Tromsø 2025

November 6th, 2025

The weath­er was very bad again today. After the rather stren­u­ous tour the day before, we thought a qui­et day would be nice for a change. So we slept in, had a leisure­ly break­fast, and then start­ed plan­ning our trip to South Africa togeth­er, which is sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber next year. We were also look­ing for­ward to anoth­er high­light of the trip, tonight’s din­ner at the Smak restau­rant, which had been pushed for­ward to 6:30 p.m.

We then went into town and bought warm hats with ear flaps for our trip to Spits­ber­gen planned for March 2026.

Then, at around 6:15 p.m., we took our rental car to the Smak restau­rant, which we had already vis­it­ed on our first trip to Trom­sø and had great­ly appre­ci­at­ed. We parked the car and duti­ful­ly paid the park­ing fee via Easy­Park until the next morn­ing, as none of us want­ed to miss out on the impres­sive wine pair­ing with the menu. When we arrived at the Smak restau­rant, they even remem­bered us.

Din­ner was once again an incom­pa­ra­ble expe­ri­ence. Again, there were only about 16 guests with us. Every­thing was fresh­ly pre­pared before our eyes, art­ful­ly pre­sent­ed, and served with great friend­li­ness. Almost exclu­sive­ly local fresh prod­ucts were used in the prepa­ra­tion. The accom­pa­ny­ing wines were all very well chosen.

To round off the over­all artis­tic impres­sion, there were also var­i­ous plates and bowls as well as beau­ti­ful cut­lery. It was a culi­nary cel­e­bra­tion. But pic­tures say more than a thou­sand words:

At around 11:30 p.m., we final­ly reached the 17th course, the petit fours. It was sen­sa­tion­al once again, and it cer­tain­ly won’t be the last time we vis­it this restaurant.

We then took a taxi back to our apartment.