Team Kitchen on Eerikinkatu runs hands-on Finnish classes: a lunch session making Karelian pastries with egg-butter or cinnamon buns, plus an evening menu.
Hands-on cooking classes in Helsinki that teach you something you will actually make again at home.
Classes worth booking
Martat, the long-running Finnish home-economics association, runs English-language classes on Välimerenkatu, including A Tasty Trip to Finland.
Helsinki Home Cooking, run by Pidot Productions on Abrahaminkatu, is a hands-on class building a rotating seasonal three-course Finnish menu around local.
The Helsinki Culinary Institute has run since 1994 on Aleksanterinkatu, teaching amateurs and professionals alike, with a calendar of publicly open classes.
Team Kitchen's evening Taste of Finland class cooks a three-course dinner of foamy funnel-chanterelle soup, reindeer with blueberry sauce and cloudberry soup.
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Helsinki: Foraging Tour and Cooking Class with Dinner
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