Copenhagen

Escaped to copenhagen for a day this week. Needed some grown up time away from our kid. We only live approximatly a 4 hour drive from copenhagen so it is easy access. 

Ate some great food as usual and had great beers. Mostly stuck to kødbyen which is Copenhagen's meatpacking district. 

Warpigs food was american style and so good. They brewer their own beer which was also very tasty. We ate lunch here. 

 

For dinner we went i Fiskebaren in kødbyen, ate an amazing cod and after a dessert tasting plate.

We hadn't done any sightseeing for a while in copenhagen so this trip we walked around Christiania which I had never visited before. Expect to smell pot, but a cool area. 

Christiania is an area in the part of town called Christianshavn there was a Church here where you could Walk up the tower. Such cool views, but not a thing to to for the faint hearted,like My husband, I had to finish up on my own. You could see Sweden from the tower.

The next day we visited Torvehallerne for lunch, a must for us every time we are in copenhagen. Had pizza from Gorms which was awesome. 

London 4th time this year

So the weekend 18th-21st October I visited London again. The main reason was to see John mayer at O2 arena, I'm such a fan. But ofcourse we had time to do usual London stuff like great dinner and shopping:)

Friday we arrived pretty late so we just had a quick bite to eat. After that we headed to Trailer Happiness a cocktail bar in a basement on a corner on portobello road. It's sort of styled as a 70's bar.
http://www.trailerhappiness.com/

Saturday we deticated to shopping and a stroll through Hyde park.

The evening we ate an awesome dinner at a restaurant on Brick Lane, "Back in 5 minutes". It's a very small restaurant so I recommend you book a table ahead. Plus you have to pass through a clothes shop called Ante to reach it.
http://www.disappearingdiningclub.co.uk/
Had a 3 course dinner, all of us started out with smoked duck as an appitizer, herb crusted salmon as a main. For deserts all of us chose different I had a brownie with popcorn parfait, it was so good. We also did a bar round on Curtain Road in shoreditch. I really like going out in the shoreditch area. Headed to Ninetyeight lounge which I also visited last time I was over.

Smoked Duck

Herb Crusted Salmon

Brownie with popcorn parfait

All of us at the restaurant

The restaurant

Berry crumble with vanilla custard

The main event of the weekend on sunday evening, the John Mayer concert, did not let me down. All my favorite songs stacked on to each other in a for me magical concert. John Mayer never lets me down. Just wish I had more vacation days to head over to the states for his US tour;)

Next trip won't be until 7 weeks from now, will then be heading to Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao and Miami, I can't wait. So until then I might not post that much or do a post a Gothenburg instead:). See ya later.

London for the third time this year

So I was over to the UK for work last week, me and two colleagues stayed over in London for the weekend. The weekend consisted of shopping and eating basically.

Starters at Gilgamesh

Me and the drink I never had time to finish:)

We started the weekend of with a visit to Gilgamesh in Camden where we had a set menu. I have really started to appreciate ordering set menus cause I try food which I would regularly never have ordered in my self. Gilgamesh is what I would call London's Buddakhan, which was a awesome asian restaurant in NYC and one I really enjoyed. I would say I like the decor and overall atmosphere better at Gilgamesh though they did serve the food a bit fast would have liked to be able to have time to enjoy my drink in between courses:) After Gilgamesh we ran between pubs, the rain as pouring down.


Before heading back to the hotel we ended up at a pub called The worlds end, probably a tourist pub, you would think it's small from the outside but it really opens up and is huge, an alright selection of beers.










Saturday we spent shopping. For lunch we headed to borough market. A bit crowded but I love all the food you can find there, ate a raclette, consisting of potatoes covered in cheese.

Damien Hirst installation at Tramshed

The evening we spent in the hoxton area, had dinner at Tramshed, basically chicken and steak was lovely though. The truly amazing part of the dinner was the salted caramel fondue type of desert in which you dipped donuts and marshmallows, SO GOOD! The tramshed has an installtion of Damien Hirst, a cow in formaldehyde.

Desert at Tramshed, YUM!

