Salt & Brygga in Malmö, Sweden might have Neil Young playing in the background, but it’s not a hippie cafe; this award-winning organic restaurant has real sophistication. This is just part of their philosophy: “Salt & Brygga is a bit unusual in many ways. As well as offering our guests food and drink of the highest quality, we also want to make environmental thinking a part of everything we do. As Hippocrates said – ‘let food be thy medicine’.” The don’t serve endangered fish or things of that nature. Instead, they serve meat, sustainable fish and vegetarian dishes and are part of the local Slow Food movement. Salt & Brygga is a casual, airy bistro on the water; you can see the bridge to Denmark out the window. I was very glad to be hosted to experience it for lunch!
I first started with a creamy soup with dark brown chanterelles. It was garnished with fresh thyme and had a deep, meaty mushroom flavor.
The bottled water they serve is a local mineral water: Malmberg. It’s crisp and brisk, almost minty.
For an entree’, I had pheasant breast with gratin of root vegetables, lardons, leeks and red cabbage. The gratin had turnip and the pheasant was also garnished with berries. It was a very tender, flavorful pheasant and the whole dish was spot-on seasonal for Fall.
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