In Sweden we eat julbord at home too. Usually not as fancy as in this video, but a buffet nontheless. Also we don't celebrate Christmas on Christmas day, but on Christmas eve instead. The same goes for Denmark, Finland and Norway.
There are a lot of traditional dishes on a julbord, and that fancy place had them all, and then some, but noone can eat that much, at home we do maybe 10 dishes (depending on how you count) on top of various types of cold cuts, desserts and candies. In my family, the christmas itinary is pretty much about food, rice porridge for breakfast, a light julbord for lunch, and then the real julbord in the evening. Even though we do a limited julbord, there's enough to last us a week. By the time New Year comes around, everyone is longing to eat something else...
The one she showed was a very fancy and expensive one, i belive that one is around 140usd per person when you go after lunch. Very few swedish ppl goes to anything close to that one if they even "go out" for a julbord.
Many years ago I had a boss who did that type of lunch for our "line". We also had a less fancy company dinner, but I remember those lunches. And, oh boy, I got stuffed before even getting to the hot food.
@@MagdalenaBozyk indeed i think it was a more normal thing a few years ago, i know it still happends but its not as common. Oh yeah being bursting when going for the second plate is a problem i know of :P
In this video is an expensive version of julbord. Gamla riksarkivets prices in December Lunch Mon - Fri 1195 SEK (109USD/658 Brazilian real) Sat - Sun 1295 SEK (118 USD/713 Brazilian real Afternoon/Evening Måndag - Söndag 1395 SEK (127 USD/798 Brazilian real) The least expensive is probably at IKEA (yes the furniture store that you've reacted to earlier). Their julbord costs just 199 SEK (18USD/110 Brazilian real) You can't really compare the abundance, and the quality though. But you will get some of the "main" Christmas dishes (meatballs, herring, Jansson, ham etc) at IKEA as well, and it's like decent, not bad, but of course not as good as at a good restaurant, or at someone's home. The "restaurant julbord" is mainly something the companies invite the employees to, some time during December. Some times people also go with their friends and family. But on Christmas Eve (which is the day we mainly celebrate Christmas on in Sweden) most people have julbord at home/or at friends or families homes. That's the real Christmas dinner. What's on it of course varies from family to family, what they put on the julbord, but there are some dishes that most people agree should be part of it. It could be a bit of a potluck, someone bring "Jansson" (it's a potato and fish gratin), some bring pickled herring, some bring salmon, some bring the meatballs, some bring the little sausages and so on.
Here is a list that Krogguiden put together, of some prices of julbord at some other restaurants. Operakällaren - 1 700 SEK Reisen Bar & Matsal - 1545 SEK Miss Clara 1195 SEK Slipen 1095 SEK Trattorian 1295 SEK Julbord archipelago cruise - 980 SEK Berns 895 SEK Lux 895 SEK East - 895 SEK Villa Godthem - 895 SEK Växthuset - 850 SEK Spritmuseum - 795 SEK Fotografiska - 795 SEK
It's not just in Sweden that people have "julebord". It's also a big and important tradition in Denmark. Here, however, it's called "Julefrokost", and is held both at work, in the family and with friends. I'm pretty sure it's also a good tradition in the rest of the Nordic countries.
I think it originates from that Sweden was actually very poor. There was a huge struggle to live and to have food on the table. But X-mas time was the one time of the year that one just did the extra. Forget about how hard life is and did all the extra. Slaughtered a pig one was needed of. Made use of everything and just feasted. And it was also a christian holiday more than it is now. One thing you don't see on a julbord now days is dipping bread in the broth from cooking the ham. And in old times the bread was probably very dry and was a way to use it even if it was hardly eatable. But making all sort of things and just feast at X-mas have lived on.
This is a VERY exclusive Christmas dinner (julbord). Some of the items are more common to find on a "at home" julbord than others, it all depends on the family and what food they choose to use in their "buffe". But this is a very fancy, expensive and large version.
