Petteri Luoto
9–10 June 2023
In brief
- Chef of the Year 1998, Finland
- Bocuse d’Or, Lyon: represented Finland in 2001 and 2005
- Head chef at G. W. Sundmans, Savoy, Kämp and Meritorppa, Helsinki
- Private chef in New York
- Head chef, HSS Paviljonki, Helsinki, summer 2026
About the visit
Petteri Luoto is Finland’s Chef of the Year 1998. He has represented Finland twice at the Bocuse d’Or in Lyon, in 2001 and 2005, and has been head chef at the Helsinki classics G. W. Sundmans, Savoy, Kämp and Meritorppa at Kalastajatorppa.
He came to OOBU during Turku Food Week in June 2023. In recent years Luoto has worked abroad, among other things as a private chef in New York; for the summer of 2026 he returned to Finland, to the island of Liuskasaari in Helsinki.
Photographs from the evening
The menu
9–10 June 2023
To begin
Mundo Yuntero Sparkling Verdejo
Lax Pancake
Potato pancake, tar-scented salmon, pink radish and dill sorbet
Henri Ehrhart Crémant d’Alsace Brut Excellence
Salad “Printemps”
Confit new potato, Ahti herring, roasted asparagus, smoked carrot, honey turnip, grated wild garlic butter
Sipp Mack Tradition Pinot Gris 2018
Zuppa della casa
Airy parsnip soup seasoned with truffle and miso, citrus-marinated apple and fried Lauantaimakkara sausage
Grande Passolo Chardonnay Piedmonte 2020
Burning Fields “Slava Ukraini RMX”
Lightly smoked sugar-salted duck, black brioche, salted blueberry, ash and dust
Fabiano Ripasso Valpolicella Classico Superiore 2019
Beef “UKK Butter”
Roasted marbled beef, classic grill-herb butter, deep-fried broccolini and rösti potato
Salentein Primus Malbec 2018
Paavola Remix
Crisp meringue, lavender-scented rhubarb and strawberry, foamed white chocolate panna cotta and lychee-plum sorbet
Finca Antigua Moscatel Dulce 2020