The doors of Michelin restaurant Inari will be open for the last time on July 30.
Top chef Kim Mikkola plans to close the doors of restaurant Inari in Helsinki. The Michelin restaurant will be opened in a new location in the future, the location of which Mikkola has not yet revealed.
– Now it’s time to move on. In order to take our goals and our team’s skills to the next level, Inari must start from a clean slate. I want to get rid of old patterns and learned tricks. I want to reinvent Inari, the top chef says in the press release.
The last dinner will be held in the premises of the current restaurant on July 30. During the last month, at dinners, you will see a cross-section of the history of Inari. There will be pop-up restaurants in autumn, which will give customers hints about Inari’s future direction.
Inari’s team will stay together in the future as well. The restaurant’s kitchen is headed by the reigning chef of the year Kim Päivästö.
Inari combines Nordic and Asian cuisine, and the dishes use a lot of seasonal vegetables, for example.
– We use the best possible raw materials that are available. Sometimes they are vegetables, sometimes fish and sometimes meat. The quality of the raw materials and ideas determine our food and what we do more than conscious decisions have been made, Mikkola told Pippuri.fi after receiving the Michelin star.
Inari opened on Helsinki’s Albertinkatu in July 2018. A year and a half later, the restaurant was awarded a Michelin star. Before founding Inari, Mikkola worked at the Danish Noma, which is considered the best restaurant in the world.