Palate — Restaurant in Oslo

I was looking forward to trying out this place, gorgeous design and extremely kind service from beginning to end. However, massive improvements required on the food side of things, mostly if you have such a short menu and rather high prices, each dish has to be perfection. I chose snails for starter, they were good, nothing too unique, could have played a bit with the butter flavour, but that one quite blunt. Still, the disappointment with this dish came with the bread. That was a rather ordinary piece of bread, sticky in the inside. Taste was ok, but texture was not so appealing. Nordic countries have been playing such a high bakery game in the past years, I had some of the best bread in Oslo, that this can't be the bread you get in such a high level gastronomically aspirational restaurant. Now, moving to main, I chose an entrecote and a salad, salad was probably the highlight of the evening, a great combination of ingredients, flavourful and yet balanced. But the meat was a lowest point of the evening, first piece was overcooked, was a strong medium, I asked for medium rare, on the rare side. They brought me a second piece which was now fully rare, which I didn't mind if the meat would have been good - but what a poor piece of meat and cut, was chewy, was flavoruless, was just a terrible experience by any extent. I've tried to make my way through the piece as I try to honor every peice of meat I get and alreadh feeling bad for sending out the first piece, but this was by far one of the worst meats I had. Either, there's a butcher change needed or a dish replacement in the menu if you can't deliver for the price. I regretted not taking fish or pork neck as these are harder to miss. And yet, as I was sad, I decided to try desert, went with the Pavlova. Filling was nice, wolde cherry base was tasty, but the merengue itself was so hard and sweet that it spoiled the experience. That wasn't a fresh merengue and definitely over sweetened. 3 stars is only because of the great service and a good selection of wines, I do hope they improve...

This place feels posh and fancy - because it is. I had a great experience here and left both very satisfied, and very full.

The place itself is stunning. The interior is luxurious and all the lit candles make for a lovely atmosphere (only thing I didn’t fully understand was why some tables had white tables cloths and some didn’t).

The service is attentive and very good. They fill up your glasses when you are empty, they check up on you and are quick with the food. As the place was not full, I wish we didn’t get a small two-person table and instead would have gotten one of the several spacious free tables (which did not seem to be booked either). It was fine regardless, but when the standard is high, I’m left with only few things to point out.

The portions were big and filling - which is good as, to no surprise at a place like this, the prices are a bit high. This is a place to treat yourself to a nicer meal. That is reflected in the prices. Luckily, they live up both in terms of quality and taste. Bread piping hot, blinis tasting homemade and of loads of butter, and the meat cooked nicely. Surprisingly, the salsiccia pasta was the winner for me.

Thanks for a lovely meal - I can...

This was quite a disappointment. We got a table quickly, but our drinks took quite some time. Fortunately another waiter came over with some water while we waited. Prices are for meat/fish with sauce and no extras. You have to order sides to get a meal. The waiter could not recommend, so we randomly picked something based on description.

The waiter also did not know what some of the exotic ingredients were when we asked and colleagues also didn't know. When the food arrived, we got Double salted beans that were not properly cleaned. Way too salty for my taste. During the entire stay, they played the most worn out 80's music.

The Fish & sauce were quite good, but it was tiny portions for the price. Food was also served on tiny entree size plates, so we had to ask for proper dinnerware. We basically got a fish-tail shared on two for 800nok. Fish, sauce and puree had good flavours, but no feeling of luxury. We took our dessert at another establishment and I doubt...