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ROVANIEMI · 66°30′ N

Private chef dinners in Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi, after dark.

Private dinners in villas, cabins and glass igloos around Rovaniemi, cooked by chefs who live here.

The moon over frosted pines and a river at dusk

Rovaniemi, where the rivers meet

Rovaniemi sits where the Ounasjoki runs into the Kemijoki, just south of the Arctic Circle.

Across the river, the hill of Ounasvaara rises over the town, with its ski slopes.

In midwinter the sun stays low and the light turns blue long before dinner. On clear nights the northern lights may come. We never promise them.

Where we cook

We come to you anywhere from Rovaniemi out to Kemi, Ranua, Luosto, Pyhä and Pelkosenniemi. Further out, a travel fee of €1 per km beyond the area, stated in your proposal before you pay anything.

If there is a kitchen, a table and a door, we can make an evening of it. No kitchen? Ask. Some evenings work without one.

How far we come

From our kitchen in Rovaniemi, south-west to Kemi on the coast, south to Ranua, and north-east to Luosto, Pyhä and Pelkosenniemi. Levi and Ylläs, further out, by arrangement.

Our kitchen

Stocks, breads and the slow things are made in our kitchen in Rovaniemi. What reaches your table is finished in front of you.

Map of Finland with a ring around Rovaniemi, reaching Kemi in the south-west and Pelkosenniemi and Pyhä in the north-east, with Ranua and Luosto inside it. A dashed line marks the Arctic Circle just north of Rovaniemi. Levi and Ylläs lie outside the ring to the north-west.

We cook in

  • Rovaniemi
  • Kemi
  • Pelkosenniemi
  • Pyhä
  • Ranua
  • Luosto

Further by arrangement: Levi, Ylläs

Three evenings

Choose the evening. We bring the rest.

All the evenings

What reaches the table

The season decides the menu. What can be made ahead is made in our kitchen in Rovaniemi; the rest is finished in front of you.

  • Arctic fishcaught fresh
  • Forest berriespicked by hand
  • Salmon roeon blinis, with sour cream
  • Forest mushroomsas a salad, beside the blinis
  • Squeaky cheesewith caramel and cloudberry jam

Where it comes from

From around here

We buy from people we know and tell you where it comes from.

  • Lingonberries and bilberriesPickers, the forests around Rovaniemi
  • WhitefishFishers, Lapland’s lakes
  • Forest mushroomsPickers, the forests around Rovaniemi
  • Lingonberries among pale lichen on the forest floor
  • Porcini in a birch-bark basket

The season

In December the sun barely clears the horizon and dinner starts in the dark. By March the light is back and the snow is at its deepest. We cook from November to April.

A fell under the moon at pink and blue dusk

The chefs

Our chefs. Their own tables.

Meet the chefs

The kitchen is clean

The night is yours.

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