In 1927 Lars Backer won the
competition to design this restaurant that
occupiues a comanding position overlooking
Oslo Fjord and the city some distance
below.
Two years later the restaurant
opened in what has been described on the
www.dehistoriske.com website as, "...one
of Europeʼs foremost buildings in the
Functionalist style"
The restaurant's website
explains that, "... The restaurant
is built with flat roofs, large
windows, a terrace and an arched
entrance in a corner tower. The
architect emphasized the maximum
number of window seats. .... The
building was once one of the city's
most popular dancing restaurants, but
in the 1980s the building decayed
increasingly and was closed in 1997.
The restaurant has since undergone an
extensive restoration and reopened in
March 2005. The interior of the new
Ekebergrestauranten was designed by
Thomas Ness."
Today the restaurant is a
listed building.
It is regarded as the
restaurant with the best views of Oslo.
