The Restaurant (2017–…): Season 2, Episode 6 - Bella Italia - full transcript
Restaurant DK is organising an Italian food week.
- Why can't I order alcohol?
- New rules.
I need Italian ingredients,
can you find them for me?
She'll be the new city councilor,
and she would like me as her secretary.
- Will you work for the City?
- I haven't accepted yet.
I had an interesting conversation
with Todd Wallenstam.
- Will Calle write another book?
- No, he has a new author.
Suzanne Goldstein.
She is returning to Stockholm.
- A waiter has to work without being seen.
- I won't talk to the guests anymore.
And get dressed, damn it!
- Will I be able to see you again?
- Not a good idea for either of us.
- Roos, have you noticed anything missing?
- No. Not a milliliter.
I'm sorry you don't believe me, mom.
Now I have to get back to work.
- Good morning. Do you have a minute?
- Sure.
I have an idea: Italian week.
It would draw attention to the DK.
Some reporters could be contacted.
- We just opened the bar.
- Yes, but an article is always good.
And we in the kitchen will learn something new.
- It would cost money.
- If we talk about it ...
Not now, Calle.
I have to focus on the Hofvet. Ok?
Sales are on the rise
since we returned to jazz.
- But there are fewer people and older.
- Yes, but they spend more.
You know how I think.
We are turning our backs on the future.
Yes, Nina, we know how you think.
Calle spoke to you Italian week?
- Yes, and I told him no.
- Why?
- I'm very busy with Hofvet.
- The week of Italian food?
We were thinking of organizing days
with an Italian theme.
Italian food,
Italian music in the club.
- Sounds like a good idea to me.
- It's very expensive.
- We just opened the bar.
- Calle will get fed up and look for another job.
If you put it that way, there are
many people eager to work at DK.
I think Italian week's a great idea.
And we're happy the chef wants to try
new dishes. That was how we got
where we are.
Johan and I let Backe
be as creative as he wanted.
- You and Calle will take care of it.
- With pleasure.
- We mustn't spend too much.
- Of course.
Good.
- Mom supports the idea,
so we'll go ahead/
- Against Peter's will?
Now it depends on us
to make it a success.
Episode 16
Beautiful Italy
If anyone had asked me 11 years ago
what my life would be like in 1957 ...
I would have said:
I will be married to Suzanne.
- With 3 or 4 children.
- I wasn't ready for you then.
Now I understand it.
I was still too sick.
- Then came Philippe.
- I wasn't well.
I felt I had to find a normal job,
otherwise you would have left me.
- Were you afraid of this?
- Of course.
I idolized you, Peter
You were the best and most beautiful man
I've ever known.
- I didn't think there were people like that.
- I was afraid of not being up to it.
- What do you mean?
- I didn't want to disappoint you.
I was actually afraid too.
And now?
No, I'm not afraid now.
And now?
Angelo suggested a name for us.
"Beautiful Italy." Beautiful,
charming Italy.
As appetizers we will have specialty
products: salami, ham, cheeses.
We'll have a new slicer, Ethel.
As hot dishes we will have pasta and a type
of thin cake of Naples. Angel.
- Here you go ...
- Pizza.
Pizza with ham and mushrooms,
and pizza with fresh cherry tomatoes.
- A thin cake as a main course?
- Or as an appetizer. We'll see.
And you will order new raw materials
for these ... cakes?
Yup.
- And how do you plan to economise?
- You don't spend much.
The products are cheap
and the supplier is good.
- Will they arrive in time?
- They are serious people, everything will be fine.
Otherwise we can ask Backe.
He knows all the suppliers.
Mom, Backe? maybe
with the German week ...
Sorry, I thought I could help you.
I thought ... Angelo might help.
Just to stay on topic,
with an Italian waiter.
- What does Roos say?
- I see opportunities, but also risks.
The service must be first class,
which would require an intensive course
on the basic concepts of serving.
Well, you can try.
You might ask Angelo if he
would like to do it.
Yes. If you like.
- More?
- Yes.
We order products from Italians.
Yes thanks.
Calle. When you contact new suppliers
you have to talk to me first.
- Sure.
- How do you know if they are cheap?
Talk about veal fillet,
ham, cheeses.
As Ive said, most of it is not expensive.
I want to approve the list
of orders first.
- Anything else?
- No.
Idiot.
For you both salmon trout à la August.
Named after August Strindberg?
There are several stories going around.
One such was that founder Johan Löwander's
bulldog was called August.
Maybe just as grumpy and
short-tempered as Johan was.
I received the report with your comments.
Very thorough.
- Did I bore you?
- No, they were excellent comments.
They weren't that special, really.
Would you like to have dinner with us some evening?
Yup.
- Some day next week, maybe?
- We'd love to. You're welcome.
- Yes, yes, with great pleasure.
- Good.
- How handsome you are.
- Thanks.
- Is it for something special?
- No, I just wanted to get dressed up.
Good. Someone's been teaching you
the waiter's art.
No. Yes, maybe a little.
Roos: If I can show you one thing.
Start with the plates and then
the cutlery, & things will
go a little smoother.
I think Angelo is doing fine the way
he's already learned.
- This is the German method.
- And is it suitable for a beginner?
- If only you would give me half an hour to explain.
- No, Roos.
Roos, don't you have anything else to do?
As a maitre d ',
I have a certain responsibility.
I've been director here
for more than ten years.
- Yes, but I thought that ...
- Good. Leave us alone then.
I molded Angelo into what he is:
a neat, competent food-service
operator.
- Is it fair then, that you
suddenly take over?
- Stop it, Bellan!
- Good. Let's start over.
- Sure.
Angelo, could you help me with something?
I would very much like to learn
some Italian.
- What would you like to know?
- How do you say "Welcome".
