Båtbua - Gjeving

Good food, good wine,reasonable prices (for Norway! great service and a chef who shared his Norwegian Eplekake recipe. who could ask for more!

We about twelve people family and friends from Finland attended the Kilsund 3 C offshore WC races and stayed in GJEWING from 1 July to 7th of July. On our daily trips through Tvedestrand we tríed to get a decent meal in Tvedestrand, but found that the level of food quality and service had gone down a lot compared to our earlier visits, the last one about two years ago. We discovered the Batbua restaurant in Gjewing in the first day and loved their menu and above all their fantastic waitress Satu, who made each one of us feel welcome and well taken care of. Their food was just great, we had tried all their fish dishes, fish soup and their steak just lovely and well to say it short it could not have been better! Super kitchen indeed and Satu, she had the right touch for this important service profession oh yes you can say that this combination of super kirtchen with brilliant service in a nice environment works all right.

I prefer to eat at restaurants that are open all year round but I normally eat here each summer and have found the small Seafood plater very good

We have made a stop here this and last year and had seafood soup. The soup was delicious both times our friends though so as well. The place is a good point for making a visit by boat to Lyngør. There is outdoor and indoor sitting at the restaurant downstairs. Upstairs they have a pub (we have not visited daytime). We have been told it can be lively and noisy during the season with lots of young folks enjoying the beer..... Prices seems to be the average high you find along the whole coast from east to west. All in all a nice place to make a stop if you have not been there before.

We ordered a fish soup as a starter and seafood plate as a main course. The fish soup was small for 160 NOK but OK in taste. The seafood plate skalldyrstallerken) is a complete rip off: for 340 NOK you get served a dry iceberg salat without dressing topped up with a handful small shrimp reker), a few cold and tasteless bluemussels, two **** claws and a defrosted freshwater crayfish probably farmed in Vietnam. Sitting right next to the sea, surrounded by fishing villages, the expectations are slightly higher when you order a seafood plate...