Yes, in my family we have this type of Christmas Table at home for Christmas Eve dinner. Of course not that many variation of dishes, but very many. 😋😋 My son and his family will come to me this Christmas so I have a lot to do the week before, preparing all the dishes. It is fun and they love it. 🥰
We have something similar in Finland but usually less varieties and traditional Christmas food is quite rustic. We had just today free Christmas lunch with our team in local lunch place and it was very nice! Can’t even compare to this swedish luxyru dinner but still very good food: ham and other meats, different fishes, casseroles, salads and of course Carelian pies with egg butter! And home made beer as drink. I find these free Christmas meals as very nice tradition! 😊
As people has said, this is a high end "Julbord". To eat a bit of everything would definitely be unhealthy, I don't think (at least I hope not) anyone does that. People at home, usually only has a few dishes, we for example have some pickled herring, ham, sausages and meatballs. Maybe spare ribs or "Jansson" (a fish casserole). And of course Christmas pudding in honour of my grandmother.
Cost is roughly between USD 50 and 100, but can be cheaper or more expensive depending on where. We have the same at home, but usually not as many dishes, and perhaps with other traditional dishes like Yellied Pigs feet and a thin soup made from the chunk of ham (must be on the Julbord) that we dip bread into, and smoked Eel. What MUST be on a Julbord is Potatoes, a number of pickled Herring sorts, Ham, Jansson (the Gratin), Meatballs, the small sausages, and different kinds of hard liquor for adults and Julmust (kind of like a soda, but brewed) for the kids.
Many work places take imployees to a restaurant for christmus dinner but it does not need to be this fancy. At home we make a small version. And in many familys difrent people bring diffrent dishes. Like grandma makes Janssons frestelse. Grandpa brings herring. Kids make gingerbread. And so it becomes a big dinner all together.
The background for this goes back a thousand years or more. Christmas happens basically on the winter solstice, it was a celebration of passing the darkest time and the willingness to fight the cold and hard times ahead. So people ate the best they had to eat. So had nothing to do with being first world.
I’ve been twice to the Gamla Riksarkivet julbord (through work). SO delicious and beautiful! It’s a REALLY nice julbord. One of the best I’ve been to. Ulriksdal and Operakällaren were nice too (but that was a long time ago). In the video, Hallwylska was mentioned. I’ve been there too and it’s in a nice setting and the food was good. But it cannot complete with Riksarkivet.
Julbord is like a big Kilo restaurant combined with Cafe Colonial, only you dont pay by the weight 🙂 The mulled wine (glögg) is actually pretty similar to Quentao de vinho
My company has the Christmas party, but of course sometime in December and not on Christmas Eve. There is always a huge buffet, every year a different or he invites everyone to a restaurant and we eat what is on the menu. In the end, 80% are drunk. I would say that a buffet is normal in Europe for company partys, but with family you usually eat at the table at home. I have worked in several different companies and so far there has always been something like in the video. But for such restaurants, my chefs often had connections, I think for many a simpler version is normal.
the origin of the Christmas table is that at Christmas the farm gathered the food they had and feasted around Christmas when there was still a shortage of work. so from the beginning it was poor man's food.
This video is true and not true at the same time. It is true that we have this kind of food in this typical style at Christmas, not just this abundant. This is really a top of the line "julbord", most swedes never get near this cornucopia of food. In Sweden most people celebrate Christmas with their family and loved ones, as we regard being together is most important at Christmas. However we try to create as much of an abundance as possible with the means at hand, so most of us have at least salmon (smoked, gravad and if you can, oven baked), pickled herring of some sort, often with onion and spices, and also with a creamy mustard sauce(senapssill), some pork like ribs, salted ham baked in breadcrumbs, egg and strong mustard, meatballs, beat root salad, some salami sausage, egg halves with a topping of some sort, often mayonnaise and shrimps or kaviar and red onion, prinskorv (prince sausages, which is basically short wieners with a little different spices), and of course the famous "Janssons frestelse", a gratin du pommes with sauted onion, an abundance of thick cream and what we swedes call "ansjovis" which is a type of spicy pickled small herring that has nothing to do with the fish anchovy. I have seen people outside of Sweden trying to re-create a traditional "Janssons frestelse", failing miserably because they do not have the right kind of fish. This kind of "ansjovis" is particular to Sweden and Finland and is more or less impossible to find in other countries, not even our neighbors in Norway and Denmark have it. There! That is your traditional small sized julbord. There are many regional differences regarding the contents, southern Sweden tend to have more vegetable dishes like different kinds of cabbage dishes, while in the north (where I live) we have a lot of game, like reindeer and moose in different styles, like "tjälknöl" which is a salted moose steak baked on low heat over night and many have salted and smoked heart of reindeer or moose. I am happy to see that you seemed to enjoy our style of food and I hope that you get to try it someday.
