Perhaps the long trek from downtown Oslo dragging my family in tow slightly skewed my opinion of the food - but - we were not overly impressed with the Japanese dishes in particular. Kids got fresh pizza - which they loved and my wife's curry was "meh." The price tag for five people was nearly $200 -- well more than I would have expected for a glorified food court. But, ambience was nice - no air conditioning however - on one of Oslo's hottest days on record. So all in all, a tiring trek for average food at high prices. We will pass on this next time. read more

We visited the Grunerlokka neighborhood and decided to go to Mathallen Oslo to pick our dinner. It was located inside a nice building next to a small water fall, river and park. It was easy to get to via the tram from our city centre hotel. There was already a small crowd inside as we navigated around. Italian, multiple burger joints, tapas were some of the busy spots that night. We decided on Helt Vilt with their wide selection of game meats from moose, reindeer, to boar to try some unique red meats. They also had a nice seating area that was available so we got the last table.. We ended up ordering the angry moose and wild boar burgers. The patties were a little over 5oz, juicy and lots of flavors from the meat and toppings. The angry moose burger also came with a nice kick mostly when biting down on the jalapeño slices. Both were filling but wouldn't have minded more meat considering these were each over US $20+. Service was just ok (maybe too busy) and we ended up walking to the front to close our tab. read more

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We walked from the harbor ferry to Mathallen for a relaxed bite and a few drinks. The route we took was a bit off the beaten path, and not the most scenic or efficient. I'd recommend taking a taxi instead. Once we arrived, we headed straight to Hopyard, where the beer and cider selection was excellent, offering good variety and a friendly, laid-back vibe. Then it was on to Helt Vilt for a moose burger, which definitely lived up to the hype. Mathallen gets lively later in the day, and seating can be a bit tight, but the energy is fun and welcoming. A great spot to sample Oslo's local food and drink scene. read more

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Two levels with the vendors downstairs. I did a 360 glance and didn't find anything I wanted to eat. An international offering, but not the dishes that appeal to me. read more

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Such a variety in one place. Wonderful options no matter what you are craving - even dessert! Beer, Italian tacos, Hungarian, chocolate, artisanal meats...ok now I sound just like the website basically. To be brief and to the point: go here, it's a yes. read more

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This is the food court you wish you had in your neighborhood. A full bar downstairs and meeting rooms upstairs. High end food products to buy to take home and cook. Everything from Macrons, ice cream, pizza, dim sum, moose burgers, Hungarian fry breads, sushi, and you name it. There are several good restaurants around it as well. Super family and kid friendly. Some places have their own tables and there is a center area where the whole gang can find their feast and meet in the middle. Most of the food places close around 8 PM so maybe not a late night spot all though there a several places serving adult beverages after 8 PM. Most of the food court places do not serve alcohol so grab your pain killers from one place and food from another. If you are in Oslo, carve out a lunch or dinner time slot and figure out how to eat here and try a little something from several places. Most definitely eat here and have fun!!!! read more

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MATHALLEN OSLO directly translate to "Food Hall" and this amazing food hall is found in the Akerselva district of Oslo. The selection of food establishments is varied and impressive. Great place to go if you're a group. There is Korean comfort/street food, Sushi, coffee, Norwegian, etc. BTW, the coffee vendor is SOLBERG & HANSEN, one of the city's best coffees. The location is fantastic - by the Akerselva River. The space is beautiful. Bathrooms are free. Wish I had the chance to visit more than once. read more

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So many great options to eat here, to consume on site or for takeaway. The vibe is warm even though the ceilings are so tall, on the place just feels huge. Large variety of foods and sad to say we came in the morning, so were not hungry yet, but I saw tons of places I'd love to try. We did get some chocolate to go from Sebastien Bruno, just inside one of the two main entry doors to the space. (They also offered free samples, btw). Put on the list for lunch! read more

This is a pretty neat food hall that we enjoyed checking out while visiting Oslo. We ended up eating at Bistro Budapest. Definitely worth checking out. read more

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My wife, daughter and I enjoyed dinner here on our first night in Oslo. From our hotel near the central train station, we rode the number 12 tram a couple stops to Schous Plass followed by a seven minute walk. We arrived around 5pm to find the place quite busy on a Saturday evening. There is a central dining area here surrounded by a variety of establishments selling food and beverages. We saw a pizzeria, several hamburger joints, a Hungarian restaurant, a taqueria, a fish/seafood place, charcuterie, Indian food and more. There are also several bars offering beer, wine and spirits. Some require you to consume your beverages in their little area and others allow you to go to the common dining area. Some allow you to bring food in and others don't. It can be a little confusing but just ask. English is widely spoken here and signage/menus also had English translations. My daughter had one of her favorites butter chicken. It came with rice and veggies. She enjoyed it but thought it lacked the usual kick. My wife had fish and chips which was also enjoyable. I went to the Hungarian place and got Langos Trio. This is three small fried flat breads with different toppings. One was cheese, another shredded pork (maybe?) and the last beef. They looked as good as they tasted and it was the perfect size for me. My wife and I enjoyed beers with our meals. I had a fresh tasting IPA and she a Pilsner. Both hit the spot but were on the pricey side. Seating was tight but we met a nice Norwegian couple who shared their table with us. Meeting others can be part of the fun dining here. We enjoyed it in that regard. read more

