Ivar Berglin

Ivar visits three restaurants—Ekstedt in Stockholm, Koka in Göteborg, and Bastard in Malmö, where the chefs are taking on New Nordic cuisine in their own terms.

Host Ivar heads far north to snowy Umeå to meet reindeer herder Tobias, samples Swedish reindeer meat and dumpling dishes, and makes cocktails from foraged ingredients.

Ivar hits Aifur, Sweden’s only real Viking restaurant, and meets its owner and dance music legend E-Type to discover how the Vikings informed modern Swedish cuisine.

In this episode, Ivar’s trip to the Skåne region kicks up a few surprises, from a crazy-looking dessert called Spettkaka to a goose feast in Lund.

In our opening episode, Ivar travels to Göteborg, Sweden’s fish capital, to put together a Swedish smörgåsbord with catch straight from the sea.

We get back on the road with Ivar after a night of clubbing.

Ivar flies to Warsaw on a mission to make a series about the modern Polish renaissance.

“From Poland With Love" follows two characters, Ivar and Julita as they search Poland to find the most fascinating, exciting and underexposed aspects of the country.

In the final installment of the show, Ivar and Julita are back in Warsaw and go live on the radio.

Ivar and Julita meet up with Xawery Zulawski, a young, respected film director.

Ivar and Julita head to Gdansk to meet a hero of the Polish solidarity movement who helped put and end to years of communist rule in 1989.

The team heads west towards the German border to the Silesian forests.