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Accolades in Trondheim
Speilsalen, in Midtbyen, and FAGN, in Trondheim city center, hold the two Michelin stars in our guide, both on tasting menus. Tollbua, in Brattøra, adds a Michelin Plate and a 705-selection list.
Speilsalen, in Midtbyen, is a contemporary Norwegian seafood dining room inside the Britannia Hotel, in city center, with mirrors, chandeliers, and a chef's table. Chef Håkon Solbakk cooks a contemporary Nordic menu from cold-water harvests of the Norwegian coast, served as a tasting menu or prix fixe. The room holds a Michelin star for 2026 and a sommelier-led extensive list, and the star was earned within ten months of opening.
FAGN, in Trondheim city center, is modern Nordic fine dining with a Michelin star and White Guide Nordic Restaurants Global Masters Level, both dated 2026. The kitchen serves tasting menus of 10 to 20 courses on hyper-local Trøndelag ingredients, each dish with a personal story, from a chef-served counter. The wine list is curated, extensive, and sommelier-led.
Tollbua, in Brattøra, is a Nordic gourmet bistro in a historic customs house on the waterfront, with Scandinavian set and tasting menus and a signature scallop dish. Christopher Davidsen runs the kitchen. Henrik Dahl Jahnsen, five-time Norwegian Sommelier of the Year, builds the pairings. The list has 705 selections and holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026, alongside a Michelin Plate for the same year.
Two restaurants hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in our guide: Tollbua, in Brattøra, and To Rom og Kjøkken, in city centre. Vinbaren, in Trondheim center, is among Norway's broadest wine collections, and Spontan, in Midtbyen, pours natural and biodynamic wine.
To Rom og Kjøkken, in city centre, is classic European fine dining in an unassuming wooden house, with signature scallops and curated wine pairings. A tasting menu, a set menu, and prix fixe come with a quiet, leisurely dinner service. The list is extensive and sommelier-led. It holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence and a Star Wine List award, both for 2026.
Vinbaren, in Trondheim center, is among Norway's broadest wine collections, the wine bar at the Britannia Hotel, in city center, and the cellar that supplies the hotel's food and beverage outlets. Nearly 13,000 bottles and over 2,500 different listings are shown behind glass walls in three tasting rooms. It pours conventional wine and holds a Star Wine List award.
Spontan, in Midtbyen, is a wine bar for natural and biodynamic wine, paired with creative, locally sourced small plates, and it also pours conventional wine. Star Wine List recognized it each year from 2023 through 2026. Falstaff scored the bar at 96 points in the latest of those years.
Our guide counts two Michelin-starred restaurants in Trondheim, with two Michelin stars in total. Speilsalen, in Midtbyen, is the contemporary Norwegian seafood room inside the Britannia Hotel, in city center, with mirrors and chandeliers, a chef's table, private dining rooms, and a sommelier-led extensive list. FAGN, in Trondheim city center, is modern Nordic fine dining on hyper-local Trøndelag ingredients, served from a chef-served counter with a curated, sommelier-led list.
Two restaurants in our guide hold a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence: Tollbua, in Brattøra, and To Rom og Kjøkken, in city centre. Both awards are dated 2026. Tollbua, in Brattøra, has a 705-selection list, with pairings by Henrik Dahl Jahnsen. To Rom og Kjøkken, in city centre, pairs classic European fine dining and signature scallops with a sommelier-led extensive list.
Tasting menus in our guide include Speilsalen in Midtbyen, FAGN in Trondheim city center, and Tollbua in Brattøra. Speilsalen, in Midtbyen, serves a tasting menu and prix fixe. FAGN, in Trondheim city center, serves menus of 10 to 20 courses on hyper-local Trøndelag ingredients from a chef-served counter. Tollbua, in Brattøra, serves Scandinavian set and tasting menus in a historic customs house on the waterfront.
Sommelier-led lists, natural and biodynamic bottles, and conventional wine are the list styles in our guide. Sommelier-led lists include Speilsalen, in Midtbyen, Tollbua, in Brattøra, and To Rom og Kjøkken, in city centre. Spontan, in Midtbyen, pours natural and biodynamic wine and also conventional wine. Vinbaren, in Trondheim center, pours conventional wine, with nearly 13,000 bottles and over 2,500 listings.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Trondheim
Selected entries from the current guide for Trondheim.
