Kvilles Pastahouse
“Vegan options in the oddest place.”
You thought I am done with Kvilletorget? Nah! There are more and more surprises waiting! One of them is Kvilles Pastahouse. While on the way to eat at Mosaik konstcafé, I briefly looked into the window of this sports bar and realised, plenty of vegan options prominently displayed. For such a pub setting, this is an odd sight. Hence, now is the time to try it out.
Kvilles Pastahouse is as the name suggests a pasta focused place. I wouldn’t say it’s obvious, because it really just is a pub and sports bar, but instead of having your typical pub food they opted for pasta. Fair enough I guess. Located right around Kvilletorget, definitely an easy find if you are in the area.
The inside is as you imagine just your average Swedish pub, but with a bunch of tv screens for football or ice hocket. Works. The menu is having options such as Kebabpasta, A soy-based burger with fries, a vegan carbonara or some other vegan pasta, 5 in total. Quite impressive, but one thing threw me off a bit: basically every pasta dish is described with cream. So, no tomato based sauce it seems.
We went for kebab and carbonara. After a short waiting time they already arrived in 70s style orange plates. Both dishes look very similar, but the pasta shape tells them apart. The kebab pasta tastes rather faint and the seitan kebab itself is pretty tasteless. I assume it’s from Schysst Käk, which is quite faint in spices and loses even more in the cream sauce. The sauce itself is very runny and clearly not made by someone that learned to cook properly and the pasta is alright. A tad overcooked but not as overcooked as some Italian restaurants serve it to you in Sweden. As for the carbonara pasta? More or less the same, but the taste comes primarily from the Seitan bacon. Seems to me like the cheap one Coop has, which can work well for a carbonara like experience. Apart from that? Salt, pepper, cream, and runny sauce. It’s alright and nothing I would complain too much about, but it’s clearly on the lower end of quality.
This is topped with a very poor selection of alcohol free drinks, as they only have Carlsberg and a Cider in non-alcoholic form (next to soft drinks). But the surprise came at the bill: one pasta dish costs a whopping 169 SEK. That’s just generally very high for a pub, but even more so for one in that area and for this kind of dish. This makes Kvilles Pastahouse basically unacceptable, cause the food is really not worth this price tag.
Price:
Pasta Dish: 169 SEK
The Verdict
Another surprisingly vegan friendly place at Kvilletorget. Plenty of vegan pasta dishes, such as kebab, carbonara or with vegetables. But the initial surprise comes to dissappointment fast. Basically all dishes are the same base (cream, and very runny at that) and just not that great. The pasta is slightly overcooked, but still acceptable enough, and the taste profile is simple and alright at that - if you like runny cream with plenty of pepper and cheap seitan based meat substitutes. But the price tag makes Kvilles Pastahouse unacceptable. 169 SEK for a simple pasta dish is not only on the high end of pub prices, but also simply unacceptable for the quality you get here. Considering there are plenty of better places a merely 1-5 minutes walk around, I’d say avoid Kvilles Pastahouse alltogether.
2/5 Leaves
Pro
Many vegan options
Cosy “sunkhak” vibe
Con
All vegan options basically the same cream base
Very high price for the quality/place
No price indication for anything anywhere (unless you ask)
Location
Brämaregatan 18
Opening Hours
Mo-Fr: 16:00 - 01:00
Sa: 14:00 - 01:00
Su: 14:00 - 00:00
