Street Bar & Restaurant Sarastro — Restaurant in Savonlinna sub-region

The restaurant has very good location in Savonlinna. I put 2 stars due to my feeling, which has been carried out of the restaurant. We have had table reservation, and we were placed inside of the restaurant next to the kitchen with no view outside. I asked the personnel if it is possible to change the table to the available ones to get better view, where we could see the lake and not only kitchen. The answer was “no, we are fully booked”. There were 4 empty tables available. And only one table has reservation mark on it. During the time when we were waiting for order to be taken, there were walked-in customers, and they were given choice for the three available tables “which one would you like, please select one of those three tables?” When we asked one more time to change the table, the answer was that “we have complex system of reservation, I shall not explain it to you.” We ordered food, the meal was good there. The advice is if you go there, please, do discuss location of the table during the reservation, especially if you have driven hundreds and hundreds of kilometers to visit Savonlinna and see the beautiful lake with the castle.

The answer to the owner: you are right, the table is in terrace, but it was next to the wall, which is used to separate the kitchen from the area with tables. From that place it was not possible to see the lake nor castle. On the receipt there is name of the restaurant “street bar &...

We visited Sarastro restaurant in Savonlinna, and the experience was excellent. The fried vendace starters were incredibly good – served Japanese-style with seaweed salad, chili, and lime. My 9-year-old tried butter-fried snails with parmesan and focaccia for the first time, and he loved them so much that he ordered extra bread to soak up the sauce. The pike burger was a bit exotic, with a patty resembling a light and moist fish mousse or soufflé.

The butter-fried vendace was less successful due to being too salty, but the salad was very good. The goat cheese salad was basic, but the burnt goat cheese was tasty, though it lacked bread. Our soda order was forgotten, and the main courses took a while to arrive. The beer selection could be more varied, as it was mostly familiar and safe options.

The price was reasonable: meals and drinks for three adults and one child cost 140 euros. Overall, a very pleasant experience, highly...

Had the "legendary" house burger which was disappointing. The bun was a flat, square piece of dry breakfast roll. The meat was thoroughly overcooked and dry. There were whole cornichon-cucumbers inside the burger which was a bit odd. Cornichons (mini pickles) really do not belong in a burger. Tomato slices were cold, and the whole thing was slathered in what seemed like supermarket Thousand Island dressing. Not a burger, more like a sandwich. The service was a bit weird and our waitress had this slightly odd attitude. The appetizer drink (spritzer) was...