A culture shock you must experience

We have around 13 new employees at work. To make them feel welcome we arranged a little "get together" thursday night. First we wanted to take them to a really nice place in Old Town, but changed our minds the last minute and decided to go to place that was cheaper. One of the girls had heard of a place called Flamenco in the city. She said they were suppose to have cheap drinks and ok food.

We called the place and said we were about 20 people coming to eat and drink. The owner muttered and said in broken Swedish: "Eat? Nah...just drink. Can't be bothered": This was so weird we just had to go there...

When we got there we saw the owner, a tall man that looked kinda like the actor Peter Stormare. He was smoking a cigarette, wearing a golden rolex. had long hair and looked really grumpy.

We needed to cheer up and ordered a round of shots. They were about 3 dollars each which was pretty strange. Until we saw the bottles they came from. Clear bottles with home made labels saying: Strawberry, Melon, Blueberry...
We went downstairs where there was a sign saying: "Disko Klub". It was a small room with a bar, slot machines and the walls covered in posters of half naked Christina Aguilera and Roxette. Everything was covered in Christmas lights and the music was loud, playing hits from the 90's like: Be my lover and Informer. Apparently this bar was used in the movie Beck - Gamen. If you've seen it, you know what I mean!

The whole thing was so bad and looked so cheap, that it became good. We loved it and had a blast (since we had the whole Disko Klub to ourselves. I recommend everyone to go to Flamenco, maybe not by yourself, but if you're a big group. You'll experince something really different.

On a known Everything about Stockholm web site, the critics describe Flamenco as: "A culture shock you must experience". And "A place you go to if you want to hide".