Food
When it comes to food and drink, Ilosaarirock Festival has something for everyone – from vegan dishes to hearty burgers to an à la carte restaurant. Read more about the many mouth-watering options below.
Fair Trade Brunch
Ilosaarirock Festival's traditional Fair Trade Brunch will be served on Saturday and Sunday morning at Kuntokeidas sports hall right next to the festival site. The wide range of delicious and wholesome dishes will keep you up and going until late in the afternoon. There are three scheduled rounds, or sittings, on both days. To avoid disappointment, we warmly recommend you to reserve your tickets in advance, since the number of places available for each sitting is limited.
The Fair Trade Brunch menu is designed by chef Niina Jaakkola.
Fair Trade Brunch Menu 2015
- Fresh Finnish vegetables
- A selection of cheeses and sliced meats
- Rye bread and multi-grain bread by Heinonen Bakery, crispbread
- A selection of sandwich spreads
- Ilosaarirock Festival tapas menu
- Organic oat porridge with berry jam
- Natural yogurt with a selection of muesli, cereal and seeds
- Fair Trade fruit
- Organic Fair Trade coffee and tea, black currant & strawberry juice by KontioMehu
- Fair Trade juice by Pfanner
Fair Trade Brunch's salad menu for 2015 includes:
- Sesame marinated vegetables
- Tomato and bean salad
- Wholegrain pearl barley and pesto salad
- Pickled onions
- Gazpacho
Dessert: crack pie
Sittings on Saturday and Sunday at 10 am, 11.30 am and 1.00 pm.
Tickets: €12.50 in advance, €15.00 at the door. Buy your advance tickets at Tiketti.
Villiviini
Villiviini restaurant is a brand new addition to Ilosaarirock Festival's eating options: a high-end eatery serving three-course dinners within the festival site. Villiviini's philosophy is based on local food cooked on charcoal grill and wild vegetables collected from the forests of North Karelia. We love clean flavours and unprocessed, high-quality ingredients. Welcome to enjoy a lovely meal with us!
Villiviini restaurant is situated at the end of the food stalls row near the Main Stage, next to the path leading to the beach.
Starters
Strawberry salad
– Wild vegetable salad with strawberries, nuts and willow herb flower vinaigrette, €8.00
Grayling
– Broiled grayling, pike roe and wild vegetable salad, €9.00
Wild boar with spruce tips
– Spruce tip smoked wild boar from North Karelia with spring mushroom pickle, €9.00
Main course from the charcoal grill
Pike perch
– Charcoal-grilled lake pike perch, hollandaise sauce with ground elder, summer vegetables and new potatoes, €26.00
Eastern Finncattle
– Charcoal-grilled Eastern Finncattle neck, dark sorrel sauce, summer vegetables and new potatoes, €26.00
Hemp
– Charcoal-grilled hemp tofu, deep-fried wild vegetables and summer vegetables, €20.00
Dessert
Birch strawberry
– Strawberries, birch sap and wild chamomile mousse, €6.00
Meadowsweet
– Meadowsweet & cicely cake with rose petal syrup, €7.00
Coffee / Willowherb tea
Plus sourdough bread served with organic butter.
Vegetarian menu, €34.00
Strawberry salad
– Wild vegetable salad with strawberries, nuts and willow herb flower vinaigrette
Hemp
– Charcoal-grilled hemp tofu, deep-fried wild vegetables and summer vegetables
Meadowsweet
– Meadowsweet & cicely cake with rose petal syrup
Eastern Finncattle menu, €39.00
Grayling
– Broiled grayling and wild vegetable salad
Eastern Finncattle
– Eastern Finncattle neck, dark sorrel sauce, summer vegetables and new potatoes
Birch strawberry
– Strawberries, birch sap and wild chamomile mousse
Pike perch menu, €39.00
Wild boar with spruce tips
– Spruce tip smoked wild boar from North Karelia with spring mushroom pickle
Pike perch
– Lake pike perch, hollandaise sauce with ground elder, summer vegetables and new potatoes
Meadowsweet
– Meadowsweet & cicely cake with rose petal syrup
Pop Up Kerubi
Pop Up Kerubi, a hamburger restaurant situated near the Main Tent, is open throughout the weekend. The cosy indoor restaurant serves the famous burgers and other delicacies by Kerubi. Also open on Friday night during the Sulo Club.
Menu
- Vegan nettle & pea burger with fries, €14.00
- Vegetarian burger with grilled home-made cheese & fries, €16.00
- Pulled pork burger with lime chipotle & fries, €16.00
- Organic beef burger with fries, €17.00
- Salad with home-made cheese, €12.00
- Vegan salad with bread, €10.00
- Fries with chili aioli, €8.00
- Sweet potato fries with chili aioli, €8.00
- Ben & Jerry's ice cream, €5.00
- Coffee, €2.00
Kerubin grilli
Kerubin Grilli, located in the food stalls row near the Main Stage, serves hearty home-cooked dishes without compromising on quality.
Menu
- Pulled pork burger with lime chipotle & fries, €12.00
- Organic chorizo with chili aioli & fries, €12.00
- Meatballs with cut brandy & pepper sauce and mashed potatoes, €10.00
- Nettle & pea patty, wild garlic aioli and sweet potato fries, €10.00
- Fries with chili aioli, €7.00
- Sweet potato fries with chili aioli, €8.00
- Soft drinks, €3.00
- Ben & Jerry's ice cream, €5.00
Soundi Café
Last year's newcomer Soundi Café is a safe haven for all festival guests with a craving for coffee. Situated near the Main Tent, the café serves delicious espresso-based coffee drinks, tea, iced coffee – a favourite from the hot summer of 2014 –, Karelian pastries, coffee bread and soft drinks. While drinking your coffee, you can read the latest issue of the Number 1 music magazine in Finland and listen to the artists performing in the Main Tent.
