So you want to eat Finnish. Ok, on top of those Carelian pies (a snack) there are:

- all kinds of domestic fish (fish soup is often very good)
- reindeer in all its forms
- prey when it is hunting season
- meatballs (I think just about every country has its own version)
- forest mushrooms
- all kinds of berries both wild and cultivated
- fish eggs (orange, not black caviar)- root vegetables in many forms

There are every year 10-15 restaurants in Helsinki that serve so called Helsinki Menu. It is composed of typically Finnish food. And every year they are rated. Last year numer 1 was Rastaurant Nokka (near Euroohostel), second was Restaurant Kuu (a on the other side of the main street from the National Opera, a little uphill, and third was Ravintola Kellarikrouvi. Here is Kellarikrouvi´s Helsinki Menu:Terrine of smoked salmon, potato salad with horseradish, fried brioche

Gentle Hills Riesling, Germany 5,30/32

* * *

Entrecôte of Åland lamb braised in mild garlic broth, root vegetable purée

and flat-leaf parsley sauce

Sileni Cellar Selection Pinot Noir, New Zeeland 8,00/48

* * *

White chocolate and cranberry cake with vodka-flavoured cranberry sorbet

Brown Brothers Orange Muscat&Flora, Australia 8,80

And sorry, my browser is too old to perform. The text comes out funny, and I cannot correct anything.

And this is last year´s winner´s Helsinki Menu:

• Pike perch braised in tarragon bouillon with shiitake and herb seasoned barley

• Reindeer from Salla region in two different ways with pure of baked beetroots

• Finnish small farm cheeses

• Pudding of goat´s milk from Kolattu with
Finnish wild strawberries seasoned with strawberry wine from Pihamaa


Kuu´s (2nd) Helsinki Menu:

• Smoked lavaret with whitebait roe toast

• Herb gratinated arctic char with carrot foam

• Cheese

• Seabuckthorn berry cheesecake with chocolate ice cream

Oooooh, now I am getting hungry!!!

lol that is a great post Elina
thank you very much for your efforts!
we dont have good local berries
really looking forward to trying finnish berries!

Don´t mention it. I just copy-pasted.

Thanks for all the information. I have a home exchange north of Helsinki this summer in July and August. I will be gone 4 weeks--3 weeks in the exchange home and another week tooling around near Helsinki. I do plan to take the ferry to Tallin, but not to buy liquor.

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Thank you!!

Go to the Rock church the olympic stadium Stockman's department store and to the waterfront area. There are also boats that do city tours.

Eat at the Garlic restaurant Fredrikinkatu 22
kynsilaukka.com
This restaurant was really good
Have agreat time