The Tasty Atelier Podcast

Our guest Eva Aller is in the wine business. She started her career on the ferries travelling between Finland and Sweden, selling and choosing wines and spirits for the tax-free shops. Today she imports wines and rums to Finland for a Swedish-based company called Handpicked Wines. Their catalogue features products from all over the world.

Listen to what Eva has to say about importing wines and the Finnish import market.

How do you tackle seasonality in Finland where the growing season lasts barely 6 months? What do you do when the fisherman has no catch? And how do Grandmas' recipes mix with the gourmet style of his restaurant? 

Restaurant Vår has a fascinating story behind it and Chef Niko Lehto tells all.

What's it like to run a summer restaurant in one of the oldest cities in Finland. Hash and Hanna talk with chef Robert von Bell about how he went from working in some of the most celebrated restaurants in London, to a salt barn on the river.