Toftaholm Herrgård

The story

Crafted with passion, served with love

A Manor Beside the Lake

Toftaholm Herrgård sits at the edge of Lake Vidöstern, three minutes from the E4 motorway yet firmly removed from the pace of everyday life. The property looks as though time stopped somewhere around the mid-1800s, and owners Eva and Pelle Hjortblad have kept that atmosphere intact while quietly modernising everything that matters to a contemporary guest. The result is a place that draws both international summer visitors and a younger, food-focused crowd who come specifically for what is happening in the kitchen.

What the White Guide Found

White Guide's 2026 Fine level recognition points directly at the evening menu as the most rewarding reason to sit down here. The three-course dinner is described as the most value-for-money choice, and the details behind that verdict are telling. A mushroom-filled petit choux arrives as a curtain-raiser. Duck breast follows — small in portion, precise in execution — wrapped in a blood-orange sauce and topped with onion cream. Then a lightly baked Arctic char, lifted by a mussel foam scented with elderflower and a thread of subtle acidity, with fried fish skin adding crunch. The wine list is substantial, and a German Riesling is floated as a natural companion to the fish course.

Swedish Cuisine with a Considered Touch

The cooking is grounded in Swedish cuisine but not bound by convention. Seasonal ingredients, careful technique and restrained flavour combinations give the food its character. The restaurant — named Yennenga — sits within the broader herrgård, which also offers wellness facilities including an eco-spa at the waterfront, conference rooms, and event spaces such as the Orangeriet for gatherings of fifty to a hundred guests. Weekend packages combine accommodation in the main building with multi-course dinners, and the herrgård's breakfast buffet rounds out the stay.

The Spirit of the Place

What Toftaholm offers is harder to name than a menu or a room rate. Eva and Pelle describe it as a place to celebrate, to socialise, and to grow through meeting people — a vision that sits comfortably alongside the fine dining ambition. The lakeside setting, the updated spa, and the quality of the Swedish cuisine in the evening have together earned the manor a reputation that reaches well beyond the surrounding Småland countryside.