Signal crayfish boiled with dill and salt, served cold with hard cheese, toast and aquavit in August. The kraeftskiva is a Swedish social ritual rather than a restaurant dish, eaten outdoors with paper bibs and singing.
Where to eat it: 3 restaurants across 1 city.
The shrimp counters inside Feskekorka fish market serve Goteborg's most iconic street food: fresh West Coast prawns eaten standing up at the market counter with bread and aoli on the side.
Order: ['Fresh Bohus prawns', 'Smoked salmon sandwich', 'Crayfish in season']
Stora Saluhallen is Gothenburg's grand 19th-century indoor market at Kungstorget, housing over 40 traders selling West Coast seafood, Swedish charcuterie, cheese, bread and local produce under a soaring iron-and-glass roof.
Gamla Ulla is a Feskekorkka market stalwart selling cooked crayfish, smoked herring and West Coast shellfish from a counter that has supplied Goteborg families for decades with market-day seafood.
Order: ['Crayfish (August)', 'Hot smoked salmon', 'Prawns by the kilo']
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