Food & Dining
Breakfast every morning and a two-course dinner every evening at Restaurant Fe, plus lunch out on two of the activity days.
Breakfast is the quiet part of the day. The buffet is open early enough that you can eat properly before the minibus leaves, and the timings are set around the departure rather than the other way round. Coffee, a window, and half an hour before the layers go on.
Breakfast is served early enough to work with the day's departure time.
A full buffet at the hotel: warm dishes, breads, Nordic specialities, fruit and good coffee.
Out on the snow, two of the days feed you: a hot lunch cooked over an open fire on the snowmobile and ice fishing day, and fika by the fire out with the dogs. On the other days lunch is your own - Kiruna is small and walkable, and your host will tell you where to go.
Lunch is included on the activity days
The open-fire lunch on the snowmobile and ice fishing day, and Swedish fika out with the dogs. On the other days lunch is your own, and your host will point you at the good places in Kiruna.
In the evening you come back in, get out of the outer layers, and sit down to two courses at Restaurant Fe downstairs. Nobody has to book a table, nobody has to go back out into the cold, and the conversation about the day carries straight on from the minibus to the table.
Fe is a tribute to Kiruna's own history. The room takes its cue from iron and the mine that built the town: robust, elegant detailing softened by wood, warm light and the sense of a place people gather in. It is a room that belongs to where you are, rather than one that could be anywhere.
The cooking follows the same idea. Ingredients come first, drawn from the northern climate and the wild country around the town, and the menu reads like the north at its best: familiar flavours handled with a modern hand, tradition and invention on the same plate, and respect for both the landscape and the craft of cooking.
Restaurant Fe: iron, wood and warm light, in the building you are already staying in.
Why the food is arranged, not left to you
Kiruna is a working mining town in the far north, not a restaurant city, and in high season the tables that exist are booked. Leaving four evenings to chance is how a good week turns into a logistics problem, so dinner is included every evening and eaten in the hotel you are already staying in.
Dietary requirements and allergies are collected in the form you receive after booking and passed to the hotel and to every supplier before you arrive. We describe the arrangement rather than the dishes: what we can promise is that you will be fed properly, on time, and that what you cannot eat is already known before you land.
Food is arranged for you in the same way the activities are. Breakfast is a buffet at the hotel every morning, served early enough to work with that day's departure time, so nobody is eating standing up or skipping it to make a minibus.
Dinner is two courses every evening at Restaurant Fe, the hotel's own restaurant, which cooks with a local focus. You eat where you sleep - no table to organise, no walk back out into the cold after a long day outdoors.
Lunch is included on two days: the open-fire lunch out on the snowmobile and ice fishing day, and fika out with the dogs on the sledding day. On the other days lunch is your own, and your host will point you at the places worth walking to in Kiruna.
Dietary requirements and allergies are collected in the form you receive after booking, and passed on to the hotel and to every supplier before you arrive, so you are not explaining yourself at each stop.
- Breakfast buffet at the hotel every morning, timed around the day's departure
- A two-course dinner every evening at Restaurant Fe, the hotel's own restaurant, with a local focus
- A hot lunch cooked over an open fire on the snowmobile and ice fishing day
- Fika out on the trail on the dog sledding day - hot drinks and something sweet by the fire
- Lunch on the remaining days is not included; your host will suggest where to go in Kiruna
- Dietary requirements and allergies collected before arrival and passed to the hotel and every supplier
- On the New Year departure, New Year's Eve is an amuse bouche and a four-course supper with a drinks pairing at Restaurant Fe at Elite Hotel Frost; the other three evenings are the usual two-course dinner
- Duration
- Every day of the week
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Season
- December to March
- Included in the Feel Good Week
Food & Dining in Kiruna - your questions answered
Breakfast every morning at the hotel, and a two-course dinner every evening at Restaurant Fe, the hotel's own restaurant. Lunch is included on two days: the open-fire lunch on the snowmobile and ice fishing day, and fika out on the trail on the dog sledding day. On the remaining days lunch is your own.
At Restaurant Fe at Elite Hotel Frost, the hotel you are staying in, which cooks with a local focus. You eat where you sleep, so there is no table to book and no walk back out into the cold after a full day outdoors.
Yes. After booking you receive a form where you tell us about allergies, intolerances and any dietary preference. We pass that on to the hotel and to every supplier before you arrive, so you are not explaining yourself again at each stop during the week.
Only New Year's Eve itself is different: an amuse bouche and a four-course New Year supper with a drinks pairing at Restaurant Fe at Elite Hotel Frost, the hotel you are already staying in. Restaurant Fe serves only that set supper that evening, no a la carte. Breakfast and the other three evenings' two-course dinners work exactly as on every other departure.
Yes. The buffet opens early enough to work with the day's departure time, and your host confirms the timings during the week so nobody is eating standing up or skipping breakfast to make a minibus.
This experience is included in The Feel Good Week, our four-night Kiruna package, along with every transfer and the full winter clothing set. Planning details such as flights, packing and weather are on the practical information page.
Every experience in the Feel Good Week
The Arctic is waiting.
Four nights in Kiruna, arranged end to end. You only book your flights.
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