List of restaurants in Helsinki
The FMA provided the list of restaurants in Helsinki for Finnish gastronomic discoveries during your stay in Helsinki! Please note that some restaurants recommend booking well in advance.
- Savoy Delicious Finnish-French food. The Savoy interior was designed by architects Aino and Alvar Aalto who brought their human-centred and functional touch to every detail in the restaurant.
- Palace A pioneer of Finnish gastronomy and first Finnish restaurant to receive a Michelin star (1987). With views over the city and its seascape, the restaurant is located on the 10th floor of a historically significant building that was originally constructed to mark the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki. The Palace kitchen aims to create an innovative yet sophisticated Nordic dining experience.
- OLO restaurant has had the Michelin star since 2011. It was chosen as the best restaurant in Finland in 2012.
- Grön A cosy, passionately run restaurant where sustainability is much more than just a ‘green trend’. Precise, modern cooking puts vegetables to the fore (there’s a vegan menu too); ingredients are top-notch and purity is key.
- Finnjävel salonki This Finnish cuisine offers rich flavours of the Northern wilderness. Finnjävel Salonki has been awarded with a Michelin Star. In 2021 restaurant was also awarded prestigious Service Award accolade for the best service in the Nordic countries.
- Vinkkeli The name Vinkkeli (point of view or corner in Finnish-Swedish) refers to the restaurant’s location in a historic corner building. Yet it also promises the young entrepreneurs’ personal point of view, on a classic, holistic, restaurant experience at this intersection of place and time.
- Nolla The idea of Nolla was born out of a desire to serve great food without compromising sustainability. The restaurant aims to minimize the amount of waste they produce with everyday actions that follow sustainable values and waste-free ideology.
- Savotta Savotta is a Finnish restaurant which offers genuine Finnish food and atmosphere. The name Savotta means a logging site.Therefore the interior decoration and dishes has got inspiration of the Finnish forests and thousands of lakes, with a dash of Finnish nostalgy from the past decades and logging traditions. Savotta’s kitchen cherishes the Finnish food tradition. Savotta’s kitchen cherishes the Finnish food tradition. They use only Finnish ingredients from the pristine forests and lakes and from carefully selected small suppliers.Their tableware includes old and new china of the world-renowned Finnish Arabia.
- Lappi A Lapland-inspired restaurant in the centre of Helsinki, where the food is made from Finnish, clean and fresh ingredients.
- Kuukuu an informal and relaxed restaurant that offers classical dishes from Finland as well as a modern cuisine.
- Konstan Möljä Serving traditional Finnish food and coastal Karelian atmosphere, the restaurant is decorated in a coastal Karelian style. The walls are decorated with memorabilia, photographs, katiskas and paintings of Karelian evacuees. Konstan Möljä offers a unique opportunity to experience nostalgic old-fashioned Finland in the middle of modern Helsinki!
- Zetor Fair food and rustic atmosphere in the heart of Helsinki. Brisk entertainment by tractors from dinner to disco
- Salve When you arrive at Salve, you enter a time when ships were made of wood and men were made of steel. Generous portions of tasty Finnish food make up the menu – such as what may well be the country’s best Baltic herring. Salve’s original style, relaxed milieu and delicious food have been given special acknowledgement in several catering trade competitions.