The Fish Wharf at the southern edge of the Kvadraturen was the city's working fish landing into the 1970s and is now a small canalside square of restored wooden warehouses, given over to a fish market, several restaurants, an ice cream stand and a few small shops. The catch on the slab is genuinely landed locally — Sørlandet shrimp in season, mackerel, salmon, summer crab — and the kitchens around the square turn it into the predictable seafood plates.
It is the most touristy corner of the city centre, and the food is not the cheapest in town. But the setting is pretty and the rituals — buy a bag of shrimp from the market, sit on the wooden boardwalk, peel and eat — are part of the experience of being in Kristiansand in summer.