We planned to eat at Restaurant Lappi for New Years Eve. We booked long in advance for 20:30 in the evening and asked if there was anything special we needed to know or be aware of as it was 'New Years Eve'!
We arrived at...20:35, having already received a reminder phone call from the restaurant asking our whereabouts. We ordered drinks and studied the menu. We ordered the sharing starter platter at €52.00 and asked if we could order mains later, we were told no problem.
The starter was served on a large wooden board and very nicely explained by the waitress who was helpful tentative and polite throughout. However, we were then rushed by an explanation that the kitchen will soon be closing and we needed to order mains, we chose to skip and head straight for desserts. It all felt a bit rushed and should we have known, we would have arrived earlier.
The food and drink quality is where this restaurant really underdelivered for us. We ordered 2 apéritifs, the 'Reindeer's Tear' was just neat alcohol and the 'blueberry royale' was flat and uninspiring, for the price, we expected a lot more.
The starter platter came with cold and hard bread, the butter was rock hard and broke the bread when spreading. The platter itself was a mixed bag of things, the flavours were all really strong and competing with one another, too overwhelming and too much the same flavours to be enjoyable. I can't comment on the mains as we were rushed an were not allowed to experience this. The desserts were a 'white chocolate mousse cake' which was REALLY bad and very bland, it had not flavour and nothing to compliment the meal.
The atmosphere and decoration in the restaurant was good and wholesome, the service (in part) was very attentive and polite. The food and order of service is the reason for 2/5.
We left feeling really deflated and really disappointed, it could be so good, but in the end we cannot recommend this restaurant and would avoid next time.More