It may well be the second week of January 2014, but I'm not quite done with 2013 yet. Continuing my tradition of looking back at the...

Over the last year or so Oslo has seen some great new restaurant openings. Although there's still a long way to go before Oslo cat...

When Oslo's Oscarsgate shut its doors for good at the end of last year, a collective sigh of disappointment could be heard from the c...

Smalhans has been on my radar since they opened in late 2012. The thought of a small neighbourhood restaurant serving a weekly-changing me...

One of the things I miss most about living in London is the sheer variety of global cuisine on offer. Whether it's a bowl of steaming ...

Sergio Herman doesn't look like your average Michelin-starred chef. That intense, somewhat ill-tempered demeanour is there – the one...

Another look at Maaemo, you say? I know, I've already written plenty about this, the most glittering of Oslo's Michelin-starr...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the demise of French haute cuisine are greatly exaggerated. In fact, it would appear that th...

(A more recent review of Maaemo can be found  here ) Regular readers of my blog (hello, Mum) will know that I am more than somewhat ena...

The instructions in the email were intriguingly vague. "Take the subway at 18:06 from Oslo Central Station all the way to Voksenkol...