The archive
Every dispatch from the flavor trail, in the order they were written.
11 December 2025
I was 17 when Fredrik asked me to go with him to Valvet. Fredrik, with his irresistible charm – voice like a 12-year-old girl, a laugh bright enough to lift an eclipse, and curly brown hair down to his arse.
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9 September 2025
"Whatever you do, don't eat the skin." After some finger-wagging, our colleague finally sits down. She sips her coffee and stares out the window until her thoughts settle on one final piece of advice.
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19 May 2025
On May 19, 1982, IFK Göteborg defeated Hamburg in the UEFA Cup final. This post celebrates that historic victory and the legendary Gothenburg players. It’s also a tribute to a dining era that shaped a generation.
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27 November 2024
We have no adequate explanation for our absence except that we’ve been paralyzed by the general darkness roaming the world like a swarm of dementors.
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18 April 2024
Today's tale starts with the great fire of 1802, when Gothenburg burned to the ground. Well, at least the buildings inside the moat, including the cathedral. Most houses were built of wood, and nobody stood a chance against the flames.
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15 March 2024
Operation hibernation is over and the Track is Back – hungrier than humanly possible. And what a lovely canvas to return to! A house full of new colleagues who are untrained in the culinary ways of Off the Eaten Track.…
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5 December 2023
Reflecting over compounds is a great pastime if you’re interested in semantics and have nothing useful to do. For those unfamiliar with the linguistic concept, compounds are words formed by combining two or more words to create a new word…
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26 October 2023
I have known my dining companion for 20 years. We have traveled together, attended concerts together, and slept through meetings together. We have seen each other angry, disappointed, tired, stressed, and sad. We have even watched a documentary about fonts…
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18 September 2023
Three autonomous driving engineers walk into a bar. The first one sips their ice-cold beer and says, Ah, this shit drinks itself. The second one orders a Long Island Iced Tea, tastes it and turns to the bartender, Sure you…
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22 August 2023
Welcome back, all you hungry hippos! This fall will be a defining moment for Zenseact. We all know what's at stake. If cars are to run on our beautiful code next year, we'd better kick this software frenzy off. And…
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21 June 2023
Peaky fockin’ bloinders! The smell of grease roams Lindholmspiren like an evil mist, finding its way into every air-conditioned office, drawing every shadow dweller out into the open. Resistance is futile; we know what we have to do even if…
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24 May 2023
The most remarkable unremarkable thing about Tilda's is the apostrophe. What makes it special is not its gross violation of Standard Swedish Orthography, which simply uses an 's' suffix to signify possession (Tildas), but the fact that everything else about…
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11 May 2023
Listen up, this is important. Since childhood, we're trained to do things fast. We get rewarded for arriving on time, finishing tasks at school quickly, doing our homework effectively, and cleaning up after ourselves rapidly. Falling asleep without fuzz. Brush…
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25 April 2023
After our first visit to Bosna, I thought to myself, If Dracula ran a sports bar, Bosna would be it. It's not exactly goth, but seriously hardcore in other ways. Then I fantasized about how dark and mysterious the place…
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8 March 2023
Stepping into El Mariachi, a Mexican restaurant at the junction of Madängsgatan and Myntgatan, I found myself staggering into a chair. My eating buddy, equally dumbstruck, just stood there with his mouth open. It was love at first sight. The…
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8 February 2023
In 1947, sailor and cook Liu Wan Chong found himself stranded on the shores of Gothenburg. But instead of bemoaning his cruel fate, Liu displayed remarkable resourcefulness and journeyed to the Chinese embassy in Stockholm where he lent his culinary…
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10 January 2023
For almost two decades, my working life revolved exclusively around exploring the tantalizing flavors of Thai cuisine. For a while, I believed joining Zenseact would mean the end of this cherished routine. Fortunately, fate had other plans. After seven months…
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15 November 2022
"I love warm food,” my colleague declares with enthusiasm. It could be that he's a person of modest preferences. But it’s also the kind of lukewarm praise you might offer in a desperate act to say something nice about your…
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6 September 2022
It’s a sunny day, and that’s good. But It’s also lunch rush, and everyone in Gothenburg craves Phô. Getting an outside table at Duy Tan isn't happening, but the bowls of broth with noodles, meat, herbs, and vegetables fill Kvilletorget…
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23 August 2022
Disappointment might not be the word I’d choose. Surprised, maybe. No, confused is better. Regardless, I guess it all comes to unreasonable expectations – because that’s exactly what I had. We’d been passing Ala Kefak several times on our gastronomic…
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28 July 2022
My colleague grins, "It could've happened to anyone." But let's start at the beginning. Sultan, a Turkish grill restaurant, caught our attention during our strolls around Kville. It always appeared as a reliable grill and meze place, and its ambitious…
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