Norske Nook

Norske Nook has the best Swedish pancakes and homemade pies! I love this place. The food is fantastic and so is the service! Every time I come to Rice Lake, I will eat here.

Wait was SLOW..,.,,food looks good would have loved to try it . We ate a cookie from the bakery because we were hungry. 20 minute wait turned into a half hour. Empty tables all over I would have waited if they would have sat us down with a cup of coffee. I noticed they were short staffed,so I get that . But standing and waiting with empty tables we decided to leave

I have always wanted to stop at the Norse Nook in Osseo. Always been pressed for time. Didn't realize they had more than 1 location. Had the pleasure of trying it out at the Rice lake location. Typical diner style, simple but if you like pie this is your stop.Not much on the menu for vegans, I had their hash browns, they were fresh cut and super thin. I have never had hash browns like that before. Amazing. My family all got the burgers. They all gobbled them up and said they were very good.Then pie...We got the apple and chocolate mint. Both were like something from heaven. Homemade crust flakey and crispy and a little chewey in parts. Fresh apples, no cans at this place.Less pie options right now after the holidays but whatever they do have will hit that sweet spot. Homemade and made with love.Our server was so sweet. They have every other table set and sanitizer and menu to scan on table.Doing their part for social distancing right now which threw me off being this far north. Overall great stop! Check it out! Not too many places like this exist.

Stopped for lunch on a Saturday. First snowfall of the season was the night before and starting with a hot chocolate seemed like the thing to do. Served at just the right temperature to drink without burning and not overly sweet. Nice start!Next up was the lunch combo. Thick slices of turkey on their cranberry rice bread, lightly griddled but not greasy. Add some havarti and a compound mustard on the side and this is a very good sandwich. The chili that accompanied was mild and decent, just not my style. Last item of the visit was their apple-lingonberry pie. When you charge $5 for a slice of pie, it better deliver! Their version was a bit on the tart side and very well executed. Easily the best bite and I really enjoyed my sandwich.

First off, people are so impatient. The majority of down votes seem to be from people that had to wait a while. Gross. Chill out. Covid happened ya'll. Everyone is still short staffed. This is similar to a Perkins or Denny's but with actual real food made from scratch. They roll the dough out by hand with a rolling pin! The Swedish meatballs aren't ready until 11:45 because they're still being made! The pork sandwich smothered in gravy with mashed potatoes was like a hug on the inside. The pie was utterly perfect. We drove 20 minutes two days in a row when we were staying in the area because the food was so good. Not fancy. Just good food! One note: they could really improve their gift shop. Super boring. More Norske Nook stuff! Less "uffta" crap. But yanno.. not really here for the cute magnet. But it couldn't hurt!

It's bad. I would hate to be Norwegian and find out that there is a restaurant that misrepresents my culture's cuisine this way. I am not even going to go into the slow service because it isn't the one waitresses problem that the restaurant can't find enough staff.First off, 80% of the menu is basic American food - burgers, fries, eggs, bacon, etc. There is a clever embellishment of using lefse for sandwich wraps. It still doesn't count. Norwegian meatballs, lingonberries, and potato pancakes are basically it for the Scandinavian cuisine.My very generic sandwich and fries were pretty decent. It was expensive at $14 though and there was nothing Norwegian about it. My wife had the Norwegian meatballs "sandwich". It was 2 canned meat meat balls burnt to a crisp between basic stale white bread and smothered in brown gravy. No vegetables. No flavor. Meatballs were disgusting. Pretty sad that IKEA meatballs can out beat a literal Norwegian restaurant (like...you had one job).What would it take to make this restaurant really good?-Perfect the Norwegian food. Don't use cheap ingredients.-Add in more fish dishes since Norwegian cuisine has a ton of fish in it.-You really need more waitstaff.

Very local, traditional place with fresh food and amazing PIEs .I asked for the fried codd with chips and it was perfectly baked and fried. I asked for a fresh salad next to it and it was just perfect and delicious .At the end asked for the blueberry crusted pie and it was the best pie I had ever have in a my life .Thank you!!!

They are known for their pies which I love . The food is good too. Kind of a family like atmosphere

We stopped in for a quick lunch on a trip up to Douglas County. It was just after noon on a Saturday. We were seated promptly, the place was clean. The service was decent and attentive. The food was just okay, though. It didn't amaze me like it has in the past. I had the potato pancake plate. It was enough food that I didn't have room for pie. Too bad, the pie would have been better. My wife was less impressed with her omelet than I was with my meal.

A once wonderful stop up north, a recent stop being the most disappointing. They are in decline, a common issue with lack of wait staff is handcuffing them apparently. When asked to be seated, we told them "no preference, either is good" - this was a mistake as we were put in a booth to be seated behind two groups placed at tables? I told the attendant how did this happen to put us being an already problematic situation. We left, how disappointing.