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If you are a fan of food halls, this is a small but wonderful option. First, do the look and see - give yourself 15 minutes to take a walk around the entire place to scope out what you want. Donuts? Elk meat? Dumplings? Cheese? Then once you kinda decided what you'd like, go save yourself seats in the interior of the building. There are probably 100 seats in a family style seating with long tables. Squeeze yourself in, say hi to a stranger. Be polite and clean up yourself here. That seems to be the cultural thing here - don't leave your crap on the tables and think someone will clean up for you. Warning - it's gonna be noisy. Don't plan on holding your sweetheart's hand and whispering sweet nothings in his ear because s/he/they won't be able to hear you. I ended up getting pad thai and donuts - yay for the creative mix, and a nay for how I felt afterwards, LOL. read more

This is a trendy food hall in Oslo with a range of gourmet shops and restaurants and bars. It's a hip place to hangout. Lots of food and drinks options. I stopped in at Helt for a moose burger (they unfortunately lost my ticket and the whole thing took an hour...in the US you would have received a refund or a feee drink ... all they said was sorry). But the food was good and loved the atmosphere too. read more

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Overpriced and touristy experience: you pay restaurant prices to scramble for food and a clean table, and then the food is semi-tasty fast food but with french mustard, and portions are too small. For a food court, "Oslo Street Food" is a WAY better experience, and far less touristed too. read more

What a great collection of food shops and restaurants! This was located just steps down from our hotel and we visited several times during our stay. So many different and interesting cuisines and foodstuffs. The only downside is that they closed earlier than I would have thought. read more

Fun foods to choose from. I love vulkanfisk and the Budapest joint. Lots of drinks, entrees, appetizers and desserts. Good seating. read more

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Fun market outside of the main downtown area of Oslo. A mix of tourists and locals. Clean modern remodeled interior. Staff varies depending on the stall. Would have loved to try more things inside. But great for light bites or a big meal. Must visit when in town. read more

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We were recommended this food hall by a local. Really cool place with lots of authentic items. We tried the reindeer stew and moose burger at Helt Vilt and it was really good! read more

Everything is so good here that money'll just fly out of your pocket! It also doesn't help that it's a very welcoming and warm atmosphere that just makes you want to chill with your friends and try everything this place has to offer. Be sure to try the fish soup from that corner restaurant, a cupcake from the bakery, a tasty beer, and whatever else looks good to you. This may be one of the best food halls ever. read more

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Such a cool place lots of food places large variety of foods and definitely a place to visit as a tourist or just a place to chill if you local! Next to a chill place so you can take the take out order and go chill by the spot ! read more

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This place has an outstanding array of food stands. Everything I ate tasted like it was straight from the farm/ocean. Particular standouts were the tapas bar and the sushi. This place is contemporary Oslo. It's super clean, well appointed, and yet maintains a Norwegian simplicity of design. This food hall was one of my favorite places that I visited in Oslo. I suggest you stop in if you're in Oslo for a day or longer. read more

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Si different than the last time I was in Oslo, but of course it was on my list. After using Google maps, what was supposed to be .5miles took 3.4 miles. Finally decided to just wing it. But it's still lots of great food. Nice people and a great place to lounge. Even with the runaround it was still worth the trip. read more

We came here on a recommendation from the hotel and we're not disappointed. It is made up of different food selections with simple seating. We had deer stew and the tipsy moose burger at Helt Vilt. Both were very good! read more

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Excellent food choices in a clean and beautiful hall near the Akerselva and the Damstredt. Had 4 orders of dumplings, dessert , and a poke bowl from 3 different places under one roof . Loved it! read more

It's the food market in Oslo which has been here for a few years. It's small but indoors and warm :-) there are about 20-30 shops in there and there is a central seating place for eating food from the shops around. There is also a buffet in the middle for larger meals. You can get most groceries here including nice fresh produce and there is a top quality butcher, fish monger and cheese shops. There is a shop that sells only Norwegian products like cheese, jams, baked goods and so on. It's a really nice shop owned by a very nice guy who let me try everything :-) There are 5-6 food places here to get pintxos, snacks, confit Duck and so on. You can also get fish cooked for you at the fish monger. We had a lovely evening here walking around sampling and stopping for a glass of wine and some pintxos. A nice way to spend a cold evening in Oslo :-) read more

