Helsinki's restaurants are praised highly in the travel section of NYT! It's a small scene, but I have written here about several good places - which get a mention here, too! How nice. But I do agree, that apart from a few restaurants, Berlusconi and Chirac were right about Finnish "food" (if you can call it such)...
-O
p.s. for full disclosure, we do sell wines to several of these restaurants.