Flammie’s Tromsø
Tromsø is a city in north Norway, that I live in and that is a touristic destination. It is a small city even in Norwegian scale, so there is not awfully much to do or see; if you are visiting for a week instead of googling for good bars and restaurants you could try every single one of them.
Restaurants
- Casa Inferno, Italian style pizza, highly recommend
- Peppes Pizza, Norwegian chain for US style pizza, I’d recommend this for anyone who prefers USA over Italian style
- Food Court, street foods
- Parrilla, hangover kebabs, not mexican
- Pastafabrikken, actually decent pastadishes, not sure why I don’t come here more often
- Pizza Express, hangover pizzas, long delivery times
- Tang’s restaurant, old European style Chinese food
Shops
In Norway, the national super markets are mostly all the same: Coop, Spar, Kiwi, Rema 1000 etc. have about the same selection and prices. There are few discount stores but they aren’t too exciting. The main shopping place for cheap and healthy, quality foods is “foreigner” markets.
- Alanya, biggest “foreign” food market
- Internasjionalt Food, smaller international food store but has slightly different skew and prices, worth checking out
- Coop Prix (e.g. Strandkanten), coop’s smaller more expensive shops
- Kiwi (e.g. Fagereng), just another supermarket, claims to be cheap but isn’t
- Extra (e.g. Bjerkaker), basic supermarket
- Joker (e.g. Storgata), somewhere between kiosk (bodega) and small convenience store, expensive
Bars
- Ølhallen, oldest and biggest craft beer selection, nice but very filled with tourists
- Mikrobryggeriet / Balthazar, great craft beer bar
- Agenturet, another good craft beers
- Bastard, dive bar with cheap beers, sometimes gigs
- Cafe Sånn, nice craft beers
- Nyt, nice and cosy for a pint and lunch
- Solid, generic bar
Festivals
- Bukta festival, for some rock and pop in the city
- Rakettnatt, maybe hip hop and such?
- Riddu Riđđu Indgigenous festival a local bus journey away