Trendy Annankatu is undergoing some changes. Motellet recently announced that it’s under renovation and the same block is abuzz with additional changes. Set in the former legendary nightclub, Suola has quite recently sharpened its business. Meatballs and veggie balls parade on the restaurant’s renewed menu but the actual newcomers are the sliders and heroes, sandwiches [...]

Helsinki Traveller Info offers young people and youthful visitors tips on how to “live like a local”. The young local staff can also organise a wide range of events for visitors, from glow-in-the-dark minigolf to summer sports, as well as pub crawls and walking tours.

Located on the crossroads of Mikonkatu and Vilhonkatu the Plaza hotel will get a new heart of its own, when HUB, a combination of a lobby café, bar and lounge opens.

Laboratoriumm, a Finland based company that specializes in the spirit industry, lead by Jyri Pylkkänen and Michael Grönfors, has finally opened a cocktail bar in Helsinki names Liberty or Death! The cocktail living room that fits 49 persons is devoted to personal cocktails and fresh ingredients. Liberty or Death wants to evoke emotions through their [...]

Kallio based and internationally recognized creative collectivity Kasino Creative Studio has brought an alternative to Internet straight to the center of Helsinki! @BAR is a 1-month-long Internet like cocktail bar. During the month of March the bar functions as a physical Facebook: a place to hang out and chat. The idea is also that the [...]

The annual poll of City magazine, who is the leading media for young adults in Finland with its 306 000 readers, has again shown who the winners in Helsinki are. Nearly 3 500 Helsinkians voted for the best food, café, service, dance floor, doorman, pub, post party food and brunch, and here are the results [...]

                                        If you find yourself in the home country of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve but still some 815 kilometers south of the actual Santa Claus’ village, you might want to spend the Eve in one [...]

A new nightclub, Club Silk, has been inaugurated in the commercial heart of Helsinki called Kamppi. In this club music, mainly r’n’b, hiphop ja house, comes first. The club, that was founded based upon the idea of three different actors, functions as a classy combination of a lounge and club. The main difference between this [...]

For a couple of weeks now, Café & Wine Bar K3 has had its doors open, offering a new kind of wine bar-café in the middle of the biggest art experience park in the Nordic countries, Arabianranta that is! At a walking distance from the Arabia center and the new residential area of Arabianranta you’ll [...]

First performances of the international contemporary theatre festival Baltic Circle will start on Wednesday November 16th. The festival introduces new trends and talents from international and Finnish stages of contemporary theatre where also Helsinki is well represented.