Palm Garden

Frommer's Review

This is the most elegant restaurant in Trondheim, housed in the first-rate Britannia Hotel . Illuminated with a Victorian-era skylight, it is ringed with exotic-looking columns inspired by the Corinthian/Moorish look. There is some of the atmosphere of the ambulatory of a medieval cloister here, as well as the Belle Epoque era. True to its namesake, the restaurant is filled with palms. Lunch is served as a sandwich-and-salad buffet, attracting many of the town's leading business clients. Dinner is grandly elaborate, with an array of top-quality dishes prepared with the finest of ingredients. Standards remain high here -- the classic cuisine never seems to bog down on our repeated visits over the years. The service is also the most grandly formal in town.

Begin, perhaps, with a marinated wild salmon in a fennel bouillon with apple salsa, or else a delightful creamed curry mussel soup (the little ravioli in the soup are stuffed with mussels). For real Norwegian flavor, opt for the "top side of stag," with fresh mushrooms, creamed vegetables, and -- just the right touch -- red whortleberry chutney. We've also enjoyed the loin filets of veal stuffed with Parma ham and fresh sage, served with pickled tomatoes, mashed Fondant potatoes, and artichokes. For dessert, try a specialty rarely found outside Scandinavia: warm cloudberries from the Arctic tundra, served in this case with hazelnut ice cream.

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