Eating out in Stryn

On the way home this evening we stopped for a late dinner at a very cool place. It's a 350 year old river wharf shed which has been converted into a seafood restaurant. Before World War II the building was owned by Sunde-Julius. The current owner is a retired architect. He came to our table to chat and showed us an old sign that they'd found up in the attic of the shed. It says: "registration point for Norwegians to volunteer for the German defense army" The sign was posted in the city for several days, but since there were no volunteers, Sunde-Julius, who had posted it, took it down and hid it his attic. There it lay until it was found by the new owner.
This is a black-and-white photo which has been colored. It was taken before WWI. Notice the ship's tall mast and rolled up sail, right near where we sat!
We sat near the river front where it was a bit chilly, so they provide blankets for guests to wrap up in. A very nice touch which I've never seen before!
This is what mor ordered, it's fish, Brieflabb, think “seabass”.
Far and I ordered this, Steinbit (Anarhichadidae). This is an interesting fish, we caught some once when we dragged in our fishing nets from the fjord. They have huge teeth. My dad put one of them near the seat of our rowboat and it sunk it's teeth into the wood and hung on all the way home! I've heard stories that during the war people made shoes out of the hide of this fish. In Norwegian the name means "stone biter". It lives on the bottom of the fjord and eats clams and stuff like that...barnacles?
Here's a picture I found on the web of two decapitated steinbit.
here's more pics