The Café - Restaurant Trapesa

One of the most important meeting places in the Monastery

This renowned restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner on a daily basis. The restaurant's name – Trapesa – comes from the Greek word for a table or monastery refectory.

The main meals of the day – breakfast, lunch and dinner – are available from the buffet table with a separate salad bar, which always includes the monastery's own sauerkraut! Most of the rolls and pastries are the produce of the monastery's own baker. The restaurant serves the monestary's own wine, beer and spirits.

Lunch and dinner are served continually from 11 am to 2 pm (up to 7 pm in the summer) and coffee, tea and snacks are available all day. In July the Trapesa Restaurant takes on a more Slavic atmosphere when the Valamo Tea Table is laid out every evening from 6 to 9 pm.

Private rooms can be hired for family occasions, for example. The picturesque Tsars' Room seats 20 guests, the spacious Red Room 50 guests and the Yellow Room 40 guests. 

Opening hours

8.1.-29.2.2024

Sun-Thu 7.30-15

Buffet lunch 11-14 16€/person

Fri-Sat 7.30-18

Buffet lunch 11-17 16€/person


The restaurant is open for groups over 10 persons also at other times.

Special menu is served at the restaurant on special occasions (such as Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day ans Father's Day) when the basic price is not valid.

Valamo Tea Table 15 € /person
Every evening from 6 pm to 8.30 pm in July.

Contact

+358175701810
myyntipalvelu@valamo.fi

 

For groups

Restaurant Trapesa provides a unique venue for special occasion family gatherings. The monastery’s restaurant offers an interesting choice of group menus, ranging from the abundant Slavic buffet to the Zakuska (Russian-style hors d'oeuvre) and to Valamo’s own evening tea menu.

Inquiries and reservations

+35817 570 1810
myyntipalvelu@valamo.fi

"One of the most important meeting places in the monastery is the restaurant where you can taste delicious food and monastery wines. The restaurant's name – Trapesa – comes from the Greek word for a table or monastery refectory."