Hullu Poro Bistro — Restaurant in Tunturi-Lapin seutukunta

Entertaining dining experience.

My girlfriend and I was drawn to this place by a simple and exciting menu and cosy interior. We shared a starter, each ate a main course and ordered mint ice cream and lemon pie for dessert. Just for the fun of it we'd like to start our review with the dessert.

Alas they did not have either lemon pie or mint ice cream, so we ordered cheese cake and a scoop of chocolate ice cream instead. Sad to say both didn't taste much of anything, which was in contrast to both main courses which tasted plenty of salt. Luckily there wasn't very much main course to speak of. All of this magnificense came to the princely sum of 97 euros, which isn't so bad given how expensive salt is these days.

Details of our menu for the evening are as follows.

Starter: Three pieces of salmon confit (grilled outside, raw inside) and three pieces of scampi with some foam that tastes like fish. We've not got much of a comment on this one as we have no idea what it is supposed to taste like. Cost us 16 euros.

Main courses: Grilled chicken breast and garlic pork, both with side orders of salad. You have to choose either salad or potato as side order, it doesn't come with both. The chicken breast was medium sized and an envy of salt mines around the world. The garlic pork was very small (50/50 fat/meat), utterly devoid of garlic and making up for it with salt much like the formerly mentioned. The salad consisted of lettuce, 2-3 cherry tomatoes and some nondescript white dressing without taste or odour. To make all of this more palatable you will get some bearnaise sauce. If it is homemade it has been perfected to resemble keenly the taste of the kind you can get on a can. The chicken cost 18 euros and the pork 25 euros.

Dessert: The cheese cake had a musty flavour and the crust was soft as butter. Probably been aged in the freezer so as to be in style with the rest of the meal. The chocolate ice cream reminds us mostly of the watery taste you can expect from first price ice cream. Worked perfectly as a thirst quencher after the main course, though. These cost 11 and 3 euros.

In addition to this we had two cups of coffee for 5 euros and two cuba libres for 19 euros, which adds up to 97 euros.

We'd also like to mention that the table cloth had crumbs and stains and someone had tossed a few used napkins under the table. The whole food experience was consistently poor, so we doubt it was just by chance this particular evening.

To end the review on a good note we can say that our waitress was exceptionally nice and the coffee tasted heavenly. So to sum it up we can recommend this place for a cup of coffee and a smile, but you'd probably want to go somewhere else...

Awful food and service. Had to wait 40mins to get any food on the table. Ordered two types of fondue which were both tasteless and the dips were a sorry selection of stale bread, dried up mushrooms and cocktail onions. No where on the menu does it say 29 € per person; it implies 29€ per two. My Finnish friends says the Finnish version is mis leading also. Deserts were another 30mins in coming with everyone getting theirs at a different time; my normally reserved Finnish wife was driven to go to the counter to chase. The staff tried their best but were clearly embarrassed by having to serve motor-way service station food at 5-star prices. They were courteous and professional in responding to our complaints, Top it all, the door wasn’t properly sealed and a cold draft ripped through the “restaurant”. I heard other customers making complaints. A real rip off joint exploiting the fact that people are only in...

Que te vote Txapote. Lo primero es que se nos ocurre ir para cenar en nochevieja, "casualidad" es q el día antes, era de los pocos sitios que aún te hacían reservas para cenar. Pues bien, lo primero es que al pedir, que pedimos 2 entrantes, un principal y un acompañante para los dos, pues asi de entrada lo primero que nos traen es el principal, el entrecot, que estaba bien pero que bien hecho ( a mi novia que no le gusta la carne, pues mira, pero a mi que me gusta poco hecha...pues ni me dejaron opcion) y poco pero que poco abundante, eran 44 euros. Pero no es q solo nos trajeran el principal antes de los entrantes, es q no trajeron el acompañamiento (luego nos dijeron que había una confusión y que nos lo ponían después..) despues, de entrantes pedimos la lengua de reno, que ojo, si estaba bien, y "las lentejas", las lentejas fusión con queso Filadelfia o requesón chungo, una especie de jamón curado frito ( q en realidad es la típica loncha de jamón serrano que se queda en el blíster en el frigo semanas sin tapar y se queda revenido) y varias mandangas más, mediocres. No contentos con el show nos ponen después el acompañante, que no dejaban de ser 5 patatitas cocidas. Pero lo mejor vino en los postres. El bizcocho, que parecía el roscón de reyes, que no estaba mal comparado con el espectáculo anteriormente vivido y el postre estrella, que eran 3 bombones de chocolate enanos de supuestamente sabores delicatessen, y bien digo supuestamente xq eran bombones sin más por solo 11 euros... Vamos, que al final nos cobraron de menos por vergüenza ajena yo creo que del camarero, lo mejor del restaurante sin duda, digo uno de ellos, el resto, pues como el restaurante mediocres-malos. En definitiva, nos bebimos el vino que al final ameniza mucho la cena y pagamos los 130 euros...conclusión, no vayáis si apreciais...