Restaurang Stäket

Awful experience, they didn’t give us the table for 15 min, took almost 2 hours to get our food and then they forgot to give me and my dad our food. My girlfriend (a vegetarian) found one menu item which had some salami in the sauce, she asked them to have it removed but it appears it was too comprehensive for the kitchen to remove… She later asked for some pasta with vegetables and tomato sauce, and she got pasta with a cheap and dull tomatosauce… Worst experience of staff who forgot our food, and lacked a sense of care and touch as my girlfriends sweater has tomatostains due to the staff… Your desserts are also quite boring and the food wasn’t that great… Thanks for ruining my birthday Stäket. I would not recommend this place nor will I return.

I think this place can be hit or miss, but definitely more hit than miss. Last time I was there (in 2010) was with a group of friends. Everyone was satisfied, but some more than others. Restaurant was full, but service was still efficient and pleasant.
The interior is quite cosy, rustic even. I agree with another reviewer — if this place were in the States, it would DEFINITELY be a medieval themed restaurant ;)
To be honest, I was pleased with my meal. I had deer fillet and I remember it being very tasty and enjoyable :) I would definitely go every once in a while if I still lived in Lund!

Let me start this review with acknowledging one fact right from the start:
I love fishing but I DO NOT like fishing for cuts of meat in a meat fondue bowl! So If you a lover of meat fondue or as I call it «fishing with stick in a hot bowl» then by all means visit Restaurang Stäket as it is a meat fondue institution.
To be honest Stäket is not only a meat fondue institution, it is a city institution being one of the most classical, oldest, highly reviewed and regarded restaurants in the small town of Lund.
However in my opinion we are now beyond the point of classic. Everything, not only the building and the décor but even the menu and the visitors, are retro. In fact it is so much so that if this place was in the states it would without a doubt be a mid-​evil theme restaurant. Also as the rumor has it changes are few and far between, during the last 20 years.
Being an institution is truly a double-​edged sword, it can be assuring but it also can result in an Era of Stagnation. The Kitchen turnouts are the living proof of this stagnation. The biggest problem is the fact that Stäket relies so heavily on the costumers being in love with the old classics such as meat fondue and Plank steak (beef on a oak plank with duchesse potato). So much so that the rest of the menu gets as much or as I see it as little attention as the classic dishes mentioned above. Let’s face it a plank made in the oven or a meat fondue, with mainly cold sauces doesn’t really make or break or test a kitchen and its chef.
In conclusion what this kitchen puts out, is somewhat sloppy, uneven and uninspiring and I am refraining from the usage of the word Retro. In fact the generous cuts of meat or fish, more in term of quantity and not quality, are often bland and given life by the side orders.
For instance the garlic & thyme baked lamb gets its taste from the rosemary sauce and YES you are right not from garlic nor thyme. The Chocolate cake is really a volcanic lava-​like texture brownie relying heavily on the sour cream served on the side to balance its overwhelming sweetness. it is not gooey it is more dry and lumpy. I also suspect that the duchesse potatoes are sometimes made out of a box as in «Instant Mashed Potato Powder» as the texture varies from dense, heavy and thick to fluffy and light. And If not made out of a box, it only goes to show how uneven this kitchen has become.

Restaurang Stäket is a cozy restaurant located in downtown Lund. The interior décor has is rustic and warm. I had to try their plank steak and was not disappointed. The steak was prepared beautifully and was tender. The service was very attentive and met all my needs. I would put this on my list of favorite Lund restaurants and, if you’re in town, give it a try.