It says "welcome".
- And goodbye?
- "See you later".
What a beautiful language.
Um ... as they say
"You have beautiful eyes"?
- "You have beautiful eyes".
- I'll tell my wife.
- Very well. "You have beautiful eyes".
- "You have beautiful eyes".
- Honestly, Nina: it's difficult to find people.
- The Playmakers?
After playing at Hofvet, if they
then play at DK even once, she'll
never allow them back at Hofvet .
- She is really malignant!
- Aren't you related to her?
It's a long story.
Who else do we have?
- Sture Borchert?
- He's great when he's fit to perform.
And what's the problem?
Too much abuse, alcohol,
amphetamines.
You could book him, but you can
imagine how badly it could turn out.
Good morning, Mr. Borchert.
I'm Nina Löwander from Club DK.
I pay well, Mr. Borchert.
And regarding special requests,
they can also be arranged.
When should I come?
- Which way?
- That's right, like that.
Then add some basil,
pine nuts and oil.
- Olive oil.
- Good.
- What is this?
- A sauce called pesto.
- Pesto?
- Hans-Erik. Andersson.
This is pesto. Test.
What do you think?
- Good. Maybe a little too spicy.
- Maybe too much garlic.
It's really good! They're just not
used to it. What do you eat it with?
It can be used with spaghetti,
or as a cold sauce.
I was thinking of putting it on cod
and calling it "Baccalà alla Ethel".
To Ethel?
- Yes, strong like you.
- Calle.
Director!
- Do you want to try the pesto? An Italian sauce.
- No thanks.
I wanted to check your orders.
Do you have time tonight?
- Yup.
- Good. See you in my office.
When Esther books them at the Hofvet
they can't then play at the DK or they'll
be blackballed.
- Ragnar Oredsson told me.
- You won't believe everything he says.
- Why would he lie about it?
- Everyone knows Oredsson is a liar.
When you were little and you slept ...
Stickan and I worked, and talked,
and we drank all night.
- Tell me something I don't already know.
- I was afraid you'd wake up.
- What's up?
- Mom, I've known since I was 11.
One night he hid in the pantry.
I did some "services" in the kitchen to see
how long it lasted.
He was persistent, you can't deny that.
You miss him, right?
This is why we're eating here.
A little, maybe.
- Call him, mom.
- What, for no reason?
Yes, without a reason.
- I'll never do that.
- Why not?
Backe.
- I always think of you.
- Me too. Where are you now?
At the office. With the paperwork.
I wait to see you again.
Dinner starts at 8.30pm.
Do you want to come now?
Calle. I have to cancel the meeting.
- But I have to place the orders now.
- We will see tomorrow.
- Hi, I'm Calle Svensson.
- Hello to you, Svensson. How are you?
Good. I would like to place an
extra order for tomorrow.
- Sure, what do you need
- To start with, veal fillet.
-How much?
- A lot.
- Aren't you working tonight?
- No, I'm going to dinner.
With who?
- They are called Gahn. Britt and Svante.
- Britt Gahn. Politics?
Yes. Chairman of the Women's Union.
How do you know of him?
Sometimes I read the papers, Mom.
Can you help me here?
Britt Gahn will be the new Stockholm
city councilor. She would like me
as her secretary.
- When will you begin?
- There will be other candidates.
- I haven't said 'yes' yet.
- Why?
- I don't know if I'd be able
to handle the job.
- Of course you would.
You look different.
- Weird?
- No. You look beautiful.
- You're more elegant.
- Yeah?
- Hello.
- Good evening.
Hello, Margareta. Welcome!
Thanks. Come in, please.
- Svante.
- Yes?
- Take the flowers Margareta brought?
- But look! How beautiful.
- Welcome, Margareta.
- Thanks.
Give me your coat.
I'll get you something to drink.
- Okay.
- Thanks
- Hi.
- Hi.
Arne, Gun, come say hello!
Don't stay there, come.
Margareta Nilsson, rising star
in the restaurant union.
- Bror Davidsson.
- Margareta.
- Ingrid.
- Bror is a professor of sociology.
- Ingrid is an artist and ...
- Doctor.
Exact!
- My colleague Arne.
- Hello. Arne.
- Gun is a university professor.
- Margareta.
- And my colleague Anna from Helsinki.
- Margareta Nilsson.
- Is everyone's glass full?
- No, wait...
Welcome!
It is a pleasure to have you here!
You can sit down now, the meat's ready.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Late?
Yes. I checked the orders with Calle.
Aren't you going to kiss us?
Hi baby. Good night.
No, I still believe two chambers in Parliament
have their advantages.
I am referring to the hindering effect
of the first chamber.
Some think they pose
too many obstacles.
I guess you are one of them.
There are reforms that have great
popular support and should be implemented.
- Wouldn't it be good to think about
it for a while?
- Some issues have been talked about for decades
Childcare services, for example ...
would allow women to enter
the world of work. Joint taxation.
So one house of parliament would be more progressive?
Hopefully.
Margareta, it almost seems like you want
to make a revolution.
No revolution. But parliamentary
reform, please.
- I don't see it possible.
- Yes but. It seems young and vital to me.
- Oh! This is why we are toasting.
- Or let's toast for Finland.
- "Lantdagen", 1906.[universal sufferage]
- Exactly.
Sorry, I don't understand where
you studied political science.
We certainly don't want to talk
of this tonight.
It certainly can't be Uppsala U.
They're very conservative there.
- No, I think it's more ... Lund U.
- No, wrong.
Stockholm?
Yes, I studied in Stockholm.
Who is there now? Is Kranz gone?
No, it's just ...
i didn't study at university.
I took a course at the Evening School.
- Night school?
- Yes.
I understood you held a position
important to the union.
Margareta is one of the best
union presidents in the country.
