Finland

Helsinki’s food scene runs on “New Nordic” — international fine-dining technique applied to local, minimalist Finnish tradition. SPIS is at the front of that movement, one of a handful of Scandinavian restaurants that made a recent top-100-in-the-world list. Bronda takes the same regional style in a more brasserie direction, loosely built around Mediterranean food filtered through Nordic minimalism. And Olo pushes furthest. Finland isn’t the country most people think of first for food, and Olo is built specifically to prove that assumption wrong.