Restaurants in Rovaniemi, Levi, Ylläs, Saariselkä, Inari, Kemi and eight more towns in Finnish Lapland. One page per town, with Google ratings and menu links.
Muonio, Hetta, Salla and Posio have too few tables between them for a page of their own. They are still on the full list.
Opening hours move with the season here. Check the restaurant's own page before you drive out.
Eight restaurants in Rovaniemi, from reindeer fillet on Valtakatu to a Korean kitchen on Korkalonkatu. Ratings, review quotes and menu links.
The densest cluster of tables in Lapland: five of them share four streets.
Rovaniemi is the one town in Lapland where you can choose a restaurant on foot. Nili and Arctic Restaurant sit almost opposite each other on Valtakatu and cover the reindeer-and-cloudberry end of the menu. A few hundred metres away, Roka Street Bistro on Ainonkatu and Cafe & Bar 21 on Rovakatu are the rooms locals use on an ordinary Tuesday. And when you want a break from reindeer, Hanki on Korkalonkatu cooks Korean.
The five city-centre restaurants are within 500 m of each other: the whole choice is one walk.
Three are outside the centre: Sky Kitchen & View 2.4 km out, Kotahovi 6.8 km out on the Santa Claus Village road, and All About Salmon at the village itself.
Hanki on Korkalonkatu is Korean, not Lappish, and sits in the same compact centre as the rest.
Eight restaurants at Levi, Finland's biggest ski resort: the panoramic dining room, Italian by the slopes, and the local rooms in Sirkka village.
Finland's biggest ski resort eats like one: busy dining rooms, terraces and a table up on the fell.
The village at the foot of the fell is officially Sirkka, and almost every address here says so. Panoramic Restaurant TUIKKU is up on the fell, 2.4 km from the centre. Ämmilä and Wanha Hullu Poro are next door to each other on Rakkavaarantie, Ristorante Renna does Italian a street away, and Saamen Kammi, Boneless and Kekäle fill in around the centre.
Levi's postal addresses say Sirkka or Kittilä. It is the same resort: the village is Sirkka and the municipality is Kittilä.
Kittilä village itself is 17 km away and has no restaurant on this site.
Panoramic Restaurant TUIKKU is 2.4 km from the village centre, up on the fell: plan how you get there and back.
Seven restaurants at Ylläs, split between Äkäslompolo and Ylläsjärvi on opposite sides of the fell, with one at the summit. Ratings and menu links.
Two villages, one fell, and about 11 km between your table and the other one.
Ylläs is not a village but two, on opposite sides of the fell. Äkäslompolo in the north has Ravintola Rouhe, Ylläksen Eväskori & Joiku Pub and Los Lompolo's; Ylläsjärvi in the south has Ravintola Otso and Restaurant Ylläskota. Between them, Ylläskammi's address is the summit of Ylläs itself.
Äkäslompolo and Ylläsjärvi are about 11 km apart around the fell. Check which village your restaurant is in before you set off.
Ylläskammi is on the fell top, not in either village.
Ylläs means Äkäslompolo on this site when no village is named; Ylläsjärvi is always named.
Eight restaurants in Saariselkä, all walkable: a hotel kitchen, a gastropub, a Sámi-style lávvu and the village burger place. Ratings and menu links.
A small fell village where every table is a walk away.
Saariselkä is compact enough that the choice is a walk, not a drive, and two of the places are on the same street. The range is wide: Fieno and Gáldu serve at the table, Kieppi Kitchen & Bar is the Wilderness Hotel Kieppi dining room, and ScanBurger, Lieggâ Láávu and Bistro & Cafe Kuukkeli cover the quick end. Gastropub Giitu is the one Google files under Inari, but it is in Saariselkä.
Kieppi Kitchen & Bar is the restaurant inside Wilderness Hotel Kieppi on Raitopolku.
Everything on this page is inside the village. The nearest airport is Ivalo, about 25 minutes away.
Saariselkä is in Inari municipality, so some listings elsewhere file it under Inari.
Four restaurants in Inari municipality: a Sámi-inspired fine-dining room by the water and three others that are a long drive apart. Ratings and menu links.
Finland's largest municipality. Four kitchens, and a lot of road between them.
Inari is bigger than several European countries, and this page reflects it: its restaurants are spread across tens of kilometres rather than a village centre. Restaurant Aanaar, by the water on Saarikoskentie, is the fine-dining room. Kultahippu is 35 km south in Ivalo, Muotkan Ruoktu 39 km out along the Karigasniemi road, and Arctic River Resort sits between them. None of these is a walk from another.