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I was super excited to go to mathalen because I love a good food hall.... This one didn't disappoint! I will say, it's a bit on the small side compared to other food halls in other cities, but the quality of food was high. We had the best donut of my life there and some fairly legit Xiao long bao.... We also got to try the famous brown cheese. The walk to mathalen from public transport is a bit long, especially in the snow, but it was worthwhile. read more

Great food hall with a great vibe. I've been to a lot of food halls and I'm a big fan. Similar to Ponce Market in Atlanta in terms of size. Much larger and more selections than the French Market in Chicago. I got the duck confit sandwich from Ma Poule which I was unhappily disappointed with. I love duck and duck confit, but the duck itself was really salty then the mustard on the bread on top of that was just so so so salty. Also had a couple salmon nigiris from the bento place, which was ok, pretty fresh but nothing really special. Got my mom some pad thai from the noodles place which was surprisingly good, nice and sour and flavorful and a surprisingly large and filling portion in the small looking takeout box. Finally we had the citrus meringue pie from Pie and Co which was the real winner of the whole meal. Really delicious, sour and tart for the lemon and the meringue was delightfully light and airy. Great pie crust as well and really tasty without being too overboard with the sweet. Overall, I wish we got to try more things in the hall, but definitely would come for the atmosphere and other things! read more

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This is a good looking place with a good concept, but ordering and delivery doesn't work. Ordering by the scan code on the tables takes forever to load the website. Only a few of the menus are in English (this isn't a requirement, but they offer English as an option). After ordering we were advised that we'd receive a text when the food was ready to pick up. After 20 minutes, no text. We went to the restaurants and found our food waiting (apparently for a while). My recommendation: only order directly from a human at each restaurant. We ordered the ceviche from the Peruvian place. It was amazing. The pulled chicken sandwich from Stange was very good as well. read more

Amazing food hall for tourists and locals alike. They have such a variety of vendors including but not limited to a French bakery, Japanese bentos, Italian pastas, Spanish tapas, fish and chips, fresh meat and seafood, vegetable market, chocolate stand, crepes, gelato...the list goes on. The food hall gets crowded during lunch to late afternoon, but still plenty of seating if you're willing to share a table. They also have free wi-fi. Bathrooms are downstairs. I came here on my last day in Oslo before our flight later tonight, so we were only able to try Ma Poule for their duck confit sandwiches, PARADIS Gelateria for gelato, and French Bakery for one of their buns. Don't miss out out on the duck confit sandwich! The way they made it was to break up a huge brick of shredded duck on a grill. It smelled amazing swizzling away with all that juicy fat. They top a significant amount of duck on a 10 inch baguette, add arugula, and a tangy mustard sauce. Surprisingly, it was one of the cheapest things I had in Oslo. A sandwich was only 79 KR, which on my credit card resolved to $9.97 USD. Don't miss out on this sandwich! We got a raisin bun from the French Bakery. Even though it's French, they still flavored it with cardamon. Not my favorite spice for baked goods. There weren't enough raisins either. I think PARADIS Gelateria is a chain store in Oslo, but they still served up some pretty decent gelato. Especially the gianduja flavor. This was my brother's first time having gianduja gelato and he loved it. They have mini cones which you can add to your cup of gelato for 5 KR each. You can't buy a custom made mini cone, but they do sell premade ones dipped in chocolate also for 5 KR. I really wanted a custom one, so I bought a cup of gelato and made my own. Out of all the vendors, it looked like Vulkanfisk Seafoodbar seemed to be the most popular and have the most seating. People seemed to only be ordering their fish and chips, chowders, and mussels. Wish I came earlier to try more of the vendors. read more

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Every time there is a food market to explore, I will find it. Mathallen is in the Vulcan area and is an easy 15-20 minute walk from the city center. There are a variety of options like French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Italian food for order as well as shops to buy groceries. We tried some freshly made pasta as well as a Vietnamese tapas joint. Great spot and worth a visit! read more

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Such a wonderful place. My husband and I came here for lunch and had the best fish and chips ever. We also had the king crab legs which were delicious. There are so many choices and literately something for everyone from pizza, Asian, Thai, seafood and meat and cheeses. It's an amazing place - not to be missed. read more

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We were in Norway on a quick 24 hour layover and wanted the perfect spot to sample as much local food as possible in a short time. Mathallen Oslo was perfect! We first tried some sushi made with local fish. Although sushi wouldn't be the first thing I think of when in Oslo, the nigiri -- made with big, fresh slices of local seafood -- was amazing! We then tried the fish bar for oysters and classic Norwegian Fish stew. The oysters were briny and delicious. The Fish stew was creamy, had a variety of tasty seafood, and was perfect with the bread and house-made aioli for dipping. My only regret was being too full to try the locals sausages, which I have read are amazing as well. As must be noted: like basically everything in Oslo, the food here was expensive. read more

