Valamo's Catering Menus – Taste Experiences for Groups and Celebrations
Trapesa serves meeting and event guests all year round. There are several festive meal packages to choose from, which are a joy to linger over. Along with the meal, you can also enjoy the monastery's own wines and liqueurs. The kitchen is happy to fulfill customer wishes – for example, a soup lunch suitable for a family celebration with cake and coffee can be arranged by order at any time.
Private Rooms for Groups
You can add a festive touch by reserving one of Trapesa's cozy private rooms for your party:
- Emperor's Cabinet – for 20 people, atmospheric and picturesque
- Red Hall – for 50 people, spacious and festive
- Upper Hall of the Red Hall (Yellow Hall) – for 40 people, peaceful and spacious
Valamo's Catering Menus
Valamo Monastery's kitchen offers catering menus that are perfectly suited for groups, meetings, and family celebrations. The menus are based on the monastery's traditions and Finnish and international culinary cultures. They combine simplicity, pure ingredients, and heartfelt hospitality.
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Slavic Menu
Gravlax, Slavic herring, smoked salmon or smoked vendace, roe jelly, smoked red deer, rowanberry jelly, pickled cucumbers with sour cream and honey, sauerkraut, mushroom salad, green salad, and Karelian pies.
Beef or sour cream fish. One common main course option.
Fruits, tea and raspberry jam, cookies and sweets
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Byzantine Menu
Herb olives, marinated peppers on a bed of salad, potato feta salad, tzatziki, sun-dried rosemary tomatoes, marinated artichoke hearts, vine leaf rolls, and bread
Lamb rolls stewed in a pot with rice or fish pot with rice or stuffed zucchini with rice
Fruit platter and honey halva sauce, coffee
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Zakuska Buffet
Trapesa's Zakuska buffet is a more informal and lighter alternative to a Slavic dinner.
Herring, gravlax of whitefish and smoked salmon, boiled potatoes, fish jelly, marinated mushrooms, green salad, apple mushroom salad, tzatziki, and Karelian pies
Baked potatoes and boletus mushroom stew
Tea and raspberry jam, sweets, cookies, and fruits
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Valamo Tea Table
The tea table is a modern version of the old Valamo tea table, developed with respect for tradition.
Tea and raspberry jam, pickled cucumbers with sour cream and honey, salmon pie, cabbage pie, pound cake, cookies, sweets, and fruits.
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Reservations from Valamo's sales service: tel. 017 570 1810 | salesservice@valamo.fi
