Just beyond Gruvelageret lies a hidden chapter in local history.🦉This July, we begin a journey through Sverdrupbyen — the mining settlement that once stood here, and the traces it left behind. Can you guess which subject/ artefact we will explore first?🤫
Throughout the following months, we will bring local knowledge, artefacts and flavours together at one table. Stay tuned.
#svalbard #CoalMiningHistory #sverdrupbyen #spitsbergen #longyearbyen
Arctic Spring — or what we officially call Polar Summer 🌱 The season of the Midnight Sun, when daylight lasts 24/7. Snow melts to reveal the tundra, and millions of migratory birds arrive to nest.
Here at Gruvelageret, we are attuned to nature: refreshing notes on the menu, the quiet sounds of the river and fauna outside, and the warmth of Gruvelageret within.
A table set between the sea breeze and the East Wind, accompanied by the sounds of the glacier river, birdsong, and the soft light of the midnight sun — as gentle as the quiet relief found in Svalbard’s nature.
#diningsvalbard #longyearbyen #midnightsun #svalbard #svalbardsummer
🇳🇴 En liten oppdatering fra Randi Solvang på NNM!🥇🥈Randi har nå sikret seg to sterke plasseringer under Nordnorsk Mesterskap. Den 24. juni gikk hun helt til topps i jenteklassen i skogsløp med skyting, og dagen etter tok hun sølv i NNM felt.
Skogsløp kombinerer terrengløp og feltskyting. Det er en tøff øvelse som krever både utholdenhet, fokus og presisjon. Stort gratulerer, Randi! Vi heier videre på deg 🖤
🇬🇧 A little update from Randi Solvang at the Northern Norwegian Championships! 🥇🥈Randi has now earned two strong results at the championships. On June 24, she won gold in the girls’ skogsløp event, followed by silver in field shooting the next day.
Skogsløp is a Nordic shooting with cross-country running, also known as running biathlon, requiring endurance, focus, and precision. Congratulations, Randi! We’re proud to be cheering you on 🖤
#talent #svalbard #norgestalenter #sponsor #competetiveshooting
Our Spring Menu at Gruvelageret grew from an overall inspiration — the feeling of the season itself that you get only in Svalbard ✨Store Norske Mandskor’s song Midnattsol captures this emotion beautifully: it's the fjords, the tundra, the birds, the natural treasures the sea sends ashore, and the fresh notes carried by Isfjorden breeze.
This inspiration has shaped our menu, which has already been enjoyed by many guests over the past two weeks. We are grateful to bring it all together here in the history-preserving old town of Sverdrupbyen — with the leadership and talents of Gruvelageret, the voices of the local choir, and the natural surroundings of this preserved historical site where we gather to dine.
Thank you for following and joining our journey across the seasons, with Svalbard featuring us beautifully at any time of year.
#svalbardspring #arctic #svalbardsummer #finediningsvalbard #longyearbyen
🇳🇴 Randi Solvang er et ungt talent innen konkurranseskyting, og vi er heldige som får følge satsingen hennes. I år er Gruvelageret og Svalbard Explorer stolt sponsor og gleder seg til å heie henne fram!
Randi er Hedlys barnebarn, og selv om hun fortsatt er ung, viser hun allerede imponerende fokus, stå-på-vilje og gode resultater.
Vinterfelt er veldig gøy, synes hun, og hun har allerede hatt flere seire og gode pallplasseringer på stevnene hun til nå har deltatt i.
Med flere konkurranser i vente, og banesesongen som nå begynner for fullt, ligger det an til en spennende tid fremover. Blant annet venter Nordnorsk Mesterskap og Landskytterstevnet på Lesja i sommer.
Det er skikkelig inspirerende å se hvor mye engasjement og disiplin Randi legger ned i satsingen sin. Vi er veldig glade for å kunne støtte henne på veien videre, og gleder oss til å følge med på alt hun får til i år. Vi kommer også til å dele mer om satsingen hennes fremover.
Lykke til, Randi! Gruvelageret og Svalbard Explorer heier på deg 🖤
🇬🇧 Randi Solvang is a young talent in competitive shooting, and we feel grateful to follow her journey. This year, Gruvelageret and Svalbard Explorer are happy to support and cheer her on along the way!
Randi is Hedly’s granddaughter. Although she is still very young, she already shows impressive focus, motivation and strong results.
