nuzzaci - an online journal

I went over to Oslo on the May bank holiday weekend to attend Espen Dietrichson’s gallery opening at UKS entitled Sketches for a Mechanical Sunrise. Espen is probably the only one I know who’s working in the creative field but is not doing it commercially, so I find it extremely interesting and fascinating to talk to him about how he approaches his work and his industry and to draw parallels to what I do and the web industry. Make sure you visit his website, espendietrichson.com and have a look at his sculptures. They are stunning.

It was my first time to Oslo, and over our short stay (Friday to Sunday) it left a very good impression. Besides the gallery opening, we had dinner at Ekeberg Restauranten, visited the new Opera house and the Vigeland Sculpture Park. The restaurant had a great location. But, unfortunately, that was about it. The food was pricy and average. The Opera house is impressive (above photograph). Unfortunately you have limited access inside the building. The Vigeland Sculpture Park was beautiful and Gustav Vigeland’s sculptures gave it a unique shade of weirdness (below photograph).

Not maybe as chaotic as I would like an Italian restaurant to be, but the food… wow - I even enjoyed the salad… and the wine list… Negroamaro… tasty!

But, again - I wouldn’t mind some screaming gesticulating characters among the semi posh west london interior. They nailed the food but forgot the atmosphere. But I guess, fair enough - if you want both you go to Italy and not central London.

Locanda Locatelli definitely gave me new perspective of what a good italian restaurants could be like outside of Italy, and it was definitely not the last time I visited Locanda Locatelli