From Michelin-starred restaurants and the best of Nordic cuisine to street food on the corner. Oslo offers a vast range of vibrant restaurants, cafés, and bars.
The capital of fresh ingredients
Food in Oslo is as fresh as it gets. Here, you can enjoy fish and other seafood directly at the harbour, or choose eateries where chefs grow ingredients on-site or at green urban spots like Vulkan bee garden or Losæter. In the latter, Maeemo chef Esben Holmboe Bang harvest rose petals that will end up on the menu in his restaurant.
Holmboe Bang says that “there is so much progress in Oslo now, and when you combine that with the closeness to the sea and to nature, it’s the perfect place to run a restaurant.” At Maaemo, they use only Norwegian ingredients and because lemons are not grown in Norway, ants are an exciting replacement – as they also add acid.
“Our concept is that we want the customers to get a sense of Norway”, Holmboe Bang explains. Maaemo has also been voted one of the world’s absolute best places to eat by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards.
You can find more budget-friendly options for a taste of Norway, as talented chefs often run more low-key joints as well – and even hang out there themselves.
Oslo is also a city of world food with high ambitions, like the Thai based Plah, Italian Baltazar, Japanese Alex Sushi and Omakase by Alex Cabiao, the French-oriented À l’aise, and the pintxos place TXOTX.
Social eating and concepts like food stalls with shared tables are found at Mathallen, Oslo Street Food, and Vippa by the Oslofjord. There is also a growing culture of food trucks in Oslo. And why not combine eating and shopping at markets like Mat & mer, Maschmanns, Mathallen, Fiskeriet, and Fisketorget, or go for the many independent cafés and bakeries? Oslo also has its own, urban cheese factory, Winter Aker Brygge, which is also a proper local food mecca.
In the evening, you should go mingle on the funky bar scene, where you can get drinks based on local brew and from Norwegian distilleries.
And – some of the world’s most renowned coffee baristas and coffee brewers like Tim Wendelboe are based right here in Oslo!
Find more inspiration on Oslo’s official website.
Michelin-starred restaurants in Oslo
In addition to one-star restaurants Galt, Statholdergaarden, and Kontrast, all offering unforgettable tastes based on Norwegian ingredients, newcomer Omakase Oslo offers Japanese Edomae Sushi.
Oslo for seafood lovers
Shortly after the catch, the fish and other seafood are served right on your plate. Enjoy everything from a new take on fish and chips to sushi meals that are awarded the best in the world.
Oslo for carnivores
Just follow the scent from the open fire grill, and you will stumble into one of Oslo’s many eateries that have made meat their specialty and pride.
Meals with great views
Of course, you can eat the view – Oslo is idyllically situated right between the fjord and huge areas of nature, and some of the greatest places to eat and drink are among the best viewing points.
Social eating
Mingling and eating has long traditions in Oslo, and more than ever you can now eat like – and with – the local urbanists in food halls or restaurants with shared tables.
In for coffee, wine, beer, or drinks?
In Oslo, what you drink is taken as seriously as your food and is just as carefully prepared. Coffee baristas, beer brewers, sommeliers, and bartenders are queuing up to impress you in the capital, where the tap water is considered the purest thing you can put into your system.
Book nowOsloBeer Palace
Beer pub at Aker Brygge, founded in 1993 and based on the idea that everyone likes beer, but not everyone has found "their" beer yet. Beer Palace has one of the city's largest beer selections, and the bartenders will gladly help you find something you like. Upstairs there is shuffleboard, darts and screens that show big football (soccer) games. Beer Palace has a deal with neighbouring Burger Joint, and their burgers can be delivered to Beer Palace and served with a suitable beer.
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