Perhaps you can check out these "julbord" on ferries on the Baltic Sea in this video: "TEST: Östersjöns bästa julbord 2024" (TEST: The Baltic sea's best julbord 2024")
And would you pay for the flight and hotel? They clearly describe themselves as living in a ”3rd world country”. Fort most Swedes it is far too expensive to travel to Brazil. Just imagine how few Brazilians can afford travelling to Sweden.
@@birgittae9046 depending where u go! just look out where u can go for the best price!! expensive everywhere now sadly i found one for 259 crowns! ooii cheap..not but cheap anyway so i chose..to eat at home!!
there are a ton of suggestions here..expensive or a bit cheaper ones aswell but enjoy a normal swedish family is ofc all of this buffee but u dont need to pay a ton o money for it so
She simply omits the CRAZIEST prices for even a more modest Julbord. Sverige or Sweden is a life lie and Swedes really know it. But alas , for some clicks and a buck to make we talk louder , very UN - Swedish and presume Sweden through a loud Americanized person with no filter...anymore.
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In Sweden we eat julbord at home too. Usually not as fancy as in this video, but a buffet nontheless. Also we don't celebrate Christmas on Christmas day, but on Christmas eve instead. The same goes for Denmark, Finland and Norway.
There are a lot of traditional dishes on a julbord, and that fancy place had them all, and then some, but noone can eat that much, at home we do maybe 10 dishes (depending on how you count) on top of various types of cold cuts, desserts and candies. In my family, the christmas itinary is pretty much about food, rice porridge for breakfast, a light julbord for lunch, and then the real julbord in the evening. Even though we do a limited julbord, there's enough to last us a week. By the time New Year comes around, everyone is longing to eat something else...
The one she showed was a very fancy and expensive one, i belive that one is around 140usd per person when you go after lunch. Very few swedish ppl goes to anything close to that one if they even "go out" for a julbord.
Many years ago I had a boss who did that type of lunch for our "line". We also had a less fancy company dinner, but I remember those lunches. And, oh boy, I got stuffed before even getting to the hot food.
@@MagdalenaBozyk indeed i think it was a more normal thing a few years ago, i know it still happends but its not as common.
Oh yeah being bursting when going for the second plate is a problem i know of :P
In this video is an expensive version of julbord.
Gamla riksarkivets prices in December
Lunch
Mon - Fri 1195 SEK (109USD/658 Brazilian real)
Sat - Sun 1295 SEK (118 USD/713 Brazilian real
Afternoon/Evening
Måndag - Söndag 1395 SEK (127 USD/798 Brazilian real)
The least expensive is probably at IKEA (yes the furniture store that you've reacted to earlier).
Their julbord costs just
199 SEK (18USD/110 Brazilian real)
You can't really compare the abundance, and the quality though. But you will get some of the "main" Christmas dishes (meatballs, herring, Jansson, ham etc) at IKEA as well, and it's like decent, not bad, but of course not as good as at a good restaurant, or at someone's home.
The "restaurant julbord" is mainly something the companies invite the employees to, some time during December. Some times people also go with their friends and family.
But on Christmas Eve (which is the day we mainly celebrate Christmas on in Sweden) most people have julbord at home/or at friends or families homes. That's the real Christmas dinner. What's on it of course varies from family to family, what they put on the julbord, but there are some dishes that most people agree should be part of it. It could be a bit of a potluck, someone bring "Jansson" (it's a potato and fish gratin), some bring pickled herring, some bring salmon, some bring the meatballs, some bring the little sausages and so on.
Here is a list that Krogguiden put together, of some prices of julbord at some other restaurants.
Operakällaren - 1 700 SEK
Reisen Bar & Matsal - 1545 SEK
Miss Clara 1195 SEK
Slipen 1095 SEK
Trattorian 1295 SEK
Julbord archipelago cruise - 980 SEK
Berns 895 SEK
Lux 895 SEK
East - 895 SEK
Villa Godthem - 895 SEK
Växthuset - 850 SEK
Spritmuseum - 795 SEK
Fotografiska - 795 SEK
The same Christmas table buffet in Finland.
