Dinner at a Kammi Restaurant

On my first visit to Levi, I ate at a kammi restaurant.  It was a wonderful experience.

In fact, it is one of the best ways to experience the culinary and culture delights of the north in a single evening.

A kammi, or gammi in the Sami language, is the ancient winter dwelling of Lapland. Like their models, kammi restaurants can either be log kotas or partially underground thatch buildings. Though larger and more modernized than the originals, the kammi restaurants in Levi have a fire pit in the center and an atmosphere close to nature.

  The typical dinner is a buffet of Lappish food - salmon and other fish smoked or glow fried over the fire, reindeer in every form from sauteed to roast, plentiful root vegetables and of course pancakes with cloudberries.

Some restaurants also offer the entertainment of a joik singer.  Joik is the folk music of the north. Accompanied only by the rhythm of his reindeer skin drum, the singer tells tales of nature and life in Lapland.

The Kammi Restaurant Experience

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