Trondheim, Norway
Speilsalen holds a Michelin star earned within ten months of opening, and operates inside Trondheim's Britannia Hotel with a contemporary Nordic menu that draws heavily from the cold-water harvests of the Norwegian coast. Chef Håkon Solbakk leads a kitchen that has maintained consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining and Star Wine List across multiple consecutive years. Open Thursday through Saturday from 6pm.
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FAGN holds a Michelin star in Trondheim's compact fine-dining scene, operating a chef-served counter format where New Nordic philosophy meets an unapologetically flavour-first approach. Ranked #603 in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it occupies a distinct position in Norway's broader conversation about local produce and northern cooking. Open Thursday through Saturday evenings, booking ahead is advised.
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Tollbua occupies a harbourfront address on Brattørkaia, where Christopher Davidsen (Bocuse d'Argent 2017) runs four- and six-course Scandinavian menus at a mid-tier price point that sits well below Trondheim's full fine-dining tier. A 705-selection wine list rated number one in Norway by Star Wine List in 2024 adds serious depth to a format that prioritises accessibility without sacrificing kitchen ambition.
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FAGN-Bistro holds back-to-back Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition (2024 and 2025) and sits at the accessible end of Trondheim's Nordic dining tier, priced at €€ against the city's starred tasting-menu rooms. Chef Ricardo Señorán brings a foraging-inflected approach to Norwegian cooking, and the address at Ørjaveita 4 places it squarely in the old city's restaurant corridor.
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At Credo, Nordic restraint meets sensory indulgence in a quietly luxurious dining room where every detail serves the season. The experience unfolds as an intimate dialogue between kitchen and terroir—biodynamic herbs, line-caught fish, and heirloom grains expressed with sculptural precision and lyrical warmth. Expect a progression of dishes that whisper of fjords and forest, plated with art-gallery poise yet anchored in soulful, ingredient-first cooking. Service is calm, gracious, and impeccably timed; wines and low-intervention pairings trace landscapes as elegantly as the cuisine. For travelers seeking culinary poise over spectacle, Credo offers a rare, deeply satisfying kind of exclusivity—one defined by depth, intention, and enduring memory.
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Restaurant Saga holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, placing it within Trondheim's tightening tier of recognised modern cuisine addresses. Positioned on Fjordgata in the city's waterfront corridor, it offers a formal dining register at the €€€ price point — a step above the neighbourhood's casual quayside options and a credible entry into the Norwegian Michelin conversation.
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Britannia Hotel runs a classic French brasserie with an open kitchen, a sommelier-led extensive wine list, and service that fits lunch, dinner, or brunch.
Trondheim, Norway
Bula Neobistro sits on Prinsens gate in central Trondheim, operating at the more accessible end of the city's serious dining tier. The neobistro format positions it between Trondheim's neighbourhood canteens and its full tasting-menu restaurants, with a focus on locally sourced Norwegian ingredients handled with technical precision. For a city still building its dining reputation beyond a handful of headline names, it represents a useful mid-tier reference point.
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Kombo holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, placing it among Trondheim's addresses where the wine program carries equal weight to the kitchen. Situated on Nordre gate in central Trondheim, it represents the city's broader move toward restaurants where the glass and the plate are developed in parallel rather than in sequence.
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On Munkegata, a short walk from Trondheim's central square, Le Bistro occupies the kind of address that French bistro cooking has always deserved: a city centre position with enough foot traffic to feel alive and enough permanence to feel serious. Comfort food built on high-quality local ingredients is the operating principle here, placing it in a different tier from Trondheim's tasting-menu circuit.
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Olgas occupies a quiet address on Dronningens gate in central Trondheim, operating within a city dining scene that has drawn increasing international attention for its wine-forward restaurants. Recognised by Star Wine List with a White Star designation as of August 2025, Olgas has built a reputation grounded in its approach to wine curation alongside its food offer, placing it within a defined tier of Trondheim establishments where the list carries as much weight as the kitchen.
