truffle
Fermented potato with vendace roe
Act 1
Oyster & preserved elderflower
Cured and straw smoked skrei cod, kohlrabi & real wasabi
Tartelette of black garlic with pullet egg yolk & lovage
Intermission
Bread with a beer broth
Act 2
Scallop with browned kale & water cress
Porridge of millet & white quinoa with squid, clams & sea urchin
Celeriac, buttermilk & lumpfish roe
Lobster “kushiyaki” yuba & Xo
Reindeer calf grilled on birch wood, with black pudding, salsify & dried fruit
Epilogue
Sencha for me
Potato & winter apples
Pancake with cloudberries, sea buckthorn & frozen goats milk
Digestif for Koen
The final sweets
Sunchoke & punsch cream
Currant, almond and spruce
Pithivier with spiced pumpkin
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