Grand Hôtel opens the door to spring with its popular Easter buffet. At the end of March, the buffet at the Veranda restaurant will be brimming with Easter delicacies such as poached eggs, elderberry-gravlax, braised fillet of veal and, of course, the Grand Hôtel’s very own house-marinated herring. All enjoyed with fantastic views of the Stockholm waterfront and the Royal Palace.
On February 14, Valentine’s Day, a celebration of love will be ongoing at the Grand Hôtel, which will be filled with roses, joy and people who love each other.
The Grand Hôtel is replacing the fitness machines in the popular Grand Hôtel Nordic Spa & Fitness for state-of-the-art, eco-friendly products from the ARTIS® Renew from Technogym. The machines harness the energy generated by the user’s workout and returns it to power the machine, while channelling any surplus energy to the general electricity grid.
January 16 marks the first of our annual themed menu weeks at the Veranda restaurant. As in previous years, first up is the Västerbotten buffet, offering a host of traditional dishes and accoutrements from the region.
New Year’s Eve at the Grand Hôtel includes everything that can be expected of such a festive occasion and more. Celebrate the New Year with an exquisite tasting menu, big band jazz, New Year’s speech and Champagne gallop.
The Grand Hôtel’s wonderful Christmas smorgasbord is a much appreciated tradition. For the entire month of December the Veranda restaurant will be serving a sumptuous Christmas smorgasbord complete with all the dishes that belong to a real Swedish Christmas.
Every year the Grand Hôtel celebrates the seasons and traditional festivities with different themed menus at the Veranda restaurant. In November, it’s time for the traditional Scanian Mårtengås or St. Martin’s day feast, with the Veranda offering a classic three-course goose dinner from November 7-10.
The Grand Hôtel has recruited Edvin Chramer as new head chef of the Veranda restaurant. Edvin joins the Veranda from Mathias Dahlgren’s Matsalen. His previous experience also includes chef at La Gazette in Paris and head chef at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo.
The Veranda takes guests back in time to classic French cuisine under the theme Menu Classique. At the Veranda, guests can savour classic French culinary tradition on our Menu Classique, featuring dishes such as Sole Meunière, entrecote carved at the table, and flambéed Crêpes Suzette.
Chef and restaurateur Mathias Dahlgren is launching four wines under his own name, a red, a white, a sparkling wine and a Champagne. All are available at Mathias Dahlgren’s Michelin-starred restaurant Matbaren and through Systembolaget’s order catalogue.
The Kalix bleak trawling season takes place over a five week period, starting at the end of September. During week three, when the bleak roe is at its finest, the Cadier Bar complements its regular bar menu with a specially-composed bleak roe menu.
As tradition goes, the Grand Hôtel will be serving the best Shellfish buffet in the capital this autumn. From Wednesday, September 6 to Sunday, October 11, the Veranda will be treating guests to the finest the sea has to offer, with lobster, oysters, crab, shrimp and all the trimmings.
According to tradition, the month of August means crayfish and crayfish parties in Sweden. At the Grand Hôtel, we naturally honour this custom. On August 13, a colourful crayfish buffet is being served up at the Veranda restaurant.
The Grand Hôtel’s sidewalk dining and bar area is once again open for the summer season, this year with an exciting new cocktail menu, a more elaborate snack menu and an expanded lounge area. At the Terrace, guests can enjoy cool summer cocktails, delectable food and an unbeatable view of the royal palace.
Grand Hôtel is launching four new spa treatments, two of which – Grand Glow and Instant Glow – are specially developed for the Grand Hôtel in collaboration with the world renowned dermo-cosmetic company Biologique Recherche. Also added to the spa’s exclusive menu of treatments are an anti-stress massage called Flow and a Chakra Flow massage.
The Veranda restaurant will soon have a new entrance. From Friday, May 8, 2015 guests will be able to access the Veranda from Stallgatan, the street to the left of the hotel.
For the third year in a row, the Grand Hôtel’s summer café will be opening for the season on Strömkajen in front of the hotel. Extending a warm welcome to passers-by, Stockholmers and tourists alike, the Grand Café will be offering lighter lunches and Swedish ‘fika’ straight from the Grand Hôtel’s kitchen and patisserie.
At the Gala SPA AWARDS 2015, Grand Hôtel Nordic Spa & Fitness was awarded the prestigious World’s Most Innovative Spa accolade. Grand Hôtel won over three other nominated spa facilities, and was the only Swedish spa to be nominated this year.
Grand Hôtel is restructuring its restaurant and events & conferences operations, adding two new management positions. Karl Persson is now the hotel’s Food & Beverage Manager, with responsibility for the hotel’s entire restaurant operations, and Camilla Mörk has been recruited as the hotel’s new Events Manager, responsible for managing and developing the hotel’s events & conferences operations.
More and more people are taking a break from their daily routine and treating themselves to a little more luxury in their everyday lives. To help them along the way Grand Hôtel is offering a special room rate throughout 2015 – our Lap of luxury days.