Menu
We craft our menus using in-season northern flora and fauna, and constantly try fresh ways to bring traditional northern ingredients into contemporary cooking.
Nothing tastes better than a locally sourced dinner with the midsummer sun flickering in the splashes of the river. In the winter, a crackling fire in the hearth keeps you warm and cozy as the polar night outside reaches subzero temperatures.
Let us take you on a journey through the pure northern landscape through our dishes.
Our menu is built around what is in season and locally sourced, and it changes two times a year to reflect the changes in nature. Have a look through our seasonal menu and book your table with us.
Reindeer heart tartare, egg yolk and tarragon emulsion, pear relish and beetroot chips
Wine: Touraine Renaissance Prè Baron
Non-alcoholic: Cranberry and cherry lemonade
45°C sous-vide catch of the day from Lake Inari, summer potatoes, broccolini, crab sauce and trout skin chip
Wine: Perrières Monopole
Non-alcoholic: Angelica juice
Lemon sponge, blueberry sabayon, aerated chocolate, marinated cloudberries, nut nuggets, beetroot soil
Wine: Ainoa Valokki
Non-alcoholic: Chamomile & orange iced tea
Paljakka is the summit area of a fell rising above the tree line. Reindeer herds usually seek open and windy areas during the mid summer period, to escape the summer insects.
The largest open water area of Lake Inari, where the opposite shore is not visible. The red-fleshed catches of Lake Inari are trout and Arctic char.
A hotel has been located at this site since 1937. Gold prospectors used the hotel as a resting place while traveling in the gold fields, and what else was used as a means of payment but gold nuggets.
Juutua is a legendary trout river, 10 km long. Juutuajoki starts from Jurmukoski and flows into Lake Inari.
Kielas is a narrow upland area on the fells, covered with birch trees and crossing the watershed.
A smoke sauna is a traditional wood-heated sauna without a chimney, so the smoke spreads into the sauna room. A birch whisk is part of Finnish sauna culture. The leaves act as a mild soap, and whisking stimulates surface blood circulation.
Trout ceviche, tomato and cucumber salad, red onion gel, whitefish roe and cabbage broth
Wine: Beaujolais Blanc Piron
Non-alcoholic: Aurora sparkling
Sundried yellowroots, fermented carrots, black garlic emulsion, green pea flan and beetroot chips
Wine: Desom Pinot Gris
Non-alcoholic: Lime & Thyme Kombucha
Reindeer filet, Lappish potato puree, cep mushrooms and cep chips, reindeer black pudding, blueberry lichen, blackcurrant and balsamico red wine sauce
Wine: Bedoba Saperavi
Non-alcoholic: Forest Sparkling
Birch leaf sorbet, tar bavaroise and licorice stones
Wine: Ainoa Kaste
Non-alcoholic: Raspberry juice
Parsnip bark, mushroom spume, pickled mushrooms, spruce shoot kimchi, malt soil, pickled lingonberries and parsley moss
Wine: Ainoa Ilta
Non-alcoholic: Lingonberry juice
Sundried yellowroots, fermented carrots, black garlic emulsion, green pea flan and beetroot chips
Wine: Desom Pinot Gris
Non-alcoholic: Lime & Thyme Kombucha
Cauliflower in two ways, pickled and roasted asparagus, cashew nuts and almond romesco sauce
Wine: Terre di Tufi Teruzzi
Non-alcoholic: Lemon & ginger rooibos iced tea
Chocolate - “nutella” tart, coconut-vanilla ice cream, lingonberry gel, sesame crisp
Wine: Beerenauslese Rosè
Non-alcoholic: Lingonberry juice
A dialect word used colloquially for 'forest'. For one person, a forest can be a place to find peace, for another, a recreational environment, and for us, especially a source of local food in its many forms.
The most commonly cultivated vegetables in Finland are carrots and beets. Various types of onions are also often found in people's own palsta, which is the finnish word for small garden.
In the summer months, when the temperature drops below freezing at the vegetation level, the term “halla” is used. Frosty nights are not uncommon at the latitude of Inari, especially in June.
Tilli Gin, angelica juice, tonic
Aquavit liqueur, Aquafaba, cloudberry juice, lemon juice
Raspberry wine, Gustav Vodka, birch syrup lemon juice, birch juice
Cask Aquavit, spruce shoot juice, cherry tomatoes, lemon lemonade
Valhalla, angelica vodka, sweetgrass syrup, lime & orange juice, lime & thyme kombucha
Koval Mullet, Amaretto Disaronno, blueberry balsamic, blueberry juice
Jaloviina, Apple & Vanilla liqueur, cep balsamic, oat cream
Dark rum, Dry Sack, Tabasco, lingonberry juice, roseroot syrup, ginger beer
Cloudberry juice, Aquafaba, lemon juice, yarrow syrup
Spruce shoot juice, lemon lemonade, cherry tomatoes, spruce shoots
Blueberry juice, oat cream, blueberry balsamic
Address:
Saarikoskentie 2, 99870 Inari
Phone number:
+358 40 841 1141
Email address:
juutua@wildernesshotels.fi