Baklandet Skydsstation — the old coaching inn
A 1791 former coaching station in the wooden quarter, now a candle-lit café of Trøndelag home cooking — the kind of place that smells like the right kind of woodsmoke.
Tied to Trondheim
Baklandet Skydsstation is a former stagecoach station in the wooden Bakklandet quarter east of the Nidelva, now a café — a crooked ochre-yellow building from 1791, the kind of place that smells like good wood and butter the moment the door opens. The menu is Trøndelag traditional: raspeballer (grated-potato dumplings with cured lamb and rutabaga) on Thursdays, fish soup most days, daily bacalao, and rømmegrøt with cured meats as a starter. The back garden opens in summer.
Mid-range and full of locals at lunch. Reservations help in late July; walking in for an off-peak smørbrød usually works.
What we plan to try
The fish soup the first day. Raspeballer the second if it falls on a Thursday.