They have some amazing sandwiches!! We picked up breakfast and coffee from here the day we were…read moreheading to Flam. Really good sandwiches with a lot of micro greens.

Stopped by for lunch. Our family did custom sandwiches. Breads were great. Sad they ran out of…read morebaguette but really liked the olive focaccia. Fresh cheeses. Fresh meats. Decent amount of seating inside or outside in the front and back. Back is quieter and less windy. The Skillingsboller was pretty good, not too sweet with only a hint of spices.

Pingvinen was interesting, somewhere between seaside pub and upscale dining, with some elements of…read moreeach. I got the fish soup, following advice from Yelp, and was very happy with the meal. Simple, straightforward, and very well cooked. It was a hearty bowl of soup, loaded with large chunks of white fish, a delicious creamy base, and some buttered bread on the side. The soup was robust without feeling oily or heavy. The portion was a bit small for me, but I still enjoyed the flavors and was glad to have come here for a delicious lunch!

Made a reservation for this smaller restaurant. Vibe is quiet and casual. Food is refined. Plates…read moreare perfectly plated. We loved everything. The fish pie was so delicious with the crispy gratin top. Open face sandwich was traditional and so fresh. Don't miss this place!

After a long day of Norway in a nutshell, we found ourselves in rainy Bergen and hungry. We found…read morethis soup restaurant and decided to try it (it was open.... It seemed warm....). It was a good call! We tried the seafood soup and the Rudolph soup. The seafood soup was really tasty and had a lot of fish in it. The Rudolph soup was....ok.... It was super rich, so hard to eat a lot of it. Prices were reasonable. I would definitely recommend it!

Went for the soup sampler. It was $17 for three soup samples. We ordered the Hungarian goulash-…read moregood flavor, chunks of beef and potatoes. Creamy chicken- chunks of chicken in a chicken cream sauce. Reindeer soup- creamy soups with ground reindeer and mushrooms. Reindeer soup was my favorite. Tasted like there was wine in it. Good service. Free wifi. Indoor and outdoor seating. We were told by a local to go here go sandwiches and soups for a good price. Entrees are 250nkr and up....pricey!!!! They have a bar area with tables and seats at bar.

I will always come back to Don Pippo! I fell in love with this place three years ago, and though…read moresome of their staff appears to have less wine knowledge than the staff used to have, they are still nice and helpful. Don Pippo has a limited menu, both for food and drinks, but the quality is high. The food is based on cured meat and cheeses, perfect snack food! They also have sandwiches, if you are a bit hungrier. In addition they have a variety of good quality wine, at very fair prices. The building itself is not my favourite; with all the windows it is almost like a greenhouse, which is cold in the winter and hot in the summer. It is also quite small, and hence always crowded. On a Friday afternoon you have to be there before 4pm, to be sure to get a table. The chairs (mainly highchairs) are really uncomfortable in the long run, but Don Pippo is a great first stop on a bar-hopping afternoon.

Fresh, warm chèvre salad, homemade sourdough bread, and lovely wine. Completely cute, friendly…read moreatmosphere. Perfect for a cozy lunch.

Absolutely fabulous! Great location for a nice dinner by the water and fish market. The menu is a…read morecreative blend of Scandinavian and International options. The ingredients were quality as well as the service. Our server Naomi (sp?) was attentive, friendly, knowledgable on the menu, and made fantastic suggestions all with a gorgeous personality and smile. Our bartender and wine server, Sofie, made great suggestions and even better martinis and old fashions. She and our server made the already fabulous meal an incredible experience. The atmosphere is cozy and welcoming. The noise level is just right. The views enchanting. Everything about our evening was enjoyable. Hoping to return to Bergen, we will definitely be back to dine here.

We came here on our tour manager's recommendation. The service was meh as it took over 20 minutes…read morefor our foods to come, while we are seeing foods from other tables with similar items come quick quicker than ours!!! Also, when the water jugs ran out of water, the server would quickly replenish the jugs without asking while leaving our water jugs empty when we had finished our water!! Now, onto the food ... we both ordered open-faced sandwiches (Skagen and Fjords). Both sandwiches have bread that takes a strong muscle to cut through and the seafood was swimming in mayo!!! Overall, the experience was not that great plus it is not easy to climb up several steep steps of stairway to get to a restaurant! We can tell that this is a popular restaurant around the locals as it was filling up after 20 minutes, but will we come back here again? Not really!!

Was able to score a window table upstairs as a walk in on a Friday for lunch. Beautiful interior,…read moregood view, kind staff. Great food. There's a reason Rick Steve's recommends. Enjoyed the lamb, and the fish soup. Open face chicken sandwich was just okay.

