The Best Bars in Oslo
Oslo drinking starts with Himkok, No. 14 on World's 50 Best Bars 2025, and the bench behind it runs deep: we list 6 active bars across the city. The 5 below are our pick of them. 2 of them hold verified international recognition, from the 50 Best lists to the Spirited Awards. Every listing below is verified by BarMagazine, with addresses, opening hours and the signature drinks worth ordering.
Cocktail BarHimkok
Himkok, Norwegian for moonshine, is an Oslo institution built around its own working distillery, producing the aquavit, gin, and vodka behind a cocktail list rooted in Nordic ingredients and sustainable methods. It is one of Scandinavia's most decorated bars.
Storgata 27, 0184 Oslo, NorwayMon-Wed 17:00-00:00; Thu-Sun 17:00-02:00Full profile
Cocktail BarSvanen
Svanen fills the restored 1896 premises of the Svaneapoteket, a pharmacy institution first established in 1628, with its mahogany fixtures, vintage glass cabinets, marble columns and original tilework intact. Founded by Himkok co-founder Yunus Yildiz with a beverage program developed with Karel Varga, the menu reads like the Latin-labelled apothecary drawers it sits among, on Nordic ingredients like gentian and juniper. No.32 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2025. It won Best Cocktail Bar for Norway at the 2026 Bartenders' Choice Awards.
Karl Johans Gate 13, Sentrum, OsloMon–Thu & Sun 17:00–00:30, Fri–Sat 15:00–02:00Full profile- EkspedisjonshallenHotel Bar
Ekspedisjonshallen
Ekspedisjonshallen is the all-day brasserie and bar inside Sommerro House in Frogner, built around an opulent horseshoe bar and set against an original wall fresco by the painter Per Krohg. The room takes its cues from Scandinavian Art Deco of the 1930s and the house calls it a neighborhood living room: familiar, laidback, and open from breakfast through to the small hours. A house jazz band plays through the week with guest vocalists, and the kitchen runs classic brasserie cooking until ten. The bar is known for clean, elegant drinks and for a house Negroni infused with strawberries grown in Sommerro's own Lokka Lab. An age limit of twenty five applies from ten in the evening.
Sommerrogata 1, 0255 OsloMon-Tue 07:00-23:00; Wed 07:00-00:00; Thu-Fri 07:00-00:30; Sat 08:00-01:00; Sun 08:00-23:00Full profile - Nedre LøkkaCocktail Bar
Nedre Løkka
Nedre Løkka sits on Thorvald Meyers gate in lower Grünerløkka and builds its list from two places at once, the history of the neighborhood around it and New York, which the bar calls the home of the cocktail. The owners like the pairing because Grünerløkka's streets are straight and wide and put them in mind of the Manhattan grid. Guests order from a long cocktail menu or ask the bartenders to compose something to their own taste, and the room is built as much for a larger group meeting before dinner as for a quiet drink. The bar sits among the restaurants of the neighborhood and its owners set out to match their cocktails to what the kitchens nearby are doing. Cocktail courses, meeting rooms and a private event space run alongside the bar, and tables are booked online.
Thorvald Meyers gate 89, 0550 OsloMon-Thu 16:00-01:00; Fri-Sat 16:00-03:00; Sun closedFull profile 
Hotel BarPier 42
The cocktail bar of Hotel Amerikalinjen, housed in the former headquarters of the Norwegian America Line at Jernbanetorget in central Oslo. The bar is named after the New York pier where the line's transatlantic ships docked, and its list is built around a concept menu framed as the journal of a fictional captain of the SS Kristianiafjord. It does not take table reservations. The bar appears in the World's 50 Best Discovery guide.
Jernbanetorget 2, 0154Full profile
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