RESTAURANT ADDRESS

SE-153 93

Mörkö, Sweden

46 (0) 8 551 531 05

RESTAURANT STAFF

Chef/Owner: Magnus Ek

Chef de Cuisine:

Pastry Chef: Sylvia Kindhag

Sommelier: Henrik Heed

GM: Agneta Green

OAD HISTORY

First appearance in Top 100.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Though 2014 is the year when Oaxen debuts on our Top 100 list, had the restaurant not been closed (they moved from a location 90 minutes south of Stockholm to the Djurgården, an island in the center of the city), it would have debuted in 2013. But despite a new location, one thing that hasn’t changed is Magnus Ek’s approach to cooking, which is to utilize the immediate proximity around the restaurant to source as many things as possible. So how did Ek replace the wonderful farmland and forests that surrounded the old location? He got the King of Denmark to give him permission to plant a garden on the Djurgården, where he raises as much of the produce he uses as possible. But Ek’s fanaticism for staying local didn’t stop there: Everything from the tables to the porcelain to the knives used in the restaurant were fabricated in the shipyard a few hundred meters from the restaurant.

Pike perch with garlic mustard puree, cockles and mussels stock
Photo Courtesy of: Oaxen Krog