I work as a waitress,
that's why I didn't graduate.
- You don't have to be ashamed.
- She's not ashamed, Bror.
- You want more?
- Yes thanks.
I'll take a Svante cigarette.
Thank you.
You know I'm going to wait tables
tomorrow at the Bella Italia event.
- But are you capable of serving?
- We'll find out tomorrow.
I'm sure everything will be fine.
- But if it goes wrong, can I come and work with you?
- Sure!
- Riccardo, see you later!
- Hello Beautiful.
Keep an eye on Lucia.
I tried to pretend I was prepared.
But you are. You are the person
most prepared that I know.
I'm not suited for that job.
I don't like those people.
Look at Gunnar Sträng. He was
born in public housing and is
now Minister of Finance.
But I still like being a waitress.
I miss you too much.
You need a boost.
Come on, I have something for you
Wait and see.
Test.
- Well?
- Delicious! - Good!
I should put some Italian biscuits in it
below, but I didn't find any.
So I used the sponge cake.
- And coffee!
- And almond liqueur. Tiramisu.
All the guests have accepted.
The Italian ambassador
will inaugurate the Bella Italia event ...
along with Gunnar Gren.
And the guests serve themselves?
- Yes, just like a Christmas buffet.
Then you don't know
how much you need of everything.
Not exactly of course. But you estimate
it, and I know what Backe added for the
Christmas buffet.
I think 28 kroner is very cheap.
Calle knows that best.
With that price you have a reasonable margin.
But the deal was not
that we don't get involved?
That's right, yes.
- Do the guests know it's a buffet
and that it will cost 28 crowns?
- Yes, it was written in the ads.
I still argue for a standard menu
whose price can be calculated.
- Now let it go, Esther.
We had to meet and talk
of order expenses.
Look, we can't do anything. The price
has been decided, the guests know it.
Instead, let's see if we can eliminate
something. Saltimbocca, for example.
- What's going on?
- What do you mean?
- You don't seem to worry about Bella Italia.
- Of course I do.
Nina and Calle are running up extra
costs and you don't react.
We can't change the price, Ester,
it's already been published.
- Didn't you have that meeting?
- What meeting?
You and Calle. You came home
late because of it.
Yes...
Well, Calle talked as if there had been no meeting.
I don't know what Calle says, but we have
talked about the products to order.
I got home late because there was a lot of work.
- So you talked about orders ...
- Ester, please.
I have to work.
- Okay. See you at home.
- Yes.
Madam, please.
Very glad that I can accompany you
this evening. Shall we go in?
- Welcome.
- Good evening.
Mr. Gren, please.
It is a great honor to
have you here, ambassador.
Thank you. It is a great honor
be here tonight.
Ralf. Carrots.
Good evening. Welcome.
Mr. Borchert. Hi, I'm Nina Löwander,
welcome. Do you want to follow me?
If you want to drink,
please ask the staff.
So ... yes, this is for you.
- Is it amphetamine?
- Yes.
- You can keep it.
- Well ...
- I'm sorry, but I knew ...
- I was blessed last year.
I'm glad you met God.
I too had an addiction.
And despite that you have
offered me amphetamine?
Yes i did.
God will help you too.
Let's hope.
It's all imported from Italy.
Gunnar. We need an interpreter here.
- she wants to know if you cooked everything.
- No, it was our excellent chef.
Gustaf! Gustaf! Hey!
- Gustaf!
- Sorry.
- We have a problem.
- What is it?
The ambassador speaks only Italian.
Neither Swedish, nor English, nothing.
- And we don't have an interpreter.
- But there's Gren.
But Gustaf, a guest of honor
who acts as interpreter?
- There's someone who could help us.
- Not him, not for so high a person
as the ambassador.
Do you have a better suggestion?
You take an accelerated Italian course?
- No!
- I'm going to get him.
Peter. I think it's time.
We are hungry.
Please, Mr. Ambassador.
With this I inaugurate the Bella Italia.
Angel. Change of role. Come.
You will have a special task.
You'll be serving at the ambassador's table.
- The ambassador?
- Yes, the ambassador.
You are the only one who can speak Italian.
And then it's just about serving a drink.
Angelo, you can do it.
Welcome.
Mr. Ambassador. You are welcome.
- Good evening.
- Ah, it's Italian. Very well.
Then you can lend us a hand
for the thing we were talking about.
- If I can.
- In your opinion...
What is the best football team today
in Italy, Milan or Juventus?
- A good question, Mr. Ambassador.
- And then we have the great Gunnar Gren with us.
Yes, I know Mr. Gren, who is an
extraordinary footballer.
- From near Milan.
- Yes.
And I want to clarify that I am
from Turin.
In this case, with respect for those present,
and trying to be as sincere as possible,
I think it is well known that the best
team in Italy and also in the world...
the Catania.
We have a Catanese!
- Bravo, good answer. What's your name?
- Angelo.
- Pleasure, Gianluca.
- So, what can I get you to drink?
- At this point three bottles of Barolo.
- Right away.
Come on, let's dance!
- Mrs. Löwander?
- Yes.
Styrbjörn Hansen.
- Beautiful evening. It is always like this?
- Yes every day.
I work as a producer in Radiotjänst.
We have an idea for a TV show,
we would like to speak to your husband.
My husband?
- Yes. Isn't he the chef here?
- Yes. You are well informed.
It's my job. You are
interested in talking to us?
I assure you that the one my mother cooks,
she puts in a salted ricotta with eggplant,
fry them on one side
and on the other, into the oven ...
No, no, he mustn't touch the guests.
But see how he likes it. We have
found a natural talent.
- What's come over you?
- I feel a little Mediterranean tonight.
Good...
Thanks to all of you young people for this
beautiful night! And health!
