Guidebook for Oslo
Drinks & Nightlife
An independent bar at the banks of Akerselva, playing everything from jazz to hip hop. Sunday markets, graffiti, art in the river. A really cool place!
394 locals recommend
Blå
9C BrenneriveienAn independent bar at the banks of Akerselva, playing everything from jazz to hip hop. Sunday markets, graffiti, art in the river. A really cool place!
A pub where you can bring your own food! A well visited pub for locals, with very cozy and informal attitude. Old school posters on the walls, a lovely outside area.
170 locals recommend
Oslo Mekaniske Verksted
34 TøyenbekkenA pub where you can bring your own food! A well visited pub for locals, with very cozy and informal attitude. Old school posters on the walls, a lovely outside area.
Intimate, hidden jazz cafe in the touristy part of center, where it might be difficult to find somewhere where not everyone else is. Outside and inside.
21 locals recommend
Bare Jazz AS
8 GrensenIntimate, hidden jazz cafe in the touristy part of center, where it might be difficult to find somewhere where not everyone else is. Outside and inside.
SYNG
8 Nedre gateA nice bar by the river that among other thing has sing-a-long video nights.
A nice place to hang out at night. Large back yard. Colored furniture and relaxed people.
156 locals recommend
Dattera til Hagen
10 GrønlandA nice place to hang out at night. Large back yard. Colored furniture and relaxed people.
Everything Else
A nice walk in the gardens, museums, a really cozy café in an old wooden part of the garden.
376 locals recommend
The University's Botanical Garden
1 Sars' gateA nice walk in the gardens, museums, a really cozy café in an old wooden part of the garden.
Sofienberg Park
14 SofienberggataBring your picnic blanket and grill in the summer!
Oslo legevakt, tlf: 116117
40 StorgataWhere you DON'T want to hang out by night.
Brugata
BrugataWhere you DON'T want to hang out at night.
Frognerbadet
28 Middelthuns gateOpen air public bath.
Sunday market for furniture an small things. Expensive, but nice.
130 locals recommend
Birkelunden station
Sunday market for furniture an small things. Expensive, but nice.
Sightseeing
Take the ferry (for free if you have a day pass with the bus) from Aker brygge. Explore the Island, swim in the summer, have a piece of cake in the café. Also has monestary ruins.
196 locals recommend
Hovedøya
Take the ferry (for free if you have a day pass with the bus) from Aker brygge. Explore the Island, swim in the summer, have a piece of cake in the café. Also has monestary ruins.
Vigeland Park
32 Nobels gateA crazy sculpture park with naked statues interlocked.
Old wooden houses in a steep road. Normal people live there, it's just cozy if you're going that way!
48 locals recommend
Telthusbakken
TelthusbakkenOld wooden houses in a steep road. Normal people live there, it's just cozy if you're going that way!
Download an audio guide for the museum online for your phone! It's worth it!
170 locals recommend
Munchmuseet station
Download an audio guide for the museum online for your phone! It's worth it!
Charming and pictoresque part of town with well-preserved and inhabited wooden houses from the late 18th and early 19th century.
24 locals recommend
Damstredet
DamstredetCharming and pictoresque part of town with well-preserved and inhabited wooden houses from the late 18th and early 19th century.
Arts & Culture
Cinemateket Filmens Hus
16 Dronningens GateShows old movies every day.
A nice cinema with the old feeling. Red carpets and your glass of wine with you in your seat.
Tickets
http://www.filmweb.no/program/?location=Oslo#location=Oslo&date=08.10.2015&page=pageShowsForDay
56 locals recommend
Gimle Kino
39 Bygdøy alléA nice cinema with the old feeling. Red carpets and your glass of wine with you in your seat.
Tickets
http://www.filmweb.no/program/?location=Oslo#location=Oslo&date=08.10.2015&page=pageShowsForDay
Skating rink in the winter, at Karl Johan, the most famous street, leading up to the castle.
16 locals recommend
Spikersuppa Rink
41B Karl Johans gateSkating rink in the winter, at Karl Johan, the most famous street, leading up to the castle.
Food Scene
Around Olaf Ryes plass are bars and restaurants in Oslo's hippest, but cozy area - Grünerløkka.
97 locals recommend
Olaf Ryes plass station
Around Olaf Ryes plass are bars and restaurants in Oslo's hippest, but cozy area - Grünerløkka.
Mathallen Oslo
5 VulkanTh city's foodcourt. A nice feeling by the river!
Hønse-Lovisas house
2 SandakerveienEat a waffle in a small red wooden house by the waterfall.
Bugges eftf.
6 LeirfallsgataHave a coffee by the fireplace.
Take the subway all the way up there. An old historical farm building. At winter - rent a sled and ride really fast down to an other stop, and then again and again. So fun!!
Google "Korketrekkeren"
147 locals recommend
Frognerseteren
200 HolmenkollveienTake the subway all the way up there. An old historical farm building. At winter - rent a sled and ride really fast down to an other stop, and then again and again. So fun!!
Google "Korketrekkeren"
Fuglen
2 UniversitetsgataA vintage café and shop.
Really good, and somewhat expensive, restaurant. The premises are great!
85 locals recommend
Smia galleri
19 OpplandgataReally good, and somewhat expensive, restaurant. The premises are great!
Ekte Istanbul Kebab
11 Trondheims gateA close by good kebab-place.
Tijuana
61 Thorvald Meyers gateA good mexican
New Anarkali
76 Thorvald Meyers gateA good indian
Shopping
Fretex
20 UniversitetsgataFretex is all over. It's our biggest second hand shops.
Together with Thorvald Meyers gate the two best shopping-, café and restaurant-streets in Grünerløkka. A lot of stuff happening.
72 locals recommend
Markveien
MarkveienTogether with Thorvald Meyers gate the two best shopping-, café and restaurant-streets in Grünerløkka. A lot of stuff happening.
Essentials
REMA 1000 LAKKEGATA
17A Herslebs gateClosest and best grocery store.