Carlywood wrote:Do they serve breakfast all day?

Till 3, I believe.

Amata wrote:

Carlywood wrote:Do they serve breakfast all day?

Till 3, I believe.

Thank you!

LTH,

I continue to be a fan of Tre Kronor for pleasant conversation friendly breakfast with consistently good food, starting with warm house made Danish and, my standard weekend breakfast order, smoked salmon Benedict with perfectly poached eggs and lemony hollandaise.

Smoked Salmon Benedict


Crab Cake Benedict is quite photogenic, though I did not taste.


Anders Hash and eggs is a Swedish variant on corned beef hash, though I have no idea as to the differentiation.

Anders Hash and Eggs


In a nod to Bridgestone's post on Swedish Falukorv we added an order to our usual of potato sausage. Bridgestone hits it square on the head in his comparison to bologna.

Falukorv (bottom) Potato sausage (top)


It always occurs to me sometime during breakfast at Tre Kronor that I've never been for lunch or dinner, but as I've been noticing that for years on end I don't have much hope I will see the inside of TK after dark anytime soon.

Enjoy,
Gary

The GNR renewals have prompted me to go to the archives and dig up these photos from a most pleasant and tasty meal – an early lunch, it was, I guess – on a Friday back last August.

Lucantonius went with a sweet option, the Swedish pancakes, and he was very happy with his choice, both before and after consuming it.


Amata went with a “Stockholm omelette,” which comes filled with Havarti cheese flavoured with caraway and falukorv, a kind of Swedish sausage (Jag vill ha blommig falukorv till lunch, mamma!):

This dish surely fills one’s daily requirement for cholesterol and then some but it is one very delicious item...


My choice was one of the specials of the day, namely, the Norwegian style pølse, which is a sausage that fits into the Frankfurter type according to the WIST* and was served on a soft (to my taste, rather characterless) white bun which in turn was bedecked with a generous cushion of mashed potatoes, topped with onions and mustard and served beside a nice salad. Very tasty!


Tre Kronor is a really wonderful little restaurant.


ex cathedra,
Antonius Volcinus
Doctor of Victological Science
Institute of European Victology/Gesellschaft für Europäische Freßwissenschaft
Academia Novi Belgii
www.namnam.edu.

* ‘WIST’ is the acronym for the World Index of Sausage Types, a comprehensive taxonomical inventory of all known forms of sausage which are traditionally made around the world. Work on the WIST was initiated by a team of researchers of the IEV/GEF of the ANB under the direction of the late Prof. Dr. Johannes Wurst (Iron Cross 1st Class, MBE). For those of you who maintain detailed victological records, the specific designation for the Norwegian ‘hot dog’ in question here is F3:E-Nw.1a. The scientific classification of Falukorv is a complex and interesting problem, though opinio communis places it also in the great Familia Francofurtensis.

Not much to add here other than to agree that breakfast at Tre Kronor remains outstanding and has been remarkably consistent over time. We had a great meal on Saturday, which was comprised of many of the items picture above; some of our favorites at Tre Kronor . . .



I think this facade is relatively new. I don't even know if it was there last time I drove by. OTOH, I'm not always so observant.



Maple-Pecan Danish . . . even better than it looked, if that's possible The pastry was tender, flakey and buttery.



Cinnamon Roll . . . a terrific rendition. I'm not much of a 'sweets' fan but this was sensational. The dough had a depth of flavor that was so good, it would have been delicious on its own, without the frosting or the cinnamon.



Eggs Benedict . . . a carefully prepared and excellent rendition that is pretty much my second-favorite version in town, Prairie Grass Cafe's being just slightly more preferable to my taste. Still, this was absolutely wonderful . . . eggs were poached perfectly, canadian bacon was nicely seared and the hollandaise sauce had very satisfying acidic note at the finish.



Anders Hash and scrambled eggs . . . I really loved the hash, which just exploded with flavor -- especially the crispy bits.



A closer look at the Anders hash.



Falukorv . . . bologna-like, hotdog-like but a bit more intense. As an unattended child, I often made bologna and eggs for myself and my sister, so this just seems like an absolutely perfect breakfast accompaniment. Great seasoning and just the right amount of garlic.


