A plain but quite charming Scandinavian restaurant, hard by South Kensington tube; we found the food unexciting, but of generally good quality.
Urged on by a rave review elsewhere, we finally got around to visiting this Scandinavian restaurant, which opened a few months ago, just over the road from South Kensington tube station.
We’re glad we were encouraged to visit, but couldn’t quite understand the ‘rave’. This is certainly a useful destination, if one which – with its pleasingly plain décor – seems more of a natural for lunch than for dinner.
Attendance was sparse, however, on the day we lunched. Which is a shame, as most of the food was good. Our top recommendation would be to make a meal of the smushi – a catchy name for small open sandwiches (of which the one we most enjoyed was the egg mayonnaise).
Rather hard-edged fish cakes – though served with nicely timed new potatoes and a small salad – were less of a success, and not obviously superior to the typical home-grown version. A rhubarb ‘crumble’ – prettily presented cold, in a glass – might similarly have been said to have no obvious advantages over the classic àl’anglaise.
Overall, though, the experience was pleasant, and we might even go back if we were looking for lunch in the area. But a ‘rave’? We must have missed something.