Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Bergen.
Accolades in Bergen
Our guide counts three Michelin-starred restaurants in Bergen and four Michelin stars in total. Each runs a tasting menu, and the latest Michelin award at each is dated 2026.
Gaptrast in Bergen city center holds two Michelin stars, with the latest award dated 2026. Chef Martin Gehrlein cooks from wild Nordic terroir and the West Norwegian larder, using locally sourced ingredients. The kitchen is open, with a charcoal fire, and the menu is a surprise tasting menu. The wine program is exceptional, extensive and sommelier-led.
Lysverket in Sentrum holds one Michelin star, with the latest award dated 2026. Chef-owner Christopher Haatuft serves a 10-course tasting menu of local seafood from the Bergen fjords, including handpicked scallops from diver Knut Magnus Persson. The room has views over Lille Lungegårdsvannet. The wine list is extensive and sommelier-led.
Omakase by Sergey Pak in Bergen center holds a Michelin star for 2026. Chef Sergey Pak works Norwegian seafood with Japanese sushi technique at a 10-12 seat chef's counter. The format is omakase, served as a tasting menu with counter dining. The drinks are sommelier-led and include sake.
TempoTempo in Vågen and Dråpen Vinbar in Sentrum pour natural wine and hold Star Wine List awards. Pergola Mat og Vinbar in Vågen keeps over 350 wines and holds 88 Falstaff points for 2026.
TempoTempo in Vågen pours natural wine and serves creative small plates, and the drinks list also includes craft cocktails. The wine program is curated. Star Wine List recognized the bar in 2024 and again in 2026. The room has shabby-chic reused furniture.
Dråpen Vinbar in Sentrum pours natural wine, with an extensive selection by the glass, knowledgeable staff and a curated program. The bar also serves pizzas. It is listed by Falstaff for 2026, and Star Wine List recognizes it the same year.
Pergola Mat og Vinbar in Vågen is an Italian-inspired wine bar with over 350 wines and a curated program. It serves custom thin-crust pizzas. It holds 88 Falstaff points for 2026, and Star Wine List recognizes it the same year.
Our guide counts three Michelin-starred restaurants in Bergen, with four Michelin stars in total. They are Gaptrast in Bergen city center, Lysverket in Sentrum and Omakase by Sergey Pak in Bergen center. Each runs a tasting menu, and the latest Michelin award at each is dated 2026.
Vågen holds eight venues in our guide, the highest neighborhood count, and Sentrum holds six. In Vågen, TempoTempo pours natural wine and holds a Star Wine List award, and Pergola Mat og Vinbar has over 350 wines. In Sentrum, Dråpen Vinbar pours natural wine with a Star Wine List award, and Lysverket runs a sommelier-led list.
Tasting menus in our guide are in Bergen city center, Sentrum, Bergen center, Vågen, central Bergen and Mount Fløyen. Gaptrast in Bergen city center, Lysverket in Sentrum and Omakase by Sergey Pak in Bergen center each serve a tasting menu. BARE Restaurant in Vågen, Allmuen Bistro in Sentrum, Lola bistro in central Bergen, Moon in Sentrum and Fløirestauranten in Mount Fløyen also serve a tasting menu.
The exceptional wine program in our guide is at Gaptrast in Bergen city center: an extensive, sommelier-led list. Natural wine is poured at TempoTempo in Vågen and at Dråpen Vinbar in Sentrum. Pergola Mat og Vinbar in Vågen has over 350 wines. Sake is poured at Omakase by Sergey Pak in Bergen center and at Izakaya Skostredet in Skostredet (city center).
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Bergen
Bergen
Selected entries from the current guide for Bergen.
Bergen, Norway
Gaptrast earned a Michelin star in 2025 under chef Martin Gehrlein, placing it among Bergen's most closely watched modern cuisine addresses. Located at Baneveien 16, the restaurant operates at the €€€€ price point and draws from the West Norwegian larder with the precision you'd expect at this recognition level. With a 5., early reception has been sharp.
Bergen, Norway
Lysverket is a modern Norwegian restaurant in Bergen’s KODE 4, where chef-owner Christopher Haatuft serves a 10-course menu of local seafood, including handpicked scallops from diver Knut Magnus Persson, with views over Lille Lungegårdsvannet.
Bergen, Norway
Bergen's only Michelin-starred Japanese counter, Omakase by Sergey Pak earned its star in the 2025 guide, placing it among a small cohort of Japanese restaurants operating at fine-dining level outside Japan's major cities. Situated in Domkirkegaten in the city centre, it brings a counter-format, chef-directed experience to a Norwegian coastal city better known for New Nordic cooking.
