Some time ago I tried Food Sightseeing Helsinki’s new food tour called “Culinary Quarters” (€55). This three-hour-long compact walking tour introduces the traditional, but also modern, food culture of three districts in Helsinki: Punavuori, Eira and Ullanlinna. The tour offers a unique chance to try seven different local food treats and meet the food producers [...]
After a one-mong-long renovation in January design hotel Klaus K has offered Helsinki a completely new concept. Born through a co-creation project during summer 2012, the new LIVINGROOM is now opened to the public. Klaus K’s LIVINGROOM is not a new restaurant or bar – it’s an environment where hotel guests, not merely hotel customers, [...]
Do you think you know your sense of taste inside out? Are you looking for a new food experience? Are you ready to challenge yourself? If you answered yes to any of these three questions, Cantina West’s and Activity Gifts’ new Dinner in the Dark food concept is just the thing for you! The internationally [...]
Along with the release of the new Guide MICHELIN Main Cities of Europe 2013 guide, Helsinki did not receive any changes concerning its MICHELIN star ratings. If you want to read previous blog posts about the MICHELIN star restaurants, you’ll find them here and here. However, the new guide mentioned three new restaurants in Helsinki, [...]
In Kruununhaka, one of the city’s most interesting gastronomic pearls, lies breakfast and lunch restaurant Qulma. Fortunately the place has two entrances during the summer – that’s how popular this place is. One understands the popularity because this corner restaurant (the word kulma in Finnish means corner) with 54 customer seats is a personal part [...]
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 [...]
60° 10 N, 24° 56 E – these are the coordinates for Helsinki’s most original pizzas! Skiffer, which got started on Liuskaluoto (Skifferholmen in Swedish, hence the name of the restaurant), has opened its fourth place of business in the heart of Design District Helsinki. Skiffer has two other restaurants: one at ski resort Tahko [...]
Eat.fi chose Helsinki’s best fine dining restaurants Finland’s very own restaurant version of “Tripadvisor” Eat.fi, where anyone can search for restaurants, rate them and leave a personal restaurant review, revealed a week ago its users’ favorite fine dining restaurants in Helsinki. Eat.fi allows you to give points to restaurants according to their quality-price ratio and [...]
Finland’s leading newspaper Helsingin Sanomat has selected Helsinki’s best restaurant In the beginning of November Helsingin Sanomat’s Nyt supplement named this year’s best restaurateurs in a six-page-article. The choice of the best restaurant was based on the opinions of Nyt’s food critics. The aim with the selection was to name a restaurant from which one [...]
On Saturday November 17th you can spend the whole day enjoying a vast array of culinary treats: 16 Restaurant Day restaurants will be taking over the old courtyard of the Abattoir, area that once served as the city slaughterhouse, offering treats from several different International kitchens for the day. You can start your day with [...]
