Engebret Café

59°54′32.116″N 10°44′31.549″E / 59.90892111°N 10.74209694°E / 59.90892111; 10.74209694

Restaurant in Oslo, Norway

Engebret Café
Engebret Café

Restaurant information
Established	1848 In Rådhusgata 11
Food type	Norwegian cuisine
Street address	59°54′32.116″N 10°44′31.549″E / 59.90892111°N 10.74209694°E / 59.90892111; 10.74209694 Bankplassen 1b
City	Oslo
Postal/ZIP Code	N-0151
Country	Norway
Website	engebret-cafe.no

Engebret Café is a restaurant located at Bankplassen 1 in downtown Oslo, Norway. The food is based on exclusive (but expensive) Norwegian cuisine. The building housing the cafe dates from around 1760 and is listed and protected by law by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage.^[1]^[2]

History

Engebret Café is the oldest restaurant in continuous operation in Oslo. The restaurant is named after its founder Engebret Christoffersen, who started the restaurant in 1848. The restaurant was at first located in Rådhusgata 11, but has stayed at the square Bankplassen since 1863.^[3]^[4]^[5] ^[6]

Engebret Café has during the time it has existed, undergone very few changes. In 1921 it was hit by fire. A year later it opened it again and preserved its appearance. The restaurant is known for the famous artists who have frequented the restaurant, including Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Edvard Grieg and Edvard Munch all of whom had regular tables there.^[6]^[7] The best known of the employees have been Crown Princess Mette-Marit, who worked as a waitress at the restaurant in the late 1990s.^[8]

Gallery

Bankplassen with Engebret Café in the background behind the fountain
At the corner to Kirkegata
Statue of stage actor Johannes Brun at Engebret Cafè
Fortaus-servering på Engebrets Kafé by Christian Krohg ca. 1880
Engebret Cafè at the early 20th century

References

^ The restaurant Archived 2017-05-05 at the Wayback Machine Official website (in English)
^ Våningshus - Engebrets Café - Bankplassen 1 b Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage (in Norwegian)
^ "Engebrets Café - Bankplassen 1 b". Kulturminnesøk. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
^ "Engebrets Café". lokalhistoriewiki.no. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
^ Oslobys anmeldelse: Engebret - en utsøkt smak av Norge Restaurant review (in Norwegian)
^ ^a ^b Engebret Cafè, The history The official website (in Norwegian)
^ Engebret Cafè www.visitnorway.com
^ Fuglehaug, Wenche (8 September 2000). "Bare en samboer". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 5 March 2008. Retrieved 13 January 2017.

Other sources

Noel Riley Fitch (2006) The Grand Literary Cafes of Europe (New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd, London) ISBN 9781845371142
Knut Are Tvedt (ed.): Oslo byleksikon, Kunnskapsforlaget 2010, p. 156 (in Norwegian), ISBN 978-82-573-1760-7