After Tramshed we went to a cocktail bar, Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge. The decor was different, but in a cool way, can't really find the right words to describe it.

Freaky decor at Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge

Drinks at Ninetyeight Bar and Lounge

So will be back in London in less then 4 weeks, so until then I might do a post about my town instead:) Gothenburg that is.

Copenhagen this weekend that passed

So me and Andreas headed down to copenhagen this weekend to meet With some friends from Uk and Ireland. 

Me and Andreas had lunch at the food markets called Torvehallerne. We ate at a tapas place With Both hot and cold mor sandwich like tapas. Very good:)

I bought some Cream buns from a place at the market called summer bird. They had some different tastes then the usual chocolate one. I bought licorice taste and passion rosehip. 

Later in the evening we went to a restaurant called höst. I would call it danish food With a twist maybe.  We did a set menu With cod, pork belly and dessert:) to these dishes we also Got a cured salmon with smoked potatoes as and appetizer which was very good.

After dinner we visited two cocktail bars 1105 and ruby bar. Both the bars reminded me of the bars in NYC. A bit hidden or not so easy to find. Ruby bar was decorated as an apartment. The bests cocktails where at 1105 in My opinion atleast. 

We also went to Karriere later on which have cheap drinks until midnight. A cocktail for 65. Been there a couple of times it's in copenhagen's meatpacking district (ködbyen). Usually a could party but the people start droping in around midnight aswell. 

Next trip is next weekend to London. More updates then:)

The last days in NYC

Union Square

View from Top of the Rock

So the internet at the hotel didn't work so well the last couple of days in NYC, so here's a summary of the last three days of the trip. It turned out to be a long post but I hope you read it:)

The day my mother inlaw turned 60 didn't end at Bathtub Gin. Me and Amanda continued to Marie Crisis (http://www.yelp.com/biz/maries-crisis-new-york) . Don't really know how to explain this place. It's a bit rough on the eyes, but if you like broadway and like singing you'll love this place. There is a pianist who plays showtunes and everyone sings. I ended up singing Anthem from the musical Chess. Was so nervous so my heart almost jumped out of my chest. Haven't really sung infront of an audience or anyone who will listen in a while. We stayed there for an hour or so, before we continued to another bar the duplex (http://www.theduplex.com/site/) . Stayed for about an hour there aswell, but it couldn't compare to Marie Crisis. It wasn't a bad bar, a guy by a piano singing was the music for the first floor.

 The day after we went to a broadway show, Phantom of the Opera. Not my first choice of musical, but my mother inlaw really wanted to see it because the most famous musical artist from Sweden acted in it. My review of this musical is that the female lead who played Christine ad a beautiful voice, but Peter Jöback the swedish guy couldn't really carry his part. He a very good singer, but not right for the part as the phantom.

Before we went home we also did Top of the Rock. If you are choosing between Top of the Rock or The Empire state to go up in choose Top of the Rock. You get an amazing view of the the empire state and central park.

Top of the Rock

Playing around at Toys 'r Us time square

So the restaurants we visited before heading back home to Sweden were:

Bocca di Bacco
A restaurant close to broadway, not crowded. Good if you haven't booked anything before a show. Good italian food but the concept wasn't anything special.



Todd's Mill
If this restaurant was situated in the UK I would call it a nicer pub. The food was alright nothing special. Very good desserts though.
La Esquina
This restaurant me and Emma visited last time around. It didn't dissapoint this time either, and was the most appreciated restaurant by the rest of thefamily. My favorite was Buddhakan cause I hadn't been there before.

Busy enjoying the food at La Esquina

Awsome corn at La Esquina

Bars we visited:

Backroom
A hidaway bar, http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-back-room-new-york. 

Randolph
http://randolphnyc.com/
A regular laid back bar.




 Gilligans
If the weather is nice I recommend this bar. It's outdoors. http://www.sohogrand.com/dining-nightlife/gilligans-at-sohogrand/

Outdoors bar / Gilligans

The Strand rooftop bar
If you want a bar with a view over the Empire State this is it. Nice cocktails.

The view from The Strand rooftop bar.