- Thanks Calle, for the spectacular food.
- Lots of people helped me.
- Mom, can you eat those things?
- Doctor Boman lives in uncertainty.
- Angelo seems to have done well.
- The ambassador was very happy.
He picks things up quickly.
- I'm tired. Let's go home?
- I want to stay a little longer.
- But I'll call you a taxi.
- Thanks.
- You don't want to leave? We just sat down.
- I'm staying, mom.
- Thank you for the evening. The food was great.
- Thanks.
- Good night.
- Good night.
The pesto is amazing, Calle.
- I'm sorry, I was grumpy.
- Don't worry.
Okay. Sometimes I get things into my head.
I love you. You know?
I know. I love you too.
Good night.
Sorry, can I ask for your attention?
There is someone here tonight who
has made an impressive contribution.
He did something he had never tried,
but for which he seems to have been born.
Of course I'm talking about Angelo.
- I couldn't have done it without you.
- Well, of course it's all my doing.
- You are a good teacher.
- Thanks Angelo.
- You have to drink straight from the bottle.
- You order, I execute.
I don't think you realize
what he has achieved.
Not one false step, always with that
winning smile, and in such a
good atmosphere.
He wound both the ambassador and
Gunnar Gren around his finger.
You should try it too.
- You have to drink too.
- No thanks. I'm fine.
Mr. Löwander, I insist
to toast with my teacher.
Thanks, but no.
Come on!
I will never take a sip again
if he won't.
- All right.
- Health!
- A toast to Mr. Löwander!
- Health!
Go ahead.
Health.
- I remember it.
- No...
- Not you too, now.
- I'm tired.
- But Peter, the night is young.
- You should go home too.
When I was your age we would
celebrate all night.
And I was a mother of three children.
- Yes, Mom, those were better times.
- No...
I'm sorry Stig isn't here.
It would be a real party.
Two glasses were enough for him
to stay drunk all evening.
- Oh, look.
- No, mom, come on.
- Good night.
- Good night. Thank you for the evening.
- Backe.
- Stig! It's Helga.
- Yes, I recognize your voice.
- How are you?
- You're calling in the middle of the night.
- Are you Sleeping Beauty?
I was...
Tonight was the opening of
our Italian week, Bella Italia ...
and then we stayed a while
to talk, and after ...
everyone went home, and so ...
- I missed you, a little bit.
- Yes, yes.
You could have followed me home and
made midnight sandwiches which we'd
eat upstairs.
Yes ...
I'm on Dr. Boman's diet,
but tonight I ignored it.
Therefore I might drop dead any
moment now.
- Are you drunk?
- No, I'm not, and you?
- No.
- No?
Go to bed.
You didn't always tell me that.
If you had been out and come
here horny knocking. ...
- I don't remember.
- But if we were partying all night.
- Good night
- Stig, wait ...
Stig?
- Yes!
- What are you doing? Hanging up on me?
What are you doing? Why do you wake me up
in the middle of the night?
Now I'll tell you.
We're doing fine
without you at the restaurant. Very well!
- Congratulations.
- Calle is very popular in the kitchen.
I should have made him chief much
earlier. That you stayed chef so long
was only out of friendship.
- Thanks, I know now.
- Good. And never call me again!
Angelo ... my brother Peter. You have
to watch out for him. You know, right?
- I think it's time for me to go home.
- No, no, no.
I have to work tomorrow.
- You're a rock, Angelo. A rock.
- Thank you, Mr. Löwander.
A rock, immovable in the force
of the storm ...oh, it was a poem,
I don't remember it anymore.
- I'm going to get a taxi.
- Where are we going?
- No, for you. I have a bike.
- Oh yes.
I'll walk you out. I'm leaving. Are you ...?
Wait up.
Where are you going?
- Good night, Mr. Löwander.
- Good night ... Angelo, wait.
Damn, I practiced ..
- You have ...
- You have beautiful eyes.
Sorry, Angelo.
Angelo, sorry!
We could drop everything.
What do you think about it?
Let's go to Paris.
- My love.
- My dear.
- My dear. My dear.
- It's not easy.
You drank.
Yes, I drank.
- You know you can't control it.
- That's not it.
Is this desire ... that I hate ...
which I can't get rid of.
I am trying to resist it.
But I can't.
We'll look for a doctor. There
are ways. It can be cured, Gustaf.
Yes, we will.
- What are you doing?
- Nothing.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
- We won't do anything today.
- Aren't you going to work?
Yes, I'm going tonight. But right
now that's an eternity away.
Then we don't do anything.
We'll stay right here.
Can I get that in writing?
It was beautiful yesterday.
You have been fantastic.
- Well, you didn't disappoint me either.
- Did I do well enough?
- A little'.
- Did I tell you I'm in love with you?
- Hi, can I come in?
- Sure.
- How nice here.
- Thanks. You are welcome.
I tried to contact you by phone.
I worked a lot.
I still want you to become
my secretary.
- Despite dinner?
- Do you think anything has changed?
I have never dated
professors or lecturers or ...
I am proud to know you,
that's why I introduced you to my friends.
- To brag?
- Maybe. A little'.
I understand this is unusual for them to
confront someone from the working class.
I don't know what you think, but you
did not fare badly. Absolutely.
- Bror was very impressed.
- Despite studying at night school?
- For this.
- You'll find someone more competent.
I don't want anyone else--
you are perfect for this.
Either you accept now ...
or I'll go to the DK, ask for a
plate of Brussels sprouts,
and throw them at the guests.
And I will continue to do so
until they fire you and you'll
have to find another job.
Do you think I'm joking?
Then I accept.
- You missed your breakfast.
- Yes, I was a little late yesterday.
- What did you do?
- You know.
No I do not know.
I went to a party after the one at DK.
Were you with Suzanne then?
