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The Restaurant

The Restaurant

2018 Swedish 4 Seasons TV-MA
Trailer

On the day the Second World War finally ended and celebrations filled the streets of Stockholm, two strangers came together with a quick kiss, parting immediately. Upper-class girl Nina and kitchen hand Calle couldn’t know that their brief encounter would come to have far-reaching consequences for their families in this multigenerational saga of family business and love that will not be denied. “Sweden’s answer to Downton Abbey” —Culture Trip.

Seasons

"1. Peace"

Stockholm VE Day 1945. In the jubilant crowd on Kungsgatan, a spontaneous kiss between two strangers will have dire consequences.

56min
"2. The Return"

Mr Peter Löwander returns from military service in Europe accompanied by a Jewish girl named Suzanne Goldstein. Peter´s mother and the family´s “matriarch” Helga quietly resents her son´s new friend and ponders on what to do.

56min
"3. The Jubilee"

Gustaf and Helga prepare a jubilee celebrating the restaurant´s 50 year existence as a way of attracting customers.

56min
"4. Secrets"

The Löwander family is shocked and shaken by an announcement from Peter and Suzanne.

56min
"5. The Restaurant Manager"

While Gustaf is held in police custody Peter takes over the role of restaurant manager at Djurgårdskällaren.

56min
"6. The Reopening"

At this point everything is hanging by a thread. Peter and Nina are struggling to keep the restaurant afloat.

56min
"7. The Crayfish Party"

Stockholm,1946. Nina and Erik are celebrating their engagement with a crayish party at the archipelago and Calle is reluctantly in charge of the food.

56min
"8. The Agreement"

Suzanne’s meltdown leads to huge consequences for both Peter and the restaurant.

56min
"9. The Housewife"

Stockholm, 1950. The past few years have really changed things for the Löwanders. Nina and Erik gave birth to a baby girl and Nina is currently living a calm and quiet life as a housewife. But things aren’t as perfect as they seem.

56min
"10. Hope"

Nina’s addiction has catastrophic consequences. There is a dirty battle going on between Gustaf and Peter about the ruling of the restaurant.

56min
"The Restaurant S2 Trailer"

The ravishing second season of The Restaurant begins in 1955; love stories bloom, high-risk plans are set in motion and dark secrets come to light. Premieres March 29th with new episodes Fridays.

1min
"1. The Christmas Present"

December 1955. Christmas is coming up, Restaurant DK is doing extremely well, and everything should be joy and tranquility. However, the Löwander family is divided. A distressing event causes the matriarch, Helga, to make a new attempt in reuniting the family, but Gustaf is still hurt and simply not interested.

56min
"2. Rock 'n' Roll"

Italian youngster, Angelo, starts as a dishwasher at Restaurant DK and finds the first 24 hours rough. Helga, Peter and Nina try to persuade Gustaf not to sell his shares in the restaurant, but Gustaf wants to be free from the family and move on to invest in his new workplace - Oscarshof.

56min
"3. Old Families and New Ones"

It is 1956. Henriette Winter is a new partner in the restaurant and Peter and Ester are trying to find a way to get rid of her. Backe is feeling his age and is becoming increasingly paranoid, upsetting the entire kitchen staff.

56min
"4. Nina\u2019s Surprise"

After the Oscarshof incident, Gustaf is missing. Fears are spreading that he might have taken his own life. Henriette Winter has decided to sell her share in the restaurant and Peter and Nina are fighting about who should buy it.

56min
"5. The Book"

1957. Calle has been head chef at DK for a year and Gustaf is back working at the restaurant. Nina's daughter Christina wants to move to Stockholm to live with her mother, but Christina's father is not too sure.

56min
"6. Bella Italia"

Restaurant DK is organising an Italian food week.

56min
"7. The Ten-Thousand Kronor Question"

Peter is agonizing over whether or not he should leave his family and the restaurant in order to live with the love of his life Suzanne.

56min
"8. The Sermon"

1962. Calle and Nina have been doing their television program for five years and their relationship is strained from working two jobs.

56min
"9. Absolute Majority"

Helga has had a stroke and her family fear the worst. Peter and Esther are worried about what will happen to DK if Helga passes away and begin to make secret arrangements.

56min
"10. The Funeral"

Peter and Ester have destroyed Helga's will, having discovered that Helga left the running of the restaurant to Nina. Stickan wants to cook the food for Helga's funeral service, but Calle is not convinced Stickan could manage.

56min
"1. The Nightclub"

Stockholm in May 1968. Nina and her daughter Christina, who is now around twenty, prepare for the opening of “Ninas” – the DK restaurant that’s to be relaunched as a nightclub and discoteque.

57min
"2. VIP"

Nina goes to see Peter and starts a row with him as he and Ester have seduced one of her DJs into working at “Royal”. “Ninas” are without a chef, so Gustaf and Bellan persuade Nina to meet with Calle.After some persuasion Maggan joins Lilly on a visit to an illegal gay nightclub.

59min
"3. Creme de la Creme"

John and the left-wing group are short of money, and they decide to steal wallets from rich clients at “Ninas”. The newspapers have caught wind that Maggan, Stockholm’s city commissioner, has been to an illegal club.

59min
"4. Resignation"

Christina goes to see Uno, and confronts him about spying on John and her and the others. John and the left-wing group know that the police are on their trail. Money disappears from the daily takings at “Ninas”.

57min
"5. Homecoming"

Three years later – it’s 1971. Uno is contacted by Ivar Strid, his old boss at IB, who tells him that they’ve managed to trace the left-wing group. Gustaf surprises Nina when he returns from Africa, where he and the family have been living as missionaries for some years.

58min
"6. The Elms"

The kitchen at “Ninas” hasn’t had any deliveries of produce. Calle makes a call to check with the supplier and finds out that he hasn’t been paid. John and the left-wing group plan an attack on an international conference to be held in Stockholm in a few weeks.

58min
"7. The Countdown"

Christina is practically a prisoner with John and the rest of the left-wing group. “Ninas” is on the verge of bankruptcy. Mirko Kostelic contacts Peter with a bold initiative: he wants them to put aside their old conflict and jointly buy “Ninas”.

58min
"8. The Future"

“Ninas” is under desperate financial pressure, claimants have started to turn to the bailiffs. Astrid is becoming weaker and calls Gustaf to her side, she wants to tell him something before she dies.

59min