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Glorious Gastronomical Gluttony

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The all-Sweden addition.

After poking around a little, I discovered this place in the ‘hood, over here in Ostermalm:

Lindquists. Does it get any more Swedish? And, the interior features a painting of my favorite person, the king of Sweden:

For the photo nerds out there, I contemplated cropping this thing, but I ultimately decided against it. We got a lot of wall showing in there, I know, but cropped, I just didn’t like the way it looked.

And, people watching at the place, you could enjoy some of Ostermalm’s quirky local color:

Yes, that is an old lady walking her cat. She was walking by pretty fast, so I didn’t have time to set my camera. She went a-walking by and I had the camera up, set to tungsten, hence the blue color. I use the tungsten setting because I hate flash for shots under tungsten light, AKA our regular light.

I edited her too a little bit, for those of you who don’t like blue:

We’re all the way down here and we haven’t even gotten to the food yet:

Now I know that a lot of people out there are looking at this thinking “hard boiled egg, shrimp type thing, mayonnaise” and want to run for the hills. Me, I like that combination, but its just a matter of taste, as my hero Tim Gunn says. I gotta say though, the sandwich was mighty good, an 8 at least in my estimation. It was very fresh, I could tell and the bread was quite good and soft and everything worked together harmoniously. Jeez, I sound like Tom Colicchio. That’s what I get for spending the weekend watching Top Chef. Anyway, the lovely open faced sandwich was quite good.

But I was also slightly disappointed:

I don’t know how to grade this pastry. Don’t get me wrong. As a pastry, it was quite good, but for Glorious Gastronomical Gluttony purposes, I’d have to compare it to the pastries of other countries and unfortunately, the Danes come out ahead in that contest. The baked goods here are fine, but not as good as they are in Denmark.

Score for overall quality: 7.5
Comparison to its Danish made equivalent: 5.5

Go Denmark! Stay tuned for my next inconsistently scored review for which I invent a rating system on the spot. I am nothing if not inconsistent.

You can live in a place your entire life and never see it all

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What is this you ask?

A mural in the entryway to a Barclay Rex building on Wall Street.

The internets, circa 1920. The glorious start of being able to read in a online German newspaper about the ‘splosion in front of your job in New York ten minutes after it happens, subtitled video of cats asking questions of presidential candidates and being able to watch Tim Gunn telling Wendy Pepper not to defending the shoe to him in a Swedish hotel room and of course, making the disappearance of Paris Hilton’s dog worldwide news.

Thanks International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. Paris Hilton appreciates all of what you have done for her.

All joking aside, I loved this window into what people in the 1920s and 1930s thought the future would like.

I kind of noticed that this mural kinds of looks like this other iconic symbol of power:

Anyway, here’s the rest of Mr. Lightening Bolts:

Globes cover up his bits. Like I said, different places, different attitudes. Globes here, full frontal male nudity in Scandinavia. Globes covering up the jewels here. Neither is better or worse. These things are just different.