With Suzanne?
"Without you I would not have survived.
Kisses, Suzanne. "
- New rules.
I need Italian ingredients,
can you find them for me?
She'll be the new city councilor,
and she would like me as her secretary.
- Will you work for the City?
- I haven't accepted yet.
I had an interesting conversation
with Todd Wallenstam.
- Will Calle write another book?
- No, he has a new author.
Suzanne Goldstein.
She is returning to Stockholm.
- A waiter has to work without being seen.
- I won't talk to the guests anymore.
And get dressed, damn it!
- Will I be able to see you again?
- Not a good idea for either of us.
- Roos, have you noticed anything missing?
- No. Not a milliliter.
I'm sorry you don't believe me, mom.
Now I have to get back to work.
- Good morning. Do you have a minute?
- Sure.
I have an idea: Italian week.
It would draw attention to the DK.
Some reporters could be contacted.
- We just opened the bar.
- Yes, but an article is always good.
And we in the kitchen will learn something new.
- It would cost money.
- If we talk about it ...
Not now, Calle.
I have to focus on the Hofvet. Ok?
Sales are on the rise
since we returned to jazz.
- But there are fewer people and older.
- Yes, but they spend more.
You know how I think.
We are turning our backs on the future.
Yes, Nina, we know how you think.
Calle spoke to you Italian week?
- Yes, and I told him no.
- Why?
- I'm very busy with Hofvet.
- The week of Italian food?
We were thinking of organizing days
with an Italian theme.
Italian food,
Italian music in the club.
- Sounds like a good idea to me.
- It's very expensive.
- We just opened the bar.
- Calle will get fed up and look for another job.
If you put it that way, there are
many people eager to work at DK.
I think Italian week's a great idea.
And we're happy the chef wants to try
new dishes. That was how we got
where we are.
Johan and I let Backe
be as creative as he wanted.
- You and Calle will take care of it.
- With pleasure.
- We mustn't spend too much.
- Of course.
Good.
- Mom supports the idea,
so we'll go ahead/
- Against Peter's will?
Now it depends on us
to make it a success.
Episode 16
Beautiful Italy
If anyone had asked me 11 years ago
what my life would be like in 1957 ...
I would have said:
I will be married to Suzanne.
- With 3 or 4 children.
- I wasn't ready for you then.
Now I understand it.
I was still too sick.
- Then came Philippe.
- I wasn't well.
I felt I had to find a normal job,
otherwise you would have left me.
- Were you afraid of this?
- Of course.
I idolized you, Peter
You were the best and most beautiful man
I've ever known.
- I didn't think there were people like that.
- I was afraid of not being up to it.
- What do you mean?
- I didn't want to disappoint you.
I was actually afraid too.
And now?
No, I'm not afraid now.
And now?
Angelo suggested a name for us.
"Beautiful Italy." Beautiful,
charming Italy.
As appetizers we will have specialty
products: salami, ham, cheeses.
We'll have a new slicer, Ethel.
As hot dishes we will have pasta and a type
of thin cake of Naples. Angel.
- Here you go ...
- Pizza.
Pizza with ham and mushrooms,
and pizza with fresh cherry tomatoes.
- A thin cake as a main course?
- Or as an appetizer. We'll see.
And you will order new raw materials
for these ... cakes?
Yup.
- And how do you plan to economise?
- You don't spend much.
The products are cheap
and the supplier is good.
- Will they arrive in time?
- They are serious people, everything will be fine.
Otherwise we can ask Backe.
He knows all the suppliers.
Mom, Backe? maybe
with the German week ...
Sorry, I thought I could help you.
I thought ... Angelo might help.
Just to stay on topic,
with an Italian waiter.
- What does Roos say?
- I see opportunities, but also risks.
The service must be first class,
which would require an intensive course
on the basic concepts of serving.
Well, you can try.
You might ask Angelo if he
would like to do it.
Yes. If you like.
- More?
- Yes.
We order products from Italians.
Yes thanks.
Calle. When you contact new suppliers
you have to talk to me first.
- Sure.
- How do you know if they are cheap?
Talk about veal fillet,
ham, cheeses.
As Ive said, most of it is not expensive.
I want to approve the list
of orders first.
- Anything else?
- No.
Idiot.
For you both salmon trout à la August.
Named after August Strindberg?
There are several stories going around.
One such was that founder Johan Löwander's
bulldog was called August.
Maybe just as grumpy and
short-tempered as Johan was.
I received the report with your comments.
Very thorough.
- Did I bore you?
- No, they were excellent comments.
They weren't that special, really.
Would you like to have dinner with us some evening?
Yup.
- Some day next week, maybe?
- We'd love to. You're welcome.
- Yes, yes, with great pleasure.
- Good.
- How handsome you are.
- Thanks.
- Is it for something special?
- No, I just wanted to get dressed up.
Good. Someone's been teaching you
the waiter's art.
No. Yes, maybe a little.
Roos: If I can show you one thing.
Start with the plates and then
the cutlery, & things will
go a little smoother.
I think Angelo is doing fine the way
he's already learned.
- This is the German method.
- And is it suitable for a beginner?
- If only you would give me half an hour to explain.
- No, Roos.
Roos, don't you have anything else to do?
As a maitre d ',
I have a certain responsibility.
I've been director here
for more than ten years.
- Yes, but I thought that ...
- Good. Leave us alone then.
I molded Angelo into what he is:
a neat, competent food-service
operator.
- Is it fair then, that you
suddenly take over?
- Stop it, Bellan!
- Good. Let's start over.
- Sure.
Angelo, could you help me with something?
I would very much like to learn
some Italian.
- What would you like to know?
- How do you say "Welcome".
It says "welcome".
- And goodbye?
- "See you later".
What a beautiful language.
