A bowl of rømmegrøt at Ægir BrewPub
The stave-church-styled brewpub on the Flåm waterfront serves a Viking tasting plank with their own beer; the sour-cream porridge is the heritage pick on the menu.
Tied to Flåm
Ægir BrewPub sits on the Flåm waterfront in a building shaped like a stave church — deliberately leaning into the Viking iconography while doing the food honestly. They brew their own beer on site (Lindisfarne IPA, Sumbel mead, Rallar amber), and the kitchen pairs deliberately with the brewery. The Viking Platter is the group order: cured meats, smoked fish, soft-cooked egg, pickles, flatbread.
For one person, rømmegrøt (sour-cream porridge with butter and cinnamon-sugar) is the heritage pick — once the food of weddings and harvests, now an old-Norwegian thing eaten as a small main and almost nowhere served well to tourists. Ægir does it well. Upper deck for the fjord view. Reservations help in late July when the cruise ships dock.
What we plan to try
A bowl of rømmegrøt and a Sumbel mead during the afternoon stop between the train down and the fjord cruise; the Viking Platter to share if there’s time and appetite.