Lorry Restaurant

Why have I not rated this place earlier? I don't know. This is an old classic from back in those days. I visited a couple of times in 2008-2010 when it was of the best beer bars in Oslo. Times have changed but Lorry still offers a good beer selection, especially in bottles. Beer menu available. Nothing crazy or hipster-ish but lots of good quality beers. We visited for lunch and were lucky to get seated. Lorry is still a very popular place. Very efficient and polite service. My fish soup was excellent. Had a Kinn Vestkyst from tap. For sure a nice revisit. Very family friendly during daytime and for sure a restaurant, not a pub. (Visited April 15th 2023 with my wife)

Very boring taplist to start with. Decent selection of bottles beers with decent prices. Very good food!

The original, and beginning to fight back. For an old-fashioned atmosphere and good food, some of the best bric à brac in Europe and a beer list you have to pick your way through carefully, come here. It was one of the first, if not THE first beer place in Oslo and there are plans afoot to bring it back to former glory. It also has one of the best summer terraces in the city.

Nice club sandwich and strange collections of things. They are often sold out of more rare beers, I usually give them one or two alternatives when I order, to make it more efficient.

A long time ago the best place for beers in Oslo. It takes to long to order, and meny is filled with beers no longer available

The food is pretty good, but that’s about it! Oh, and you might see a Norwegian actor or two, if that is of interest. Staff is unfriendly and roll their eyes if you ask for beers on the menu that they don’t have - which seemed like most of them. Ended up with an Urquell after asking for five others, that were out of stock.

Gammelt erverdig sjenkested i Oslo sentrum men masse stemning. God mat og ok ølutvalg. Litt stive priser, men vel verdt et besøk i ny og ne.

Lorry’s is quite a special place in Oslo. Decorated in a classic "brown pub" colonial style, including stuffed animals, old oil canvas paintings, antiques and oriental artifacts of uncertain authenticity, this is a place that reeks of olden days style and atmosphere. The waiters are matching, in their old school black-and-white "garcon" costumes - even complete with matching 30’s haircuts. The food as well: with a few exceptions like (homemade) hamburgers, the menu is centered around traditional Norwegian and French/"Continental"-inspired cuisine and is fairly good. The waiters are not beer experts but probably know enough to impress non-beer geeks to a certain extent, at least. Prices are OK by Norwegian standards. The beers offered in the menu are fairly common, and many seem to be unavailable and merely showcased in the menu (a sign outside read 225 beers, but I doubt there are more than 100-150 in reality). Although they do have a far bigger selection than most Oslo restaurants (and a few Norwegian micros on tap) I wouldn’t go out of my way to visit Lorry’s for the beer alone. But if you don’t care all that much for rare ticks (or if you haven’t rated much of the general selection available on the Norwegian market) and want to experience a taste of "old Oslo", this is quite a nice place to drop by.

Classic brown place with good selecton of bottle beer and great food....try the homemade hamburger !!!