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Bad main course and mediocre
Very promising but fell completely flat on the main course. We ordered PREMIUM entrecôte as it said on the menu. It was completely impossible to cut through. Three people ordered this dish and no one was able to cut or chew through the meat. The message we received, we said in a pleasant way, was that it was "the risk we took" by ordering entrecôte!!! In addition, PREMIUM entrecôte as stated on the menu. We were offered another dish as they had no more entrecôte left. One of us chose a duck breast which was lovely. The chef brought the duck and apologized for the entrecôtes. When we got the bill we paid for two entrecôtes and one duck. So no rejection. Incredibly disappointing. It cannot be said that customers run a risk by ordering entrecôte. No, unfortunately, will not return. Rather go to Le Benjamin, for example, again and again and again. Or Feinsmecker.
Be the first to ReplyOne of Oslo's best and largest wine lists
One of Oslo's best wine cellars was the reason we went here. Pleasant bistro atmosphere, almost on a par with Le Benjamin. The food was also approved. Pleasant and young staff, but no "heavyweights" to be seen as cheese knowledge. The cellar list of wines on 40 pages had all the right top producers and gets a dice roll of 6, but here too there is a little potential for improvement. 90 out of 100p we give the wine list. Perhaps a bit top heavy and improvement also lies in the fact that you had to look to find vintages older than 2019. Very good in Burgundy but next only 2020, 2021 and 2022. Microscopic selection of red Bordeaux so here you have a job to do (buy in from London and from auctions?) and for white Alsace they hadn't even written grape types, just the name of the vineyard (where the same vineyard has here both Riesling and Pinot Gris). Both the white and the red we ordered turned out to be sold out, but as a band-aid we got an even better wine than the one we ordered, so we are super satisfied and highly recommend the place, both for those who just come to eat and especially for those who are genuinely interested in wine, a better wine list is difficult to obtain.
Be the first to ReplyWe will be back
Very good food and pleasant atmosphere. We chose coppa ham as a snack to share together with cremant. Come together with good home-baked bread. Foie gras was the starter. The sommelier recommended a dry chardonnay, but we preferred something sweet, beerenauslese. The sweet was the best. Chardonnay 2020 fell through. Nice experiment, though. Cod and entrecote for main courses, with very fine wines. (A pinot noir and a medoc, respectively) We shared a cheese course, tried both port wine and beerenauslese. Very good, soft and properly tempered cheeses on heavenly crackling bread. For the blackcurrant dessert, we tasted a pinot noir dessert wine. Fantastic, had to be photographed. Nice waiters, great atmosphere, interesting sommelier.
Be the first to ReplyGreat place
We were 5 persons for dinner at Kolonialen. It was almost fully booked but the waiter worked hard and was able to get us nice seats. We had a great evening. The red wine (the cheapest Italian) was great and the food was amazing. The atmosphere was like a French bistro. The service was also great. I can strongly recommend this place and will be back.
Be the first to ReplyGood start to a weekend trip
Amazing evening! Me and two friends had travelled from the uk earlier that day and this was the first place we came to after dropping our bags off at the accommodation. The restaurant was busy, but was offered seats at the bar in which we were more than happy to take. The service from Harold and Maja was great, and got our trip off to a good start. Food was really tasty too!
Be the first to ReplyFantastic Food in a Buzzy Local Restaurant
Lovely local restaurant serving top quality food. At a time when so many restaurants serve tasting menus, it was nice to find a place that has a small menu but where you still have some element of choice. The food was not overly sophisticated - think dishes such as tagliatelle with porcini and butter or plum tart with almond ice cream - but all was superbly cooked. The place was packed on a Thursday night so clearly it has a strong local following. If we lived in Oslo, we would be part of the fan club.
Be the first to ReplyVery nice for lunch
Went here on a Saturday with friends for late lunch. Very nice place and great small menu. Feels a bit bistro-ish. Service was great and sp was the food.
Be the first to ReplyFantastic service and outstanding food
A very cozy and relaxing restaurant, with very nice and rustic atmosphere and fantastic service. All the waiters were extremely friendly and service minded, and kept an eye on us at all times. And the food.... Wow, what a fantastic experience! All five of us had tears in our eyes for the excellent quality and fantastic tastes! This is a "must" for food lovers in Oslo.
Be the first to ReplyGreat food, great experience.
We had a great meal. Everything was delicious. Service was quick and friendly. They only had one beer available, which is strange for a high end restaurant, but it was tasty. We had the cod and pasta entrees. Loved both. And the rhubarb compote desert was terrific.
Be the first to ReplyOne of Oslo’s finest
Kolonialen is a hidden gem in the Bislett neighborhood in Oslo. The restaurant offers an intimate and playful interior, where warmth and ambiance at its core. We had oysters and champagne to begin with. Happy to report that the oysters were fresh and only elevated by the classic toppings offered. Well done. The scallop starter was fantastic. This place knows how to use the amazing Norwegian seafood selection. Brilliant choice with a rounded foamy sauce bringing acidity to the dish. For mains we both picked Monkfish. A fish that must be handled correctly in order to taste brilliantly. Kolonialen did it full justice. A fantastic meal. We’ll be back!
Be the first to ReplyAmazing
Small and intimate restaurant. Knowledgeable and friendly staff. Great wine list. Small menu but something for everyone. Totally recommend the tagliatelle with truffle and the quail dish. Desserts fantastic - brownie with miso and kaffir leaf ice cream out of this world and I don’t do desserts !! Don’t visit Oslo without visiting this restaurant - you will be disappointed if you miss out !!
Be the first to ReplyGreat meal at this gourmet neighbourhood restaurant
This restaurant was a great surprice! Oysters, Tartar (signature course), tagliatelle with Truffles and fantastic selection of wines. Relaxed and friendly service. I will be back!
