The Forgotten FarmHestad · Norway
Lake to Table

The Experience

Lake to Table

Row out at golden hour, catch your supper, then eat it by the water as the farm cooks.

An evening on the water and a long table beside it. You'll take a wooden boat out with Eirik onto the still lake below the farm, fish the evening rise for trout, and bring the catch back to an open fire where it becomes the centre of a slow, four-course dinner from the farm.

It begins quietly, oars in the water, the valley reflected so cleanly you forget which way is up. Eirik has fished this lake his whole life and knows where the trout hold when the light goes gold. You don't need to have held a rod before — that's rather the point.

Back on shore, the fire is already going. What you caught is cleaned and cooked simply, over embers, and set among dishes built from the farm and the forest around it: new potatoes and herbs from the garden, foraged greens, cured meats, a warm dessert, natural wine and juice pressed here.

You eat at a long table by the water while the light drains slowly out of the sky — this far north in summer, that can take hours. It is, by design, the least hurried meal you'll have all year.

What's included

Everything, thought through

Guided evening fishing

A wooden boat, all tackle, and a host who knows the water. No experience needed.

Four courses by the fire

Your catch plus farm-grown and foraged dishes, cooked over open flame.

Drinks from the valley

Natural wine, pressed juice and coffee included through the evening.

The long light

A slow table by the water as the northern evening fades.

Lake to Table — view 1
Lake to Table — view 2
Lake to Table — view 3

Ready when you are

Pick your dates and we'll hold the the experience for you.