Norway drinks more coffee per capita than almost any country on earth. Scandinavia produced the baristas who won six of the first seven World Barista Championships, with Oslo leading the charge. The people who shaped the modern specialty movement, who invented the Nordic light roast and rewired how coffee is sourced globally, are still here, running small shops on streets you could walk end to end in twenty minutes.
Norway is one of the most expensive countries in the world for a casual beer. It is also, strangely, one of the cheapest places to buy a bottle of fine Burgundy. A 0.4-litre lager at an Oslo bar costs NOK 90-120. A Premier Cru that would run you £150 in London might cost less at the government-run liquor store down the street.
Bergen has three Michelin-starred restaurants, a legendary hot dog stand that's been grilling since 1946, and a 96-year-old fish cake recipe that was once shipped weekly to Norwegian embassy staff in Paris. You can still waste serious money eating badly here if you wander into the wrong place on Bryggen, though. What follows will stop that from happening. Here´s a selection of 9 of the best restaurants in Bergen at all price points.