Be the first to ReplyHidden gem in Oslo
Super nice place, they got great food and wine, the oyster is very good, if you got money to use on wine, they got a lot of great wines and champagnes.
Be the first to ReplyRude waiter
Good dinner, but the waiter complained when we paid the bill that it was too small tips. This made the attendant loud in the restaurant.
Be the first to ReplyRude, but good food.
Had a very good time with friends, until one of the waiter,(wich we had never seen before), asked us to give more in tips, after we had payed. Uncredible rude, but good food.
Be the first to ReplyA pleasant surprise.
When you walk through those nondescript wooden doors beside which a 2018 Michelin commendation looks faded, you don’t hold your breath for a distinguished dining experience, especially not in Oslo where exquisite settings for eating out is as rare as my donning skis, grooming myself to get on the Birkebeiner track in freezing March.
Once bitten twice shy, when you’re prepared to expect very little, service-wise or otherwise in many a restaurant in Norway, a rush of joy leaps & seizes you, when you encounter the contrary. Kolonialen was such an experience. The carefully trudged steps of ours to avoid a near-fatal fall on deceptively fresh ice which brought us in from the hostile outdoors were met, not necessarily by a grand maitre-d’hotel, but by an affable host. He knew exactly the reservation. And he ushered us in, without any inquisitorial looks, as if I’ve mistaken a plush place like Kolonialen for Kareem’s Kebab next door, a not-so-infrequent experience, lamentably, my sort- discreetly defined as the ‘nye landsmen’- , are greeted with, even well into second decade of our century. Needn’t to debate if Oslo has signs of Cape Town for greeting the guests of colour, for this is not the place for that. I will happily reserve that for my students after the weekend. Sorry for that wee interlude of demographics.
Anyway, no sooner did we sit by the window at our reserved, spacious table for four than we were greeted by another smile-clad waiter with the menus. His unchoreographed, exuberant corporeal gestures together with the carefully elicited sibilants gave him away to be someone from le monde francophone, for sure, an asset which elevated the restaurant’s ambience. He was persuasive with the wine collections but polite, passionate in his recommendations but not pushy, unlike the dime a dozen diners in New York. His sommelier knowledge allured us to even to choose a bottle of bubbles which was beyond our originally intended budget. With pleasure, my friend went along with an excellent Cremant to go with the air-flown, live, fresh Boudense oysters by David Herve. Upon their arrival, arranged on a single plate, I was reminded of Tunic Spencer’s mini-naked congregations in stunning spaces, which I’ve always dreamt of prostrating my unathletic mortal coil, in return of a free photograph.
As promised by our French friend for the evening, the oysters were crisp, sweet and succulent. As I relished my four pieces, with the tongue-tingling sip of bubbles, I thought of Somerset Maugham’s colossal characters dining at Parisian culinary establishments like the Foyot in Rue de Tournon in Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson’s Paris. The low ceilinged, disconcertingly poor acoustic setting of Kolonialen was not Foyot, not even being able to hold a candle to the elegance of Theatercafeen in Oslo. The Iittala wannabe wine glasses were a travesty to the extent that the straw-thin stem was irksome to the holder. Yet, the food was a feast!
I always dread the arrival of the main course, for these high end, epicurean empires are known to serve a glazed coterie of organic artichokes, plucked by a virgin in Vanuatu, in the break of dawn, nestled on the north western edge of the Flora Danica plate, so the dog-hungry diner can enjoy the delicate design. And I’m left, dreaming of the nearest falafel parlour, not to go feeling peckish for the rest of the evening. Unlike the above art-of-the-fine-dining narrative, I’ve experienced in a few Michelin starred and Michelin commendation restaurants, ‘dagens fiskerett’, Lofoten cod with Spanish croquettes which two of us had was filling and tactfully prepared. At least, it occupied most of the plate. A good sign, indeed it was.
I was impressed how accommodating the Kolonialen was. Let’s be fair; only a non-cosmopolitan city like Oslo’s restaurant would yield to an unreasonable demand like my friend’s. He had the audacity to ask, in immaculate French to put the French host at ease, if he could have the gnocchi in smoked butter to be served with non-smoked butter. I was fizzing in fury. Had I been the chef, such an affront to the original creation would have been met with my politely asking the guest to choose another dish, without butchering the smoked butter which holds the juju of the dish. Then again, we are dining in social democratic Norway, hence everyone has to be heard and included, even at the expense of a carefully crafted dish being dwarfed to mediocrity. Once again, I was proved wrong. Regular butter soaked gnocchi arrived; my friend fed his face happily. He even complemented the French host and shared a few moments in French again as if they had known each other for sometime. C’est la vie! So it is good to hold the bar not-so-high sometimes, I thought.
Meanwhile my carnivore friend’s sighs of affirmation were demonstrative of his choice of 350 grams of entrecote was a roaring success, delicately handled - not to lose its medium-rare quality, with its centre showing scarlet red. Us the quartet sat for nearly good three hours. It was indeed a sign of more than a run-of-the-mill, ‘neighbourhood restaurant with an informal atmosphere and an international feeling’ as their web page reads. And when we left the almost empty Kolonealen, I decided to be less censorious about dining in Oslo!
Charming place with good food !
Charming small place, with very nice food and friendly service. Choose some snacks for appertizer. Nice Italian and Spanish hams. High quality starters and a small but very good menu of mains. Highly recommended, book a table.
Be the first to ReplyDelicious food
Good service, delicious food, small portions, family-friendly and excellent vine collection. Remember to book the table at advance.
Be the first to ReplyGood food, but small portions and expensive
Went here for dinner.
We went for a la carte instead of fixed menu.
The portions are very small and the prices very high, but the food is good.
Need at least 3 courses to get close to full.
Service was good.