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Finnish Cuisine combined with an award winning smoke sauna in Vesilahti Finland
Does your special occasion or vacation holiday include that?Are you in the mood for Finnish Cuisine while traveling through Vesilahti, Lempäälä or Viiala. On your way to Tampere or Helsinki? The Hukianhovi Farm in Vesilahti is where you can do just that.
Services:
- Provide home made traditional Finnish food for groups like Schools, businesses, or families, retirees.
- Host your birthday, bachelor, or other party. Seasonal celebrations like a traditional Christmas "Pikkujoulu" pre-christmas party.
- Order the use of the largest smoke sauna in the Tampere Pirkkala area.
| Combine Finnish cuisine and a smoke sauna: Hukianhovi's smoke sauna is recognized globally for it's high quality steam Löylyy |
- Arranged bus Tour of the Klaus Kurki Road
The large log cabin can feed up to 80 hungry people at a time. 20 people minimum for serving food.
 Two storey log cabin 23 metes long x 18 meters wide  The floor area is about 400 square meters. The main dining room seats 60 people.
 Our meal for today...Salmon wrap, Smoked ham, Western salad with Chili flavored beans, Cole slaw, Cold smoked meat cuts -Yum!- Ok we deviate slightly from the traditional - This menu contains foods which are traditionally everyday Finnish.
Their well water is very tasty since it is loaded with minerals The meal is filling, salad had watermelon in it nice balance with the taste of the Corn frosted chicken and the rest of the food.
Authentic Finnish Cuisine: Salmon wrap. A soft shell, doughy consistency, and raw salmon wrapped in between the shell.

Finnish cuisine menu's at the Hukianhovi farm.
Example Menu 1 Warmed smoke salmon (or cold) - Your choice Salt cured salmon Herring Red beet salad Italian or green salad with salad dressing of course. Sweetened potato, rudebager, liver, or carrot casseroles - yum!! Roasted and marinated beef or pig Meet sauces and potatoes
OR...
Example Menu 2 -Salad meal Gardeners salad Red beet salad Green salad Jansson's (Janssoninkiusaus),Ham, Salmon, or Kebab lambs meat casseroles.
- To Drink: Milk, Buttermilk or Saur milk(Piimä), Low alcohol beer(Kotikalja). Coke, Fanta, Sprite -
And in July thru Septemeber is berry season...
Blueberries Lingonberries Cloudberries too
Hukianhovi was awarded a seal of quality ISO 9000 as serving Uniquely Finnish cuisine foods. Those foods include: Traditional cuisine like rosolli salad, cooked root vegetables with flavoured cream and more.
- Everything is made in their kitchen - - Cooked in a soap stone oven -
There are more meal menu's available, and, of course they can mix and match your food needs according to the celebration type and size of group. Order meals ahead of time by calling Eija or Pertti. They will also help arrange your special occasion creatively. Be it...
- a wedding ceremony in a Kota Lapp shelter, open field, or Arena
- a birthday party, with a special birthday cake to your liking and personal custom design.
- a Bachelor party?
 The Kota or Lappland like shelter -A giant indoor open fireplace for roasting hot-dog, sausages, marshmellows and more. Seats up to 50 people. Eija and Pertti are well connected with other locals. If your staying at the Kinnarin Lomamökit log cottages and need some finnish cuisine cooked up for a group, the Hukianhovi farm is only a few kilometers away from the Hukianhovi farm.
Have a meal or party with dancing in the Arena  Inside the Arena there is plenty of room for celebrating.
After all the celebrating...
...get into an award winning smoke sauna in the Tampere area. The Hukianhovi smoke sauna takes hours to warm up.
Patience is a virtue -Pertti needs that as he starts warming the sauna up early in the morning.
20 heads can fit the sauna at once, and throughout the course of the day 100 people or more.
The sauna building is a few kilometers from the Laukko Manor, and is a modern link in the ancient smoke sauna tradition.
The benches are made of birch tree stump wood. Quite rare. In line with the ancient Häme smoke sauna tradition.
The seal of being Uniquely FinnishThe Hukianhovi Smoke Sauna is recommended by the International Smoke Sauna Club. -A group of smoke sauna connoisseurs.
The jury of the International Smoke Sauna Club gave this sauna a recommendation for...
- Location - The smoke sauna is near a lake having a sandy bottom. Visitors can take-a-dip while doing sauna. Likewise you can go on a lake cruise from Tampere by boat and land directly at the Hukianhovi beach.
- Blending with the environment
- Aroma - Smokey and pleasant
- Fire safety
- Functionality - 25 square meter floor area. Roof height is 3.5 meters.
- Choice of firewood and water.
- Quality of steam and the desired effect the sauna creates. The stove is one and a half metres square and provides a balance of steam output per square meter, and steady warmth.
*The Hukianhovi Smoke Sauna took first prize at the sauna festival in Ikaalinen on 17 July 1998.
Getting in touch with Hukianhovi. See them on a map
Eija and Pertti Sorri Hukianhovintie 10, Hinsala, 37370 Narva, Finland Tel +358 (0)3 3738412 Mobile +358(0)50-5585712 Mail: pertti.sorri 'at' hukianhovi.fi
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