Review of Greasy Spoon Södermalm – by Sebastian W.
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Good food, fun concept but rather boring?
During my visit to Greasy Spoon in Vasastan I was relatively new to brunch and all that it entails. Good place to start was rekomendationen from friends and acquaintances.
Different from Pom & Flora, Greasy Spoon offers a little more hearty alternative. Of course there are the customary and Instagramvänliga option chiapudding and acaibowls but I tried their full vegan.
Imagine an English breakfast, but then completely vegan. I think that we have managed well, really well indeed. Buttery mushroom, salsa, vegan substitute for sausage, mashed avocado, sour and hashbrown-short and good, the Kingdom of heaven. To this I tried their cold brew.
What I think can lower the whole experience is something I bother me on long ago, the venue versus Greasy spoons popularity as well as reputation. Since you can't book a table, you get to go there and hope there's a table, otherwise if you're unlucky you may have to wait up to 1 H (of course depending on the size of the company) to get a table. And since Greasy Spoon is one of Stockholm's perhaps larger names, this also creates longer queues and a lot of people on site. As it easily gets queued outside and noisy inside, I think the charm of waking a Saturday morning and spontaneously go and brunch disappears completely.
The decor of the premises in Vasastan is quite unforgivable and thus does not dampen the volume directly which gives it all a feeling like a school canteen.
But do not dwell on, where there are problems there is also potential. Things like good reputation and thus a larger audience (uncertain vocabulary there) are not necessarily something bad, loud noise and noise can easily be reduced by means of wall arrangements and stone walls.
Recommended for those who are new to brunch and for those who want a safe card.