Bergen, Norway
At Marken 33, Moon brings French cuisine to Bergen's compact but serious dining scene, holding a 2025 Michelin Plate and a White Star from Star Wine List. Priced at the mid-range tier (€€), it sits below the city's heavier-spending Nordic flagships while maintaining recognisable critical credentials. With a 4., the kitchen's consistency registers well beyond the usual noise of Norwegian dining lists.
Bergen, Norway
Allmuen Bistro sits at Valkendorfsgaten 1B in central Bergen, carrying a White Star recognition from Star Wine List since September 2024 — a signal of serious wine curation in a city increasingly attentive to what fills the glass. The bistro format places it in Bergen's mid-tier dining conversation, where ingredient provenance and regional character tend to matter more than tasting-menu formality.
Bergen, Norway
Bergen's most discussed Japanese restaurant, BARE sits on Torgallmenningen with an Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in Europe ranking and a four-evening-per-week format that signals deliberate restraint. Chef Vladimir Pak's kitchen operates within a kaiseki-influenced tradition that has earned consecutive OAD recognition since 2023. For a city building genuine depth in Japanese dining, BARE is the reference point.
Bergen, Norway
Fjellskål sits on Bergen's working waterfront at Strandkaien 3, bringing a wine-forward sensibility to a city already known for serious dining. The restaurant holds a White Star designation from Star Wine List, placing it among Bergen's more considered addresses for those who treat the bottle as seriously as the plate. It occupies the intersection of Norwegian coastal produce and a program built around what's in the glass.
Bergen, Norway
Frescohallen occupies the vaulted interior of Bergen's 1862 stock exchange building, a structure that now also houses Bergen Børs Hotel and the Michelin one-star restaurant Bare. Opened in May 2022, it sits at the centre of one of the city's most architecturally significant dining addresses, where nineteenth-century commerce has been converted into a contemporary gathering space at Vågsallmenningen 1.
Bergen, Norway
A Michelin Plate recipient sitting at Bergen's affordable end of the Japanese dining spectrum, Izakaya Skostredet on Domkirkegaten brings izakaya-style eating to a city more associated with New Nordic tasting menus. At the €€ price point, it occupies a distinct position alongside Moon as one of the few serious kitchens in Bergen where a full meal doesn't require a tasting-menu commitment or a starred price tag.
Bergen, Norway
Lola bistro sits on Neumanns gate in central Bergen, holding a Star Wine List White Star recognition that signals a wine program operating above the bistro category norm. Against Bergen's higher-end restaurant tier, Lola offers a more accessible register while maintaining a serious approach to the glass. For visitors mapping the city's dining options, it occupies a distinct position between neighbourhood casual and destination dining.
Bergen, Norway
Marg og Bein sits on Fosswinckels gate in Bergen, holding a White Star recognition from Star Wine List since August 2023 — a signal that the wine program here is taken seriously. The name translates to 'marrow and bone,' framing a kitchen oriented toward full-animal, nose-to-tail thinking. It occupies a specific register in Bergen's dining scene: ingredient-driven, wine-forward, and without the spectacle of the city's larger tasting-menu formats.
Bergen, Norway
At Restaurant 1877, the romance of Norwegian heritage is distilled into a refined contemporary dining experience. Seasonal fjord and mountain ingredients are transformed with quiet confidence, each course revealing the purity of Nordic flavors through meticulous technique and elegant restraint. Candlelit stone walls, burnished wood, and the soft hush of attentive service create a cocoon of understated luxury—an intimate stage for a tasting menu that unfolds like a story, paced with grace and paired with a cellar curated for discovery. From the first whisper of brine to the final flourish of sweetness, Restaurant 1877 offers a menu progression that feels both timeless and thrillingly modern.
Bergen, Norway
Villani Skostredet occupies a strip of Bergen's old quarter known more for Japanese counters than Italian cooking, and the contrast tells you something about how the city's dining scene has diversified. The wine list is the draw as much as the food, ranging beyond Italy into less-expected European territory, backed by a team that treats the cellar as a genuine editorial project rather than a supporting act.
Bergen, Norway
Banzha occupies a address on Neumanns gate in Bergen's city centre, positioning it within a dining scene that has grown steadily more serious about sourcing and craft. With Bergen's fjord-to-table traditions and a neighbourhood crowd that expects substance, the restaurant operates in a city where provenance is rarely an afterthought. For visitors working through Bergen's broader restaurant landscape, Banzha is part of a conversation worth having.
Bergen, Norway
BARK Mat in Bergen runs as upscale casual Modern Nordic Fine Dining with a leisurely dinner pace, open kitchen, and an extensive wine list.
