After reading an article in our local paper, Mitt i Danderyd, about Danderyd's high number of business owners and featuring Jessica Dahlberg from newly started Beachdragons, I decided to find out more. I met Jessica at Monrads last week and, over caesar salads and cups of tea, found out what she has been up to since moving back to Danderyd from London four years ago.

The first answer was changing career from law to setting up her own business. Beachdragons launched its first collection of children's beachwear this January and to my surprise, Jessica had only been planning it for a year. The clothing features anchors and starfish with long and short sleeves and legs. Paisley prints are available in blue for little girls, alongside the necessary pink though even this has been beautifully adorned with frills so no item looks like 'normal' swimwear.

Jessica's decision to start the company in the first place came from spotting a gap in the childrenswear marketplace - stylish beachwear with UV-protection. She pointed out to me that people travel to the sun all year round and finding nice beachwear for a winter-sun holidays in, say, January, is almost impossible. It makes me think we haven't been away enough yet...

Among the usual raft of new business admin tasks, Jessica travelled to Portugal to meet and work with the factory that will produce her lines. Italian and Portuguese fabrics are printed in Spain and sewn at the Portuguese factory. A personal relationship with her producers is very important to her (and that it is relatively easy to get there!).

Since January, she has been collecting press coverage and sales from all over the place, including Switzerland, the UK and Italy via the web. I asked how she had got on at the business start-up centre for our area, NyföretagarCentrum and she recommended their seminars, particularly liking one on e-commerce. Although she didn't use many of the other services, it was through them that she was featured in Mitt i Danderyd, so publicity comes from all sorts of sources.

Something I only realised afterwards was that I didn't see the clothes so I'll pop into Lilla Gröna Indianen a.s.a.p. to check them out properly!

Jessica herself is a mother of three, the elder two born in London and, another thing done since moving back, having the youngest here. She is orginally from Stocksund but moved away after university, as so many do in our area, coming back to Sweden four years ago. It was fun to compare notes on having small children in each other's respective homelands!

Jessica recommends A&G Show Academy for children's dance classes, Hilda for yoga and a couple of other local businesses who I hope to check out and profile soon.

Now, where can we go where we'll need swimmers and sunscreen?

I went to meet Elisabet Suzor just before Easter at her new restaurant - La Piazza in Djursholm - which opens this Friday. As I wrote previously, we were a little nervous when the Italian sign went up above the old Monrads small site that it would be another take-away pizza place. One look at the website though and we were relieved and excited to realise that a smart Italian restaurant would be opening very soon.

So, I pottered in to have a look around and meet Djursholm-born and raised Elisabet and chefs Niclas Loom and Calle Danell.

The restaurant's style is a paired-down version of Italian fine dining glamour and sophistication. Beautiful chandeliers hang alongside polished industrial bar lighting. Plush velvet cushions sit along a simple bench lining one wall. The dark wood floor is covered, in places, with interesting rugs. Those who remember the previous layout will be surprised to see how much more space there is now, with room for at least 50 diners inside.

The bar is designed for sitting, eating and chatting at. It is open until 11pm and has all manner of tipples, including wine from local Djursholm importer's Winepartners.

I asked Elisabet about the food. I watched as work continued on the wood-fired pizza oven that will be operational in the next few weeks. Elisabet explained that it consumes two full bags of logs every day and heats to between 250 and 300 degrees celsius, meaning the freshly-made pizza's take just a couple of minutes to cook. The oven will also be used to make their own bread and some of the other dishes too.

The menu is on the restaurant's website here and it will be available in English soon. The chefs will choose a daily meat dish. Elisabet told me that she hopes diners will choose several of smaller dishes to eat with their fresh, wood-oven-baked bread. Perfect for sitting at the bar and snacking on too. I spotted some favourites - calamari (calamare), scallops (pilgrimsmusslor) and wonder when I'll try the oyster 'shot' vigrin mary...

There is most definitely room for another higher-end restaurant on Djursholm's high street and by offering quite different choices, we'll all just eat out more. I've started a list of things from the menu already.