I've been to Stockholm twice, but didn't make it to Norway. Actually, I found the food (except for the herring -- fishy fish is just not my thing) to be absolutely delicious and very flavorful even if the seasonings were more delicate, and I tried everything I could! Granted, I was there to visit a family friend who has a fantastic palate, knew all the best and most authentic restaurants, and is a wonderful cook, so perhaps I had an upgraded food experience while there. Memorable dishes included cheese-and-knackebrod with shaved horsemeat (an appetizer - not a fan of the horsemeat but I can't say it lacked flavor, LOL), homemade pea soup and pork belly pancakes, braised reindeer with mushroom gravy and lingonberries, a roasted moose filet with red wine sauce, cheddar beer soup served in a homemade dill-and-olive breadbowl, more baked salmon with dill than one could shake a stick at, and some of the best pastries and desserts I've ever tasted -- vanilla-cloudberry ice cream with cloudberry liqueur, and of course kanelbullar. My family had lunch at Akershus a few years ago, and I was really disappointed, in that I felt only the cold buffet (appetizer) portion paid any sort of tribute to the fantastic food I'd enjoyed in Scandinavia. The rest of the menu was just very Americanized and poorly-executed. I fear that if a family-style conversion is made (which I joked about in my post, but honestly believe Disney will probably do), similar to what has been done in other restaurants, the last whisper of Scandinavian-inspired flavor will be gone.