Held four times a year, Restaurant Day allows anyone at all to set up their own food stall without having to worry about sale permits, taxes or other vending regulations. Founded by Helsinki residents Timo Santala, Olli Sirén and Antti Tuomola in 2011, the movement was originally intended to promote and celebrate food culture.
Since that time, these amateur food extravaganzas have spread to dozens of countries creating tens of thousands of pop-up restaurants.
Restaurant Day is now the world’s biggest quarterly food festival, celebrated in hundreds of cities around the world.
