Link: http://www.regionstavanger.com/
Direct Link to MatSafari info in guide: http://www.regionstavanger.com/en/WHAT-TO-DO/Tour-suggestions-and-round-trips/?TLp=417155&Stavanger-Matsafari=
Every Friday in July 2010 – MatSafari
MatSafari offers a tasteful city walk with visits to companies that have played an important role in developing Stavanger as a culinary city.
The safari takes into consideration the palate’s needs as well as demonstrating how Stavanger as a city has evolved since the herring period through to the canning period and up until today with the city’s rich selection of delicatessen and restaurants.
The tour is offered every Friday in July 2010 and lasts 2 hours.
The tour departs at 11am from Stavanger Tourist Information, which sells tickets.
Price: Adults 295 Nok Children 150 Nok
For more details & other MatSafari outings see http://www.matsafari.no
(Note: click on English on the side toolbar, or make use of Google Translate*)
*from using Google Translate on the webpage I find in the description for Smaken av Stavanger that they go to these 3 locations for the tastings:
1) the Canning Museum
2) the Fish Market
3) Idsoe Butchers
The entire (google) translation:
Taste of Stavanger
Come and taste the local history.
The tour takes you through 200 years of mathistorie, and we give you a tasty way.
Through good history teaching in combination with the right flavors, this trip will be a unique experience of Stavanger.
Stavanger is today regarded as Norway's oil capital, our turn is based on what was here before the oil and what will come after.
Taste of Stavanger carried out in cooperation with a guide Companiet, we use dedicated and friendly guides who can their history and thus help to make your trip a unique experience.
We are able to guide in many languages, please contact us for the language requirements needed for your turn to be the best.
Tour description:
We go on a journey in and around the city center, where we stop for us, what makes Stavanger to something more than just oljeby.
Rogaland has traditionally been one of the largest matfat. Our tour focuses on the flavors, smells and visuals of the story.
The tour starts in the city yesterday visiting Norwegian Canning Museum, where we tour and try us as "canning workers" and taste a selection of sardines.
In the bay we go along the old waterfront and we take a new stop to taste the herring period.
We go to the fish market for a closer look at the world's only "live" cod in slices.
Here again, we taste some of what we offer.
We looked at the characteristics of Stavanger matby today, with the width provided by the restaurants in town.
End point of the tour is at Butcher Idsøe, where we can sample specialties like lammeconfit and theater sausage.
Turtid about 2 hours.
There will be opportunities for participants and act of matfylkets specialties in the fish market and at slaughter A. Idsøe
Pleasure can be ordered directly from GuideCompaniet:
Phone 51850920
booking@guidecompaniet.no
Kontaktinformasjon:
Telefon 90 88 43 54 - 90 88 43 54
e-post: arne.hatloy@lyse.net.
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but if I were you I'd double check with the guide if they’re going to any Stavanger Sentrum restaurants for a taste of something else too, before you get your hopes up
