Pollett Bislett sits at Pilestredet 60 in the Bislett district on Oslo's west side, a game bar built around a 45-metre slot-car racing track and a wall of pinball machines. The pinball database pinballmap.com lists eleven machines on site, which makes it one of the better-stocked game rooms in the city.
The pitch is play with your drink. This is a bar for friends, colleagues or a family afternoon who want something to do beyond talk, with cocktails, beer and pizza to keep the table fed. Anyone after a quiet date-night cocktail bar will find the arcade noise the wrong fit.
The room runs on its games. The 45-metre slot-car track is the centrepiece, and the visitoslo.com listing describes a venue that works for families during the day and shifts to a drinking, socialising crowd in the evening, with quiz nights on the calendar. Summer adds outdoor seating where the kitchen sends out pizza and drinks.
On the drinks side, the bar pours cocktails alongside a beer selection logged by users on Untappd, so the range runs wider than a typical arcade. The food is built for sharing over a game, pizza first, and the quiz nights give the room a reason to fill on a midweek evening. Come with a group and split time between the track and the table.
The crowd changes through the week. Daytime brings families and casual players, while Wednesday through Saturday the later hours pull an adult crowd for racing, pinball and quizzes, with Friday and Saturday running to 3am. Monday and Tuesday close earlier at 11pm, so the back half of the week is the livelier window.
Getting there is straightforward. The bar sits in Bislett near the stadium and the St. Hanshaugen area, walkable from the centre and close to the Bislett tram stops, which makes it an easy add to a night that started downtown.
On the games themselves, the slot-car track and the pinball lineup are the draw that sets Pollett apart from a standard bar, and the venue leans into the retro-arcade theme rather than treating the machines as decoration. The Oslo game-bar guide on k7hotel.com groups it among the city's dedicated play bars, which is the company it keeps. For a group that gets bored sitting still, the format does the entertaining.
What regulars say circles the activities. Visitors highlight the long slot-car track as the standout, the pinball and arcade games as the reason to stay, and the cocktails and pizza as solid support rather than the headline. The common steer is to come with a group and to book ahead for the track on weekend nights.
For a group, the practical move is to book the slot-car track ahead on busy nights, since it is the one thing that draws a queue, and to leave the pinball for the gaps between races. The venue works as well for a daytime family outing as for a late group night, which is unusual for a bar, and the kitchen's pizza keeps a long session fed. Listed by visitoslo.com as a city attraction in its own right, Pollett leans into the retro-arcade format rather than treating the machines as a gimmick, and that commitment is what regulars reward. For a night that needs more than a drinks list, it earns its place.
Best time to go is a midweek quiz night or a weekend evening when the track and machines are in full use. Who it is for: a group night out, a games fan and a family afternoon before the adult crowd arrives. For more rooms like it, see our best pubs and bars in Oslo guide, the wider Oslo bar guide, and our pillar on the best sports and game bars worldwide.
Sources: Pollett Bislett on visitoslo.com; pinballmap.com; Untappd Pollett Bislett; norgeguide.com Oslo; Tripadvisor Pollett Bislett
