Before you made friends with the nice man behind the Ikea cafe counter, the only Swedish chef you’d ever known served Salad ala Boom-Boom to his pal Kermit and ended all his TV appearances with bork! bork! bork!

May the next two you encounter be Salty and the Swede, a new catering duo specializing in cuisine of the Scandinavian kind.

Ready for intimate dinners or house parties, the team’s modern way with old-world smorgasbord combines classic herring samplers, gravlax, and homemade crackers with such inspired bites as Västerbotten cheese quiche or the Working Class Hero, a meatball and beet salad sandwich favored by Nordic taxi drivers.

June and July bring customized Midsummer Celebrations with market menus, specially paired akvavits, and homemade songbooks. For Crayfish parties, which feature handmade hats for every guest, you’ll have to wait till August.

How Swede it is.

Salty and the Swede (saltyandtheswede.com).