About the data

Restoradar shows public inspection results from Mattilsynet (the Norwegian Food Safety Authority) for restaurants, cafés and other food-service businesses. Mattilsynet grades each inspection under its smiley scheme (smilefjes). Publicly we show only what Mattilsynet itself publishes on its smiley site: breaches that require follow-up (grade 2), serious breaches (grade 3) and the current smiley result. Registered companies also see minor remarks (grade 1). Mattilsynet does not publish these on the smiley site, so we show them only after login, always marked “Minor remark – not published by Mattilsynet”.

About Restoradar

Restoradar is an independent service run by a private individual in Norway – not affiliated with Mattilsynet. It turns Mattilsynet’s open inspection data into leads for suppliers to the restaurant industry: temperature monitoring, refrigeration service, cleaning, pest control, internal control/HACCP, allergen labelling and commercial kitchen equipment. The service is free during the beta.

• Updates: the data is fetched from Mattilsynet and the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret) every morning.
• Contact: kontakt@restoradar.no
• Something wrong, or a business to remove? Use the form Remove or correct a business – requests are handled within 72 hours.
• Guides: the smiley faces and grades, requirement 3.7 cold chain, inspection data in sales, new restaurants.

Sources and licences

• Mattilsynet – open data on smiley inspections and requirements, processed by Restoradar. Licence: CC BY 4.0.
• Brønnøysund Register Centre – company name of the legal entity. Licence: NLOD 2.0. Names of sole proprietorships (ENK) are not shown, as they are usually a person’s name.
• Bring postcode register – municipality and county from the postcode.

Data updated: 7 Oct 2026 (date of the latest inspection in the data). We refresh the data every morning.

The public lists show the last 2 years without restaurant names. Registered companies (free, with a Norwegian organisation number) see names, addresses and every inspection back to 2016.

The grades

The status column

The “Status” column shows the result of the latest inspection:

• In order – No breaches that need follow-up No breaches that need follow-up – a smiling face (smilefjes)
• Follow-up – Breach that needs follow-up Breach that needs follow-up – a neutral face (strekmunn)
• Serious – Serious breach Serious breach – a sad face (sur munn)
• Not listed – No longer on Mattilsynet’s smiley site – closed, or a new owner or registration No longer on Mattilsynet’s smiley site – closed, or a new owner or registration

The date under the status is the date of that inspection. ✓ date means a later inspection ended “In order” after the finding shown in the row – typically a follow-up inspection after the problems were fixed.

Good to know

• The finding texts are Mattilsynet’s standard wording for each requirement and severity. The inspector’s own notes are not published.
• A finding says something about the day of the inspection. Many businesses correct the problem quickly – check the status and the link to Mattilsynet.
• Municipality is derived from the postcode and may be wrong for a small number of addresses.
• By default we show businesses that are still on Mattilsynet’s smiley site. Those no longer listed can be included with the “Include unlisted” filter.
• Restoradar is not affiliated with Mattilsynet. Something wrong? Tell us.

Glossary

The words Restoradar uses in English, and what Mattilsynet and the Brønnøysund Register Centre call them in Norwegian:

• Smiley scheme – smilefjesordningen: Mattilsynet’s inspection scheme for restaurants, cafés and similar places. The results are published on smilefjes.mattilsynet.no, Mattilsynet’s smiley site.
• Smiling face, neutral face, sad face – smilefjes, strekmunn (“straight mouth”), sur munn: the three results of an inspection, shown as “In order”, “Follow-up” and “Serious” in our status column.
• Grade – karakter: Mattilsynet’s score from 0 to 3 for each requirement. 2 = breach that requires follow-up, 3 = serious breach; the lowest grade decides the face.
• Requirement – kravpunkt: one of the 25 points Mattilsynet checks at an inspection (tilsyn), for example 3.7 cold chain.
• Minor remark – mindre anmerkning: grade 1, a small remark without follow-up that Mattilsynet does not publish. Shown only to registered users, and never called a breach.
• Breach – brudd (also avvik, a violation): a finding with grade 2 or 3.
• Business register – Enhetsregisteret, the Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities run by the Brønnøysund Register Centre (Brønnøysundregistrene). It issues the nine-digit organisation number (org. no.).
• Sole proprietorship – enkeltpersonforetak (ENK): a business run by one person under their own name, which is why Restoradar withholds its owner, street address and org. no.

The requirements

Mattilsynet assesses food-service businesses against 25 requirements. Every finding concerns one of them – these are what you see in the “Problem area” column. Each link opens the requirement’s own page: restaurants with breaches per year, county and municipality, Mattilsynet’s wording and the industry it belongs to (all requirements).

• 1.1 Visible inspection report
• 1.2 Duty to notify
• 1.3 Operator responsibility
• 1.4 Internal control
• 1.5 Hazard analysis and control measures
• 1.6 Training
• 2.1 Premises – layout, standard, maintenance
• 2.2 Premises – special requirements
• 2.3 Cleaning
• 2.4 Waste
• 2.5 Pest control
• 2.6 Hand washing
• 2.7 Staff toilets
• 3.1 Raw materials
• 3.2 Water and ice
• 3.3 Risk of contamination
• 3.4 Storage
• 3.5 Transport
• 3.6 Staff health and hygiene
• 3.7 Cold chain
• 3.8 Heat treatment
• 3.9 Cooling of hot food
• 3.10 Thawing
• 4.1 Traceability
• 4.2 Allergen labelling