Jonathan Slotte

9–10 February 2024

In brief

Chef of the Year 2022, second place 2021, Finland
PRO award 2022, Restaurant Chef category
Chef de cuisine, Restaurant Palace, at the time of the visit
Kitchen judge at the Finnish Bocuse d’Or selection, 2025

The guest chef presenting a course at the table

About the visit

Jonathan Slotte is Finland’s Chef of the Year 2022. When he cooked at OOBU he was chef de cuisine at Restaurant Palace, then the only two-Michelin-star restaurant in Finland.

Slotte is from Vaasa, started as an apprentice at sixteen and was a head chef at nineteen. Classical gastronomy is his foundation; seasonal vegetables, cabbages above all, are his speciality. The year before his win he came second in the final to Kim Päivästö — who had cooked at OOBU the previous autumn.

Photographs from the evening