After our KickOff we had a team dinner at the hotel restaurant. The hotel lacking any kind of cozy ambience is designed with a strip down scandinavian cold interior. The staff was mainly swedish (what else to expect in Oslo nowadays) and lacking routines.
We ended up with a predefined menu of three courses - and not one of them was satisfactory. Starting with a below average starter with trout, salad and dressing served with days old dry focaccia. Main course was a heavy on salt chicken breast with some kind of tasteless potato sponge. Dessert was a marble sized ice-cream with 3 (!) raspberries.
Even though the dinner in total reflected the hotels minimalist style, sad to say they also minimize taste and the overall food experience to a minimum. With that said, if this were also reflected what they charge for this, all would be ok, but this was a expensive and totally bad experience that will not be repeated. read more