Finland’s 50 Best Restaurants of 2025, and Why the Best Are About to Get Even Better

Congratulations to every restaurant that made this year’s list. You earned your place, and we see you.

The list that defines Finnish gastronomy has been published

Every spring, Finland’s restaurant industry holds its breath. Viisi Tähteä, the leading online media outlet for the hospitality sector, publishes the results of its Finland’s 50 Best Restaurants vote, and the news echoes through kitchens, dining rooms, and reservation books across the country.

This year’s list is exceptional. For the sixth year in a row, Palace in Helsinki has been crowned number one. Finland’s only two-Michelin-star restaurant, a national institution since 1952, is now undeniably the highest benchmark in Finnish gastronomy. Voted into second place was Baskeri & Basso Bistro, or BasBas, which also took home the awards for Best Atmosphere and Best Service. Third place belongs to Grön, the Michelin-starred restaurant led by Toni Kostian.

The full 2025 list, as voted by more than 400 professionals across the horeca, food, and travel industries:

Category winners:

🏆 Most Innovative: Luovuus kukkii kaaoksesta
🏆 Best Newcomer: Jason
🏆 Best Atmosphere: BasBas
🏆 Best Service: BasBas
🏆 Best Wine List: Muru
🏆 A Professional’s Professional: Samuil Angelov (Muru & Pastis)
🏆 Best Changemaker: Kozeen Shiwan (The Room by Kozeen Shiwan)

What this list tells us about the future of restaurants

Finland’s best restaurants did not earn their place by being average. They earned it through obsessive attention to detail: the origin of a single ingredient, the choreography of a service sequence, and the millisecond pause between a guest walking in and someone making eye contact with them.

But at Call Company AI, we have noticed something that repeats itself again and again: restaurants that master the dining experience often still leave the phone unanswered.

Not because they do not care. It happens because the phone rings at the busiest possible moment during service. The team is focused on forty covers in the dining room, not on the one person trying to reach them from the outside. Managing reservations, answering allergy-related questions, handling last-minute cancellations, and serving callers in multiple languages, all of that on a Friday at 7 PM, is genuinely difficult.

That is exactly the problem we built Call Company AI to solve.

We are proud of our clients on this list

Several of our clients are among Finland’s 50 Best Restaurants of 2025. Bistro Bardot, Bouchon Carême, Le Grec, and a few other unique restaurants: the teams behind these restaurants understand something that most people overlook.

Excellence in the dining room and excellence in operations are not separate goals. They are the same goal.

An unanswered call is a reservation that never happens. A guest who cannot reach you tries somewhere else, not because your food is not worth it, but because the moment passed. In an industry where every seating matters and every returning guest has real value, that gap compounds over time.

The restaurants on this year’s list that work with us made a decision: the guest experience begins the moment someone tries to reach them, not the moment they walk through the door. Our AI phone assistant handles calls in more than 20 languages, answers questions, manages reservations fully autonomously, routes urgent matters to staff, and never has an off night. It works 24/7, so the team can focus on the work only humans can do.

Why all 50 restaurants should be thinking about this right now

These 50 restaurants represent the standard. Guests booking a table at Palace, BasBas, or Grön are not casual customers. They research, compare, and call ahead. They expect the level of excellence they have read about to extend to every interaction.

Think about what happens when someone wants to book a table at one of Finland’s best restaurants:

They visit your website.
They try to call.
If no one answers, they may try once more.
If there is still no answer, they book elsewhere or move on.

That lost reservation is not just one seating. It is a first-time guest who could have become a regular. It is a corporate booking that goes to your competitor. It is a story that never gets told and a recommendation that never happens.

Call Company AI’s phone agent for restaurants fills that gap without increasing payroll costs or changing the way your team works. It answers every call in real time, with the warmth and precision a restaurant of your calibre deserves. It knows your menu, your opening hours, and your reservation logic. It works in 20+ languages. And it learns from every conversation.

The numbers that matter

Finnish restaurants operate in a challenging environment. The editor-in-chief of Viisi Tähteä has noted that economic pressure has weakened consumers’ purchasing power, and that the restaurants succeeding today are the ones that have turned constraint into strength. They have become leaner, sharper, and more intentional.

In that environment, every call matters. Every lost reservation is a real cost. Every returning guest is real value.

Call Company AI was built in Finland for restaurants around the world, from informal neighbourhood spots to white-tablecloth dining rooms. We understand how restaurants operate, how guests communicate, and what the gap between a good restaurant and a great restaurant looks like up close.

Congratulations, Finland. The table is set.

To every restaurant that made this year’s list: your work matters every single evening. It matters to the guests who leave your table feeling something. It matters to Finnish food culture. It matters to the entire industry.

We are honoured to already support some of you, and we would love the opportunity to support more.

If you are a restaurant and are ready to make sure every call reflects the same standard as every plate, we would love to speak with you.

Call Company AI is building an AI phone assistant for restaurants. Our product answers every call, manages reservations, and gives guests the experience they expect, starting with the very first ring.

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About Call Company AI

We are a Finnish AI company building intelligent voice agents for the restaurant industry. Our AI phone agent handles incoming calls fully autonomously, manages reservation requests, answers virtually any guest question, and connects staff only when it is genuinely necessary, giving your team the freedom to focus fully on the guests in front of them.

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