This is absolutely the northern most commercial establishment that sells cooked food for you to eat while sitting in a dining room. It’s also amazing. There are no restaurants further north.
There is the old abandoned food hall at Pyramiden where you can have arranged tours which includes food (mostly Russian tours).
There is also NERC research station even farther north. But that is only for scientific research and also not a restaurant.
But the term remote can also be used to describe the furthest place in Norway from other people. Then you have Jan Mayen island with research and military stations.
Or going to an even more absurd level the kitchen on a remote commercial boat. For example the rare visit to Bouvet island.
TL;DR yes it’s the most remote restaurant in Norway. The chef is amazing and most of the food is harvested locally. Buck list restaurant for sure.
Yes, unless you define «most remote» as «furthest distance from an airport»», furthest distance to a town» etc.
I had dinner in a hut while northern lights hunting from Longyearbyn (camp barentz). Further & more remote than Huset, but less north
There’s quite a few places to dine further north. First of all there’s a few restaurants in Longyearbyen itself, city center of which is 2-3 kms to the north from Huset (the restaurant from the video). Then there’s probably one in Pyramiden since they have a hotel there. And lastly there must be one in Ny Alesund. Nonetheless, I guess Huset probably is the northernmost non-hotel non-fastfood proper restaurant in the world.
Just a glance at the map shows about a dozen restaurants or coffee shops further north than Huset (all in Longyearbyen).
I don’t think anyone still does this but there were a few restaurants that offered a service where they flew you to the top of a mountain, set a table and then served you dinner literally at the top of the mountain like it was a restaurant. I think one of them was actually atop Galdhøgpiggen (Norway’s tallest mountain) while some were much lower down like Preikestolen.
Remember seeing TV coverage of it when I was younger.
It was mostly a gimmick, but I can’t think of anything more remote than that. Needless to say this was extremely expensive and not a common service.
“Huset” (the house) in Longyearbyen is as far north as you can get in Norway. There are other good restaurants in Longyearbyen, like Gruvelageret: [https://gruvelageret.no](https://gruvelageret.no) and Funken: [https://www.funkenlodge.com/eat-drink/restaurant/](https://www.funkenlodge.com/eat-drink/restaurant/)
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There really isn’t anything further north..
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Define place to dine? Define remote?
This is absolutely the northern most commercial establishment that sells cooked food for you to eat while sitting in a dining room. It’s also amazing. There are no restaurants further north.
There is the old abandoned food hall at Pyramiden where you can have arranged tours which includes food (mostly Russian tours).
There is also NERC research station even farther north. But that is only for scientific research and also not a restaurant.
But the term remote can also be used to describe the furthest place in Norway from other people. Then you have Jan Mayen island with research and military stations.
Or going to an even more absurd level the kitchen on a remote commercial boat. For example the rare visit to Bouvet island.
TL;DR yes it’s the most remote restaurant in Norway. The chef is amazing and most of the food is harvested locally. Buck list restaurant for sure.
Yes, unless you define «most remote» as «furthest distance from an airport»», furthest distance to a town» etc.
Some examples of mountain cabins with food service – none call themselves a «restaurant», though: https://www.dnt.no/hytter/anbefalte-hytter/mathytter/
Isfjord Radio is also pretty remote [https://basecampexplorer.com/no/svalbard/basecamper/isfjord-radio/](https://basecampexplorer.com/no/svalbard/basecamper/isfjord-radio/)
I had dinner in a hut while northern lights hunting from Longyearbyn (camp barentz). Further & more remote than Huset, but less north
There’s quite a few places to dine further north. First of all there’s a few restaurants in Longyearbyen itself, city center of which is 2-3 kms to the north from Huset (the restaurant from the video). Then there’s probably one in Pyramiden since they have a hotel there. And lastly there must be one in Ny Alesund. Nonetheless, I guess Huset probably is the northernmost non-hotel non-fastfood proper restaurant in the world.
Just a glance at the map shows about a dozen restaurants or coffee shops further north than Huset (all in Longyearbyen).
I don’t think anyone still does this but there were a few restaurants that offered a service where they flew you to the top of a mountain, set a table and then served you dinner literally at the top of the mountain like it was a restaurant. I think one of them was actually atop Galdhøgpiggen (Norway’s tallest mountain) while some were much lower down like Preikestolen.
Remember seeing TV coverage of it when I was younger.
It was mostly a gimmick, but I can’t think of anything more remote than that. Needless to say this was extremely expensive and not a common service.
“Huset” (the house) in Longyearbyen is as far north as you can get in Norway. There are other good restaurants in Longyearbyen, like Gruvelageret: [https://gruvelageret.no](https://gruvelageret.no) and Funken: [https://www.funkenlodge.com/eat-drink/restaurant/](https://www.funkenlodge.com/eat-drink/restaurant/)
If you want something even more remote: Isfjord Radio: [https://basecampexplorer.com/spitsbergen/hotels/isfjord-radio-adventure-hotel/](https://basecampexplorer.com/spitsbergen/hotels/isfjord-radio-adventure-hotel/)
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