Good Eats in Oslo, Bergen and Copenhagen?
 

Any restaurant recommendations for these cities? We will be there in late June.

Peppe's pizza in both Oslo and Bergen is a great place for casual dining - Italian sytle. Copenhagen is still on the can't wait to visit list!

Thanks, Debs.

Does anyone else have any recommendations? Are there any good restaurants in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen or is it best to eat elsewhere?

Some indication of what you are looking for might help me give you some suggestions for Oslo at least :) What price level, food type/nationality would make it easier to make recommondations as eating out in Oslo can be done cheaply and pretty darn expensive as well :)

Sindre

I ate at Peder Oxe (Gråbrødretorv 11) in Copenhagen in January and was quite impressed. The prices weren't bad and they had an excellent salad bar. Very good lamb shanks too although you're unlikely to be wanting those in June.

We had a meal in Tivoli and enjoyed it. Go to the Tivoli Gardens website, and it will give you a list of the restaurants and the type of food for each.

In Oslo, go down to the wharf -- there are some fab seafood restaurants down there.

I second Debs's recommendation on Peppes.

The wharf in Oslo is called Aker Brygge. You can find the website at www.akerbrygge.no. Two recommendations there: D/S Louise at Stranden 3 (www.dslouise.no) and Lofoten Fiskerestaurant.

Sankt Gertrudes Kloster, Copenhangen - I still remember this restaurant from a visit about 10 yrs ago or more (there's not many restaurants I remember from anywhere!). My cousin went in June and said it was great. Terrific atmosphere and the food was very good.

Type in Copenhagen restaurants, Oslo restaurants, etc. and you will get quite a few recommendations.

Sankt Gertrudes Kloster, Copenhagen - I still remember this restaurant from a visit about 10 yrs ago or more (there's not many restaurants I remember from anywhere!). My cousin went in June and said it was great. Terrific atmosphere and the food was very good.

Type in Copenhagen restaurants, Oslo restaurants, etc. and you will get quite a few recommendations.

Would there be a rough gauge of how much it is for a meal at all these places?

Surfergirl, would you know if D/S Louise has an English version of their website?

This is the exact reason I wanted a budget to work on :)
The whole Aker Brygge (which translates to Aker Wharf) area is nice to walk through, but it's probably Oslo's most expensive area. And the restaurants are expensive because of the location not necissarily the quality of the food. Thei'r prices for the main course goes from 198,- to 255,- NOK for fish dishes and 235,- to 335,- for meat dishes.
I haven't eaten there though so the food might be good. But considering the prices you can for the same price eat at Feinschmecker, which also has a Michelin star and after reviews in the paper and friends of mine recommondations is really good...
But each to his own I suppose :)

Sindre

Tiger, no, but it was mostly fish, and they do have menus posted outside each restaurant with English translations. (There are certainly things other than fish.)

We generally followed our nose and eyes, because on the wharf, in summer, there are people sitting on the outside patios and you get an idea of the food they serve. We'd look at the menu (and the price, thank you Sindre (!)), before stopping for a meal.

On quality of food -- I don't think we had a bad meal or poor quality food anywhere in Oslo (my husband had a street stand sausage in Stockholm that made him sick, but that's another story!). On price, the conversion rate 2 years ago was pretty good, so even in more expensive restaurants, with the high cost of wine (which I remember on the wharf was $11/glass of white), our meals were about 20% less than what we'd pay for a meal at a decent, medium priced restaurant in L.A.

Since we ate the complimentary buffet breakfast at the hotel, and either ate street stand food or stopped in a small cafe for lunch, our only real sit down, taking our time, relaxing meal was dinner.

What I liked was the fresh quality, as well as the seasonings used. This is a matter of taste, but I hate bland food, and I did not find the food bland at all.

When in Oslo, avoiding Aker Brygge might be your very best choice. I will not state that it is bad, but the price-quality ratio is bad, bad, bad! A tourist trap, both for natives and foreigners, and unhappily also for myself.
So, where to get a tasty quality meal in Oslo for a worthwhile price? Not easy to find, but the big newspapers, Dagbladet Aftenposten and VG, normally have twice-weekly rankings and recommodations for most tastes. Your hotel receptionist certainly also will do his best to assist you.
But again: Avoid Aker Brygge.
Have a lovely meal!
Bjorn, OSLO

When I was in Oslo last year, I ate several times at the Bengali Cafe on Storgata (near Hausmann's Gate). However, I heard it might be closed. If it's still around, I'd be delighted, as the owner was very friendly and the food was nice and cheap.

Actually the area around Storgata and Torggata is known as "little Vietnam". The reason obviously is because there are lots of small shops and restaurants there with a Vietnamese and other south-east Asian cuisine. They are very moderate in price and usually very good, a main course costs around 50-90,- NOK. And generally Karl Johan street and Aker Brygge are the "best" locations and thus has the worst price/quality ratio. Of course when you pay 200+ NOK for a main course you expect decent food and you DO get that, but there it often isn't any better than decent so...

Sindre

The dinners I had at the Bengali cafe were 60 - 70 NOK.

I'm wondering "Where do the locals eat?" Definately wouldn't want to be caught in a Tourist Trap. Can't afford to... =)

Here's a site:

http://www.norwaythepoorway.com

(Don't take the name too literally!)

Thanks for all the great advice. I think what I'm looking for is a special meal, one that will be memorable. While I don't want to pay exorbitant prices, I will pay for an expensive meal if it is especially good. That said, can anyone recommend a special restaurant in Oslo, Bergen or Copenhagen?