Explore our curated restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries in Stavanger.
Accolades in Stavanger
These picks cover a three-star tasting menu, a multi-room house with a shared cellar, and a wine bar with repeated recognition.
In Downtown Stavanger, RE-NAA pairs a Modern Nordic Coastal Tasting Menu with an exceptional, sommelier-led wine program and a set-menu format. The open kitchen is part of the room, and La Liste scored it 94 points in 2026.
Old Town (Gamle Stavanger) is home to Gaffel & Karaffel, a multi-level restaurant with distinct rooms, a wine bar, and a shared cellar and wine list. The kitchen mixes Continental, Norwegian, and tapas formats, and the restaurant holds Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence recognition, plus Star Wine List and World’s Best Wine Lists awards.
Norvald Vinbar in downtown serves classic and natural wines in a stylish room with high ceilings and a cosy living-room feel. The bar also serves charcuterie snacks and has repeated Star Wine List recognition, along with a Falstaff Wine Bar score. Its wine list spans familiar styles and natural bottles.
These picks show Stavanger’s omakase, Nordic fine dining, and seasonal tasting-menu range across three neighbourhoods.
In the Stavanger city center area, Sabi Omakase Stavanger is Stavanger’s sole Michelin-starred sushi counter, with omakase, counter dining, and a tasting menu. The experience is built around trust, with no à la carte service and no substitutions. Its exceptional wine program also includes a sake program.
Hermetikken in Ledaal Park offers seasonal Nordic fine dining through a tasting menu in a relaxed wine bar atmosphere. It holds a Michelin star and an exceptional wine program, with repeated Star Wine List recognition. The open kitchen and local ingredients are part of the room.
K2 in Pedersgata serves a Modern Scandinavian Tasting Menu with set-menu structure and a curated wine program. It holds a Michelin star and a Star Wine List recognition, placing it firmly in Stavanger’s serious modern dining tier. The kitchen focuses on local and seasonal ingredients.
Downtown Stavanger, Stavanger city center area, Ledaal Park, Pedersgata, Stavanger center, and Old Town (Gamle Stavanger) hold the strongest wine scene in our guide. Those neighbourhoods contain RE-NAA, Sabi Omakase Stavanger, Hermetikken, K2, Söl, Gaffel & Karaffel, and Norvald Vinbar, which together show where serious wine programs cluster.
Stavanger has 4 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, with 6 Michelin stars in total. RE-NAA holds three stars, while Sabi Omakase Stavanger, Hermetikken, and K2 each hold one star in the latest Michelin awards listed.
Look in Downtown Stavanger, the Stavanger city center area, Ledaal Park, Pedersgata, and Stavanger center. Those neighbourhoods contain RE-NAA, Sabi Omakase Stavanger, Hermetikken, K2, and Söl, while BELLIES in the east side and Tango in downtown add Michelin Plate tasting-menu options.
Two restaurants on this page hold Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence recognition: Gaffel & Karaffel in Old Town (Gamle Stavanger) and A. Idsøe Grill & berkel in Stavanger center. Gaffel & Karaffel shares a cellar and wine list across its rooms, and A. Idsøe Grill & berkel pairs its grill format with an extensive wine list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Stavanger.
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RE-NAA holds three Michelin stars in Stavanger, placing it among Norway's small group of fine-dining addresses that have sustained the country's New Nordic reputation beyond Oslo. Chef Sven Erik Renaa's kitchen operates Thursday through Saturday, with La Liste scoring it 94 points in 2026 and Les Grandes Tables du Monde recognition confirming its position within Europe's upper tier of creative tasting-menu restaurants.
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Stavanger's sole Michelin-starred sushi counter brings omakase discipline to Norway's oil capital, with back-to-back stars in 2024 and 2025, an OAD Top 234 Europe ranking, and a La Liste score of 81 points in 2026. Chef Laurent Cherchi runs a format built entirely on trust: no à la carte, no substitutions, just the sequence the kitchen decides. For a city better known for New Nordic fine dining, Sabi represents a different kind of precision.
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Hermetikken holds a Michelin star for 2024 and 2025 at its address on Niels Juels gate in Stavanger, placing it inside the city's serious fine-dining tier alongside RE-NAA and Sabi Omakase. The kitchen works in modern cuisine, and the room's character reflects the industrial heritage the name references. Booking ahead is advisable for anyone planning a Stavanger fine-dining itinerary.
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K2 holds a Michelin star in consecutive years (2024 and 2025), placing it among Stavanger's tighter tier of serious modern-cuisine tables below the three-star RE-NAA. Set on Pedersgata, the restaurant operates at a €€€ price point that makes it the city's most accessible entry into starred dining, with chef Andrew Minitelli leading the kitchen.
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Söl sits at the mid-range tier of Stavanger's modern cuisine scene, holding a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025 and earning a 4.. The address on Hetlandsgata places it within reach of the city's broader restaurant corridor, where Nordic technique meets a price point that undercuts the city's starred heavyweights. For visitors mapping the range of Stavanger's dining options, it represents the Michelin-recognised middle ground.
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A multi-venue house of restaurants on Stavanger's colourful Øvre Holmegate, Gaffel & Karaffel holds a 2-Star Accreditation from the World of Fine Wine & Lifestyle Awards. All venues share a single wine cellar and wine list, making it one of the more considered wine-led dining addresses in a city that has quietly built a serious restaurant scene over the past decade.
