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cityweekend

Majority-owned by Kevin Zhu, who studied in Norway, his partnership with the Norwegian Embassy permits new shipments every two days with low prices to prove it's the real, duty-free deal. The fried Norwegian salmon entrée (¥128) sets a fat and flaky filet atop carrot puree, sauté of red cabbage, onion and spinach (and not that fluorescent-pink farmed stuff). Baked deer (¥148) was a bit tough but the gamey, smoky meat paired nicely with a sweet selection of baked apple, red wine sauce and fruit jam. As of yet there's no kaiping fei but the ¥168 house South African Pinotage works wonders with the deer. Now all that’s missing is their bi-weekly, all-you-can-eat 60 kuai Sunday brunch. We just hope they'll serve salmon.

 

duncanshaunsmith

This wasn't a bad place at all, but then again it was not brilliant either.

It has a very northern European feel to the place with lots of pale wood and chunky furniture but the easy listening pop music seemed a little out of place.

The service was pretty good although the waitress was a little pushy when we ordered. Liked the way they decanted the wine (the Pinotage was great and good value) but it did take the waiter a little while to open it.

As to the food, it was good quality and nicely presented. The salmon was excellent and the deer was very good. Disappointing that the Norwegian cod and halibut were not available and reindeer and lobster had to be ordered a day in advance.

Good salmon is available in copious quantities all over the city, so to be different and really work this place needs to sort these issues.

 

3 months, 3 weeks ago

ratatouille

Ok ok, I'm from Denmark so I just want to put that out there. Ill say that this place does have fine Northern European cuisine, and I definitely tried the deer and it was done very well, though they could be a bit more creative with the way its prepared (there about a month ago). I also knew that the place was on the expensive end of things but hey, if you want food from half way across the world then just expect it. Food = good.

That being said...can we please expand the drink list? And can I please bring some real music that's representative of our homelands?

Ill be back.

 

2 weeks, 3 days ago

holly_b

We came here last wk because somebody was handing out leaflets advertising that it was 78% off meals, so we thought it was worth a try.

The restaurant was empty and lacked atmosphere, but the staff were courteous and friendly. We ate a 3 course meal which was mediocre (except the cod, which was actually ok) & the portions were relatively measly

When it came to paying i handed over my discount leaflet but only got 22% off my bill.... and realized that this is the Chinese way of calculating their discounts (78% is what you pay of the bill) apparantly, they 'realized' that there was an error as five previous customers had complained before me... I could maybe understand this mistake if i was in a Chinese restaurant, but i wasn't.

my problem wasn't the 'innocent' error made, it was the fact that they were still handing out these leaflets knowing that it was misleading. (plus, i'm sure that's not how Norwegians calculate their discounts...and we were after all in a Norwegian restaurant... weren't we?)

When i asked to see the Manager directly, as the waitress was going back & forth between us & the Manager... suddenly, he wasn't the Manager anymore, but only the Managers friend, therefore couldn't deal with me directly.... typical Chinese response... (Where's a Norwegian when you need one)

1 week ago