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I like eating outside here with a view of the street scene (daily 11:00-23:00,
Grønland 24).
Alibaba Restaurant is clean, simple, and cheap for Turkish food. They
have good indoor or outdoor seating (99-kr fixed-price meal Mon-Thu only,
open daily 12:30-22:30, corner of Grønlandsleiret and Tøyengata at Tøyen-
gata 2, tel. [phone]). The 99-kr special is much cheaper than the menu
items, but isn't advertised very clearly; you may need to request it.
Asylet is more expensive and feels like it was here long before Norway
ever saw a Pakistani. This big, traditional eatery—like a Norwegian beer
garden—has a rustic, cozy interior and a gravelly backyard filled with picnic
tables (150-200-kr plates and hearty dinner salads, daily 11:00-24:00, Grøn-
land 28, tel. [phone]).
Dattera Til Hagen feels like a college party. It's a lively scene filling a
courtyard with picnic tables and benches under strings of colored lights. If
it's too cold, hang out inside. Locals like it for the tapas, burgers, and salads
(150-krplates,priceybeers,Grønland10,tel.[phone]).Onweekendsafter
22:00, it becomes a disco.
Olympen Brown Pub is a dressy dining hall that's a blast from the past.
You'll eat in a spacious, woody saloon with big dark furniture, faded paintings
of circa-1920 Oslo lining the walls, and huge chandeliers. It's good for solo
travelers, because sharing the long dinner tables is standard practice. They
serve hearty 200-kr plates and offer a huge selection of beers. The grill res-
taurant upstairs, called Pigalle, comes with music and can be more fun (daily
11:00-2:00 in the morning, Grønlandsleiret 15, tel. [phone]).
Café Con Bar is a trendy yuppie eatery on the downtown edge of Grøn-
land. Locals consider it to have the best burgers in town (150 kr). While the
tight interior seating is very noisy, the sidewalk tables are great for people-
watching (open daily, kitchen closes at 23:00, bar closes late; where Grønland
hits Brugata).