Eight restaurants in Rovaniemi, from reindeer fillet on Valtakatu to the highest-rated kitchen on this site. Ratings, review quotes and menu links.
The densest cluster of tables in Lapland — and 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 at €€€. 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. The highest rating here is not Lappish at all: Hanki, a Korean kitchen on Korkalonkatu, holds 4.9 from more than a thousand reviews.
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, at 4.9, is the highest-rated restaurant anywhere on this site — and it is Korean, not Lappish.