It's not just in Sweden that people have "julebord". It's also a big and important tradition in Denmark. Here, however, it's called "Julefrokost", and is held both at work, in the family and with friends. I'm pretty sure it's also a good tradition in the rest of the Nordic countries.
I think it originates from that Sweden was actually very poor. There was a huge struggle to live and to have food on the table. But X-mas time was the one time of the year that one just did the extra. Forget about how hard life is and did all the extra. Slaughtered a pig one was needed of. Made use of everything and just feasted. And it was also a christian holiday more than it is now. One thing you don't see on a julbord now days is dipping bread in the broth from cooking the ham. And in old times the bread was probably very dry and was a way to use it even if it was hardly eatable.
But making all sort of things and just feast at X-mas have lived on.
We the "avarage" swedes don't eat that fancy julbord. But many of the things mentioned are on a normal julbord, just not that fancy.
This is a VERY exclusive Christmas dinner (julbord). Some of the items are more common to find on a "at home" julbord than others, it all depends on the family and what food they choose to use in their "buffe". But this is a very fancy, expensive and large version.
Yes, in my family we have this type of Christmas Table at home for Christmas Eve dinner. Of course not that many variation of dishes, but very many. 😋😋 My son and his family will come to me this Christmas so I have a lot to do the week before, preparing all the dishes. It is fun and they love it. 🥰
We have something similar in Finland but usually less varieties and traditional Christmas food is quite rustic. We had just today free Christmas lunch with our team in local lunch place and it was very nice! Can’t even compare to this swedish luxyru dinner but still very good food: ham and other meats, different fishes, casseroles, salads and of course Carelian pies with egg butter! And home made beer as drink. I find these free Christmas meals as very nice tradition! 😊
Yes, thats right. At "Gamla riksarkivet" it cost between 100 USD to 140 USD. A "normal" julbord (Christmas table) costs around 44 USD.
As people has said, this is a high end "Julbord". To eat a bit of everything would definitely be unhealthy, I don't think (at least I hope not) anyone does that. People at home, usually only has a few dishes, we for example have some pickled herring, ham, sausages and meatballs. Maybe spare ribs or "Jansson" (a fish casserole). And of course Christmas pudding in honour of my grandmother.
Cost is roughly between USD 50 and 100, but can be cheaper or more expensive depending on where.
We have the same at home, but usually not as many dishes, and perhaps with other traditional dishes like Yellied Pigs feet and a thin soup made from the chunk of ham (must be on the Julbord) that we dip bread into, and smoked Eel.
What MUST be on a Julbord is Potatoes, a number of pickled Herring sorts, Ham, Jansson (the Gratin), Meatballs, the small sausages, and different kinds of hard liquor for adults and Julmust (kind of like a soda, but brewed) for the kids.
Many work places take imployees to a restaurant for christmus dinner but it does not need to be this fancy.
At home we make a small version. And in many familys difrent people bring diffrent dishes. Like grandma makes Janssons frestelse. Grandpa brings herring. Kids make gingerbread. And so it becomes a big dinner all together.
The background for this goes back a thousand years or more.
Christmas happens basically on the winter solstice, it was a celebration of passing the darkest time and the willingness to fight the cold and hard times ahead. So people ate the best they had to eat. So had nothing to do with being first world.
I’ve been twice to the Gamla Riksarkivet julbord (through work). SO delicious and beautiful! It’s a REALLY nice julbord. One of the best I’ve been to. Ulriksdal and Operakällaren were nice too (but that was a long time ago). In the video, Hallwylska was mentioned. I’ve been there too and it’s in a nice setting and the food was good. But it cannot complete with Riksarkivet.
Julbord is like a big Kilo restaurant combined with Cafe Colonial, only you dont pay by the weight 🙂
The mulled wine (glögg) is actually pretty similar to Quentao de vinho
My company has the Christmas party, but of course sometime in December and not on Christmas Eve.
There is always a huge buffet, every year a different or he invites everyone to a restaurant and we eat what is on the menu.
In the end, 80% are drunk.
I would say that a buffet is normal in Europe for company partys, but with family you usually eat at the table at home.
I have worked in several different companies and so far there has always been something like in the video.
