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Every page on helsinkifoodtour.com, grouped by what brought you here: a tour to book, a dish you cannot identify, a market hall, or a question about the season. One thing before you click anything. Both market halls are free to walk into and neither of them is a tour. What you can book on this site is the guide who walks you between the counters and knows what to ask for.
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- Home — Helsinki Food Tour
- The complete guide to Helsinki food
- Every bookable food tour, in one list
- Which food tour to choose
- What a food tour is actually worth
The six food tours
- City walk with food tasting
- The neighbourhood walk and its eight delicacies
- Food tour that ends on a rooftop
- Coffee culture, Oodi and eight tastings
- Cook a Finnish home meal yourself
- Waterbus, island walk and a tasting outdoors
Tours by type
- The tours that go inside a market hall
- Private groups and small-group caps
- Which tours include something to drink
The reviews
- All six tours, scored and ranked
- The city walk with food tasting, reviewed
- The neighbourhood walk, reviewed
- The rooftop bar tour, reviewed
- The coffee culture walk, reviewed
- The cooking class, reviewed
- The island tasting, reviewed
Before you book
- Where each tour meets, with landmarks
- How long a food tour takes
- The best time of year
- The best time of day to book
- Booking, confirmation and cancelling
- What to wear on a walking food tour
- Vegetarian, vegan, gluten, lactose, allergies
- Taking children on a food tour
- Is a food tour worth it?
- A food tour against a restaurant meal
- What a food tour actually is
- What makes a food tour a good one
What you actually eat
- The plate, item by item, across six tours
- What Finnish food is, and where it came from
- What you must eat in Finland
- The five most popular Finnish dishes
The dishes, one by one
- Salmiakki, the salty liquorice
- Reindeer, and where it comes from
- Ruisleipä, the dark sourdough rye
- Karelian pies and egg butter
- Squeaky cheese and cloudberry jam
- The cardamom and cinnamon bun
- Lohikeitto, the salmon soup
- Muikku, the little fried lake fish
- Lihapullat with lingonberry jam
- Wild bilberries and everyman’s right
Coffee, drink and the daily habit
- Why Finns drink more coffee than anyone
- What a Finnish breakfast is
- What time Finns eat dinner
- Tap water, which is free and excellent
- Alko and how alcohol is sold
The two market halls
- Vanha Kauppahalli, counter by counter
- Hakaniemi, the hall locals shop in
- Where people who live here eat
- The cheap end of eating in Helsinki
- What food to take home
Money, without the figures
- How much a meal in Finland runs to
- Budgeting for food on a trip
- Is Helsinki expensive to eat in?
- Do you tip in Finland?
Helsinki, and whether to go
- Is English spoken here?
- What costs nothing in Helsinki
- What not to miss
- One day in Helsinki
- How many days is enough
- Where not to go, and what to skip
- What Helsinki is best known for
- Helsinki or Tallinn?
- Norway or Finland?