Guided food tours in Helsinki worth your time, with operators we’d actually book.
Guided food tours in Helsinki worth your time and money. operators we would actually book.
Route: Fork in Hand walk: Old Market Hall, a fish stop and nine tastings across the centre
Heather's Fork in Hand walk runs about five hours and 5 km, with nine tastings across central Helsinki including the Old Market Hall and a dedicated fish stop, food, culture and history together.
Route: Finnish Food Walk: Old Market Hall plus several specialist food shops
Happy Guide Helsinki's two-hour Finnish Food Walk starts at the Old Market Hall and threads through several specialist food shops, with tastings and guides in English, German, Spanish and Finnish.
Route: Market Square and Old Market Hall: game, lihapiirakka, Karelian pie, fish plate, dessert
The Taste Helsinki private walk covers the Market Square and Old Market Hall over about 3 km, tasting game like reindeer, half a lihapiirakka, a Karelian pie, a fish plate and a Finnish dessert with coffee.
Route: Restaurant and market-hall tastings: reindeer, sausages, fish and bread cheese with cloudberry
The byFood Helsinki tasting walk pairs a restaurant stop with a market hall, sampling cold-smoked reindeer, local sausages, fish and squeaky bread cheese with cloudberry jam across central Helsinki.
Route: Craft-beer and microbrewery walk through central Helsinki
Happy Guide Helsinki also runs a craft-beer walk through the city's microbrewery and taproom scene, the drinks counterpart to its food walk, with multilingual guides and small-producer stops.
TableJourney covers 5 editor-picked food tours in Helsinki, with what each shows you and how much to budget.