Bergen, Norway
On a cobbled stretch of Skostredet in central Bergen, Brasserie Cherie occupies the kind of address that rewards those who pay attention to a city's quieter streets. The format sits within Bergen's mid-register dining tier, where the brasserie tradition meets a western Norwegian appetite for ingredient-led cooking without the ceremony of the city's tasting-menu rooms.
Bergen, Norway
Enhjørningen occupies one of Bergen's oldest merchant houses in Bryggen, where the timber corridors and low ceilings of a UNESCO-listed wharf building frame a seafood-focused dining room unlike anything else in the city's waterfront quarter. It sits in a different tier from Bergen's contemporary tasting-menu circuit, trading precision modernity for historical atmosphere and regional catch. For visitors pairing Bergen's architectural heritage with serious Norwegian seafood, it is the obvious waterfront reference point.
Bergen, Norway
Perched at the summit of Mount Fløyen above Bergen, Fløirestauranten offers a dining experience shaped as much by its fjordside panorama as by its kitchen. Accessible by the city's historic Fløibanen funicular, the restaurant occupies a position few Norwegian dining rooms can match for setting alone, drawing both locals and visitors to one of Bergen's most striking refined addresses.
Bergen, Norway
Trekroneren is the right Bergen pick when you want a fast, local-feeling bite rather than a seated restaurant. Go for the reindeer sausage hot dog first, then use repeat visits to try the crispy onion, lamb, or wild game options. It works especially well for solo diners, families, and casual groups moving through Vågen.
Bergen
Selected entries from the current guide for Bergen.
Bergen, Norway
Bergen's most culturally anchored boutique hotel occupies a prominent address on Vågsallmenningen, weaving the city's musical heritage into its contemporary design. Run by descendants of composer Edvard Grieg, Opus XVI operates in a small niche where historical connection and design ambition matter more than brand scale. For visitors wanting Bergen's character expressed through architecture and atmosphere rather than chain-hotel uniformity, it belongs at the summit of the shortlist.
Bergen, Norway
Bergen Børs Hotel occupies one of the city's most recognisable addresses on Vågsallmenningen, a square that has anchored Bergen's commercial life for centuries. Selected by the Michelin Guide 2025, the hotel sits at the convergence of harbour-facing history and contemporary Nordic hospitality. For travellers who want a city-centre base with strong architectural credentials and proximity to Bryggen, it is a considered choice.
Bergen, Norway
A Michelin Selected hotel occupying a converted historic building in central Bergen, Zander K sits on Zander Kaaes gate within easy reach of Bryggen and the Fløibanen funicular. The property belongs to a cohort of design-forward Norwegian hotels that prioritise architectural character over chain-standard uniformity, making it a considered choice for travellers who treat the room itself as part of the itinerary.
Bergen
Selected entries from the current guide for Bergen.
Bergen, Norway
Dråpen Vinbar holds a Star Wine List recognition (2026), placing it among Bergen's most credentialed wine-focused bars. Situated on Vaskerelvsmauet in the city centre, it operates in a tier of specialist Norwegian wine bars where depth of list and format discipline carry more weight than scale or spectacle. A deliberate choice for wine-first drinking in Bergen.
Bergen, Norway
Jest at Vågsallmenningen 6 holds a Star Wine List recognition for 2026, placing it among Bergen's more seriously curated drinking addresses. The bar's central waterfront position puts it inside the city's most active hospitality corridor, where wine and spirits programs have grown considerably more ambitious over the past decade. For visitors focused on bottle depth and curation rather than cocktail theatrics, it merits attention.
Bergen, Norway
Open since 2010 in Bergen's Skostredet quarter, Pergola Mat og Vinbar has become a cornerstone of the city's wine bar scene. Known for reasonable prices and a loyal local following, it occupies a small, unhurried space in the city centre that draws regulars as reliably as it draws the curious. Bergen's wine drinkers have made it their own.
Bergen, Norway
Skg vinkafé on Steinkjellergaten brings a focused wine-bar format to central Bergen, earning Star Wine List recognition in 2026. The address places it within walking distance of the Bryggen waterfront and the cluster of serious drinking establishments that have made Bergen one of Norway's more interesting cities for natural and European wine. For those tracking the Norwegian wine-bar scene, it belongs on the itinerary alongside the city's other credentialed wine rooms.
Bergen, Norway
TempoTempo holds back-to-back Star Wine List recognition (2024 and 2026), placing it among Bergen's more seriously curated wine bars at Domkirkegaten 6A. The programme draws the kind of crowd that arrives with a specific producer in mind rather than a general thirst, and the room rewards that intention. Peer bars in Bergen's growing natural and fine-wine scene treat it as a reference point.
Bergen
Selected entries from the current guide for Bergen.
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