Scan Magazine | Special Theme | A Taste of Norway
Local food with high-quality ingredients is important at Klostergården Tautra.
More than simply a hotel With a restaurant, a brewery, a farm shop and hotel rooms, Klostergården Tautra – located on an island right by a Cistercian monastery in Trøndelag, Norway – offers an overnight experience out of the ordinary. By Line Elise Svanevik | Photos: Klostergården Tautra
“It’s a family farm, or a smallholding,” explains Jørn Anderssen, whose parents took over the premises in the 1980s. “The Cistercian monastery definitely helps bring guests in.” With 13 rooms accommodating for 30 guests in total, the farm also has a few 50 | Issue 109 | February 2018
beer, marmalade and juice,” Anderssen explains. His father makes all the food in the restaurant and previously won an innovation award for his use of seaweed in the food – including seaweed soup, seaweed bread and fish soup with seaweed.
neighbours offering rental rooms, for those arriving in large groups.
On-site brewery
In their local farm shop on the premises, they sell local food from the county of Trøndelag, in the central part of Norway. “We also sell what we produce on the farm – and we make a lot of things like
Beer production is key to Klostergården Tautra, with its Alstadberger beer being the first Norwegian beer to be awarded the speciality mark Spesialitetsmerket, in 2014. The brewery was set up by Anderssen in 2008, when he moved