Location: 72 Enid Street
Opening hours: closed down Spring 2021
Other days: n/a
Official site: https://londoncallingsweden.com/
Last updated: 10/08/2022
According to its website's Our Story page (because it was the sort of website that had an Our Story page), London Calling Sweden was the brainchild of expat Swede Andreas Fredriksson, who missed the beer and cheese from back home. Unable to find anywhere in London that could provide him with these two basic essentials, he set one up himself.
The beer at London Calling Sweden was from Västra Götaland brewery Poppels: most of the eight taps were dedicated to their various brews, while the rest were guest beers from their Enid Street mates at Brew By Numbers and Moor. (It's rather sweet to see the various businesses on the Mile getting along, rather than competing with each other.) As for the cheese, they used to offer a sharing platter with four strengths of cheese in large quantities, bread, butter, jam and olives: later on that became a Swedish Ploughman's, with added salami.
It was always a fun place to visit, particularly during the 2018 World Cup when LCS made the most of their big telly during the Sweden matches. (See photo above.) The bar was beautifully distressed, a collection of random pub furniture and mismatched wall art that made it look like a pop-up inside an abandoned old boozer, even though the whole thing was presumably constructed from scratch inside the railway arch.
Sadly, LCS was a casualty of the pandemic. After several months closed during lockdown, they were initially thinking of becoming a more general bottleshop for Swedish beer: then they started looking for buyers through their website: then their website vanished completely. Nowadays the site is empty apart from the odd pop-up street food vendor. Shame that, it was a nice idea.
Does anyone know if LCS will be open again
Posted by: Graham Pettit | 04/08/2021 at 10:32 PM
Did the bar attract a diverse crowd or was it primarily frequented by Swedes?
Posted by: Administrasi Bisnis | 15/06/2023 at 01:21 PM