The Old Market Hall (Vanha Kauppahalli) in Helsinki, built in 1889, is the oldest covered market in Finland.
It is located in the Helsinki harbor area, near Kauoppatori Square.
Designed to improve hygiene and food sales, it now houses historic stalls selling local products (reindeer, fish, cheese) and traditional restaurants.
The Old Market Hall is one of Helsinki’s most important historical and gastronomic attractions.
Here you can find typical Finnish products such as reindeer meat sausages, goat’s milk cheeses, and numerous salmon dishes.
Finnish cuisine is based on local and seasonal ingredients such as fresh fish (salmon, herring, whitefish), reindeer meat, game, berries (blueberries, cloudberries), and grains such as rye.
Among the most famous dishes of Finnish cuisine are salmon soup (lohikeitto) and reindeer stew (poronkaristys).
