RESTAURANT ADDRESS

Schweigaards gate 15

Oslo, Norway

919 94 805

RESTAURANT STAFF

Chef/Owner: Esben Holmboe Bang

Sommelier/Owner: Pontus Dahlström

General Manager: Bandar Abdul-Jauwad

OAD HISTORY

First appearance in Top 100.

RESTAURANT REVIEW

The trend among many of the top Scandinavian chefs is to serve a cuisine that has an edge to it. But Oslo’s Esben Holmboe Bang has taken a different course, utilizing “the right blend of modernism and classicism,” and the result is “a more refined version of Scandinavian cuisine.” A case in point is ’Bang’s signature dish, an emulsion of oyster from Bømlo topped with a disk of blue mussel gel and a mussel and dill sauce, which combines the Scandinavian palate, the subtle elegance one associates with a chef like Joan Roca and the precise and exact cooking that someone like Heston Blumenthal is known for. A second way the restaurant has set itself apart from its peers is that it is one of the few top restaurants in the region that has not succumbed to the natural wine craze, and sommelier Pontus Dahlstrøm’s cellar is filled with tasty examples of classic French bottlings.

Oysters from Bømlo with an oyster emulsion, oyster jelly and a mussel and dill sauce.
Photo Courtesy of: Nordic Nibbler