Ready for vacation but can’t take time off? At least you can feel as though you’re abroad this week by checking out one of these restaurants’ regional specialties – with no jet lag!
Culinary Sweden Week starts tomorrow. A trio of Manhattan restaurants – as well as Christer Lars’s Greenwich, Conn., outpost Alta – are pulling out all the smoked, spiced and pickled stops to spotlight the latest in Scandinavian cuisine.
Ulrika’s “Journey through Sweden” is a seven-course tasting of dishes such as pike perch with potato dumpling, lamb sausage with mint yogurt and elderflower granita. It costs $50 for lunch and $65 for dinner. You can reserve at table at the Midtown eatery at (212) 355-7069.
At Tja! in TriBeCa, $50 (plus tax and tip) buys a six-course prix-fixe with tastings of a trio of Scandinavian fish – shrimp, gravlax and herring – traditional beef Rydberg, and Swedish crawfish boiled in beer. Reserve at (212) 226-6900.
Good World Bar and Grill on Orchard Street is offering 10 kinds of herring and rosehip martinis, as well as a suitable-for-sharing $30 Swedish sampler of home-smoked citrus salmon with chevre cream, venison pastrami, Vendace roe and more. Call them at (212) 925-9975.
Alta will add an assortment of Swedish sweets to their Scandinavian menu, including Princess Tarta, the Swedish national cake filled with raspberries and vanilla curd and the upside-down caramelized apple cake with the rockin’ name, appelsockerkaka. Call (203) 622-5138.
* Celebrate the birthplace of bubbly with a culinary sojourn to Champagne-Ardenne.
La Bonne Soup on West 55th Street is paying tribute to the French region tomorrow through Friday with a $25 prix-fixe menu of two courses, dessert and, naturally, a glass of Champagne.
Dishes will vary throughout the week, but expect specialties such as duck breast with foie gras, chicken with Champagne sauce, and smoked ham and sausage on a bed of braised cabbage.
Daniel Phelizot, a noted chef from the region, will be on hand in the kitchen. Call (212) 586-7650 for more details.
