Category Archives: Eating & drinking

Restaurant Maven, Copenhagen

This place just ticked all the boxes. End of. I can´t wait to go again. I was recommended this place by a lovely new friend who lives in Copenhagen. Long story short, she booked a table for 5 of us and we turned up not really knowing what to expect but that it was nice.Continue reading “Restaurant Maven, Copenhagen”

Munch, Oslo

Visit to the new Munch art gallery/museum including 12th floor restaurant Yesterday the husband and I and a couple of friends decided to visit the much hyped “new” Munch museum. Well, it opened in October 21, so that still qualifies as new to me and means they should be finished with any teething problems, right?Continue reading “Munch, Oslo”

Hotel Bristol, Oslo

One of the best hotel lunches I have had in Norway. So, OK, I´m not mega rich, I don´t frequent fancy hotels on a regular basis and I haven´t actually had many lunches in them, but in the past month I´ve been to two and both were sufficiently fantastic to warrant me including them hereContinue reading “Hotel Bristol, Oslo”

Fjellheisen, Tromsø

The number one attraction in Tromsø and rightly so. If there´s one thing you must do when you visit Tromsø, it is to go up the cable car called Fjellheisen (literally means, the lift up the mountain). You ascend for 4 mins up to a mountain ledge called Storsteinen which, at 421m more or lessContinue reading “Fjellheisen, Tromsø”

Granstubben, Norwegian cheese

You know the feeling when you are introduced to a dish, or a foodstuff, you taste it and can´t understand how you´ve lived without it until now? At the same time it´s so good you feel a bit embarrassed you hadn´t heard of it before? Well, at the weekend we became acquainted with Granstubben bark-wrappedContinue reading “Granstubben, Norwegian cheese”