There is a wide selection of restaurants in Oslo, ranging from Italian, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Indonesian to Indian and Thai. When it comes to meat dishes, Norwegian taste is much the same as the European. Norwegian specialities that are internationally known are steamed salmon, sea trout, halibut and cod with melted butter and potatoes. Norwegian delicacies include smoked salmon, smoked trout, smoked mackerel, marinated trout and salmon.
Clubs and Bars Complete cafe guide to most of the cafes in Oslo, Norway
Cat's Disco A disco for a mixed crowd, with gay nights Saturday and Wednesday.
ADRESS: Storgata 25, Oslo
Oslo Jazzhus The city's best jazz club, with live music Thursday through Saturday.
ADRESS: Stockholmsgt. 12, Oslo Tel: +47 22-38-59-63 Days Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Smuget Hear live rock, blues, or jazz at this lively venue.
ADRESS: Kirkegata 34, Oslo Tel: +47 22-42-52-02 Days Open Daily
Eet Glass Already after its first few weeks in existence, this two-floor café-bar-restaurant positioned itself as a given meeting-place in the Oslo nightlife. During the day this is also one of our capital's most continental, postmodern café.
ADRESS: Karl Johans gt. 33 (entr. Rosenkrantzgt.). Tel: +47 22 33 40 79.
Grand Cafe In the centre of Karl Johan, as well as in the centre of events since Henrik Ibsen's daily stroll to the cafe at the turn of the century. Fully refurbished, Grand Café can now offer both a bar and a stage. The largest sandwich-, pastry- and salad-buffet in Norway, with a number of specialities. Even Ibsens old, regular table (with a silver plaque) has been given own spot.
The Bar New urban Bar. Colourful and modern interior. All sorts of coffee. Cookies and snacks. Fresh newspapers, backgammon, chess. Completed Bar with a wide choice and gentle prices.
Open monday - saturday from 11.00. Tel: +47 22 42 00 30/+47 22 42 94 10. Age limit: 22. ADRESS: Royal Christiania Hotel.
Stopp Pressen Beneath the famous caricatures drawn by Ragnvald Blix, journalists and typographers in Akersgaten are enjoying themselves on the soft, cushioned benches in beautiful, adorned birch next to the courthouse lawyers. located in the ground floor of VG-huset, Stopp Pressen is the local press-pub in downtown Oslo, and the home of a wide range of items from yesterday's world of media-communication. TeleTel poles are used as coathangers, with spinning globuses and an Airmaster radio from 1935 as central artifacts.
