HEL YES! - Food and Design from Helsinki

The hunter-gatherers of HEL YES! (from left): Harri Koskinen, Johanna Eliisa Laitanen, Klaus Haapaniemi, Mia Wallenius, Heikki Salonen, Linda Bergroth and Antto Melasniemi. Can furniture be made from trees thinned out from the forest? Can a new dinner set be created from donated plates? Can a restaurant gather ingredients straight from the forest? Can something new come out of foraging the old? HEL YES!, a temporary restaurant and exhibition in London's Design Week is imagined and realised by a creative team of Finnish designers and food visionaries. More...

Art is everywhere in the Finnish capital

News & events/Events - Helsinki Festivals Helsinkians are back from their summer holidays and they're hungry for the arts. That's the only conclusion you can draw when you see Helsinki's schedule for late August and early September. More...

A recipe for the darkening nights of autumn: hot mulled apple juice

According to the Moomin philosophy everything fun must be good for the stomach. (C Moomin Characters Ltd.) To celebrate the launch of Moomins Cook book by SelfMadeHero, the Embassy of Finland reveals the secrets to the tasty dishes prepared by the wonderful Moominmamma by publishing a Recipe of the Month – until the end of 2010. More...