Breakfast with that little extra, with about ninety ingredients, is something we’re famous for. We serve our breakfast in the country kitchen or the restaurant on the ground floor in Kungsgården. This brunch will keep you satisfied well past lunchtime.
Breakfast is included in the price of the hotel room. Anyone who lives in the hostel can buy breakfast at a discount. We also welcome breakfast guests who’re not staying at Kungsgården Långvind – they need to book a day in advance.
Locally produced, organic, and fair trade products: We have over forty products that are either locally produced (marked *), organic (marked º), and/or fair trade products (marked ^), including three local schnapps from Tevesjö destillery, Järvsö.
Hot drinks: Organic brewed coffeeº, instant coffee^, decaffeinated instant coffee, brewed tea, more than half a dozen of different kinds of tea bags^ – including Earl Grey, Russian Earl Grey, English breakfast, green tea, mint tea, and herbal teas – as well as hot cacao plus compliments such as milkº, sugar cubes, raw cane sugar pieces^, brown cane sugar^, honey*, sweetener and lemon juice.
Juice: Freshly squeezed orange juice with pulp and fresh apple juice.
Yogurt: Yogurt from Hälsingland*, Swedish sour milk from Hälsingland*, organic milkº, organic natural yoghurtº, lactose-free yogurt plus lingonberry jam*, blueberry jam*, homemade rhubarb or apple compote*, pieces of gingersnaps*, homemade granola*, muesli, corn flakes, organic raisinsº, roasted coconut flakes, walnuts, hazelnuts,, organic flax seedsº, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, organic chia seedsº, cinnamon, ginger, and granulated sugar*.
Local/organic Eggs*º
Porridge*º and gruel, on-demand.
Bread: About ten types of bread, from local, organic sourdough bread*º, freshly baked bread rolls, freshly baked wholemeal bread rolls, rye bread, traditional Finnish rye bread, and number of hardtack, including Leksands minirut*. During the summer we also serve our homemade crostini*.
Cheese: Two types of strong Swedish cheese, camembert cheese, chive or garlic cream cheese, and shrimp cheese*. During the summer we also have homemade cream cheese*.
Meat: Swedish roast beef* from Hudiksvall, locally produced sausage* from Delsbo or Gustafs, and smoked, aged Black Forrest ham.
Herring, salmon and caviar: Two types of herring, one of which is homemade herring*, smoked salmon, and two types of caviar* – one of which has a high roe content from certified sustainable fishing.
Vegetables: Local cherry tomatoes*, Swedish cucumber, Swedish ruccola, peppers, kalamata olives and organic, Swedish pickled cucumberº.
Marmalade: Five marmalades, including orange marmalade and cloudberry jam*.
Functional food juices: Blueberries and mango (Proviva).
Fruit: Grapes, apples, physalis, oranges, and organic lemons*.
Dessert: Local ginger snaps*, Italian almond biscuits, Swedish rusk/zwieback (Swedish “skorpa”), dark and light chocolate from all corners of the world^, and local candies from Hudiksvall*.
Lactose and gluten-free: Lactose-free yogurt is on the breakfast table. We also have gluten-free bread for those who ask for it in advance. We have lactose-free milk for those who ask for it three days in advance.
Vegan: We have a good selection of vegetarian products, which we supplement with additional vegan products for those who ask for it three days in advance.
Schnapps and champagne: We have a serving permit for breakfast, so you can have champagne breakfast or take a schnapps with the herring or salmon. We have both real champagne, Spanish cava and sparkling wine in a piccolo bottles, a number of classic Swedish schnapps and three kinds of organic schnapps from local Tevsjö distillery in Järvsö: Hälsingesnaps*º, London dry gin/Hälsingegin*º and Järvsö aquavit*º. Read more about this here!
Daily newspapers: For breakfast we serve fresh newspapers on tablets (iPad) with digital editions of the Swedish national dailies Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet, and local dailies Hudiksvalls Tidning, Söderhamns-Kuriren, Ljusnan, Ljusdals-Posten and others. You can also read your local newspaper on our tablets.
Meals: Kungsgården Långvind offers dinners with starters, main courses, desserts and beer, wine, and champagne – we are fully licensed. Read more about this on the menu!
Text and photo:
Jörgen Bengtson
Updated June 2, 2021