Um ... as they say
"You have beautiful eyes"?
- "You have beautiful eyes".
- I'll tell my wife.
- Very well. "You have beautiful eyes".
- "You have beautiful eyes".
- Honestly, Nina: it's difficult to find people.
- The Playmakers?
After playing at Hofvet, if they
then play at DK even once, she'll
never allow them back at Hofvet .
- She is really malignant!
- Aren't you related to her?
It's a long story.
Who else do we have?
- Sture Borchert?
- He's great when he's fit to perform.
And what's the problem?
Too much abuse, alcohol,
amphetamines.
You could book him, but you can
imagine how badly it could turn out.
Good morning, Mr. Borchert.
I'm Nina Löwander from Club DK.
I pay well, Mr. Borchert.
And regarding special requests,
they can also be arranged.
When should I come?
- Which way?
- That's right, like that.
Then add some basil,
pine nuts and oil.
- Olive oil.
- Good.
- What is this?
- A sauce called pesto.
- Pesto?
- Hans-Erik. Andersson.
This is pesto. Test.
What do you think?
- Good. Maybe a little too spicy.
- Maybe too much garlic.
It's really good! They're just not
used to it. What do you eat it with?
It can be used with spaghetti,
or as a cold sauce.
I was thinking of putting it on cod
and calling it "Baccalà alla Ethel".
To Ethel?
- Yes, strong like you.
- Calle.
Director!
- Do you want to try the pesto? An Italian sauce.
- No thanks.
I wanted to check your orders.
Do you have time tonight?
- Yup.
- Good. See you in my office.
When Esther books them at the Hofvet
they can't then play at the DK or they'll
be blackballed.
- Ragnar Oredsson told me.
- You won't believe everything he says.
- Why would he lie about it?
- Everyone knows Oredsson is a liar.
When you were little and you slept ...
Stickan and I worked, and talked,
and we drank all night.
- Tell me something I don't already know.
- I was afraid you'd wake up.
- What's up?
- Mom, I've known since I was 11.
One night he hid in the pantry.
I did some "services" in the kitchen to see
how long it lasted.
He was persistent, you can't deny that.
You miss him, right?
This is why we're eating here.
A little, maybe.
- Call him, mom.
- What, for no reason?
Yes, without a reason.
- I'll never do that.
- Why not?
Backe.
- I always think of you.
- Me too. Where are you now?
At the office. With the paperwork.
I wait to see you again.
Dinner starts at 8.30pm.
Do you want to come now?
Calle. I have to cancel the meeting.
- But I have to place the orders now.
- We will see tomorrow.
- Hi, I'm Calle Svensson.
- Hello to you, Svensson. How are you?
Good. I would like to place an
extra order for tomorrow.
- Sure, what do you need
- To start with, veal fillet.
-How much?
- A lot.
- Aren't you working tonight?
- No, I'm going to dinner.
With who?
- They are called Gahn. Britt and Svante.
- Britt Gahn. Politics?
Yes. Chairman of the Women's Union.
How do you know of him?
Sometimes I read the papers, Mom.
Can you help me here?
Britt Gahn will be the new Stockholm
city councilor. She would like me
as her secretary.
- When will you begin?
- There will be other candidates.
- I haven't said 'yes' yet.
- Why?
- I don't know if I'd be able
to handle the job.
- Of course you would.
You look different.
- Weird?
- No. You look beautiful.
- You're more elegant.
- Yeah?
- Hello.
- Good evening.
Hello, Margareta. Welcome!
Thanks. Come in, please.
- Svante.
- Yes?
- Take the flowers Margareta brought?
- But look! How beautiful.
- Welcome, Margareta.
- Thanks.
Give me your coat.
I'll get you something to drink.
- Okay.
- Thanks
- Hi.
- Hi.
Arne, Gun, come say hello!
Don't stay there, come.
Margareta Nilsson, rising star
in the restaurant union.
- Bror Davidsson.
- Margareta.
- Ingrid.
- Bror is a professor of sociology.
- Ingrid is an artist and ...
- Doctor.
Exact!
- My colleague Arne.
- Hello. Arne.
- Gun is a university professor.
- Margareta.
- And my colleague Anna from Helsinki.
- Margareta Nilsson.
- Is everyone's glass full?
- No, wait...
Welcome!
It is a pleasure to have you here!
You can sit down now, the meat's ready.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Late?
Yes. I checked the orders with Calle.
Aren't you going to kiss us?
Hi baby. Good night.
No, I still believe two chambers in Parliament
have their advantages.
I am referring to the hindering effect
of the first chamber.
Some think they pose
too many obstacles.
I guess you are one of them.
There are reforms that have great
popular support and should be implemented.
- Wouldn't it be good to think about
it for a while?
- Some issues have been talked about for decades
Childcare services, for example ...
would allow women to enter
the world of work. Joint taxation.
So one house of parliament would be more progressive?
Hopefully.
Margareta, it almost seems like you want
to make a revolution.
No revolution. But parliamentary
reform, please.
- I don't see it possible.
- Yes but. It seems young and vital to me.
- Oh! This is why we are toasting.
- Or let's toast for Finland.
- "Lantdagen", 1906.[universal sufferage]
- Exactly.
Sorry, I don't understand where
you studied political science.
We certainly don't want to talk
of this tonight.
It certainly can't be Uppsala U.
They're very conservative there.
- No, I think it's more ... Lund U.
- No, wrong.
Stockholm?
Yes, I studied in Stockholm.
Who is there now? Is Kranz gone?
No, it's just ...
i didn't study at university.
I took a course at the Evening School.
- Night school?
- Yes.
I understood you held a position
important to the union.
Margareta is one of the best
union presidents in the country.
I work as a waitress,
that's why I didn't graduate.
- You don't have to be ashamed.
