Boiled potato dumplings made from grated raw potatoes mixed with cooked potato and barley flour, served Thursday lunchtimes with salted lamb, rendered bacon and rutabaga mash.
Raspeballer (also called komle or klubb depending on the region) have been Norway's Thursday tradition since the 19th century, a Western Norway peasant dish elevated by Oslo's husmannskost rooms. The dumpling is built around grated raw potato bound with cooked mashed potato and barley flour, dense and savoury rather than fluffy. Kaffistova, Asylet and Smalhans run the canonical Oslo Thursday-lunch versions with salt-cured lamb, rendered bacon and rutabaga mash.
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Smalhans dagens husmannskost ★ 4.4
st-hanshaugen · Ullevålsveien 43, 0171 Oslo
Smalhans on Ullevalsveien plates a 175 $ dagens husmannskost menu between 16:00 and 18:00 every day, the single best-value seat in Oslo's Michelin Bib.
Asylet ★ 4.1
gronland · Grønland 28, 0188 Oslo
Asylet on Grønland in Oslo's old town is the wood-panelled 1730 merchant-yard timber building, one of the city's oldest, serving kjottkaker.
Kaffistova ★ 3.9
sentrum · Rosenkrantz' gate 8, 0159 Oslo
Kaffistova on the ground floor of Hotell Bondeheimen on Rosenkrantz' gate has served Norwegian home cooking since 1901, with raspeballer, boknafisk.