A maze of connected buildings in the newly developed Aker Brygge area, this shopping complex offers a range of high-end boutiques interspersed with coffee shops and unique interior design stores. The mall weaves toward the Thief Hotel, so guests can meander its boutiques on the way back to their hotel. Standout shops include the fashion-forward Mardou & Dean (Holmensgate 4) and Mark & Brandy (Holmensgate 2), and home store Milla.

If any boutique in Grünerløkka channels Brooklyn, this is it. Dapper is a menswear concept store that is split into three parts, with areas for shaving, biking and clothing products. Each section is thoroughly dedicated to its contents, with mustached salesmen in the barbershop, leather bike seats pinned to the walls in the cycling boutique and sleek sweatshirts and leisure apparel lining the racks of the apparel store. The bike accessories are some of the best, and most unique finds to be had, with gorgeously sculpted seats in olive green, chocolate brown and oil black as well as wicker bike carts.

Located on the bottom floor of Norway’s oldest department store, GlasMagasinet, Den Norske Husfliden has been selling traditional Norwegian fashions since opening in 1891. The now-iconic brand is known for Scandinavian pieces including bunads (folk costumes), floral paintings, wrought iron and wood products and needlepoint accessories.

The most elegant womenswear in Grünerløkka can be found at Ensemble, a boutique located between Kaibosh and Dapper. The store’s simple décor, with exposed brick walls and cement floors, allows the clothes, from designers like Carven and Frame, to take center stage.

Oslo’s best concept store was opened by three brothers and their friend, who, dismayed by the lack of boutiques devoted to local designers, created f5, to exclusively stock Norwegian labels. With a store, showroom and studio, f5 also has two fashion lines: ARCT and GRAA. Other designers featured include Mardou & Dean and Avenue. The overall collection is chock-full of sleek shirt dresses, menswear-inspired basics and leather bags and sneakers.

A bit like a Norwegian take on Anthropologie, Mitt Lille Hjem opened in 2010 and is one of the best shops in Grünerløkka. Meaning “My Little Home,” the boutique offers a cohesive selection of fashion, home décor, accessories and jewelry, as well as furniture, all of which is made by the owner’s father.

Just around the corner from Oslo’s National Theater and the Hotel Continental, the decades-old Norway Designs is a two-story emporium filled with Scandinavian-style, sleek furnishings and all things design-focused. Whimsical children’s clothes and toys are stocked on first floor, while the vast, basement-level space has sections dedicated to stationary and prints, home accessories like pillows and ikat blankets and furnishings and kitchenware, including Marimekko plateware, Kahler ceramics and blown glass pieces.

After much success at its first store in Bergen, Røst opened an Oslo outpost along a main shopping street in the city center. The store interior features common Scandinavian design elements (clean lines, geometric shelving) and hanging racks hold small accessories like candles, notebooks and paper goods. The rest of the store is filled out with pastel ceramic plates, cushy pillows and a small selection of kid’s clothes.

One of the first shops on Grünerløkka’s main drag of Markveien, this hippie boutique is filled with fun knick-knacks, paper goods and gag gifts.

Norway’s largest department store (with over 50 locations in the Scandinavian countries), Steen & Strøm has a five-floor outpost in downtown Oslo. The luxury store offers a range of products—from fashion to jewelry and perfume—and includes a dining level that is home to gourmet food vendors and several quick lunch spots.

Inspired by Paris’ Colette, YME opened in 2014 in a strikingly modern storefront on Karl Johans gate in central Oslo. A joint design project by YME Studios and Snøhetta architects, the concept store spans three floors and includes a top-floor café and bookstore. With rotating art exhibitions and wearable art in the form of pieces by internationally renowned designers like Maison Margiela, Rick Owens, Lanvin and Marni, YME is perhaps the most fashion-forward shop in the city.