- She's not ashamed, Bror.
- You want more?
- Yes thanks.
I'll take a Svante cigarette.
Thank you.
You know I'm going to wait tables
tomorrow at the Bella Italia event.
- But are you capable of serving?
- We'll find out tomorrow.
I'm sure everything will be fine.
- But if it goes wrong, can I come and work with you?
- Sure!
- Riccardo, see you later!
- Hello Beautiful.
Keep an eye on Lucia.
I tried to pretend I was prepared.
But you are. You are the person
most prepared that I know.
I'm not suited for that job.
I don't like those people.
Look at Gunnar Sträng. He was
born in public housing and is
now Minister of Finance.
But I still like being a waitress.
I miss you too much.
You need a boost.
Come on, I have something for you
Wait and see.
Test.
- Well?
- Delicious! - Good!
I should put some Italian biscuits in it
below, but I didn't find any.
So I used the sponge cake.
- And coffee!
- And almond liqueur. Tiramisu.
All the guests have accepted.
The Italian ambassador
will inaugurate the Bella Italia event ...
along with Gunnar Gren.
And the guests serve themselves?
- Yes, just like a Christmas buffet.
Then you don't know
how much you need of everything.
Not exactly of course. But you estimate
it, and I know what Backe added for the
Christmas buffet.
I think 28 kroner is very cheap.
Calle knows that best.
With that price you have a reasonable margin.
But the deal was not
that we don't get involved?
That's right, yes.
- Do the guests know it's a buffet
and that it will cost 28 crowns?
- Yes, it was written in the ads.
I still argue for a standard menu
whose price can be calculated.
- Now let it go, Esther.
We had to meet and talk
of order expenses.
Look, we can't do anything. The price
has been decided, the guests know it.
Instead, let's see if we can eliminate
something. Saltimbocca, for example.
- What's going on?
- What do you mean?
- You don't seem to worry about Bella Italia.
- Of course I do.
Nina and Calle are running up extra
costs and you don't react.
We can't change the price, Ester,
it's already been published.
- Didn't you have that meeting?
- What meeting?
You and Calle. You came home
late because of it.
Yes...
Well, Calle talked as if there had been no meeting.
I don't know what Calle says, but we have
talked about the products to order.
I got home late because there was a lot of work.
- So you talked about orders ...
- Ester, please.
I have to work.
- Okay. See you at home.
- Yes.
Madam, please.
Very glad that I can accompany you
this evening. Shall we go in?
- Welcome.
- Good evening.
Mr. Gren, please.
It is a great honor to
have you here, ambassador.
Thank you. It is a great honor
be here tonight.
Ralf. Carrots.
Good evening. Welcome.
Mr. Borchert. Hi, I'm Nina Löwander,
welcome. Do you want to follow me?
If you want to drink,
please ask the staff.
So ... yes, this is for you.
- Is it amphetamine?
- Yes.
- You can keep it.
- Well ...
- I'm sorry, but I knew ...
- I was blessed last year.
I'm glad you met God.
I too had an addiction.
And despite that you have
offered me amphetamine?
Yes i did.
God will help you too.
Let's hope.
It's all imported from Italy.
Gunnar. We need an interpreter here.
- she wants to know if you cooked everything.
- No, it was our excellent chef.
Gustaf! Gustaf! Hey!
- Gustaf!
- Sorry.
- We have a problem.
- What is it?
The ambassador speaks only Italian.
Neither Swedish, nor English, nothing.
- And we don't have an interpreter.
- But there's Gren.
But Gustaf, a guest of honor
who acts as interpreter?
- There's someone who could help us.
- Not him, not for so high a person
as the ambassador.
Do you have a better suggestion?
You take an accelerated Italian course?
- No!
- I'm going to get him.
Peter. I think it's time.
We are hungry.
Please, Mr. Ambassador.
With this I inaugurate the Bella Italia.
Angel. Change of role. Come.
You will have a special task.
You'll be serving at the ambassador's table.
- The ambassador?
- Yes, the ambassador.
You are the only one who can speak Italian.
And then it's just about serving a drink.
Angelo, you can do it.
Welcome.
Mr. Ambassador. You are welcome.
- Good evening.
- Ah, it's Italian. Very well.
Then you can lend us a hand
for the thing we were talking about.
- If I can.
- In your opinion...
What is the best football team today
in Italy, Milan or Juventus?
- A good question, Mr. Ambassador.
- And then we have the great Gunnar Gren with us.
Yes, I know Mr. Gren, who is an
extraordinary footballer.
- From near Milan.
- Yes.
And I want to clarify that I am
from Turin.
In this case, with respect for those present,
and trying to be as sincere as possible,
I think it is well known that the best
team in Italy and also in the world...
the Catania.
We have a Catanese!
- Bravo, good answer. What's your name?
- Angelo.
- Pleasure, Gianluca.
- So, what can I get you to drink?
- At this point three bottles of Barolo.
- Right away.
Come on, let's dance!
- Mrs. Löwander?
- Yes.
Styrbjörn Hansen.
- Beautiful evening. It is always like this?
- Yes every day.
I work as a producer in Radiotjänst.
We have an idea for a TV show,
we would like to speak to your husband.
My husband?
- Yes. Isn't he the chef here?
- Yes. You are well informed.
It's my job. You are
interested in talking to us?
I assure you that the one my mother cooks,
she puts in a salted ricotta with eggplant,
fry them on one side
and on the other, into the oven ...
No, no, he mustn't touch the guests.
But see how he likes it. We have
found a natural talent.
- What's come over you?
- I feel a little Mediterranean tonight.
Good...
Thanks to all of you young people for this
beautiful night! And health!
- Thanks Calle, for the spectacular food.
- Lots of people helped me.
- Mom, can you eat those things?
