Tullin Sauna & Bistro - Tampere, Finland

All photos: CC BY-SA 4.0 - Insaneworks
In the heart of Tampere, there's a restaurant called Tullin Sauna. (literal translation: the sauna of toll) It's located just few steps from the main campus of Tampere University, the railway station and Tampere Hall where you can find several concerts, exhibitions and happenings all year round. I addition of incredible food, Tullin Sauna has a public sauna where you can go any time the place is open. Tullin Sauna also offers accommodation (co-operation with Dream Hostel & Hotel) for weary travelers and workspace for those who only need a table, a place to sit, perhaps a conference room and access to the internet.

The weekend brunch prices are average Finnish and Tampere 2019 prices. 25€ / person. Thou, you get to eat as much as you want, and the food is not something that most home cooks could come up with. Salad, soup, main course, desert and coffee / tee with some biscuits or candy if you still have any space left in your stomach.

Tullin Sauna of course has a menu for supper time, but if you are in Tampere at a normal weekday, I definitely recommend that you go and eat there during the lunch hours from 11:00 to 14:00. The same quality, cheaper price than the weekend brunch. Again 10€ / person is a normal 2019 Tampere city centre price for a lunch, but as you get to eat as much as you can and the food so good that you wish you could eat at least three times more than you actually can, and then some more, it absolutely is worth it.

I have eaten there three times and all of those times the food was excellent. Perhaps even beyond excellent. My only excuse in not providing you actual food photos before I ate, is that the food just was so irresistible. I didn't want the warm food to get cold and I just couldn't wait. The reindeer-cheese soup was so velvety smooth, the ever so slightly burned potato slices so crispy and the cognac-caramel mousse so tasty, that I only managed to take photos of what was left.

I am not picky with food because I want to or because I just don't like something. Sure there are some ingredients that I avoid because I don't like them, don't we all have something on that list, but everything else, I sure do like to eat! Or would, if I could. My stomach can't handle wheat, barley, oat or rye. Not even a tiniest bit. So malt is also a no-no, which is a pity because I sure liked dark beers and also dark bread that is very common in Finland. But that was before. Way back then. In my previous life. Now even thou I'm not picky, my stomach is. So when I go to a restaurant, I always check out first if their menu has any gluten free portions. And although I really should ask them if it's also oat free, the G in the menu is a good hint that there also isn't any oat in it. And usually that's the case. At least in the main courses. Pies and deserts that have any kind of dough in it, I always ask first, if I decide to try them.

So every time I go to a new place, which I try to avoid if I also have to do something important after that, like go to work, I take my chances whit the G. The meal either is wheat-barley-oat-rye free or it is not. Within a half an hour I will know it if some jerk has cut the ingredients with ever so slightly wheat flour covered knife or covered the naturally gluten free food with it-doesn't-matter-if-I-sprinkle-this-wheat-flour-all-over-the-kitchen-because-that-customer-has-a-bad-case-of-hypochondria-nothing-else-going-on-there attitude.

You can trust in Tullin Sauna. The G in their menu really means that it doesn't have gluten in it. And apparently no oats too. I've tried it and my stomach stayed happy and pleased. And terribly full for a long time after the meal.

Check out the lunch menu or the brunch options, pick a day and go there. I'm hereby answering the one and only, most important question that any business and restaurant owner should ever ask anyone who has been / is a customer of theirs.
Would I recommend this place to anyone?
Yes I definitely would! To everyone!

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