Layered potato gratin with sweet pickled Swedish anchovies (sprats), onions and cream, baked until the top crusts golden and the centre stays silky. The Swedish Christmas julbord (smorgasbord) staple.
Janssons Frestelse (Jansson's Temptation) appears in Swedish recipe collections from the late 1920s. The name was popularised when Elvira Stigmark, an Östermalm Stockholm hostess, served anchovy gratin under the name after seeing the 1928 Swedish film 'Janssons frestelse'; an earlier association with the 19th-century opera singer Per Adolf 'Pelle' Janzon is improbable since the dish was not called that during his lifetime. The recipe defines the modern Swedish julbord. Pelikan and Den Gyldene Freden run defensible Stockholm renditions through December.
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Den Gyldene Freden ★ 4.3
gamla-stan · Österlånggatan 51, 111 31 Stockholm
Den Gyldene Freden on Österlånggatan in Stockholm's Gamla Stan opened in 1722 and remains the oldest restaurant in continuous operation under the same name.
Pelikan ★ 4.3
sodermalm · Blekingegatan 40, 116 62 Stockholm
Pelikan on Blekingegatan in Stockholm's Södermalm has cooked husmanskost in the vaulted 1904 hall since the Pelikan name moved from Gamla Stan, meatballs.