Classy and elegant ambiance. They have 2 stories, first floor welcomes walk in but it's first come…read morefirst serve, so when there's time a cruise ship boards, the wait can be long. The second floor is for reservations only and I recommend a reservation. It's not hard to book but do book as early as you can to get the normal time slots. I checked maybe 2.5 months ago and all the time slots for dinner were available, but a couple weeks later, only the early dinner time slots like 4pm is available. The service is nice but not frequent and the host is friendly. We were allowed to use the restroom before my reservation time. I love the menu, it carries so many Nordic traditional dishes, such as the whale steak, reindeer steak, Atlantic wolffish (catfish), deer stew, mussels, etc. We ordered the grilled reindeer steak and the pan fried wolffish. Both are beautifully plated, good portions and delicious with the right amount of seasoning. The Nordic cuisine likes to use local fruits to add sweetness to the sauce. I took out 1star because t hey are pricy. For entrees in the price range of 40-60 is fine, but when the desserts are priced at 20+, they lose the marginal satisfaction. Great location, great food. If your time in Bergen is short, this is one proper meal worth splurging on.

While walking pass by we would like like to have some cinnamon bun and they were having a special 3…read moreboller for 135,_. It was good and friendly service. Nice interior. We did not try their coffee.

Beautiful pastries, we got a danish and cinnamon roll to go, would have loved to had time to sit…read moreand have a coffee there also. They were both very good, like more cinnamon but love trying things in different countries.

Got chocolate, two veggie sandwiches and coffees for $50 and they were just cheese and bread. We…read moreasked a staff member if they put the artichoke and the sun-dried tomato and he was convincing us that he did, when we showed the evidence of its absence he brought us exactly two tiny pieces of tomatoes and two tiny quarters of artichokes to put into two sandwiches - ridiculous. Going to eat at a good place with a better staff afterwards. Giving one star as the cheese was tasty.

Not sure how this got to be a bakery, but this is one of my favorite tasting menu restaurants on…read morethe planet. Work brings me to Bergen from time to time and I've had the good fortune to dine at Colonialen twice. Once with two good friends and another time simply by myself. A restaurant has to be amazing to get me to sit alone for 3.5 hours to go through all the courses. The food here is imaginative and consistent. The wine pairings are spot-on. Listing the 20 or so dishes I've eaten there would take forever, so I'll stick with two or three of the standouts. The first was a group of northern grains served in a mortar with a pestle. You ground up the grains with the pestle and an oxtail consomme was poured over top. This was painfully delicious. It was so good that I shamelessly begged (and received) a second. On my second visit, the staff recognized me and gave me a lot of attention (which was nice since I was alone). I had long conversations with the chef and the sommalier about how they sourced their food and selected their wines. Their wine pairings are eclectic (france, germany, italy, pacific northwest, even a Norwegian selection worked its way in). If you are in Bergen or traveling to Bergen, this needs to be on your list ... perhaps more than anything else in town.

Awesome place for coffee and waffles with brown cheese!!!! The owner is very friendly and welcoming!read more

When visiting Bergen, you have to visit Bryggen, even if touristy attractions aren't your thing. In…read moreit, you will find Kaf Kafe. It feels like a mom and pop shop still which is great to see but honestly, the food was just decent. We got the waffle with strawberries and it was OK. It was a floppy waffle, which might just be how waffles are done in Norway and the flavors were decent. It was highly rated across platforms so maybe we were going in with higher expectations but I am not sure why it was rated so high. It is fine and maybe a spot for drinks, but not a place I'd say you'd have to visit. It you have a bit of time, try walking out further into the back streets as I feel you might find a less-touristy place with better options.

7/5/24 - we dropped in after walking back from a castle. Nachos ordered and the worst I've ever…read morehad. The chips were like nachos in America but not nachos, the sauce and guacamole not good. Wasted 90 NOK, 2 hamburgers ordered with fries and they were good. Ordered 2 beers. Plenty of inside seating. See photos. I wouldn't come back here but they had American type food here and not Norwegian. Not than many places to eat in the shopping side of Bergen unless you want a coffee and a bread item. Also, go order at the bar and they will bring the food to you.

We fell into this place as we walked the Bryggen area. The food here is amazing. This place looks…read moremore like a bar, a stage in the back, a casual bar to the left. Don't let that discourage you from ordering food. I wish we would've taken a few pics. We ordered the fish and chips, the bbq bourbon wings and the chicken Caesar and the seafood salad. The salads by far were legit. Very very generous portions and lots of salmon and petit shrimp on the seafood salad. The pics on the menu don't do it justice. The service was friendly as well.