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TRIED & TESTED: ILLEGAL BURGER OSLO

November 3rd, 2011

(Press Images)

Most striking feature:

Illegal Burger is a burger joint in Oslo. I’ve seen the images on The Coolhunter and had to experience it by myself. Sometimes it happens that photos look way prettier than the real version of a spot. That’s why my goal is to visit all the new spots I write about, to give you the ‘real version’. So spot the differences – without daylight (it wasn’t open during lunch, so I had to go there for dinner), without a food stylist presenting the burgers. I love the typography, but the burgers were expensive (for the dish pictured I paid 25 euro) and I still had the feeling of being in a fast food chain instead of a high end burger joint. I love to hear your comments, because I can be wrong. But I’ve only been there one night.

No website, located at: Mollergata 23, Oslo

(My own photos) 


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TRIED & TESTED: BUILDING BLOCKS OSLO

November 1st, 2011

Most striking feature:

The funny thing is that I always happen to end up to a children’s exhibition when I decide to go to a museum. Last time in Paris at the Keith Haring overview, now, in Oslo, at the Building Blocks expo at the DogA. This exhibition invited kids to work as architects. If they were the architect, how would we live? One house had a huge bed on the ground floor (very cosy), another a huge staircase to enter the house. Very inspiring! The DogA is the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture and worth a visit. You can visit this exhibition till November 27.

Check out: www.doga.no


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TRIED & TESTED: UNITED BAKERIES OSLO

October 31st, 2011

Most striking feature:

I hate to tell you that it was very crowded when I went to the United Bakeries for lunch. Good for them, but not so much for my photo policy (no people in it, because they kill the interior effect ;) ). So I grabbed some professional photos from the website of this popular bakery in Oslo. There are several outposts in the city, but I visited the one on Valkyriegata. The sandwich I tried was delicious. In Oslo they are very kids-friendly. I saw a woman breast feeding her baby in the middle of the cafe and Bugaboos are standing in the way between all the small tables. When new, young parents enter, other parents smile directly at the baby or child in it. Funny!

Check out: www.united-bakeries.no


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TRIED & TESTED: BOLIVAR OSLO

October 31st, 2011

Most striking feature:

A fantastic, and very crowded, lunch spot nearby the Bogstadveien (a big shopping street in Oslo). You’ll find the cool crowd of Oslo sitting there eating delicious dishes. The interior is rough where concrete comes together with design chairs. Downstairs there’s an interior shop – and some tables to eat as well (all occupied because it was so busy, I can’t even sit there).

Check out: www.bolivar.no


 


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TRIED & TESTED: TRATTORIA POPOLARE OSLO

October 30th, 2011

Most striking feature:

This new opened Italian (May 2011) restaurant in Grunerlokka is already famous for their wines upstairs. If you’re after good wines and want to be inspired by a huge wine cellar you have to reserve a table upstairs. Personally I like the brasserie at the ground floor. It’s not that the interior screams ‘classic Italy’ because they’ve turned it into a modern place. No pizza’s on the menu, but dishes like spaghetti, risotto and tagliatelle.

Check out: www.popolare.no


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TRIED & TESTED: GRANIT OSLO

October 29th, 2011

Most striking feature:

Muji of Scandinavia. In the most expensive city of Europa (I’ve paid 25 euro for a burger and a cola at Illegal Burger, where the same dish costs 11 euro in Bruxelles at Ellis Gourmet Burger), Granit is really affordable. You can find everything in here: from Christmas ornaments to calendars and from clothing to storage boxes. And you can easily spend an hour browsing though all their stuff. Happily they have baskets so you can collect all of your finds. I bought a stamp, a postcard and tape with hearts on it for 10 euro. They also have stores in Stockholm and Malmo in Sweden.

Check out: www.granit.se


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TRIED & TESTED: HENRIK VIBSKOV OSLO

October 29th, 2011


Most striking feature:

This is the biggest Henrik Vibskov store there is. They not only sell the fashion items of the Danish designer, but also books and magazines. When entering the shop I directly fell in love with this cape (price: 460 euro). I saw myself wearing it with a leather jacket underneath it, so you see the leather coming through the cape. It’s the perfect Oslo souvenir because Read more…


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NEW SPOT: GRILLERIET OSLO

October 28th, 2011

I’ve passed this restaurant on my way to the Henrik Vibskov boutique but it wasn’t open yet. So sorry I couldn’t make pictures, but I took one image of the website DN.no – a site worth following if you’re going to Oslo. 

3 reasons to go there:

  1. If you like grilled food.
  2. If you’re a fan of the Mazzo chairs – they pop up every where around the world.
  3. If you’re looking for a good restaurant in the center of Oslo.

Check out: www.fursetgruppen.no


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TRIED & TESTED: SCANDIC VULKAN OSLO

October 28th, 2011

Most striking feature:

The lobby. A great mix of design furniture and a relaxing place to sit down after a walk through the city. Scandic is a chain and as you know I try to collect everything but chains on Petite Passport. But Scandic is innovating and making their newest hotels more and more for design travellers like myself. This hotel opened on October 20 and has several area’s to discover. There’s the lobby, the breakfast room (with a lot of lightbulbs hanging above the tables) and a bar downstairs. My room was like you expect in a chain, but with nice little extra’s like a Hay table and an Eames chair. No bathroom goodies but that’s because Scandic claims to be an eco-friendly hotel so you get a dispenser next to the shower (I don’t like that at all, see all the people who showered there before me using it, ugh, but I do like their eco consciousness). The bed is heavenly soft with thick duvets and pillows. Yes I slept like a baby here.

At the breakfast area (at night this is a restaurant) there’s a lot to choose from: from a traditional English breakfast to bread with chocolate paste on it. Another plus: the hotel is located on walking distance from Grunerlokka and the center. The Vulkan site is in development and I guess there will be a lot do to in the future (from my room I saw the rooftop bar of the Vulkan restaurant and that looks pretty amazing (when it’s summer, because it was freezing cold in Norway when I was there).

From 170 euro per night, check out: www.scandichotels.com


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OSLO WEEKEND ON PETITE PASSPORT

October 27th, 2011

Last weekend I went to Oslo. Capital of Norway. There was one big reason to visit Oslo now and that’s the opening of Scandic Vulkan at October 20 (more of that tomorrow at 10am). But next to that I walked (yes, Oslo is like a village, you can walk everything) through several parts of the city to discover the best spots for you to go when you’re going to Oslo.

The question I’ve been asked a lot is if you can compare Oslo with Copenhagen and my answer is no. Oslo is smaller, not so fast forward and even glamourous, very into nature (when I arrived at the airport I directly saw a man with a Nordic Walking outfit) but still has a Berlin graffiti/street art touch to it. Because of the new hotel and some, just opened, design spots I think it will develop itself slowly into a design capital.

xoxo Pauline

Thanks to Visit Oslo and Innovation Norway for organising my trip


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