Helsinki Food | Tasting Helsinki | Sweet, Savory & Starred Bites

Meet local guide Lena at Senate Square.

Visit a cafe and try a sweet bun called pula with coffee.

Order and taste tar ice cream and salted licorice ice cream from an ice cream truck.

Sample traditional rye bread at Hitalati Market Hall.

Taste slices of cold smoked reindeer meat from a meat vendor.

Visit a restaurant called Spece and try a daily tasting menu focused on vegetables.

Watch the chef prepare a dish with false morel mushrooms, ramsons, and a quail egg, topped with false morel froth.

Break the quail egg and mix it with the other ingredients before eating.

Enjoy a nutty and dry white wine from the Hur region of France with the dish.

Discuss the inspiration behind the dishes with the chef, focusing on local and seasonal ingredients.

Visit the Esplanade park and talk about traditional Finnish meals.

Head to the harbor to meet chef Ari Rujo at Revena noa restaurant.

Select a white wine for lunch with chef Ari.

Go to the cooking school and prepare a fish dish using Aven or perch, filleting it without skin and bones.

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