Magnus Nilsson and the Thin Bread Roll

Magnus Nilsson is best known as the man behind Fäviken Magasinet, one of the world's most acclaimed fine-dining restaurants. But for us at TBR-kartan, he's just as interesting for another reason: he's one of the few star chefs to take the thin bread roll seriously – and to do so with the same care for ingredients as at his Michelin-starred restaurant.

Timeline

Korvkiosk in Åre – the thin bread roll gets a star chef

Around 2014–2015, Nilsson opened Korvkiosk in Åre, as a down-to-earth side project to Fäviken. The kiosk was first located at Åregården, later on Torggränd. The sausage came from his own Undersåkers Charkuterifabrik, and the thin bread roll – the kiosk's bestseller – was built with pork-beef sausage, mayonnaise, mashed potato, roasted onion, raw onion and shrimp salad. Among the sausage options was also isterband, which visitors particularly recommended as a good match for the roll.

This is a dream, getting to start a sausage kiosk! It's something I've wanted to do throughout my whole career.

Magnus Nilsson, Sveriges Radio, P4 Jämtland, 2014-12-18T00:00:00.000Z

Kioskvältaren – the roll that went on tour

In June 2015, Fäviken Korvkiosk rolled into Kungsträdgården in Stockholm as part of the "Smaka på Stockholm" food festival. There, the name of one of the kiosk's thin bread rolls was coined: Kioskvältaren – a Vienna sausage with bread, mashed potato, shrimp salad, roasted onion and pressed cucumber, all self-produced.

The name lived on when Nilsson later opened a second Korvkiosk location at Teatern, a food market in the Ringen shopping mall at Skanstull, Stockholm (Götgatan 132). There, Kioskvältaren reappeared, albeit in a slightly different form: shrimp salad, pickled cucumber, roasted shallot, mustard and ketchup. The menu offered three sausage types – a regular one, a bräckkorv with ginger and nutmeg, and isterband, described as "slightly sour in taste". The concept aimed for at least half the weight of each roll to be vegetables.

The Tunnbrödsrulle is really a whole meal in a wrap!

K, Pickle Deli Square, 2017-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

The closure

Fäviken Magasinet closed for good on 14 December 2019, and with it, the Korvkiosk concepts in both Åre and Stockholm eventually disappeared as well. Since then, no one at Tunnbrödsrullens Vänner has been able to pin down an active Magnus Nilsson roll anywhere in the country.

I didn't wake up in the morning and say, ‘Hell yes, this is going to be a great day, I can't wait to work.’

Magnus Nilsson, Robb Report, 2021-05-26T00:00:00.000Z

The finale matched the ambition. Nilsson invited everyone who had ever worked at Fäviken during the restaurant's ten years, along with around 30 regular guests, to a no-limit party. Guests were served American BBQ from Holy Smoke and pizza from Lilla Napoli, Sweden's most hyped pizzeria, while a new band or artist took the stage every half hour until the rock band The Hives closed out the night. Nilsson reportedly woke up the next day both happy and hungover.

I love to throw a good party! The staff got to compile a list of chefs they wanted to cook for the evening and then everyone of those got a time slot to deliver their food.

Magnus Nilsson, Fine Dining Lovers, 2024-09-26T00:00:00.000Z

Fun fact: in his later book The Nordic Cookbook (2015), Nilsson also includes a Norwegian recipe for a soft, griddled potato flatbread (lompe) rolled around a hot dog, a conceptual cousin of the thin bread roll, though Norwegian and not the same dish. Unlike a TBR, lompe med pølse is usually served without mashed potato (the potato is already in the bread itself), and the roll is left open at both ends rather than sealed at the bottom like a TBR. Sweden also has its own cousin to lompe called läfsa, a similar soft potato flatbread found in regions such as Värmland.

Is Båstad waiting for a thin bread roll?

Here's the part we're really hoping for. After a few years focused on fruit growing, Magnus Nilsson has returned to the restaurant business – this time in the Bjäre area of Skåne, where he lives and runs an apple orchard in Axeltorp. In spring 2025, he opened the restaurant/inn Furuhem in Båstad together with chef Frida Nilsson, Daniella Rebelo, and baker Felicia Garellick: a farm-to-table concept open from breakfast to dinner, with ingredients from his own growing operation and nearby farms. He has also bought the historic inn Hjorten in Båstad, though operations there haven't started yet.

It's opposite to how I used to do it. But I believe in a team effort this time.

Magnus Nilsson, Fine Dining Lovers, 2024-09-26T00:00:00.000Z

Nothing reported so far about Furuhem or Hjorten mentions thin bread rolls – to be clear, this is wishful thinking on our part, not confirmed news. But given Nilsson's track record as one of the few star chefs to take the thin bread roll seriously, and his taste for down-to-earth side projects alongside fine dining, it's not an unreasonable dream that a Korvkiosk-like venture – or at least a thin bread roll on Furuhem's menu – could show up in Båstad. If anything happens on that front, TBR-kartan will share the news.

Sources

• Stjärnkocken Magnus Nilsson öppnar korvkiosk i Åre – Sveriges Radio, P4 Jämtland
• Korvkiosk och Svartklubb – Fäviken utökar i Åre – LTZ
• Stockholm Eats: Magnus Nilsson's Korvkiosk – Pickle Deli Square
• Fäviken Korvkiosk's first tour stop: Smaka på Stockholm – Vinbanken, 11 June 2015
• Teatern – Food court – Södermalm/Skanstull, Stockholm – Thatsup
• Korvkiosk – Restaurant – Södermalm/Skanstull, Stockholm – Thatsup
• KORVKIOSK – CLOSED – Yelp
• Berömda krogen Fäviken Magasinet stänger för gott – SVT Nyheter
• Fem år efter Fäviken – stjärnkrögaren återvänder till krogscenen – Foodnet
• Världskocken skapar en restaurang där alla ska hitta något på menyn – Bjarenu
• Teamet som ska skapa nya Furuhem tar form – Bjarenu
• Magnus Nilsson har köpt restaurang i Båstad – Goda Nyheter
• Efter världssuccén – följ med Magnus Nilsson i köket på Furuhem – Helsingborgs Dagblad
• Magnus Nilsson: 'The world doesn't need another Fäviken' – Fine Dining Lovers, 26 Sep 2024
• Magnus Nilsson on Closing Fäviken, Fine Dining's Bubble and Covid-19 – Robb Report, 26 May 2021
• Cookbook Review: The Nordic Cook Book by Magnus Nilsson – HuffPost