Caviar in Finland

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By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

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The most comprehensive caviar-tasting which I have achieved was in Helsinki, at the Havis Amanda Seafood Restaurant, where I noted the following comparative prices (given in Finnish marks, valid for June 1976):
‘Russian’ (i.e. sturgeon) caviar 50
Smoked forel (trout) caviar 38/40
Vendace caviar 36
Whitefish caviar about 32
It is interesting that the disparities should be so limited, but my tasting did not suggest that they should be wider.
Working from the bottom upwards, I tried the whitefish caviar first. The colour is a pleasant orange, the taste good but rather salty.