Lappi Restaurant

Recommended to me by my golf partner . . . And seeking authentic Finnish food, we went for LapLander cuisine . . .

Mrs got wine & I got vodka . . .

The bread was interesting, rye crackers, rye bread, and potato pancakes.

Then the starter plate . . . Whole little Vendace (ok - might be an acquired taste . . . 8^) . . . ), salmon tartare (absolutely excellent!), salmon mousse (very nice on the rye cracker), vendace roe on cream cheese (very good on the rye bread), reindeer carpaccio, reindeer jerky, morel terrine, lingin berries (all very good in all the various permutations, but we are not fans of jerky, and the carpaccio seemed out-of-place to me with the fish . . . Is this the normal diet-balance of the Lappi?). . . The cheese & cloudberry may be a big hit here, but we were indifferent . . . We were full, too . . . 8^0 . . . With the main course to come . . .

I think we each ate one potato to be a good sport. The smoked whitefish and salmon were ecstasty incarnate, such that we immediately forgot how full we were already and shovelled it in, delicate, succulent, savoury . . . The omelette was good, too, tho, entirely unnecessary to the proceedings .  .. We might've coulda eaten another potato . . . But we would've taken all of the chunky morel sauce they would have brought us, it was table-thumping good.

We wisht we hadn't eaten the ordinary sandwich triangles they offered us on the plane trip to Helsinki, so that we would have had room for it all, at least in some more comfort, but it can be said confidently that Lappis is worth the trip . . .