Engebret Café is a restaurant located at Bankplassen 1 in downtown Oslo, Norway.
The building housing the cafe dates from around 1760 and is listed and protected by law by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage.
[1][2] Engebret Café is the oldest restaurant in continuous operation in Oslo.
The restaurant is known for the famous artists who have frequented the restaurant, including Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Edvard Grieg and Edvard Munch all of whom had regular tables there.
[6][7] The best known of the employees have been Crown Princess Mette-Marit, who worked as a waitress at the restaurant in the late 1990s.