Experience flavors from Italy in Kristinehamn at an authentic Italian restaurant right in the center.
Restaurant
At Oliveriet, authentic Italian food is prepared from scratch, including fresh artisanal pasta. Their long-fermented pizzas are baked at a high temperature in an Italian pizza oven. A visit here is like coming to Italy for a while.
Store
Oliveriet also imports delicacies, wines, beers and other good drinks from family businesses in Italy that season their products with love. Andrea is from Sardinia, so of course a large part of the delicacies comes from the Mediterranean's second largest island.
You can buy delicacies and gift baskets and there is also a web shop.
Event
Wine tastings, cooking classes and other things to do with Italy and food and wine are also organized here.
In 2021, the restaurant was number one on Tripadvisor's list of the most popular restaurants in Värmland.
Here is an article translated into English about Oliveriet:
Welcome to Italy for a while
Eating at Oliveriet is like stepping into a restaurant in Italy. The whole atmosphere breathes Italy. Everything from the food, the language and the personal Italian service. Andrea is from the sunny island of Sardinia and Jenny has lived over 10 years in Italy and eaten her way through the country. In Italy, food is religion and it is also at Oliveriet. Yes, Oliveriet is simply an authentic Italian restaurant, pizzeria and deli.
Everything is prepared from scratch with hand-picked ingredients of the highest quality. Oliveriet is Slow-Food and all food is cooked to order, so it may take a little longer to eat here. The ingredients are seasonal and in addition to the Italian delicacies, local produce is used whenever possible and preferably organic.
- A few times a year we arrange local food trips to farms in the immediate area, as if we were in Italy, says Jenny Svensson. Oliveriet also offers cooking classes, book circles with food, Italian courses and wine tastings with food. In addition, gift baskets, grocery bags, pizza kits are made.
To work with your love
It's great fun and stimulating to do things together, says Jenny. We are quite different so we complement each other and have different skills. However, it can be a little too much of a good thing sometimes and our children ask us to stop talking about work all the time... Like all couples, we can also disagree about how to do something, but that usually goes away quickly after a little Italian drama.
Dreaming of opening in several locations in Sweden
Jenny dreams of cloning Oliveriet and opening more locations in Sweden.
- We are often asked if we can't open an Oliveriet in everything from Stockholm, Gothenburg, Falun, Gullspång or in Gislaved just to name a few, so why not?
