Found Vega while looking for another vegetarian restaurant. After looking 30 minutes, we went back to Vega shortly after it opened for the day. We are so glad we did! The food was really yummy and the concept was good. We enjoyed most of the dishes on the buffet. The chutney is top notch! In an expensive food city like Oslo, it is great to find a reasonably priced place that hits the mark!
Pros: friendly staff, good food, awesome conceptThe place has a cafeteria kind of atmosphere, even if it's suppose to be a restaurant. It's neither cozy or fancy. It lacks charm.
The staff is awful, they are not attentive at all and it looks almost like something/someone took the life out of them.
You can get a lot of food for a very good price though!
- Salad buffet with awesome hummus, soup of the day, bread, fresh juice, a warm buffet with usually rice, cooked veggies, and either some veggie burgers, pizza, lasagna or some Indian dish. Sometimes they also have papadum
And you get free refill :)
Personally I think the food here is not that good. The only really good thing they have is the Hummus and the sweet mango chutney. The veggies are usually over cooked and dripping with oil.
Pros: A lot of food for a cheap price, Awesome hummus!For us it was a remedy. Choice is nice, we liked the atmosphere too. My husband ate a lot of fried potatoes, and I liked salads, soup and rice with vegetables. For me it's the best result the owners could reach using such a little prices. Prices are flexible and that was very nice. We used refills all the time and once having found this place we understood we don't need anything else.
Pros: plain and tasty, cheap!Excellent food quality. Extremely broad set of fresh vegetables and salads available. Can be good to visit for vegans/raw folks yet there are no lakto-ovo food products served. Good vegan pastry is available for buying and taking away too.
Pros: large menu, fresh food qualityOslo is a fantastic city but it is not very easy to find places that serve vegetarian food and/at affordable prices. The food at Vega Fair was tasty and the price (100 NOK) excellent for Oslo standards. I will certainly go back next time I visit Norway.
Pros: Price, Food, LocationAs much as I enjoyed finding a vegan friendly restaurant in Oslo we found the options to be between bland and tasteless. The all you can eat buffet loses its appeal when you're presented with unflavoured elbow macaroni, stale bread, plain rice, and peas in a tomato base as hot food selections. Shredded carrots and various other basic salad ingredients barely sufficed for the remainder of the options. The food needs more imagination and effort (which is not difficult by any means) rather than the excuse that the options for v*gans are slim in Oslo. We won't be going back.
Pros: Location, Open Sunday evening(Firstly - don't do what we did and go to the wrong entrance - the locked gate door with the big sign on it is not the way in - go to the door on the left).
The comments about the staff are true, they don't seem that worried about the customers. But all they need to do is take your cash for the buffet, so you don't need to speak to them much. The buffet had some good choices and decent vegan food. The food was very wholesome, lots of stew and homely style food. But it's very cheap and you can go back to the buffet as many times as you like. The atmosphere felt a bit like a work/school canteen, but it was clean and pleasant enough. A decent place to eat if you don't want anything fancy.
Pros: cheap, wholesome , lots for you moneyThe food has improved since the place moved from it´s earlier place downtown. But still, it feels kind of old fashioned. Very often, the main dish is filled with tons of carbs, too much salt and too many over-cooked vegetables. But luckily, there is a lot too choose from in the buffet (main dishes, soup and salad bar).
The environment is just like a office after closing hours, really boring. But food and environment could be forgiven in the name of vegetarianism, if it hadn´t been for the people working there who don´t seem to care too much about the place or the customers. I get the feeling that they are saying : "This is healthy veggie food for you! Be grateful and don´t expect the world to be fresh, tantalizing and inspiring!!!".
Food is not only about the ingredients, but also about energy. Spread the love, people! And I will come back and eat your lentils with a smile on my face!!! : )
But of course - Credit is due to this place in the name of service to the people. They have been hanging on for decades, serving the cause of vegetarians in Oslo. And that´s why it deserves an improvement.
Pros: Cheap food, Nice salads, Room for improvementLots of options, mostly vegan, considering how much you can eat and where it Is, it's very cheap. Food was a bit cold though.
Pros: Mostly vegan, Big varietyNo restaurant compares to the food here. Is the best one would find. Moreover, this restaurant is great for people with health problems because the staff knows exactly what food will do you harm. For example, it is always written if some food has gluten or not; and you can talk with the staff about it.
The atmosphere could be improved a little though I like it as it is. I eat there as often as I can when I am in town.
Pros: best food, vegan, gluten freeBeeing vegetarian/vegan in Norway is not always easy. We tend to feed ourselfs with lots of meat and fish and there aren't that many vegatarians. Therefor the selection of vegetarian/vegan restaurants in Oslo aren't anything to brag about. But if you want a good and cheap veg meal, go to Vega. You can eat as much as you like for 120kr at night and 100kr for lunch. This is VERY cheap for Norway! I always go when don't feel like cooking but want a filling homemade dinner. Try it out!
