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Fäviken is closing
Chef Magnus Nilsson has announced the closure of his celebrated Swedish restaurant Fäviken Magasinet. Its final service will be on 14 December.
Since taking the reins of the Fäviken kitchen, the year-old chef has notched up two Michelin stars and a 67th place on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. He shot to mainstream prominence after featuring in Netflix’s documentary series Chef’s Table and Anthony Bourdain’s The Mind of a Chef. This morning, he took to Instagram to reveal the news about Fäviken’s closure.
“I have been the chef here for more than 10 years now and it has been amazing. Unusually early in my career I was presented with the opportunity to develop and operate an ambitious restaurant in a way that most chefs can only dream about. I have had the chance to work alongside the best team I could have wished for, cooking for the most fantastic guests (mostly),” he wrote on Instagram.
“When I am done here I am going to spend time with my family, reflect, fish, garden, write, rest and get fit, both physically and mentally.
“I am not going to lie, I am a little bit tired aft
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Fäviken
Restaurant located in Järpen, Sweden
Fäviken was a restaurant located in Åre Municipality, Jämtland, Sweden. It was run by chef Magnus Nilsson between and The food served at the restaurant was localised to the estates around the restaurant, with only a handful of exceptions. Fäviken was placed in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in , and named as one of the top ten restaurants in the world by the Zagat guide in The restaurant closed December 14, , because Nilsson wanted to move on to other projects.[1][2]
Description
[edit]The restaurant was located on the 19th century Fäviken Egendom estate, which consists of 20, acres of farmland,[3] and is located around kilometres (&#;mi) north of Stockholm, and 25 kilometres (16&#;mi) by road from the Åre ski resort.[4] The current owners purchased the property in , and hired chef turned sommelier Magnus Nilsson in to oversee the wine cellars. He moved into the kitchen after being unable to find someone else to do so and became head chef.[3][5] Nilsson described its former operation as a "moose fondue restaurant".[5]
The restaurant had 16 seats, tha
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Magnus Nilsson (chef)
Swedish chef
Magnus Nilsson (born 28 November ) is a Swedish ledare who was head ledare at the restaurant fävike in Sweden until it closed in December He had previously worked at L'Astrance and L'Arpège in France, before moving onto Fäviken in , which was ranked the 57th best restaurant in the world and won two Michelin stars in
Career
[edit]Although a family story fryst vatten told of Nilsson cooking his first meal at the age of three, his first culinary memory is of chopping cucumbers at his grandmother's farm. He had originally wanted to become a marine biologist, but instead attended a culinary school in Åre, Sweden.[1]
He moved to Paris and began to work at the Michelin starred restaurant L'Arpège beneath Alain Passard. He worked there for a couple of weeks before being fired as he was finding it hard to understand the other chefs as his French wasn't as good as he initially thought it was. He joined the grupp at Pascal Barbot's L'Astrance and worked there for the next three years.[2]
Afterwards he took a break from cooking, and decided to become a wine writer.[1] He had become disillusioned with cooking after he returned to