Bord För En was dreamt up by Rasmus Persson and Linda Karlsson as a way to offer people a fine dining experience while practicing social distancing during COVID-19.
“One table. One chair. Right in the middle of a Swedish summer field,” they explain on their website.
With no waiter, guests are delivered a three-course meal in a rope operated basket.
The concept was inspired by a time when Linda’s parents invited themselves over to the couples new house in Ransäter, Sweden. “At that time, Linda had not seen her parents for weeks,” they say.
Her parents who are both over 70, are in the at risk group when it comes to COVID-19. So, when Linda’s parents showed up at their door, they were not let in.
Instead, Linda and Rasmus set a table outside in the garden and served them through the window. “It was then and there that we thought we should make the concept available to everyone,” says the couple.
The three-course menu is inspired by Rasmus’ travel and fondest memories.
The starter, Swedish style hash browns comes Rasmus’ time in the West Coast of Sweden where he was trained as a chef.
“With the main course of croquettes and serpent root ash, the inspiration is a wild night in Barcelona.” says Rasmus.
The last course, a dessert of ginned blueberries with iced buttermilk, sugar and homegrown beets is inspired by his grandmother’s kitchen.
“She just recently passed away at 99 years old,” he says.
He spent his childhood summers with her, picking wild blueberries, rinsing them together and enjoying them with iced milk and sugar.
Rasmus and Linda’s hopes for the restaurant is that guest will leave feeling like they know themselves a little better.
“In times like these, we might be isolated but that does not mean we are spending time with ourselves,” they say. “We call came to this world knowing nothing, what more do we really know now?”
“Maybe when our guests leave, they will have the answer to the questions that end Mary Oliver’s famous poem The Summer Days: ‘What is it you plan to do with your wild and precious life?'”
Visit the Bord För En website to find out more.
