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also stocks champagne and cocktails.
Daily noon till late.
Sand
Kyrkogatan 2
T
0431 55 81 09.
Attached to
Hotel
Skansen
with glorious views out over the sea, this is an
excellent-quality à la carte restaurant (mains from 275kr)
serving up rack of lamb, steaks, turbot and corn-fed
chicken.
Mon-Fri 11.30am-2pm & 6pm till late, Sat
noon-2.30pm & 6pm till late, Sun noon-3pm.
Sands Bakficka
Hamngatan 1
T
0431 55 81 09.
A
bright and breezy bistro which does a roaring trade during
the summer months, dishing up open sandwiches, coffees
and cakes. Really nice views out over the sea from here.
June-Aug 9am-8pm, Sat & Sun 9am-10pm.
Solbackens Café & Wåffelbruk
Munkgatan 10
T
0431 702 00
. This Båstad institution first opened its
doors in 1907 and has been serving delicious fresh
waffles and cream ever since. Seating is arranged on a
series of terraces with views out over the sea.
June-Aug
daily 1-5pm.
The Bjäre peninsula
Jutting into the Kattegat directly west of Båstad and deserving a couple of days'
exploration, the
Bjäre peninsula
's natural beauty has a magical quality to it. Its varied
scenery includes wide fertile fields where potatoes and strawberries are grown,
splintered red-rock cliff formations and remote islands ringed by seals, thick with birds
and historical ruins.
Kattvik and around
About 8km west of Båstad, and beyond Norrvikens Trädgårdar is
KATTVIK
. Once a
village busy with stone-grinding mills, it is now largely the domain of wealthy, elderly
Stockholmers, who snap up the few houses on the market as soon as they are up for
sale. Kattvik achieved its moment of fame when Richard Gere chose a cottage here
as a venue for a summer romance.
Kai's fish smokery
A kilometre from Kattvik off the Torekov road (follow the sign “
rökt fisk”)
”) is
Kai's fish
smokery
, an old farm where fish is smoked in little furnaces fired by sawdust from the
nearby clog factory. Here you can have a taste of - and buy - the very best smoked fish
in the area; as well as the usual mackerel and salmon, sample
horngädda
(garpike), a
scaly fish with bright green bones, and
sjurygg
(lumpsucker), an extraordinarily ugly,
seven-crested fish with oily, flavoursome flesh.
Hovs Hallar nature reserve
Heading north along the coast road or the signposted walking trail, the undulating
meadows and beamed cottages you'll encounter have a rural and peculiarly English
feel. To continue along the coast after taking the trail from Kattvik, follow the path
for
Hovs Hallar nature reserve
, leading off at the T-junction (20min walk). Wandering
across to the reserve from the car park, you can clamber down any of several paths
towards the sea. The views are breathtaking - screaming gulls circling overhead and
waves crashing onto the unique red-stone cliffs - though it's something of a tourist
magnet during the summer.
Torekov
On the peninsula's western coast,
TOREKOV
is just 5km from Hovs Hallar nature
reserve. The village is named after a little girl later known as St Thora, who, so the story
goes, was drowned by her wicked stepmother; the body was washed ashore and given a
Christian burial by a blind man, who then miraculously regained his sight. It's a perfect
place to chill; indeed, one odd sight is the daily ritual of elderly men in dressing gowns
wandering along the pier - so sought after is the property here, these old boys
promenade in bathrobes to set themselves apart from the visitors.
