Snö is a Scandinavian-inspired cafe at G01/12 Saint Marks Road in Remuera. Its name means snow in Swedish, and the menu takes Swedish classics and gives them a New Zealand twist. Many items are made in house in small batches, including the bread and the Swedish cured salmon.
Breakfast is the centre of the menu. The breakfast bowl is soaked oats with almond butter, oat milk, seasonal fruit, berry compote and housemade cruesli. For a cooked plate, the free-range eggs come your way on ciabatta, sourdough or keto bread, and you can switch to Swedish rye or buckwheat bread. The poached eggs with housemade rösti, sautéed spinach and hollandaise can be topped with gravlax or hot smoked salmon, or with portobello mushrooms. The isterband sausage breakfast brings thick-cut bacon, creamed dill potatoes, house-baked beans, free-range poached eggs and SNÖ pickles on Swedish rye.
Later in the day the menu moves to larger plates. There is a grilled chicken salad with red quinoa, a seafood dish of prawns, mussels, squid and clams, and a spicy buttermilk fried chicken with bacon and spring onion waffles, kumara chips and sriracha mayo. A sliced scotch fillet steak comes on sesame bagels with four cheese sauce.
The drinks list includes tea, shakes such as matcha caramel and peanut butter and blueberry, a double shot coffee with ice cream, and a wine by the glass, along with a housemade cocktail built on Bacardi rum.
Our pick in Remuera for a Swedish rye breakfast with the salmon.