The restaurant was started by källarmästare Wilhelm Strandberg, who was 25 years old at the time and had experience from Berns salonger in Stockholm, Sweden.
The restaurant building was a villa at a property owned by Stockholm-Rimbo Järnvägsaktiebolag in the block Gandvik, close to Samsöviken in Stora Värtan.
[1] August Strindberg lived in Djursholm for a short period 1891–92 and drew up plans for a theatre in the restaurant's large dining room.
The locations were used for a traditional restaurant, for private and public parties and for municipal meetings.
[1] A new restaurant (Djursholms värdshus) and a family hotel was built at the premises in 1968, designed by architect Bertil Falck[4] at FFNS.