Went here for lunch. Pretty big place, has full seating inside and out. We sat on the barstools…read morealong a long bar facing the water. For lunch, there is a sign of the options and you order at the counter and get a number and they will bring you the food. After you get your number it's self serve for bread butter and tap water bottle and glasses. I asked the girl what the best selection was and she said the salmon. The salmon came in a bowl with potatoes, veggies (asparagus, snap peas) in a cream sauce with chives on top. It was the right size and the flavors complemented each other. They also had a deli/store inside of the restaurant with lots of fresh ingredients (meats, roe, etc) in addition to high end glasses (riedel), knives (global) and other foods like dry pasta and sauces. I would definitely come again if I'm in the area. Would love to try for dinner. (See pictures).

Since I moved away from the town I had called home for the past 14 years I had some friends from my…read morepast ventures to come up and visit me. The restaurant of choice for the evening fell on Kitchen & Table by Markus Samuelson located at the top floor of Clarion Hotel. If you didn't know it, Kitchen & Table is an established string of restaurants for Clarion Hotels, and having heard both positives and negatives about this place I was both excited and slightly nervous if it measured up to the standard I was expecting. In short, it didn't disappoint. Me and my friends were seated at a round table overlooking the bay with the sun setting and just the view was amazing. The interior is grey with dark wood and modern art of different sorts placed very wel throughout the restaurant with an open cocktail-bar in the middle. It felt very stylish and modern without being posh or over the top. We all ordered some cocktails to start with, I had a passion mojito which was a great start of a long evening. Amongst laughter and wonderful conversations my appetizer "Upper East Side" arrived. This was a platter of charcuteries and cheeses together with cloudberry relish, pickles and grilled sourdough bread. Absolute yum. For main I had the entrecoté with berbere bernaise sauce, balsamico braised onion, baked tomato and SOHO fries (parmesan and herbs). Another yum that didn't let me down one bit. Ordered my meat rare and it had a great char with perfect red center. Dessert was cloudberries on a dark chocolate cake, vanilla cream and wild strawberry sorbet. Yes, and yes. Great balance of acidity and sweet while the cake and cloudberries added two different kinds of textures to the dish. I must also tip my hat to the waiter and staff on the floor. Very attentive, kind and friendly with just the right amount of everything to make the evening even better. There was no rush for us and we just sat there the entire evening eating, drinking a bit of wine, cocktails and coffee all the while the red glowing sun was setting in the bay leaving us all with great memories.

With visiting my sick brother and his wife in Lulea, I took my sister-in-law out for a meal…read moresomewhere she very seldom go. She suggested a few places and Kitchen & Table was among them. We decided to go to there since she only been there once before, when my brother took her there for her 70th birthday. In entering the hotel to get up to the 9th floor where the restaurant is, we were early and had to wait for the usual 5Pm opening; this is a common opening time for many restaurants, in Lulea and elsewhere in Sweden. The restaurant layout, design and interior is very nice and of course the view is excellent where one can see a great part of the town and Lulea River. I told her what I know about Marcus Samuelsson who apparently had done the layout, interior design and perhaps the menu as well. For an appetizer I had one of my favorites, löjrom and hard bread which we shared and enjoyed it very much. My brother used to have a fisherman friend in Lulea who used to give my brother many kilos of löjrom when helping him with his boat. I asked the waiter for olive oil and spices to make dip for my bread which I love with a glass of good red wine. My sister-in-law just loved the dip and told me she would do that herself at home from now on. I ordered duck and so did my sister-in-law since she had never had duck before; now, duck is one of my favorite dishes but, it's a dish that requires great knowledge of how to prepare so I only order it when eating at a reputable restaurant. My meal was very disappointing, it was very stringy and tough; in asking my sister-in-law of how hers was she said it was fine and by sampling it she was right. I should have complained but didn't since my sister-in-law was "up-there-in-the-clouds" somewhere just being at this place eating and didn't want to ruin her experience; that's how many Swedes are, they take pomp and "out-of-their-daily-life" events and places as something that is revered. I was indeed surprised and very disappointed in the cleanliness of the seats. They are comfortable but from the upholstering cloth you could tell many persons had seated there for their meals. All chairs at our table and the two chairs at the table immediately next to ours, had many large oily stains and food residue on the upholstering cloth. It is somewhat distasteful to see, especially in a restaurant which is claiming and promoting quality. At the end of our meal we both agreed about the cleanliness and she was disappointed I had a bad food experience; our ratings fell to a my 2 and hers 3 stars respective.

Very friendly staff. Clean and quiet room. Good value for money. Breakfast was good. I will…read moreprobably stay here next time I visit Piteå.

Food was wonderful, had the reindeer It was tender and delicious. The cloudberry soup as dessert…read morewas amazing.

This place perplexes me to be honest. While the dining room breathes and speaks "modern…read morescandinavian dining" with restrained furnitures and contemporary elements of modern art such as a reindeer pelt, a small orange background wall, sporadic placed bright colored lounging chairs among the mostly white brick plaster walls. Though the dining experience in itself is far below par, it borderlines on bad. Our youngest son was at dance practice for a theater show he is part of so the rest of family - meaning me, my wife and the remaining two children - went here for dinner as it's closest to where they were practicing and we were hungry to say the least. The greeting serving staff (actually, there was only one waitress there that managed everything) was neither enthusiastic or inspiring, she felt more bored and like she didn't even want to be there in the first place. But looks may be decieving, and hungry kids tend to be very persuasive, so we sat down and started going over the menu. And once again this place perplexes me. The menu is stylish in white and grey and many of the dishes sound both amazing and creative. Taking into account that we had the kids with us, it's almost standard to get some plates of garlic bread on the table and this was no exception. When the two plates arrived they had the bread, green baby leaves, sundried tomatoes, olives and ai....no wait, no aioli. On either plate. But there's supposed to be aioli. My wife called upon the waitress and kindly pointed out that there was no aioli and she came out with two small bowls quite quick. For main course my wife had the hot stone beef tenderloin that you cook yourself at the table. It may be a thing of the 90's, but the meat was really tender and delicious so she was happy. I ordered a butcher's cut with basil butter, tomato sallad and red wine jus together with sweet potato fries. The meat was cooked to a nice medium rare like I ordered it, but to call five cherry tomatoes in a small bowl of oil for a salad is over the top even for me. The basil butter was an ok addition, but a different kind of dip would have been a better choice when it's served with sweet potato fries. The fries however were delicious (honestly, when are sweet potato fries ever anything but delicious?)! The red wine sauce was overly sweet, and I can't stand sweet red wine sauce, it makes my skin crawl. So what perplexes me is the percieved level of ambition they are implying with the style, decor and menu that they ultimately fall far short of. There's no connection between what I see and what I taste, and it leaves me torn. Either own up to a lower standard and go pub-style, because truly that is the category the food they currently serve belongs in, or up your game to fine dining standard. At the moment, this place is neither of it, and with this current concept I have no desire to come back at all.