Bryggerikjelleren - Lillehammer

I am travelling solo around Norway and one of the issues I have encountered is the availability of tables in restaurants if I just turn up. So I prebooked a table for one here. The restaurant itself is lovely, a very long narrow room in what looks a little like a railway arch from the inside, but is where the beer was stored when the building was a brewery. There was a gorgeous fire at one end, and dark furniture and walls. There is a bar when you walk in with diners also seated at the bar but I was shown to a table. I had found the restaurant in an internet search and it was more extravagant than most of my meals out in Norway but I decided to push the boat out a little. The waitress brought me a menu in English. This was not the same as the menu I had seen on the internet as the one on the internet had offered steaks at different weights starting at 150 g (the smallest on the printed menu was 200g) as well as a range of pizzas, which were absent from the menu I was offered. I requested the 150g steak anyway and it arrived with bearnaise sauce, and vegetables. There was a choice of potatoes, I opted for chips and washed the meal down with a glass of house Shiraz. The food was excellent as was the service and I left feeling very full! With tip, my main course, glass of wine came to 500 NK or about £50.

I wish I could give them 10 stars. The food is absolutely perfect. The menu is limited, because they are clearly a steak restaurant. But they do it absolutely perfectly. The shrimps are tasty with just the right spice. The steak is to die for. I only wish I lived in Norway to come to this restaurant. It’s everything you could ever want.

Very cozy. We both had medium rare straks which were made perfectly. Very pleasant and quick service. We will for sure come back.

Waited 1 hour for the appetiser and then another hour for the main dish. Dessert took another 30 minutes before arrival and then we got ignored trying to receive our bill.

Our dinner were destroyed by lousy service from start to end. When we ordered food we got the feeling that they did not want us there (we should have left at that point). When we got the glass of wine, my wife got a correctly filled glass, mine was only half. The food was good, but the atmosphere was made so negative by the staff that it ruined the experience.