About half a year ago I visited Jacobs Krog at Artellerigatan in Stockholm and today it was time for a revisit. The place is genuine and nice with a sparsely decorated interior and quite a few locals coming down for dinner to, just to get away from cooking. One older man even came to pick his dinner up for take-away. The specialities of the house are the Danish starters "smørrebroe" and they are really nice, and worth the visit for.
Today I felt extraordinarily carnivorous so I went for the Steak á la minute, with the green-pepper sauce. The green-pepper sauce was according to the chef the first thing he learnt to cook when he started as a professional chef 30 years ago. It was indeed very good and perfectly balanced so I can imagine he has perfected it for some 30 years now. The meat was just about right cooked and tender just as it should be and along with the sauce the plate just turned up to be empty way too quick!
Along with the meat came a little tomato salad, which was nice but slightly standardised, and strips. I have to say something about the strips though. The whole concept with fried potato is something that could, in my eyes, very well be awarded with the nobel prize in chemistry (or peace, ...or something else for that matter), but why do they at such a nice place with such a nice kitchen serve boring thin strips. Come on better up and at least serve me some real French fries, something that I would not get as good at McDonalds.
The prices had also gone up a little since last visit. Today a steak á la minute was priced at 265 SEK giving it a less good price/quality ratio than last time.
Once again the meat was spotless, the place and the staff is really nice, but they haste with the details such as the strips. Last time I questioned their offerings of wine by the glass and even though there is always a good general impression some small things brings it down a little below where it could be.
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Lucas Spinnars
Check here for my old review (in Swedish)
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