Bord 27

The story

Crafted with passion, served with love

A Small Room with a Strong Personality

In the Haga district of Göteborg, at number 14 on Haga Kyrkogata, sits a restaurant with exactly 27 seats and an outsized sense of self. Bord 27 has earned recognition from the White Guide at Fine level, and the citation captures it well: the feeling is an unpretentious neighbourhood pub, spiced with a dose of playfulness. The wine list is presented not through a printed booklet but via the bottles lined along the walls, explained by staff who clearly know what they're talking about. When you book a table, someone greets you by name at the door. A regular can slip in and be handed a glass and a snack at the bar without ceremony.

The Menu, in Göteborg Dialect

The menu sections are labelled Snax, Tugg, Käk and Gött – Gothenburg slang for roughly snacks, bites, mains and something good to finish – and the food inside those headings is just as direct. The Swedish kitchen here absorbs influences from several directions: a touch of Asian, French and Spanish technique woven through with clean, well-executed ideas.

Smaller plates include a tuna crudo with grilled tomato mayo, coriander cream and citrus-pickled chilli, and a seared scallop served with green pea and dill cream, pickled fennel and an apple-and-dill dashi. The White Guide singled out a corn cream with miso and truffle alongside a crisply fried scallop as a dish that lands everything right, particularly its high umami register. A steak tartare made from certified beef comes dressed with soy mayo, pickled beetroot, silver onion and grated cured smoked egg yolk.

Main plates range from a baked plaice with charred iceberg, wild garlic mayo and buttered lobster broth, to a grilled Iberico abanico with aubergine cream and a lemongrass-scented chicken broth. Vegetarians are genuinely considered: a summer vegetable plate pairs onion cream with olive and truffle, roasted feta and wild garlic pesto. Desserts are kept honest – a crème brûlée described simply as "utan tjafs" (no fuss), a raspberry sorbet with white chocolate cream, and a rhubarb preparation that runs from poached fruit to an iced consommé finished with Thai basil.

Part of Something Larger

Bord 27 belongs to a family of Göteborg restaurants that includes Natur, Totale, Salut, Brasserie Lavette and Kaifo, which means the kitchen culture here has depth behind it. Gift cards are valid across all the sibling venues, a small detail that speaks to how the group thinks about hospitality. At weekends from 13:00, a grilled levain sandwich with diced beef fillet, butter-fried onion, parmesan and fries appears as a weekend special – the kind of thing that keeps regulars coming back on a Saturday afternoon.

The Swedish cooking at Bord 27 is confident without being showy, the room is genuinely cosy rather than performatively so, and the 27-seat limit means the experience never feels anonymous.