Pros: cheap, many options, they have guarana!my husband and i arrived there for dinner and paid 120 each for the buffet (if you get there earlier in the day for lunch it's cheaper). they had a bread station, soup station, salad/cold station and a hot food station. the bread was a nice crusty brown bread that i had with a bowl of the soup of the day which was tomato (and labeled as vegan). while i had the soup, my husband took advantage of the salad bar. the salad bar consisted of the usual items...lettuce, tomato, shredded carrots, etc...but it also had marinated beans, hummus and something that kind of looked like coleslaw. moving on to the hot food section, we were in for a pleasant surprise. they had jasmine rice, veggie patties, pea and tofu curry, white bean stew, roasted potatoes and peppers and onions in a coconut milk curry. everything was extremely delicious and we both went back for seconds. the only downfall was that nothing was labeled (except the tomato soup), so you either had to ask the counter help what was vegan or just chance it.
this was seriously the best meal i had while in oslo and at the best price.
Pros: amazing food, great value, plenty of seatingVega has decent buffet-style food to a reasonable price. All of it is organic, as far as I know, and their cakes are gluten-free. When it comes to vegan food, one can be more or less lucky. Some of the cakes are vegan, and mostly there is warm food that is vegan, too. On some days, everything is, on others, they will have lasagna or other cheese-heavy dishes. All in all: worth the money if you want to get decent food without having to think where to go :-)
Pros: organic, outside seating in the backyardHaving said that...it's not really easy to be a vegatarian/vegan in a predominantly meat-consuming country like Norway. Vega Fair Food still has a long way to go when it comes to the variety of the food compared to what other restaurants in other countries offer. But at this price range (NOK 88 for the lunch buffet and NOK 99 for dinner), Vega is really hard to beat.
Located beside the St. Olav Catholic Church, very close to the city's main attractions (Aker Brygge, The Royal Castle among others), yet still situated in a very quiet location, eating in Vega is always a treat. It's nice, simple, cozy and QUIET! They change the menus everyday so it's best to check their webpage just to see if the main course is something you will like. But their salad buffet alone is worth the cheap asking price. Absolutely a must if you are a vegatarian/vegan and in Olso. Closed on Saturdays.
Pros: cheap, good salad buffet, quietToday I went there for lunch, and the hot dishes were moussaka and moussaka. :) A vegan version and a lacto version. So for those who are not vegan, there may not be a choice of two really different hot dishes always. (Technically there was a third hot dish, but it was simply flavored rice.)
There is seating both inside and outside. Outside today there was a group of local women singing familiar hymns with unfamiliar-to-me Norwegian lyrics. It provided great atmosphere.
Pros: buffet at good price, vegan and lacto hot dish options, open SundayOnly place in Oslo we found a dish with tofu (although we didn't try any Indian restaurants which may have had it on the menu). Reasonably priced buffet style. They served soup, rice, sweet and sour veggies and tofu, and had a small salad bar. Also, all vegan desserts!
Excellent choice of salads, most of which are vegan. Lovely fresh bread, a soup option and some warm dishes. Plus vegan cakes which are so good!
Pros: Value for money, Quality food, CakeI used to be a customer of the previous ran vegetarian restaurant Vegeta which unfortunately had to close in the end after going on for so long.
However the overtaking by Vega Fair has been a massive improvement and really compliments well us vegeterians/vegans lifestyles. Their meals are much more exciting and different meals for everyday, so it is aways exciting to find something new to eat every time you stop by. The quality of the food is much better and you can tell by the taste that they have some standards with their cooking and choice of raw goods. The meals taste also pretty decent, although I am missing more vegan alternatives. The prices are about right and very satisfying.
The place has a decent design and style. The restrooms are usually in excellent condition and clean which isn't always the case when you eat places. Couldn't recomend any better place to eat if you are looking for getting your moneys worth!
Pros: Food variation, Price, InteriorSunday is a bit of a dead loss in Oslo, but Vega, located in a former hydrotherapy baths run by the Seventh Day Adventists, is about the only exclusively vegetarian place that is open.
It's a bit tricky to find. You need to go in the main entrance to the baths (Kurbadet), which looks locked. It isn't - you just need to turn the knob. Turn left, though the most spectacular Arts and Crafts corridor and turn right just before you get to the door of what used to be the men's bath.
English is spoken, and they will guide you through the options available to you, and let you know which few dishes in the buffet are not vegan. This afternoon, the only things that weren't were a pasta salad containing feta, and the lasagne.
There was a creamy asparagus soup, and a wide variety of salads to choose from. The hot dishes were the aforementioned lasagne, stir-fried mixed vegetables and rice - I didn't bother as the salads were more than satisfying. By the bread were a couple of chutneys a fantastic banana one, and an Indian style one consisting of large pieces of green chilli and whole cloves of garlic. I liked that one even more.
Pros: open on Sunday, beautiful location, reasonable value for OsloWe visited Vega Fair Food three times during our stay in Oslo. The restaurant had a good selection of salads and warm food, very well marked and the food was cheap. We can recommend it!
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