AMAZONIA by BAR — Restaurant in Oslo

Let's start with the positive. Drinks were good and the venue is cool and cozy. The mushroom taco and tostaditos were delicious.

What could've been better. The service and most of the food. The service - We had to wait a long time between each course, we thought they had forgotten about us even though it was far from crowded and waiters seemed uninterested. They didn't remove all the plates and cutlery before serving the next course. They didn't fill our water automatically. They didn't present the food only put it down on our table, one waiter did present the dessert. It was all very amateurish.

The food. The guacamole had dried fish flakes on it but none of us were fond of the combination. Very small servings in general but that is common in fine dining. The oysters could have been more salty and needed citrus, verdict was too oily. My family had ceviche and pulled pork tacos. The ceviche was tasteless, needed more of the salty sea flavor and sweetness of the sweet potato was missing. My aunt only got one (!!!) corn kernel. Pulled pork tacos was too dry, needed some cream or sauce.

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I had a very disappointing experience at this restaurant. For the price you pay, the food is nothing special — completely underwhelming. What made things even worse was the service: incredibly slow, even though the place wasn’t busy at all. It took up to 30 minutes just to get a drink. When the drink finally arrived, it wasn’t even the one we ordered — and the staff refused to admit the mistake. The attitude of the employees was shockingly bad. Unprofessional, rude, and clearly not interested in providing a good experience. The place may look nice from the outside, but don’t let that fool you. It was a complete nightmare to be there. I strongly recommend avoiding this place. You're better off going literally...

Be careful - if you look at the security the “wrong way” or if they simply don’t like you; they’ll throw you out and smash your head on the ground. We were a big group of mostly girls celebrating a birthday, and when one of the guys wanted to try a lipgloss, he was kicked out and they threw him on the ground. They then called the police and tried to refuse to let the group talk to the police and witness, but when we finally got in touch with the police they said that they were used to security guards at bars in Oslo behaving this way and asked us to report the incident to them so they could pursue the case. I’ll never return to this bar and I hope no one else will either unless they want to get physically hurt...