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Rare treat for meat lovers as Swedish king of steaks heads Down Under

Rare treat for meat lovers as Swedish king of steaks heads Down Under

The Melbourne diner Meatmaiden is joining forces with Johan Jureskog and his team from the world’s ninth-best steak restaurant for a three-night tour de force.

Restaurant AG’s meat master, Martin Kjäll. 

Johan Jureskog is the wearer of many hats: celebrity TV chef and restaurateur, meat sommelier, culinary Olympian, and Sweden’s burger king, barbecue grill ambassador and seller of a supermarket line of sauces.

Not one to miss an opportunity, when we meet online he is, in fact, wearing a hat: a peaked cap sporting the stitched letters “AG”. The headgear is spruiking his celebrated Stockholm steakhouse Restaurant AG, no. 9 on the World’s 101 Best Steak Restaurants list.

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