Scandinavian christmas lunch

Christmas is approaching – which means meeting up with friends for Christmas meals. We’d scheduled one for this lovely, sunny Saturday with Henna and Aki (unfortunately, Mikko and Marianne couldn’t make it). Henna and Aki suggested we do it at Fjord, in the port of Nice, and a good idea it was.



The weather was about as good as it gets on the Cote d’Azur this time of the year, which was rather nice after 10 days of Finnish darkness… This being the case, we decided it was definitely the perfect day to cycle into Nice on the Velo Bleu. It was just the perfect day for cycling – the weather was just about warm enough for me to cycle in a tee-shirt. And the ride along the Promenade down to the port is pretty superb…





Fjord is a Scandinavian delicatessen/restaurant run by a Swedish lady and her Nicois husband (who, funnily enough, speaks Swedish with a Skåne accent!). The place is very nice too, serving authentic Scandinavian fare – and at surprisingly reasonable prices as well. I went for the Christmas platter (all the classics were present – including some fishy ones I’m less fond of), and we finished off with a couple of shots of akvavit. A great little lunch session with friends then.


Naturally, we had to do a bit of shopping in the delicatessen as well. Unfortunately, there were no Finnish specialties to be had apart from Lapin Kulta (a pretty poor Finnish beer) – apparently it’s very difficult to import Finnish products to France – has to be done through the other Scandinavian countries… So we had to content ourselves with some Swedish “pepparkakor”.