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Art&Dinner

Find out more about our Art&Dinner dinner package and see the menu for performances in autumn 2024.

Enjoy dinner at the Lounge Parvi before the performance

Our Art&Dinner menu will beautifully complement your night at the opera or ballet. Starting at 5 p.m. on the day of the performance, the dinner is laid out as a buffet in the Lounge Parvi. Special dietary options are also available when ordered in advance. What’s more, we’ve crafted an ideal wine selection to accompany the menu. Ice water is included in the menu.

See the menu for autumn 2024 below. The menu is available before following performances:

Fri 4 Oct at 5 p.m. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Fri 18. Oct at 5 p.m. Salome
Fri 1 Nov at 5 p.m. Death in Venice
Fri 22 Nov at 5 p.m. The Osthrobothnians
Thu 5 Dec at 5 p.m. The Osthrobothnians

Groups (of 10 or more) can also order the dinner for other performance dates by contacting the Opera Restaurant via email: ravintola.oopperabaletti[at]restel.fi.

We reserve the right to make changes. Menus and wine selections do not include tickets to the evening’s performance.

Please use the Töölönlahti entrance when arriving to dinner.

How to order the dinner package online

Ordering the Art&Dinner package is easy in our online store. Start by choosing the date, performance, and the size of your party. Then select Evening Pre Show.

€50 / person.

The Art & Dinner menu starts with an amuse bouche served at your table by our staff

Green leaf and shoot salad served with a lingonberry vinaigrette (gluten free, vegan)
Root vegetables with a Lapland wild pesto (gluten free, vegan)
Mushroom, red onion, spinach and cherry tomato (gluten free, vegan)
Traditional Finnish bread cheese with roast beetroot (gluten free, vegan)
Leek and potato salad (gluten free, vegan)
Chicken with wild herbs and honey-roast carrots (dairy free, gluten free)
Hot-smoked salmon and a dill emulsion (dairy free, gluten free)
Our signature loaf with parsnip butter (lactose free)

Coffee mousse with wild berry compote and oat crumble (gluten free, vegan)
Lemon and elderflower tartlet (gluten free, vegan)
Miniature mud cake and raspberry (gluten free)

Ice water

Terms of sale and conditions

Art&Dinner menus and wine selections to complement the meal can be purchased via the Opera and Ballet’s online store, box office, telephone service as well as the Opera&Ballet mobile app. Menus and wine selections must be ordered no later than 48 hours (two days) before the performance. Menus and wine selections do not include tickets to the evening’s performance.

If you are unable to attend, you can cancel your Art&Dinner menu and wine selection in our online store or by calling

our customer service or via email no later than 48 hours (two days) before the show. The value of your cancelled refreshments will be refunded to you. Service and delivery fees are non-refundable. If you cancel later than this, you will receive a 50% refund. Refreshments orders that have not been cancelled by 24 hours before the performance will not be refunded. Read more about the sales terms and conditions of the Opera Restaurant.