Kuopio is beautiful all year round. In the summer and in winter there are many tourists here. In the period from May to July, white nights are called outside, make a hiking promenade in the city, and during the daytime warm water lakes invites you to refresh yourself. Dry soft winters create excellent conditions for winter entertainment types. And tourists enjoy it in full, having allocated most of the trip to skiing, sledding and skating. However, this is not the only one that the Finnish resort can surprise tourists. Local cafes and restaurants with ease can satisfy any culinary sizes of travelers. And, despite the fact that the basis of the traditional Kitchen of Finland is a fish, especially red, in Kuopio is well prepared to game, dishes from mushrooms and desserts.
- The cult food of the resort is the fried ripper melting in the mouth. It is from this fish that most of the dishes are preparing in the local restaurants and a cafe. Ryapushka Khtatyat, fry, bake, salted and prepare from her great ear.
Perhaps, in Kuopio it will not be possible to find a restaurant, the chef of which does not know how to prepare this representative of Salo. Even if the establishment menu does not indicate a dish from the rush, it can always be prepared by individual orders of visitors. You can taste the ripple, not only in the restaurants of the city, but also on the central square of Kuopio. In many guidebooks in this Finnish resort, it is said that the greatest number of dishes from a small fish are preparing in Specialized Restaurant Sampo. . In search of this catering establishment, travelers are on a shopping street (Kauppakatu), 13. The restaurant is located near the passenger harbor and here are really canceled fish delicacies. In the peak of the tourist season, the table in Sampo is better to order. Despite the quietly humble, but the cozy interior tourists in the evenings flood the tables of Sampo, and all because of the excellent fish menu.
Some travelers visit the restaurant for the sake of impressions from the real Finnish atmosphere.
The restaurant has a daily, but in different graphs. From Monday to Thursday, you can eat tightly from 11:00 to 22:00, on Friday and Saturday, the establishment works for two hours longer - until midnight. But on Sunday, lunch or dinner will work from 12:00 to 22:00. The average account for lunch in the restaurant will fall out at 40 euros.
- Kuopio's corporate dish can be called Calakukko's Pie (Kalakukko). It is a baked fishing filling with a layer of fresh bacon in a rzhan dough. This cake has a round shape and baked exclusively in wood furnaces. Cooking cake takes more than six hours. During this time, fish bones are fully softened, and the bacon layer is dissolved.
Find a traditional fragrant Kalakukko in Kuopio is not so easy. What is sold on the counters of the city bazaar and in tents on a market area. Locals are not recognized as a real Finnish cake. According to their assurances, Calakukko can be bought in Bakery Hannah Partner . Find this mysterious institution will work on Kasarmikatu, 15 in the center of Kuopio. At the bakery there is a shop in which you can buy not only fish cakes, but also sweet donuts, open pies with rice and other bakery products. But the main mass of tourists goes to the Bakery of Hannah Partner for the satisfying Kalakukko. There is this cake in warm and cold. It is considered a very comfortable meal for travelers, because it is not sparing for a whole week. Finns eaten this cake is very peculiar - on top of the spiral cut it, then put the plate filling and eat it with a spoon, biting pieces of rye dough. Calakukko is given usually beer, which, however, we did. Sometimes beer is replaced by milk, which we did not risk do.
The bakery bake fish cakes of different sizes - from 250 grams to one kilogram. Small portion kalakukko 250 grams are still warm, but the creation weighing about a kilogram is delayed longer. Prices for branded baking are high enough. Big fish cake will cost about 30 euros. But once in my life, try traditional Finnish pie needs.
You can enjoy local cuisine dishes not only in restaurants, but also in the Central Kuopio market. During a visit to the famous indoor bazaar, you can grab a bag of fresh sweet baking with you, some cheese of milk and a bottle of homemade berry wine. More tightly snack and at the same time have fun In one of the cafe on board the walking ship Making cruises on the lake. There will be such a lunch at least 50 euros. Well, in the end, at least once you can dine Rotating restaurant on Puyo Tower.
- Do not think that Kuopio is able to please only fishes fans. In the vicinity of the resort there are huge strawberry fields on which a very tasty and juicy berry grows.
Also in the season, the market square is filled with brystry workers, cranberries and other goodies. In summer, strawberries are sold in a fresh form, and in winter, local residents treat tourists in a specially harvested juice from all these berries. Clean juice with a small addition of sugar is sold in bottles, which are stored throughout the winter in a cold place. The taste and flavor at the beverage is the most natural. Paul liter bottle of juice costs about 8 euros.
In addition to the juice, the dessert of tourists treat the berry jam with whipped cream, and in the summer period, Finns advise to taste a local ice cream. Moreover, buying cold sweetness is not at all in grocery stores, but in special kiosks installed throughout Kuopio. Another local delicacy is observed and salmian candies. Finns use polycriches in the preparation of cakes, ice cream and even strong alcoholic beverages. Lacrificial pasties have a sour salty taste, and sweets from Salmiak combine a sweet-salty taste. In Kuopio stores, Salmiakki and Pantteri and Pantteri are most often for sale.
A small packing of candies is up to 2 euros, and a kilogram will cost 10-12 euros. Tourists buy them as gifts, but as for me, they have a specific taste and do not taste far away.