Enjoy wild herbs in restaurants

When Sami Tallberg returned home a few years ago, he began collecting the wild herbs that grow along the shoreline and in the forests around Helsinki. He then introduced the herbs to local restaurants, so he knows exactly which ones were receptive to the idea of wild food.

“All the top restaurants were very enthusiastic about wild herbs. For example, Juuri had been cooking with them for a long time already. Spis and Chef & Sommelier also use them a lot, even as main ingredients. In addition, wild herbs can be found on the menus of Olo and Luomo. Kuurna and Ateljé Finne also use seasonal herbs.”

The list goes on: you can also enjoy wild flavours at Ask and Pure Bistro, for example. In fact, Sami has a hard time thinking of any good restaurants that don’t already use wild herbs. He considers wild food to be something of a popular movement right now.

“It would be great if people would select restaurants to go to based on whether they serve wild herbs,” Sami suggests.