Because it's so far north and fairly close to the Edens, it took us almost no time to get there from Deerfield. We were door to door in about 20 minutes. The Saturday crowd, around 11:30 am, was substantial but when we arrived, there were still a few tables open in the main dining room and apparently, several more upstairs. Tre Kronor is pretty far from my house but that doesn't stop me from making the occasional trip down, because I really love their breakfast food. One of these days, I hope to try out their lunch or dinner.

=R=

I woke up this morning with the thought of my last breakfast of 2008. I needed some eggs benedict. That, coupled with the fact that I have not visited GNR Winner Tre Kronor in quite some time made the decision of where to go for breakfast an easy one. I arrived at around 9:30 and was able to get a table immediately upon arriving, but with 15 minutes or so, there were a couple parties waiting.

I was served by the lovely Anna, who told me that they usually only offer eggs benedict on weekends, but since today was New Year's Eve, they had four different versions on the menu as specials.

Anna, Delivering the Good News


I ordered coffee, fresh squeezed OJ (kind of thin, pulpless and sweet to be really fresh squeezed, but I didn't call them on it) and smoked salmon benedict.

Tre Kronor Smoked Salmon Benedict


This dish really hit the spot. Although the quality of the salmon was maybe a notch below the stellar fish served by Prairie Grass in their version of this dish, it was very good nonetheless. The hollandaise was great and the eggs were perfectly poached. This was a fine breakfast with which to bid farewell to 2008.

After talking about it for months, we finally tried Tre Kronor for the first time on MLK day - unlike many restaurants we've frequented lately, it was packed. The waitress didn't even get all the way through the specials list before I said "salmon eggs benedict," for which I was richly rewarded (and on the crispiest english muffin in EB I've ever had.)


Spouse opted for the blue cheese spinach omelet, blue cheese was a bit overpowering but was applied subtly and the lightly sauteed spinach was ample and delicious, omelet was very fluffy and thick:


We also had the homemade danish, a delicious mapl-y custard inside a crisp pastry, and nearly licked our plates clean, everything on them being delicious. It was fun to look around and see hints of Bridgestone here and there - in particular, the Falkurov at another table brought him to mind.

I'm hoping next time we have all the in-laws around we can convince everyone to go here instead of the abysmal breakfast we often have at Fireside.

Some sort of Swedish deity must have been smiling on us this Sunday as we found ourselves at Tre Kronor for breakfast. My family is heavily Swedish but somehow we all forgot that it was Santa Lucia day - but Tre Kronor certainly did not:



In addition to the roving Lucia girl (presumably a daughter or relative of the owner? Can't imagine a regular employee signing up to have burning candles drip hot wax into their hair) singing Swedish carols and explaining the Lucia festival, TK had special cardamom-spiced Lucia buns available and Glogg (N/A) on hand, both of which were a one-weekend-a-year specialties that we lucked out on getting access to. This after spending some time at Simon's the night before where we had - of course - Glogg, which packed more of a kick than Tre Kronor's but what TK lacked in alcohol it made up for in sweetness.

As for the rest of the meal, we mostly stuck to the classics as seen above thread - my experience with benedicts is extremely slim but I can't imagine one that could be much better than the smoked salmon version at Tre Kronor. Perfectly poached eggs and light airy hollandaise atop a muffin and some salmon (gravlax? probably not) with some expertly fried potatoes on the side.



Others had the Anders hash and a couple pastries, both of which looked great, but the one thing I would have like to try but didn't get a chance to was an openfaced "Norwegian" meatball sandwich that can apparently be served either hot or cold. It came covered in gravy and looked spectacular especially for a murky grey Sunday morning.



ProTip: My dad works in the area and specified that we had to be there before the North Park kids got out of Mass at noon. We rolled up at about 11:30 or so and had a table within about 10-15 minutes. They also have a mutually beneficial program worked out with the Sweden Shop across the street where you wait for your table there as you browse their wares, and they'll call you when your table is ready. They get your impulse-purchase cash, and you don't have to stand around in the cold or in their tiny (practically nonexistent) foyer area.



Mark your calendars for Dec. 13th of next year if you want to have your chance at this low-key celebration. One thing to note - the adverts for the Julbord were out on the tables and if I remember correctly, they've upped the price from about $45 to just shy of $50.

All in all an excellent breakfast. Still keeping up the GNR standards.