Credo

Credo is chef Heidi Bjerkan's restaurant in the National Library of Norway on Solli plass in Oslo. It moved here from Trondheim, where it was born, and holds a Michelin star.

Bjerkan opened Credo in Trondheim in 1998 with Calle Fegth and Tor Schølberg, and took over ownership and the running of it when Fegth left the company. The restaurant later moved from Credoveita in the city centre to the former Bergs Maskin engineering hall at Lilleby, which it shared with its younger sister Jossa. There it won a Michelin star and the guide's first award for sustainability, the prize that later became the Green Star. After the Trondheim restaurant closed, Bjerkan reopened Credo in the library at the end of 2025.

The cooking has always been rooted in local and traditional Norwegian food, with a large share of the produce dried. At Lilleby a kitchen garden of about 300 square metres (3,200 sq ft) grew vegetables, micro-greens and fruit in soil fed with compost from the restaurant's own food waste, while ducks kept the slugs down. Dairy and meat came from the Trøndelag farms Fannremsgården and Skjølberg Søndre. That close tie between the kitchen and the land around it is the background a diner brings to the new room in the capital.

In Oslo a few dishes from Trondheim live on within a longer menu, where ingredients are usually given very little heat and are set in unexpected pairings. Under the Credo name Bjerkan also runs five other places to eat in the library, some of them used for courses in traditional cooking. A restaurant grounded in one region's farms now sits inside the building that keeps the nation's books, and the menu carries that northern pantry into the capital.