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knotted into ropes that form curtains. The kitchen opens to the dining room,
adding to the homey feel.
The recipes and ingredients are almost completely derived from northern
Norway, with an emphasis on fish and game. You might try filet of carp, par-
tially sun-dried, then boiled and served with mustard sauce and bacon fat; or
freshly killed grouse prepared “like beef,” with a game-laced cream sauce. To
start, try the filet of reindeer, served, raw and chopped, like a tartar, or smoked
and thinly sliced, like a carpaccio.
Strandgata 24. & 78-41-37-66. Reservations recommended. Main courses 210NOK-290NOK ($30-$41).
AE, DC, MC, V. Mon-Thurs 2:30-11pm; Fri 1-11pm; Sat 6-11pm.
Rica Hotel Restaurant NORWEGIAN/INTERNATIONAL This dining
room in the cellar of the Rica Hotel Hammerfest opens onto the harborfront.
Specialties include pepper steak, filet of reindeer, and delicious daily specials
based on the day's catch from the fjord. Some international selections are also
served. The Rica Bar and Disco, also in the cellar of the hotel, is open Friday
and Saturday from 10pm to 3am. Admission is 70NOK ($9.95). The minimum
age is 20, and beer costs 40NOK to 50NOK ($5.70-$7.10) per half liter.
In the Rica Hotel Hammerfest, Sørøygata 15. & 78-41-13-33. Main courses 170NOK-260NOK ($24-$37).
AE, DC, MC, V. Daily 4-11pm.
HAMMERFEST AFTER DARK
Your best bet is Banyean & Hans Highness, Strandgt. 2-4 ( & 78-42-96-00 ),
found in the previously recommended Quality Hammerfest hotel. Banyean is a
sailor's pub, whereas Hans Highness is more like a nightclub. In the pub you can
order plenty of mugs of beer or other drinks along with burgers and pastas. In
the nightclub live music is frequently featured, at which time a cover of 40NOK
to 100NOK ($5.70-$14) is imposed. Sometimes the night is devoted to
karaoke. Most patrons range in age from 25 to 45. Banyean is open daily from
noon to 1am (until 2am Fri-Sat), and Hans Highness is only open on Friday
and Saturday from midnight to 3am. If you'd like a cozy retreat from all this
Nordic madness, you can head for a drink in the hotel bar.
8 Honningsvåg & the North Cape
130km (81 miles) NE of Hammerfest; 2,444km (1,519 miles) NE of Bergen
The world's northernmost village, the gateway to the North Cape, is a com-
pletely modern fishing harbor set in a land of forests, fjord waters, and crashing
waterfalls, everything bathed in summer by the eerie light of the midnight sun.
Only the chapel withstood the village's destruction by Germans in 1944. It's
some 80km (50 miles) nearer to the North Pole than Hammerfest, on the Alta-
Hammerfest bus route.
Honningsvåg is on the southern side of the island of Magerøy, connected to
the North Cape by a 35km (22-mile) road.
ESSENTIALS
GETTING THERE If you don't take the coastal steamer (visit www.coastal
voyage.com for information), you can reach Honningsvåg by car. From Oslo (a
very long trip--about 30 hr. during the period June-Sept), take E6 north to the
junction with Route 95 north. That route leads to Honningsvåg, with one ferry
crossing. SAS flies from Oslo or Bergen to Alta; there you can catch a bus to
Hammerfest (Apr-Sept only), where you change to another bus to Hon-
ningsvåg. For bus information, call Finnmark Fylkesrederi ( & 78-40-70-00 ).
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