Sven’s Viking Pizza

For an excellent wood fired pizza with a difference, head to the southern hemisphere’s only Swedish Viking-themed pizza place, conveniently located in Bondi Junction. Relax on a rustic tree-stump stool at a recycled red gum feasting table amidst wall-hangings that include genuine reindeer hides from the Arctic Circle, Nordic helmets and shields. Start with a real taste of Sweden, the Frö ($21.50/11 inch, $25.50/13 inch) available in all good Swedish pizza stores. It’s an absolutely delicious mix of wafer thin slices of beef eye fillet, béarnaise sauce, fresh mushrooms, onion and cracked black pepper on a thin, crisp puff pastry base. According to amiable owner/chef Sven Gustafsson, it’s a sure-fire hangover cure too! Also impressive was the Ask ($21/$25) which sees slices of döner kebab join fefferoni (green chilli), roma tomatoes, onion and Swedish kebab sauce on another crisp base. All of the pizzas use quality ingredients, including Tasmanian Smoked Salmon; Sven says emphatically: ‘You have to have quality.‘ Salads including an intense Caesar Salad ($14.50) round out the menu; plus there is beer and reasonably priced wine ‘ try the lovely 2007 Greystone Pinot Gris ($8/glass, $39/bottle) from New Zealand. Swedish music – Abba and Swedish born Jose González ‘ keep you thematic; as do bathrooms labelled ‘Inga‘ and ‘Sven‘.

Sven’s Viking Pizza
354 Oxford Street, Bondi Junction
Ph: (02) 9389 3393
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