But for such restaurants, my chefs often had connections, I think for many a simpler version is normal.
the origin of the Christmas table is that at Christmas the farm gathered the food they had and feasted around Christmas when there was still a shortage of work. so from the beginning it was poor man's food.
This video is true and not true at the same time. It is true that we have this kind of food in this typical style at Christmas, not just this abundant. This is really a top of the line "julbord", most swedes never get near this cornucopia of food. In Sweden most people celebrate Christmas with their family and loved ones, as we regard being together is most important at Christmas. However we try to create as much of an abundance as possible with the means at hand, so most of us have at least salmon (smoked, gravad and if you can, oven baked), pickled herring of some sort, often with onion and spices, and also with a creamy mustard sauce(senapssill), some pork like ribs, salted ham baked in breadcrumbs, egg and strong mustard, meatballs, beat root salad, some salami sausage, egg halves with a topping of some sort, often mayonnaise and shrimps or kaviar and red onion, prinskorv (prince sausages, which is basically short wieners with a little different spices), and of course the famous "Janssons frestelse", a gratin du pommes with sauted onion, an abundance of thick cream and what we swedes call "ansjovis" which is a type of spicy pickled small herring that has nothing to do with the fish anchovy. I have seen people outside of Sweden trying to re-create a traditional "Janssons frestelse", failing miserably because they do not have the right kind of fish. This kind of "ansjovis" is particular to Sweden and Finland and is more or less impossible to find in other countries, not even our neighbors in Norway and Denmark have it. There! That is your traditional small sized julbord. There are many regional differences regarding the contents, southern Sweden tend to have more vegetable dishes like different kinds of cabbage dishes, while in the north (where I live) we have a lot of game, like reindeer and moose in different styles, like "tjälknöl" which is a salted moose steak baked on low heat over night and many have salted and smoked heart of reindeer or moose. I am happy to see that you seemed to enjoy our style of food and I hope that you get to try it someday.
Perhaps you can check out these "julbord" on ferries on the Baltic Sea in this video:
"TEST: Östersjöns bästa julbord 2024"
(TEST: The Baltic sea's best julbord 2024")
Julbord having a vegan alternative is very new (hip and trendy), and not common outside Stockholm.
I take it you’re Brazilian? Come visit! I would gladly take you to a julbord!
And would you pay for the flight and hotel? They clearly describe themselves as living in a ”3rd world country”. Fort most Swedes it is far too expensive to travel to Brazil. Just imagine how few Brazilians can afford travelling to Sweden.
It is only 150 year a go we hade the big starve in Sweden. I thinking its why.
ofc the veggie ones but..noooo the julbord is all of everything meatballs ..ham..steak sausages so on and janssons frestelse is soo awsome!!
Bom, é igual ao self-service brasileiro-- só que sem a balança no final kkk
the cost is about 250 to 300 swedish crowns but also u can eat as much as u want!"
It’s much more expensive than that at Riksarkivet.
Gamla riksarkivets prices in December
Lunch
Mon - Fri 1195 SEK (109USD/658 Brazilian real)
Sat - Sun 1295 SEK (118 USD/713 Brazilian real
Afternoon/Evening
Måndag - Söndag 1395 SEK (127 USD/798 Brazilian real)
Of course this CANNOT be the price in Sweden.
You cannot find a Julbord below 500 sek in the Stockholm Area anyway. It was long time ago they costs only 250-300 sek.
@@birgittae9046 depending where u go! just look out where u can go for the best price!! expensive everywhere now sadly
i found one for 259 crowns! ooii cheap..not but cheap anyway so i chose..to eat at home!!
there are a ton of suggestions here..expensive or a bit cheaper ones aswell but enjoy a normal swedish family is ofc all of this buffee but u dont need to pay a ton o money for it so
u pay a sum o money and then u eat as much as u want! i usually eat soo much that i go home and lay down and just..try to breath:)
To 3rd world:
Christmas tables on some car ferries between Sweden and Finland:
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Wher are you from im from sweden
She simply omits the CRAZIEST prices for even a more modest Julbord. Sverige or Sweden is a life lie and Swedes really know it. But alas , for some clicks and a buck to make we talk louder , very UN - Swedish and presume Sweden through a loud Americanized person with no filter...anymore.