Tornio Restaurants

  1. Café Roosamaria

    This is a good café on the main street, with stylish crepe-paper lamps banishing the winter gloom.

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  2. Karkiainen

    This bakery-café has the best fresh pastries, cakes and doughnuts in town. There's a big breakfast served before midday.

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  3. Restaurant Josephine

    For a quality sit-down meal, Josephine, in the Kaupunginhotelli, is a good choice. The menu is broad and excellent value, with tasty salmon, liver and other Finnish specialities alongside pan pizzas and pastas. There's also a 'Lapp menu', with several reindeer dishes (including boiled tongue) and a couple of set menus.

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  4. Umpitunneli

    The Umpitunneli (it means 'dead-end tunnel') is perhaps Tornio's biggest attraction. It's a cavernous pub and restaurant with a huge and convivial beer terrace that's a lot of fun when things are animated. The food is generously proportioned and good value; later the humppa (a fast Finnish dance, somewhere between a waltz and a foxtrot) music gets going; there are sometimes live bands. It's one of the best nightspots in the north, and utterly Finnish.

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