Swedish Parker!

a.k.a. “A dessert fit for a Nobel Laureate”

Xoko, run by Sweden’s most sought-after confectionist.

Purveyor to the Royal Court and official Dessert Chef of the 2007 Nobel Prize Banquet.

Given it’s significance I couldn’t possibly resist ordering the “Nobel 2007″ dessert – served to guests at Stockholm’s Nobel Banquet a couple of months back (I was hoping to be able to make a joke here about eating the same dessert as Al Gore, but unfortunately his ceremony was in Oslo…).

Sure, it cost over 100 krona ($20) for a slither of cake and small scoop of icecream, but I was eating the same dessert as the 2007 Nobel Laureates… priceless?

And you can always tell a dessert has class when the waitress has to complete the dish at the table.

Amanda’s “chocolate sphere” (not it’s official title) required the pouring of hot chocolate on top, in order for a hole to melt in the chocolate-shell-exterior that revealed the raspberry sorbet inside… brilliant.

So Xoko (“Choco”, apparently) is expensive, but the desserts are so ridiculously extravagant that it you quickly forget about the price.

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