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bread and salad) is a steal in this high-price city. If you're not very hungry,
you can order off the lunch menu any time of day (Sun-Thu 12:00-22:00, Fri-
Sat until 22:30; facing the museum, go to the entrance on the ground level at
the right, Nordahl Bruns Gate 9, tel. 55 55 81 14).
Café Opera,
with a playful-slacker vibe, is the hip budget choice for its
loyal, youthful following. With two floors of seating and tables out front
across from the theater, it's a winner (light 30-40-kr sandwiches until 16:00,
100-150-kr dinners, daily 10:00-24:00, occasional live music, live locals
nightly, English newspapers in summer, chess, around the left side of the
theater at Engen 18, tel. 55 23 03 15).
Dickens
is a lively, checkerboard, turn-of-the-century-feeling place
serving fish, chicken, and steak. The window tables in the atrium are great
for people-watching, as is the fine outdoor terrace, but you'll pay higher
prices for the view. To save money, go for lunch and skip the view (150-kr
lunches, 250-300-kr dinners, Mon-Sat 11:00-23:00, later on Fri and Sat, Sun
13:00-23:00, reservations smart, Kong Olav V's Plass 4, tel. 55 36 31 30).
(See “Bergen Hotels & Restaurants” map,
here
.)
Fløien Folkerestaurant
offers meals with a panoramic view. The cheaper
cafeteria section has a light menu, with coffee, cake, and sandwiches for
around 60 kr and a 139-kr soup buffet (May-Aug daily 10:00-22:00, Sept-
April Sat-Sun only 12:00-17:00). The restaurant section has decent but ex-
pensive dinners with an emphasis on locally caught fish for about 300-350
kr (150-200-kr lighter dishes, May-Aug daily 17:00-23:00, restaurant closed
Sept-April, tel. 55 33 69 99).
(See “Bergen Hotels & Restaurants” map,
here
.)
Lido
offers basic, affordable food with great harbor and market views, better
ambiencethanmostself-serveplaces,andamuseum'sworthofoldtownpho-
tos on the walls. For cold items (such as open-face sandwiches and desserts,
50-80kr),grabwhatyouwant,paythecashier,andfindatable.Forhotdishes
