Restaurants in Oslo and Bergen

We had a lovely birthday dinner at the Enhjørningen (The Unicorn Restaurant) in Bergen. It is located on the Bryggen - there is a sculpted unicorn on the front of the building. (If you are trying to contain restaurant costs in Norway, try to limit alcohol, especially in restaurants, because it is heavily taxed.)

hi, i will let you know in oct after i get back happy trails.

Do you have Rick Steves Scandinavia or his Snapshot Norway? Rick has found many of the good deals in these very expensive cities.

Food is very expensive in Norway but the quality is high. Main courses at the Unicorn fish restaurant run 320-360 kroner, which is $55-$65. A three-course meal adds up to 550-600! ( Desserts are expensive too). If that is too expensive, you might try Pascal Mat & Vin, a little bistro we have enjoyed. Plates there with main( usuallynfish) and side vegetable run around 250; they also have lighter fare like quiche, as well as pasta and hearty fish soup. In Italy or Spain, enjoy a bottle of wine with dinner. In Norway we make do with one glass each.

Not a specific recommendation, but in Oslo, there's several decent restaurants along the inner harbor, opposite the Akershus. Not exactly cheap, but not too expensive. And a great place to people watch if it's warm outside. I had a reasonably priced but delicious meal at a restaurant just across the street from the Akershus park, but I can't remember the name or find it on Google maps. If you visit the open air folk musuem, they operate a small cafeteria on site. Nothing fancy, but they serve decent sandwiches and pastries for a reasonable price. The one other cheap meal I ate in Oslo was awful. It was a cafeteria-style restaurant that offered a coupon in one of the Visit Oslo brochures, but I don't remember the name. (Or, I could just blindly answer "Check Rick Steves' book!", but I assume that because you took the time to post a question, you wanted something a little more specific...)

Nothing memorable for me in Oslo, but sitting outside at waterfront restaurants was nice for the views and people watching. Best meal I had was at the fish market in Bergen.

Surprisingly my most memorable Oslo restaurant is the"Dinner" at 22 Storingsgate. We had just returned to Oslo after a week long hut to hut ski tour enjoying Norwegian meals at the full service huts. The Dinner Restaurant was fully booked (reservations recommended). However it was only 5:30 pm and an empty table was reserved for 7:30pm. We were allowed to use that table by promising to finish by 7:30. I should add that this was a Easter week and all the Oslo sit down restaurants seemed to be fully booked and we were a group of 10. The Chinese meal was as good if not better than some of the better San Francisco area Chinese restaurants but at Oslo prices. Our wait person lived in and went to school in California and spoke American. But if on a budget in Oslo, try Peppes Pizza where the pizza is cheaper than the beer.

"try Peppes Pizza where the pizza is cheaper than the beer." Oddly enough, knowing the general lousiness of Norwegian beer, I'm sure the pizza is better too!

It's been about 20 yrs., but I'll never forget the really delicious meal we had in Bergen in an upstairs place in the historical Hanseatic League open-air museum area right along the harbor. Its name was something like Traktorshed (Tractor Shed). The scalloped potatoes were to die for! We loved Bergen!! Since we're just in Cottage Grove, it would be fun to talk.