What to Eat in Helsinki: Top Finnish Foods to Try | Food Guide to Helsinki Finland

You should try Loimulohi, char broiled salmon over an open fire. It's the best thing you will ever eat. I have been to a lot of countries and eaten a lot of good food, but nothing has ever come close to loimulohi. Even if fish isn't your thing, loimulohi doesn't even taste like fish, it tastes of heaven.

Salmon is most common fish in restaurants as it comes straight from the fish farm. However most cvommon fish soups in finland come from pike, perch or char that are naturally in finnish waters. And Vendace is best from the market square stands where it's served fresh from hot paella pans.

You should definitely have lingonberries/lingonberry jam with the blood sausage. A perfect match. 🙂

Vendace soup is good too. Splitpea soup with dash of honey mustard and creamy spinach soup are so good too. And if you have that splitpea soup, then you must have it on thursday, and need to have oven pancake after it.

In my modest opinion as a Finn and a notorious gouger I prefer my fish eggs/salmon caviar on top of boiled eggs with mayo.. Or on rye bread with fresh butter, cherry tomatoes, red onion and dill..

Salmon is most common fish in restaurants as it comes straight from the fish farm. However most common fish soups in Finland come from pike, perch or char that are naturally in Finnish waters. And Vendace is best from the market square stands where it's served fresh from hot paella pans. 🤓🌏

The small Karelian Pies are usually called Cocktail Pies

That cinnamon rolls Finnish name was as you said "Korvapuusti" and it actually means "a slap on your ear" I think that it's a very good name and comes from when you're mother /grandmother did these treats, we children used to take a bit from the dough, when they were not looking. But there where times when you got caught and then they normally got irritated and gave us children a slap on your ear, as a lesson 😊. That name was set long time ago when we children normally got slapped for doing something the grownups did like. This is not how it works today 😂

Reindeer is only really eaten regularly in the North of Finland where it's herded. It's much more expensive than prime beef so it's not something you normally would eat. Moose is off the menu unless you're a hunter, and bear is not ever sold to consumers. Most of the fish consumed in Finland is imported Norwegian salmon unless you fish for yourself, as domestic fish is again really expensive and only sold in the biggest high-end supermarkets. The touristy spots however sell all of this stuff, but it's not really normal Finnish food.

Cinnamon roll is Swedish, just brouggt to Finland with long shared history

Reindeer is only really eaten regularly in the North of Finland where it's herded. It's much more expensive than prime beef so it's not something you normally would eat. Moose is off the menu unless you're a hunter, and bear is not ever sold to consumers. Most of the fish consumed in Finland is imported Norwegian Salmon unless you fish for yourself, as domestic fish is again really expensive and only sold in the biggest high-end supermarkets. The touristy spots however sell all of this stuff, but it's not really normal Finnish food. 😘🌏

Is it just me, but isn't the market hall in Hakaniemi a lot bigger and better than the one on Kauppatori? All the tourists go to this one and in my experience, when I lived in Helsinki the Hakaniemi one was far superior. Has this changed? Haven't lived there for six years.

Well done with Merimakasiini - their salmon soup is out of this world. Man, I just ate, but now I want some - with the archipelago bread (which it looks like you also had - hope you combined it with the soup =D )

Hmm blueberry pie should have vanilla-flavoured cream poured on top no?

Cranberry Gin, and Longdrink in 0,33cl/0,5l can.

We don't eat bear nor really moose or reindeer. You can when it's a special event, but it'll cost you. Bear is only for very, very expensive high-end business dinners and possible difficult to find. My father hunts, so stuffed myself with moose meat during a recent visit. Elk and reindeer meat generally comes via family and friends who hunt moose or have a reindeer farm.  Salmon soup is what tourists want, but is popular enough among Finns. The traditional salmon soup has a clear broth (seljanka). Vendace is great, but often too much work for say under 40s. Not much work at all. Baltic herring is what you want. Beautiful, oily fish. Hope you liked the city. You came to Helsinki too early in the year imo. The city and the surroundings get green and wonderfully beautiful in late May/early June. Was a very fast bloom this summer and now it's beautiful, warm and humid. Note that there's a lot to see just minutes from the city centre. Got one of the greatest public trasport systems in the world, and national transport is good. You tourists follow each other and visit the same places in the dense city cenre. Made an effort with this, so both a PM and public.

Wild food not farming 👍 i mean this muikku and deer

Going to Helsinki to eat reindeer meet is not an ideal thing. Or to eat those vendaces, or the carelian pie. No. Stop. Those "carelian pies" are not like the originals in Finnish Karelia. Not even close. And those vendaces you should eat in Savo example in Savonlinna or Puumala in Finland. And reindeer in Lapland of course.

why do you american people always leave food uneaten ? i

By the way. We Finns eat our hamburgers (pizzas as well) using forks and knifes..... Well, at least we a bit older Finns...