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trendy part of town. lots of variety of food choices but also some vendors can be pricey. don't miss the chicken sandwich at Stange-- very delicious with the herbs and fixins like a roli roti sandwich if you've ever had one. check out seafood spot; try some oysters. pasta was ok, poke a bit different read more

Really more of a fancy foodie hangout as opposed to a place to buy food to prepare at home. Only one vendor in each category (i.e. coffee, seafood). Great prepared food. Vulkanfisk shrimp dishes are great as probably all of their menu. Affordable by Oslo standards. read more

Absolutely loved this place.. Loved the confit duck sandwich from ma poulle.. This is such a great concept putting all these different food in tiny portions to taste in a character full building on the side of the river.. is great.. I would recommend you to sit by the window and look out over the river while you have a bite of your sandwich and sip on your bordeaux. Good job! read more

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The best US analogy I can think of for Mathellen is Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, but larger, and with more sit-down restaurants. I'm not sure there is that much more I can add that hasn't already been said, but what I can reiterate is the quality of food is very high and the diversity of food is very surprising. There is a wide berth of restaurant selection, from local norwegian to french to creperie, beerpub, brewpub, thai, japanese, ice cream, philly cheesesteak, etc etc etc the list goes on. Depending on which vendor you go to, you may be at a sitdown restaurant, a central dining area with your food (think food court), as well as grocery shopping for home ingredients (spices, meats, vegetables, cheeses, fish, wine, etc.). Everything appears to be artisanally crafted and prepared and while crowded, it was still very manageable. read more

Very fun to wander around and delicious food. I had a sit down meal, ice cream and also bought some fresh veggies as groceries to take home to snack on. Fun atmosphere, high quality foods, well worth the visit. read more

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I LOVE this place and I cant stress enough. Yes its small, yes its pricey for a food hall or market BUT Oslo is not London and this cannot be compared to the Bourough Market. The best thing about Mathallen is that its open on Sundays and its surrounded by lovely walking tracks through parks and streets and bridges. The food here is medium to great, depends where you eat. The cheeses are delicious and you can taste as much as you want when deciding. Hello Good Pie is just amazing!!! The chocolate pecan, blueberry crumble and the toffee pecan are delicious delicious. I didn't like the lemon meringue that much though. The Cheeseburger pie is also nice and different. I wouldn't say this is pricey. Ma Poulens duck confit sandwich is OK. Even though im a fan of duck and baguettes, i just didn't like this too much. Though the view of the stream from out table was amazing Stangeriet offers the yummiest kyilling sandwich burger, delicious. Mathallen is especially crowded on Sundays and public holidays but i always love going here. Even though everything is the same whenever i go, i discover something new and nice. Id love to try the tapas bar and the asian fusion bar next time. The grocery store offers exotic fruit and many /international delicacies, spices and confectioneries. The prices range from medium to pricey, depending on where you eat from. After a great meal at Mathallen, I suggest you go for a wonderful but steep incline walk through the historic olso street called telthusbakken read more

I love this place. If there was one in Glasgow I would visit all the time. In fact there should be one in Glasgow, but this ain't the place to campaign for that! So what is it? Is a huge food and drinks warehouse/hall selling some amazing quality produce at all sorts of mini stalls/cafes/pop ups. It's like a market but in doors and it's ace. Some of the highlights are - Hello good pie - the most amazing dessert pies you will ever try..... Like ever. Savoury ones are good to. Hop yard - awesome and friendly craft beer bar, great range and lovely decor/location. Such a cool place for a pint. Altier Asian tapas - on a Sunday they do pho as well. It was some of the tastiest I had ever tried. So good and authentic. These were my three favourite spots, but there was tonnes of others. Everything from sandwich shops to coffee places, tapas to seafood. Get yourself along and try it! read more

Mathallen is foodie paradise! Everything the adventurous palate could possibly desire is right here. Reindeer pate at Anni's, whale meat at the fishmonger, Kombucha at the raw food stall, incredible chicken sandwiches at Stangeriet, a huge variety of herbs, spices and produce at the grocer, local delicacies like Lofoten goat meat from Bondens butikk. The budget-conscious foodie should check out the Too Good To Go app. Several businesses in Mathallen offer discounts at the end of the day. read more

Mathallen is the food spot that you have to check out if you are in Oslo! With a variety of vendors and delicious home-made products you'll find something available for everyone. What really struck me is the pride that people have in their products. They encourage you test all that they have to offer in some of the shops, and vendors were enthusiastic to talk your ear full about what they were serving. Decent amount of seating and an overall trendy area. My only gripe is how pricey some of the Asian food was given the quality. As an Asian American I'm tired of seeing my food sold for a premium price without a premium quality. Basically I wouldn't recommend getting Asian food here especially the overpriced Bao, but everything else seemed decent. read more