"Niklas Ekstedt worked with icons like Charlie Trotter, Heston Blumenthal, and Ferran Adrià before opening his own restaurant — at the age of 21 — in southern Sweden. After moving to Stockholm, he became enamored with the cooking techniques used in Scandinavian kitchens before electricity came around, devoured a load of 18th-century cookbooks, and decided his new restaurant, Ekstedt, would be a celebration of Nordic ingredients prepared over open fire. Today, the restaurant has a Michelin star, and Ekstedt works alongside Argentine head chef Florencia Abella to serve grilled, smoked, boiled, broiled, and baked seafood, meat, and veggies from the restaurant’s huge fire pit and wood-fired oven. Before or after dinner, pop by sister wine bar Tyge & Sessil next door for juicy wines made with limited intervention." - Per Styregård
