Local Cuisine

Nordfjord has a long food tradition, using top ingredients and regional specialities. How about goat sausage, lefse with gombe, svele and locally brewed beer? Make sure you try some on your visit.

In Nordfjord, we are proud of our exciting culinary traditions. The local farms make sausages, ribs and other traditional food using the very best production methods. Our childhood memories are filled with the tastes and smells of our mothers’ kitchens. Barefoot, we climbed the trees in our grandmothers’ gardens, hunting for juicy plums. On Sundays, spirits were high around the dinner table, where we feasted on home-made sosakjøt (beef stew) and prune compote. The bountiful cake tables at christenings and weddings are well-known throughout Norway.

In Nordfjord, the animals graze along the fjord and the lush mountainsides are surrounded by towering peaks, blue-white glaciers and roaring waterfalls. A mild climate, excellent soil and long light summer evenings provide a good basis for high-quality fruit and berries.

In our coastal municipalities, fish is an important resource. A modern fishing fleet and a well-developed fish farming industry go hand-in-hand with world-class processing and export businesses. So here on the coast, they are proud of the high quality of their fish. If you combine the local food and the nature experiences available to you, you will really get a ‘taste of Nordfjord’ for all the senses.

Pure flavors from the village under the glacier