Svea is an old word for Sweden (nowadays called Sverige in Swedish). It's also the name of a small restaurant, a dinner, in Andersonville where we went last week for lunch (Georgie wanted to play again in the children's room of the Swedish-American Museum, which is in the same street).
The food is an American pastiche of what Swedish food is supposed to be like (lots of dishes are called Viking this and Viking that...), but the place is cute and kitsch and the service fast and friendly. And it's a family-owned restaurant with a genuine link to Sweden. Mr Mathiasson, one of the prominent residents of Andersonville behind the creation of the Swedish-American Museum, is shown in a photo dating back to 1976 with the current Swedish King, Carl Gustaf, on his visit to Andersonville for the official opening of the museum.
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