Deli de Luca

When in Norway you can easily exceed your food budget if every meal is eaten in a restaurant. Locals only go out for celebrations, so restaurants are for special treats. For day to day, quick food you go to the convenience store. I like Deli de Luca more than others. A wide variety of sandwiches, breads and other quick foods. the food is tasty and this location was open and airy with upstairs seating.

This convenience store was around the corner from my hotel. The worker was friendly and the store clean and roomy. They have sandwiches and prepared foods at not entirely horrible prices. We got two scoops of salted caramel gelato, very good gelato here.

I kind of ignored my tour book’s take on Deli de Luca, but i shouldn’t have. Broad selection of bagettes, sandwiches, calzones, even asian noodle dishes, plus breakfast food and a selection of light convenience store type stuff. I enjoyed a cinamon roll here — in this case, a good old fashioned drenched in icing ‘Merican style (or at least what I’m used to) cinnamon roll. And it was good — lots of cinnamon (and still the same somewhat floral flavor to the cinnamon like Baken Brun — lending creedence to my theory that maybe it’s just a different kind of cinnamon) and heated white hot in their little microwave thingy. Additionally, their little automagic coffee dispenser made a surprisingly good mocha, given that it was a machine. I will have to remember this as the wallet fatigue of Oslo really sets in over the next few days.

I was here a couple years ago before Unilocal was in Norway. This was fairly reasonably priced (for Norway) and the people who worked there were friendly. I got the chili wrap and they warned me that it was spicy, but it really wasn’t. They had upstairs seating.