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The
Fish Market
has lots of stalls bursting with salmon sandwiches, fresh
shrimp, fish-and-chips, and fish cakes. For a tasty, memorable, and inexpens-
ive Bergen meal, assemble a seafood picnic here (ask for prices first; June-
Aug daily 7:00-19:00, less lively on Sun; Sept-May Mon-Sat 7:00-16:00,
closed Sun).
Trekroneren,
your classic hot-dog stand, sells a wide variety of sausages
(various sizes and flavors—including reindeer). The well-described English
menu makes it easy to order your choice of artery-clogging guilty pleasures
(20-kr tiny weenie, 50-kr medium-size weenie, 75-kr jumbo, open daily
11:00-5:00 in the morning, you'll see the little hot-dog shack a block up Kong
Oscar Gate from the harbor, Kenneht is the boss).
Kjøttbasaren,
the restored meat market of 1887, is a genteel-feeling food
hall with stalls selling groceries such as meat, cheese, bread, and olives—a
great opportunity to assemble a bang-up picnic (Mon-Fri 10:00-17:00, Thu
until 18:00, Sat 9:00-16:00, closed Sun).
(See “Bergen Hotels & Restaurants” map,
here
.)
This cobbled lane, leading from the train station to the harbor, is lined with
creative little restaurants and trendy cafés. Strolling along here, you can
choose among cheap chicken and burgers, the elegant
Bambus Marken
for
Vietnamese(daily14:00-23:00,seatingindoorsandout,Marken33,tel.5556
00 60), the
Taste of Indian
(69-kr daily special, daily 13:00-24:00, Marken
12, tel. 55 31 11 55), and the
Aura Café
for classy sandwiches and salads
(Mon-Sat until 22:00, Sun until 19:00, indoors and out, Marken 9).
Bergen is conveniently connected to
Oslo
by plane and train (trains depart
Bergen daily at 7:58, 10:28, 15:58, 16:10, and 22:58—but no night train on
Sat, arrive at Oslo seven scenic hours later, additional departures in sum-
mer and fall, confirm times at station, 50-kr seat reservation required—but
free with first-class railpass, book well in advance if traveling mid-July-Aug).
From Bergen, you can take the Norway in a Nutshell train/bus/ferry route; for
