Devoted to Norwegian home cooking, Pingvinen is the old favourite of everyone in Bergen. They come for meals their mothers and grandparents used to cook, and the menu always features at least one of the following: fish-cake sandwiches, reindeer, fish pie, salmon, lamb shank and raspeballer (sometimes called komle) – west-coast potato dumplings. Note that whale is served here.
The kitchen usually closes around 9pm, whereafter there are snacks and kicking on – it does double duty as a popular late-night bar.