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Founded by Stavanger butcher Albert Idsøe, this modern grill restaurant on Verksgata places sourcing and supply-chain control at the centre of its offer. The inclusion of a Berkel slicer signals a serious commitment to cured and aged meat, while the Star Wine List number-one ranking for 2023 confirms a wine program that matches the ambition of the kitchen.
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At Støperigata 6, BELLIES makes a considered case for vegetables as the principal event, not a supporting act. The 2025 Michelin Plate holder works beetroot, pumpkin, and Jerusalem artichoke through a framework of Asian technique — Sichuan pepper, ssamjang, in-house ferments — that draws out complexity rather than masking it. With a 4., it occupies a distinct tier in Stavanger's dining scene.
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The cooking draws on wild and foraged ingredients rooted in the surrounding landscape, offering a grounded counterpoint to the city's fine-dining establishments.
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Matmagasinet occupies a spot beside Stavanger's Ledaal park that draws a steady crowd regardless of the weather, earning a reputation as one of the city's more reliably welcoming addresses. The atmosphere runs unpretentious and social, making it a counterpoint to Stavanger's fine-dining tier. It suits those who want the city's energy without the formality of a tasting-menu format.
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A wine bar and restaurant at Skagen 12 in Stavanger's harbourfront district, Restaurant Bevaremegvel holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, placing it among Norway's editorially noted wine destinations. The address puts it within easy reach of the city's broader dining scene, where serious wine programming increasingly shapes how restaurants position themselves against the fine dining tier.
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Spiseriet Stavanger sits at Sandvigå 1 on Stavanger's historic waterfront, holding a White Star recognition from Star Wine List — a signal that the wine program here is taken as seriously as the kitchen. In a city where fine dining has consolidated around a small cluster of ambitious addresses, Spiseriet positions itself in the mid-to-upper tier, with a wine-forward identity that sets it apart from Stavanger's tasting-menu specialists.
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Tango holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, placing it among Stavanger's mid-tier modern cuisine addresses at the €€€ price point.
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Fisketorget Stavanger occupies a working quayside address on Strandkaien, placing it at the centre of one of Norway's most productive seafood supply chains. The cooking follows the logic of the harbour: what arrived that morning shapes what appears on the plate. For visitors tracking Norwegian coastal dining beyond the fine-dining tier, it anchors the seafood-market tradition that Stavanger has traded on for generations.
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On the Østervåg waterfront in Stavanger's eastern harbour district, Monella food truck occupies the accessible end of a city dining scene better known for its Michelin-tracked counters. Positioned for foot traffic from the ferry terminal and the old cannery quarter, it serves as a walk-up option in a port city where casual eating options remain thinner than the fine-dining tier.
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Salon du Nord sits at Skansegata 1 in Stavanger's western quarter, where the city's oil-era confidence meets an older maritime grain. The address places it within a dining scene that has grown considerably more ambitious over the past decade, and the venue draws from that surrounding context. Visitors to Stavanger's restaurant corridor will find it a useful point of orientation for the neighbourhood's character.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Stavanger.
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A 12-room conversion of a 1930s Functionalist warehouse in central Stavanger, Eilert Smith Hotel pairs understated Nordic design with one of Norway's most decorated restaurant addresses. RE-NAA, the three-Michelin-star restaurant within the building, is one of only two in the country to hold that distinction. Rates from $419 per night.
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Hotel Victoria holds a Michelin Selected distinction in the 2025 guide, placing it among a carefully vetted tier of Stavanger accommodation. Sitting at Skansegaten 1, close to the city's waterfront and historic old town, it occupies the kind of central position that Stavanger's compact geography rewards. For travellers who treat where they sleep as part of the editorial itinerary, it belongs in the conversation.
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Selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025, the Radisson Blu Atlantic Hotel occupies a central Stavanger address on Olav V's Street, placing guests within walking distance of the harbour, the old town, and the city's compact dining scene. For travellers arriving in Norway's oil capital with business or leisure on the agenda, it offers the operational reliability of a full-service property in a city where mid-scale hotel options have grown more competitive.
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Thon Partner Stavanger Forum Hotel holds a MICHELIN Selected distinction in the 2025 guide, placing it in a recognized tier within Stavanger's hotel market. Located on Gunnar Warebergsgt 17, the property offers a practical base for the city's conference district while remaining connected to Stavanger's broader cultural and dining scene. For those comparing options, it sits in a different bracket to design-led independents like the Eilert Smith Hotel.
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A Michelin Selected hotel in Stavanger, Ydalir Hotel sits on the western edge of the city at Telegrafdirektør Heftyes vei 99, offering a quieter residential alternative to the harbour-front properties that dominate the city centre. Its inclusion in the Michelin Hotels 2025 guide places it in a small peer group of Norwegian properties recognised for quality of stay rather than scale or brand affiliation.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Stavanger.
Stavanger, Norway
Norvald Vinbar on Øvre Holmegate holds three consecutive Star Wine List recognitions (2023, 2024, 2026), placing it among Norway's more consistently recognised wine bars. Located on Stavanger's most colourful street, the bar operates in a city with a serious drinking culture and a wine programme that punches above its coastal-town context.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Stavanger.
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