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Central Norway
This flashy establishment is the new home base for the town's top chef, Arne Brimi, and it's where everyone wants to eat when they pass through town. It's…
Central Norway
This flashy establishment is the new home base for the town's top chef, Arne Brimi, and it's where everyone wants to eat when they pass through town. It's…
Central Norway
This crimson-clad restaurant is just about as traditional as restaurants get in Norway, but it's been going strong for 25 years and seems as popular as…
Central Norway
Lom's other culinary star is master baker Morten Schakenda, who makes all his breads using only natural ingredients and wood-fired ovens. You can buy…
Central Norway
The town's best food is served at the Vertshuset Inn, with a strong focus on local flavours: mountain trout, Arctic char, local beef, pork and a great…
Central Norway
In a hard-to-miss glass-and-steel box on the main street of Storgata, this excellent cafe serves a range of tempting, on-trend lunch dishes – açai bowls,…
Central Norway
Set in one of Røros' classic timber buildings, with a small outdoor courtyard, this perennially popular cafe has the air of an old Norwegian tearoom, and…
Central Norway
This downtown diner in the middle of Otta is the pick of the places to eat here, and it turns out a decent menu of elk burgers, salads, grilled chicken,…
Fossheim Turisthotell Restaurant
Central Norway
Specialities like wild trout, reindeer, elk and ptarmigan feature on the menu at this hotel restaurant, and while it constitutes a memorable meal for…
Central Norway
This warm and welcoming gastropub has fast become one of the town's most frequented hang-outs since opening its doors in 2014. It attracts all kinds of…
Central Norway
If you've ever wondered what an art-deco boudoir looked like (don't pretend you haven't!) then this place, with its burgundy red walls and over-the-top…
Central Norway
The pick of the limited dining options in Dombås, the Musk Ox Grill turns out decent dishes such as elk burgers, roast trout, salt lamb and potato balls,…
Central Norway
A little bit of the Mediterranean has travelled north to Norway thanks to this attractive cafe, where you can tuck into spanakopita, fresh olives and…
Central Norway
A blissed-out garden courtyard cafe serving good waffles and rømmegrøt, a traditional, slightly sour porridge eaten with cured hams in the evening.
Central Norway
A relaxed restaurant at the Bergstadens Hotel serving a mix of pasta, burgers and pizzas, as well as outdoor barbecues in summer.
Central Norway
This standout cafe and bakery will treat you to the town's most popular coffee and baked goodies.
Central Norway
Everyone's favourite winter hangout in central Lillehammer: a brewpub-bar-bistro where a moose has apparently walked through the wall (look outside for…
Central Norway
In the town centre alongside the E6, this jack-of-all-trades kind of place has a huge menu spanning everything from pasta to fish to steak and, just in…
Central Norway
Basic hot dogs, pizzas and sandwiches form the core of this diner's menu, but occasionally there are a few Norwegian dishes on offer too. Don't get too…
Central Norway
Hugely popular for its baguettes, rolls and cakes (and for its outdoor tables in summer), Café Opus gets the simple things right – tasty food, friendly…
Central Norway
Filling, inexpensive meals (with Turkish dishes the mainstays) are the order of the day at this pleasant pavement-side cafe. It also does pizzas, salads,…
Central Norway
The fish-and-game restaurant at the Forestry Museum serves traditional Norwegian cooking and has views over the swishing river waters.
Central Norway
Half cafe, half art gallery – and a pleasant spot for post-viewing coffee and cake.