Fika
This authentically Swedish spot serves food much like you’d find in Stockholm, with tasty menu items that include hearty open-faced sandwiches, potato dumplings and gravlax. A standout are is the juniper-spiced Swedish meatballs, served with mashed potatoes, mustard sauce, cucumber and lingonberry jam.
Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant
Limpa bread? Waitresses wearing dirndls? Goats grazing on the sod roof? It can only be one place: Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant in Sister Bay, near the top of Wisconsin’s Door County Peninsula. Tourists flock here to photograph the goats, to browse the Scandinavian boutique and, most of all, to dig into thin, eggy folded Swedish pancakes with tart lingonberries. For lunch or dinner, it’s Swedish meatballs and mashed potatoes.
Ann Sather
When the Swedish owners of a restaurant in Chicago decided to retire, Ann quit her job of 22 years, pooled her life savings and bought herself a diner. Her devotion to made-from-scratch food, especially the cinnamon rolls Jeff Mauro calls insane, is legendary in the Lakeview neighborhood.
