Helsinki Restaurants in Helsinki Restaurant
A guide to the most popular Restaurants in Helsinki. Here you will find an extensive list of the best Helsinki Restaurants. Whether you're looking for a particular cuisine, or just looking for a nearby place to eat after a night out, you'll find the right Helsinki Restaurant for you right here!
With some 60,000 lakes and over 2,850 miles of coastline, the one thing that you can be certain about in Finland is that fish is never far from the menu, and salmon is the most popular dish that you get served in the country, cooked in almost every conceivable way. Other favourites include almost ubiquitous meatballs, which can be found in stews and sauces, and are a frequent visitor to the table.
Karelian Patties are served throughout the country, and consist of a thin rye crust stuffed with rice, and despite looking like a shoe; they are very tasty, especially when coated in thick butter.
In the far north of the country, reindeer is a delicacy, and one of the most potent local liqueurs in the Sami culture is fermented reindeer urine, although when you taste it you can hardly tell the difference.
In restaurants in Finland, you are usually offered a wide range of dishes part of a single meal, and eating out in Helsinki and the other cities is a real treat, with good wine and beer served as an integral part of the meal before finishing with an ice-cold vodka.
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