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Rive Gauche occupies a address on Øvre Bakklandet, Trondheim's most characterful riverside stretch, where cobbled lanes and timber-framed buildings set expectations before you reach the door. The name gestures toward French bistro culture, though its placement in one of Norway's most serious dining cities invites a closer read. It sits in a neighbourhood that rewards those willing to cross the Gamle Bybro bridge on foot.
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Spontan Vinbar sits on Fjordgata 1 in Trondheim's waterfront district, positioning itself within a city whose wine bar culture has grown sharply alongside its fine-dining reputation. The format places natural and low-intervention wine at the centre, making it a distinct counterpoint to the tasting-menu formality that defines nearby addresses like FAGN and Speilsalen. For travellers already mapping Trondheim's dining scene, it functions as the informal, glass-in-hand complement to the city's more structured restaurant offer.
Trondheim, Norway
To Rom og Kjøkken pairs Classic European Fine Dining with a sommelier-led, extensive wine list and a quiet, leisurely dinner service.
Trondheim, Norway
Jonathan Grill occupies a central address on Dronningens gate in Trondheim, positioning it within the city's evolving mid-to-upper dining tier. Trondheim's restaurant scene has developed serious range over the past decade, with Nordic ingredient sourcing as the connective thread across price points. Jonathan Grill sits in that broader current, drawing from the same region that supplies the city's most decorated tables.
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Klempe y Dons occupies a considered address at Mellomveien 4A in Trondheim, placing it within a city whose dining scene has grown increasingly deliberate about its Nordic roots.
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Trondheim's most storied hotel occupies a category of its own among Norwegian city properties: 233 rooms renovated to contemporary luxury while preserving the spirit of the 1890s, a Leading Hotels of the World membership, and four dining outlets including the Michelin-starred Speilsalen. This is the address that defines what grand-hotel tradition looks like this far north.
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On Nedre Bakklandet, Trondheim's most characterful stretch of 18th-century timber houses, Blomster og Vin occupies a below-street-level room that trades on intimacy rather than scale. The name translates as flowers and wine, and the combination carries through in an atmosphere closer to a Parisian cave than a Scandinavian bar. It sits in the neighbourhood that functions as Trondheim's equivalent to Stockholm's Södermalm or New York's Greenwich Village.
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On a cobblestone stretch of Bakklandet, NB6 operates as Trondheim's most reliably democratic drinking address: sommeliers, chefs, and neighbourhood regulars share the same stools without ceremony. The atmosphere is unhurried and the back bar rewards curiosity, making it a credible stop at any point in the day or night.
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Raus Bar on Nordre gate is one of Trondheim's more considered drinking destinations, recognised by Star Wine List in 2026 for the depth and discipline of its wine and drinks program. It occupies a tier of Norwegian bar culture where list curation and service knowledge carry more weight than spectacle. For visitors working through the city's bar circuit, it belongs early in any serious itinerary.
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Spontan at Fjordgata 1 has held a Star Wine List award every year from 2023 through 2026, placing it among the more consistently recognised wine bars in Norway. Situated on Trondheim's waterfront, it represents the city's shift toward serious, programme-driven wine venues. For travellers planning around a seasonal visit to the Trøndelag coast, it belongs at the summit of the planning list.
Trondheim, Norway
The wine bar at the Britannia Hotel, Vinbaren operates as both an intimate drinking room and the central cellar that supplies all of the hotel's food and beverage outlets. Dimmed lighting and a considered atmosphere make it one of Trondheim's more serious wine destinations, occupying a different register from the city's casual bar scene.
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Kombo holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, placing it among Trondheim's addresses where the wine program carries equal weight to the kitchen. Situated on Nordre gate in central Trondheim, it represents the city's broader move toward restaurants where the glass and the plate are developed in parallel rather than in sequence.
Trondheim, Norway
Rive Gauche occupies a address on Øvre Bakklandet, Trondheim's most characterful riverside stretch, where cobbled lanes and timber-framed buildings set expectations before you reach the door. The name gestures toward French bistro culture, though its placement in one of Norway's most serious dining cities invites a closer read. It sits in a neighbourhood that rewards those willing to cross the Gamle Bybro bridge on foot.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Trondheim.
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