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I apologize for this horribly taken picture, and normally I wouldn't upload a bad one, but I cannot stop raving about Andrum, a veggie spot in the center of Gothenburg.
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From Denmark and Oslo where everyone is insanely fit and good-looking, all of a sudden you're seeing fat Scandinavians dressed horribly. One of the canals cutting through Gothenburg, tour boat making waves.
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Veggie smörgåsbord aside, getting to Gothenburg is like entering the Midwest of Sweden.
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Fika is like the Irish craic - cafe catching up with good friends, coffee-animated chatter, characteristic connections.
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At Cafe du Nord for the 1875 meatball recipe (moist) with lingonberries and mashed potatoes (very fine) that now look to me like ice cream.
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Post-Bruce hot dog, per tradition.
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There is really not much to Gothenburg, so we decided to spend our second day Fika-ing through Haga, the city's oldest district full of cafes and little stores.
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Next, Cafe Kringlan, where I finished off some work, but did not finish off all these pastries.
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I nibbled a bit of this chocolate-dipped cookie, and Caroline closed it out.
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On to Publik, a gastropub on Andra Långgatan, Gothenburg's hipster central.
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Lejonet & Bjornen is legendary local ice cream, but unfortunately, they're too far from the city, so I could not taste their 30 amazing flavors.
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Oh, rain! Held up without a gun in Cafe Husaren with all this food. Hope we don't starve.
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Able to leap tall stacks of chocolate chip cookies in a single bound?
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The Clarence Clemons of cinnamon rolls. Noted to be the biggest in the world.
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Dinner at Restaurang Kock & Vin, which I've just learned took a Michelin star in 2009.
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Amuse-amuse-bouche, I guess!
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Bread-rock: French sourdough, rye sourdough, crisp bread. Butter made of sour cream, cream and sea salt from the islands off Gothenburg.
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Baked langoustine from Bohus with water cress, sago, and tomato pulp.
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This fried lamb from Bitterna (entrecôte and heart) with stewed morels, cabbage and dried elderflowers was something else.
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Raspberries in whipped cream with nettle ice, frozen pearls of goat milk, and baked almond paste.
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Wrångebäcks cheese course from Almnäs Bruk, with baked cauliflower flavored with smoked pork belly.
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Post-dessert of oat crackers with sunflower seed marzipan and dried... lingonberries!
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Oh, Stockholm - one of my top three favorite stops on our barnstorming tour.
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Caroline's milkshake brought all the boys to the square and she's like, it's better than yours, damn right.
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I didn't have any chocolate "drink" but I did have this gigantic veggie sandwich with cheese.
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A deluge of ice cream in Stockholm - why they gotta play me like that?
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Two of Stockholm's most beloved cafes in the historic Gamla Stan square, alive with fika flair.
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Coffee. Summer. Swedish pastries.
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One of the things I love best about Stockholm is that the entire city is a gallery - not just of art, but sensations and experiences and moveable feasts.
