The World’s Best New Supper Club Is Remote, But You Can Get In

Faviken Magasinet has been called the world’s most isolated restaurant (by Bloomberg, in fact). It’s also one of the hardest to get into, since it’s a 16-seat farmhouse dining room featuring the Nordic cooking of one of the world’s great chefs, Magnus Nilsson, and it’s open just a little more than half the year. In 2016, Nilsson calculated that only about 5,000 people had actually been there.

But say you’re one of those 5,000 who scored that Faviken reservation and traveled to the remote town of Jarpen in the middle of Sweden, a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle, to claim your reward, as I did last month. The clock is ticking: Like all the best things, the experience will come to an end, and pretty quickly. In fact, guests can spend only one night at Faviken—if you’re staying there, you’re eating Nilsson’s extremely local and seasonal cooking, like the famed scallops cooked in their shells over juniper. Your seat is coveted, but your meal wouldn’t be much different the next night. Faviken’s check-in is at 3 p.m., and checkout is the following morning, directly after a glorious farmhouse breakfast that ends with hot, fist-size berry jam-filled cookies.