- Doctor Boman lives in uncertainty.
- Angelo seems to have done well.
- The ambassador was very happy.
He picks things up quickly.
- I'm tired. Let's go home?
- I want to stay a little longer.
- But I'll call you a taxi.
- Thanks.
- You don't want to leave? We just sat down.
- I'm staying, mom.
- Thank you for the evening. The food was great.
- Thanks.
- Good night.
- Good night.
The pesto is amazing, Calle.
- I'm sorry, I was grumpy.
- Don't worry.
Okay. Sometimes I get things into my head.
I love you. You know?
I know. I love you too.
Good night.
Sorry, can I ask for your attention?
There is someone here tonight who
has made an impressive contribution.
He did something he had never tried,
but for which he seems to have been born.
Of course I'm talking about Angelo.
- I couldn't have done it without you.
- Well, of course it's all my doing.
- You are a good teacher.
- Thanks Angelo.
- You have to drink straight from the bottle.
- You order, I execute.
I don't think you realize
what he has achieved.
Not one false step, always with that
winning smile, and in such a
good atmosphere.
He wound both the ambassador and
Gunnar Gren around his finger.
You should try it too.
- You have to drink too.
- No thanks. I'm fine.
Mr. Löwander, I insist
to toast with my teacher.
Thanks, but no.
Come on!
I will never take a sip again
if he won't.
- All right.
- Health!
- A toast to Mr. Löwander!
- Health!
Go ahead.
Health.
- I remember it.
- No...
- Not you too, now.
- I'm tired.
- But Peter, the night is young.
- You should go home too.
When I was your age we would
celebrate all night.
And I was a mother of three children.
- Yes, Mom, those were better times.
- No...
I'm sorry Stig isn't here.
It would be a real party.
Two glasses were enough for him
to stay drunk all evening.
- Oh, look.
- No, mom, come on.
- Good night.
- Good night. Thank you for the evening.
- Backe.
- Stig! It's Helga.
- Yes, I recognize your voice.
- How are you?
- You're calling in the middle of the night.
- Are you Sleeping Beauty?
I was...
Tonight was the opening of
our Italian week, Bella Italia ...
and then we stayed a while
to talk, and after ...
everyone went home, and so ...
- I missed you, a little bit.
- Yes, yes.
You could have followed me home and
made midnight sandwiches which we'd
eat upstairs.
Yes ...
I'm on Dr. Boman's diet,
but tonight I ignored it.
Therefore I might drop dead any
moment now.
- Are you drunk?
- No, I'm not, and you?
- No.
- No?
Go to bed.
You didn't always tell me that.
If you had been out and come
here horny knocking. ...
- I don't remember.
- But if we were partying all night.
- Good night
- Stig, wait ...
Stig?
- Yes!
- What are you doing? Hanging up on me?
What are you doing? Why do you wake me up
in the middle of the night?
Now I'll tell you.
We're doing fine
without you at the restaurant. Very well!
- Congratulations.
- Calle is very popular in the kitchen.
I should have made him chief much
earlier. That you stayed chef so long
was only out of friendship.
- Thanks, I know now.
- Good. And never call me again!
Angelo ... my brother Peter. You have
to watch out for him. You know, right?
- I think it's time for me to go home.
- No, no, no.
I have to work tomorrow.
- You're a rock, Angelo. A rock.
- Thank you, Mr. Löwander.
A rock, immovable in the force
of the storm ...oh, it was a poem,
I don't remember it anymore.
- I'm going to get a taxi.
- Where are we going?
- No, for you. I have a bike.
- Oh yes.
I'll walk you out. I'm leaving. Are you ...?
Wait up.
Where are you going?
- Good night, Mr. Löwander.
- Good night ... Angelo, wait.
Damn, I practiced ..
- You have ...
- You have beautiful eyes.
Sorry, Angelo.
Angelo, sorry!
We could drop everything.
What do you think about it?
Let's go to Paris.
- My love.
- My dear.
- My dear. My dear.
- It's not easy.
You drank.
Yes, I drank.
- You know you can't control it.
- That's not it.
Is this desire ... that I hate ...
which I can't get rid of.
I am trying to resist it.
But I can't.
We'll look for a doctor. There
are ways. It can be cured, Gustaf.
Yes, we will.
- What are you doing?
- Nothing.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
- We won't do anything today.
- Aren't you going to work?
Yes, I'm going tonight. But right
now that's an eternity away.
Then we don't do anything.
We'll stay right here.
Can I get that in writing?
It was beautiful yesterday.
You have been fantastic.
- Well, you didn't disappoint me either.
- Did I do well enough?
- A little'.
- Did I tell you I'm in love with you?
- Hi, can I come in?
- Sure.
- How nice here.
- Thanks. You are welcome.
I tried to contact you by phone.
I worked a lot.
I still want you to become
my secretary.
- Despite dinner?
- Do you think anything has changed?
I have never dated
professors or lecturers or ...
I am proud to know you,
that's why I introduced you to my friends.
- To brag?
- Maybe. A little'.
I understand this is unusual for them to
confront someone from the working class.
I don't know what you think, but you
did not fare badly. Absolutely.
- Bror was very impressed.
- Despite studying at night school?
- For this.
- You'll find someone more competent.
I don't want anyone else--
you are perfect for this.
Either you accept now ...
or I'll go to the DK, ask for a
plate of Brussels sprouts,
and throw them at the guests.
And I will continue to do so
until they fire you and you'll
have to find another job.
Do you think I'm joking?
Then I accept.
- You missed your breakfast.
- Yes, I was a little late yesterday.
- What did you do?
- You know.
No I do not know.
I went to a party after the one at DK.
Were you with Suzanne then?
With Suzanne?
"Without you I would not have survived.
Kisses, Suzanne. "