RESTAURANT
RUKAN KUKSA

We are open daily , 14 – 21, welcome!

Rukan Kuksa is high quality à la carte Restaurant, serving wild food in Ruka town center

Our Meals are representation of traditional as well as modern dishes prepared from the local and wild ingredients.

Book Table

Chef’s recommended menu

Sugar and salt cured whitefish from Kuusamo

Reindeer sirloin with dark game sauce

Spruce crème brûlée

71 €

Wine package 32 €

We have collected our favorites from the season’s dishes as our recommendations for you. We are inspired by the gorgeous nature of Kuusamo and are very proud to use these pure ingredients in our kitchen.

Enjoy the flavours!
Chefs de cuisine
Laura and Sonja Määttä

À la Carte Menu

Starters

HOUSE BREAD

8€

Wild herb bread and seed crackers
SMOKED SWEDE SOUP

14€

Currant leaf oil and malt bread
FUNNEL CHANTERELLE PAN

14€

Funnel chanterelles gratinated with cheeses from Kuusamo,
wild herb bread baked in-house
SUGAR AND SALT CURED WHITEFISH FROM KUUSAMO

16€

Citrus crème, whitefish roe, pickled spruce sprout and parsnip, crispy malt bread
ELK CARPACCIO

16€

Juniper branch mayonnaise, pickled chanterelles, lingonberries, crispy breadcrumbs

Main courses

fried vendace

22€

Mashed potato, lemony butter with onions
GRILLED LOCAL RAINBOW TROUT

31€

Barley “risotto”, roasted kohlrabi, nettle hollandaise sauce
SAUTÉED REINDEER

32€

Mashed potato, lingonberries, pickled cucumber
REINDEER SIRLOIN 150gr

42€

Smashed and fried arctic potatoes, smoked swede purée, birch leaf gelée, dark game sauce
OVERNIGHT BRAISED LAMB SHANK

36€

Garlic potato purée, grilled carrot, currant leaf oil, dark game sauce
KUKSA’S ELK BURGER

26€

Spruce BBQ marinated pulled elk, lingonberry aioli, crispy smoky cheese from Kuusamo, onion, salad, tomato, pickles, country fries

Vegetarian version available 22€
REINDEER CALF LIVER

23€

Mashed potatoes, grilled carrot, juniper beer sauce, crispy onion, lingonberries
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE CROQUETTES

26€

Garlic potato purée, roasted kohlrabi, nettle hollandaise sauce

Children’s Menu

Fried vendace

12€

Mashed potato, lemony butter with onions
grilled rainbow trout

14€

Mashed potatoes, grilled carrot
Sautéed reindeer

15€

Mashed potato, lingonberries, pickled cucumber
REINDEER BURGER

14€

Minced reindeer burger steak, ketchup, salad, tomato, country fries

Add-ons
Mayonnaise 2€
Cheese 1€

DESSERTS

Lappish baked cheese and cloudberry

14€

Lappish baked cheese braised in cinnamon cream with cloudberries
SPRUCE

14€

Spruce crème brûlée
CHOCOLATE AND BLUEBERRY

15€

Blueberry-chocolate ganache, spruce ice cream, blueberry foam and blueberry meringue
PETIT FOURS

13€

Assorted sweet bites
SELECTION OF ICE CREAMS AND SORBETS MADE IN-HOUSE

6€ / scoop

Please ask Your waiter for the available flavours