She finds winter field shooting really fun, and she has already earned several wins and strong podium finishes in the competitions she has taken part in so far.
With more competitions ahead, an exciting season awaits. This summer, Randi is preparing for the Northern Norwegian Championship and Landskytterstevnet at Lesja.
It’s inspiring to see so much passion, discipline, and hard work at such a young age. We’re very happy to support Randi on her journey and can’t wait to follow everything she accomplishes this year.
Good luck, Randi! Everyone at Gruvelageret and Svalbard Explorer are rooting for you 🖤
#talent #svalbard #norgestalenter #sponsor #competetiveshooting
Mandag 1. juni starter vi med Spring Menu. Følg med for å se mer — eller kom innom oss!
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Our Spring Menu starts on Monday, 1 June. Stay tuned to learn more — or simply visit us!
#svalbard #arcticspring #newmenu #dinnerlongyearbyen #spitsbergen
Gruvelageret hosted a pop-up by our chef Manish, marking his farewell before returning to his home country, India. “Now, I want to continue my journey by bringing people together around a table and telling stories through my own pop-up dinners,” Manish said, dropping a hint.
Pravaas — the Indian cuisine pop-up — took guests on a journey across India: from Kashmir’s shirmal kulcha with morels and kalari, to Amritsari fish fry from Punjab, vibrant Delhi chaat, comforting moringa soup from Madhya Pradesh, and a Maharashtra thali with bhakri, mutton and rice. The menu continued south with scallops balchao, jackfruit idichatthu with coconut and parotta, and bold North East flavours of akuni, pork and bamboo shoot, before ending with jamun sorbet, mango–fig dessert, and handmade petit fours.
The journey was appetizing, colourful and refreshing. It was long — as it takes time to travel across the regions of such a big and diverse country!
#popup #indianfood #svalbard #finedining #dinnerlongyearbyen
“Home is wherever we are at this moment” — do you agree? You surely have met them. Or perhaps they are your dear friends?
The Gruvelageret team works together like a dance. It is never one person’s win or one person’s failure. It is always a team, no matter how independent everyone may be.
Gruvelageret people know this, and they mostly feel at home in Svalbard.
In the video, we only show those who have been working full-time in the back and front of house. There are more people to show, such as General Manager Kristin and Owner Steve who restored Gruvelageret and gave this place the direction it has today. And there is Hedly, who makes sure everything works behind the scenes. There are also people who work extra, or who worked full-time before and contributed to the growth of this place. Or people who contributed to designing Gruvelageret by gifting us collected artefacts from old coal mining times.
If you’d like, follow us on Instagram and Facebook for more. We are sharing stories and reels that not only present who is working at and developing Gruvelageret, but also, in parallel, tell the coal mining-related history behind it.
We are part of the history overall, and history does not have a full stop — we are in charge of it every second by adding something nice to the town we call home for now.
Nå er siste mulighet til å sikre seg bord til vår vintermeny, skapt spesielt for sesongen — book via lenken i kommentarfeltet 🖤
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EN.: Final tables for this winter menu, crafted exclusively for the season, are available this week — book through the link in the comments 🖤
#svalbard #romanticdinner #date #dining #finedining #ArcticWildlife #finediningexperience #food #CoalMiningHistory #longyearbyen #wilderness #sverdrupbyen #spitzbergen #adventure
[English below!] Kanskje vårens siste snø ❄️ Gratulerer med dagen fra oss her på Svalbard — helt ned til våre venner på fastlandet 🇳🇴 og
takk for at dere besøkte oss i går!
Maybe the last snow of the spring ❄️ Happy Constitution Day from us here in Svalbard — all the way down to our friends on mainland Norway 🖤. Thank you for visiting us yesterday!
#17mai #17May #finediningexperience #CoalMiningHistory #norge #svalbard #arctic
Vi har en sterk lidenskap for mat og vin, vi ønsker å servere et måltid med preg av Arktis og det nordiske, men som også viser mangfoldet i å bo like under Nordpolen. Vi samarbeider med lokale produsenter og er alltid på søken etter de beste produktene. I juni 2022 ble vi Miljøfyrtårnsertifisert og har siden jobbet kontinuerlig med å begrense matsvinn og velge de beste produkter fra bevisste leverandører. Fra produktet kjøpes inn, fraktes, tilberedes og havner på tallerkenen din ønsker vi å gi deg en god matopplevelse samtidig som at vi sitter igjen med minst mulig avfall og matsvinn.
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