Tallbergsgardens Hotell

Coming just now, sadly, from one of the bigger restaurant disappointments I've experienced in my 73 years of life. After experiencing the exact opposite of well-cooked or extremely good food at Tällbergsgården, both à la carte dishes and Easter lunch, this was practically a total disaster. The menu itself was very limited with a small selection, but that is naturally okay if the food wasn't terribly badly cooked. We had an appetizer in the form of green asparagus with some accompanying sauces. An amuse-bouche is not coming without an amuse-bouche, i.e., a minimal, to say micro-tessimal, right, normally served before a meal to tease the taste buds a little. Definitely not a party. Three pieces of asparagus about a few centimeters long, with a thickness about that of a normal spaghetti, with something slightly green on top, plus a few dollops of different creams plus half a teaspoon of crushed nuts. Okay, not an appetizer but with a good main course, you can forgive such a kitchen mistake. The taste of the little thing was okay though. Two main courses to choose from, "hälleflounder" and a baked pork dish, like pork belly. Now we had eaten hälleflundra and flösksida the day before in Dalecarlia in Tällberg. Bored with the same, but it could not be understood by Tällbergsgården. We both took "hälleflundran". In Dalecarlia we happily noted that the fish was a real halibut, i.e. the extremely large fish weighing several hundred kilos that are caught around Iceland and in other cold waters. Very easily recognizable by its firm, delicate meat cut into characteristic pieces. Don't come in the hälleflundra, but the smaller fish called Hällefisk, which in some less precise places is called hälleflundra even though they are not related at all. But okay, monkfish is not bad in itself, but a good fish, although it is far from the real monkfish in taste. But then the disaster came. My fish was salted so much that it was completely inedible. The British fish was also quite oversalted but still with a little good will possible to eat. To the fish, it was mashed potatoes and the mash was also salt-ruined catastrophically. Before we got our food, we saw a neighboring couple send out the pork dish, for an unknown reason, and switched to fish. We don't know what the mistake was there, but it is very unusual to experience two tables rejecting the different food. So out with my inedible fish. Since I ate pork belly the day before and noting the neighbor's reaction, switching to pork was not an option. So with a guarantee that a new fish portion wouldn't be salt-ruined, I ordered it. And of course, while Britt slowly eats his portion, I sit and watch. And looking and looking. So the message is that my fish will arrive in one minute. But I have to keep watching. Finally, my fish that I eat with Britt now as a spectator because she ate what she could of her portion. Now the monkfish was unsalted thankfully and edible. BUT the mashed potatoes were as salt-ruined as before. So salty that the piece of fish that lay against the moss has absorbed quite a bit of salt, yet still edible fish part. And no, I am not in any way overly sensitive to salt or a whiny person. We were thinking of spending a little longer at Tällbergsgården with some small accompaniment or something similar, but we completely lost the desire. When paying, the cost of my fish meal was deducted, which was a correct and reasonable handling. We will NOT be back despite our nice experience at Easter. It just can't be this bad even if one is understaffed in the kitchen and service or whatever the catastrophe was due to.

We had a nice two night stay at Tällbergsgårdens Hotell. Our room/suite was lovely and had a wonderful view of the lake and a bath at the end of the bed. The bath was low so you couldn't see the view from it. There was a separate seating area and also an outdoor deck with table and chairs. It was a great view of the sunset. The breakfast were very nice although not as much food choice as we'd had elsewhere. No fish dishes available - mainly standard continental breakfast food - cheese, meats, pastries, fruit. We didn't do well getting the attention of staff. When we checked in about 4pm there was no one at reception so we moved to wait a while at the bar area. Still no one. There were three members of staff beyond the bar chatting like they were in a meeting and they just looked up at us and looked away when we went towards them. We went back to the main entrance and still couldn't find anyone. In the end we had to disturb the people in the meeting and the main lady came and checked us in. It was all a little odd and we didn't feel welcomed so chose not to eat dinner there either night. It was similar when we checked out. Again staff doing things elsewhere but not attending to hotel guests.

Nice staff, nice room, good food and service. Breakfast was just right. We are so happy with the experience