Restaurant Nokka brings the best flavors from the Finnish countryside to Helsinki for a weekend! The restaurant organizes a market consisting of the products of small farm producers next weekend, on the 3rd-4th of September between 12pm-5pm. The market will be located in the lounge and back room of the restaurant. Among others, restaurant Nokka’s [...]

This autumn, Restaurant Katsomo features Spanish delights. Food favourites from across the Iberian Peninsula will be served throughout September and October. Restaurant Katsomo kicks off autumn with a Spanish theme. According to head chef Lars Lauton: “In Spain, dining is an important social event for family and friends, as well as the wider community − [...]

The events Herkkujen Suomi (Finland of delicacies) and Syystober are organized on the Railway Square in the end of this week, 26th-27th of August. The event assembles nearly 80 local and organic food producers from dozens of localities in Finland. According to the organizers the Herkkujen Suomi event presents the Finnish food and culture spectrum [...]

Restaurant Mange Sud has come up with a fun restaurant concept: if one buys a cultural menu at the restaurant, he/she gets a free taxi ride to the cultural event. A cultural event can be a concert or theatre play, but also the events of the Helsinki Festival are included in this special offer. This [...]

The second restaurant day (in Finnish: ravintolapäivä) brings pop up restaurants of town residents to Helsinki on the 21st of August! No bureaucracy, but freedom to establish any kind of restaurant, café or bar for a day – your imagination is the only limit! The first restaurant day in May 2011 became a huge success with [...]

Smells and colors of Italy overwhelm the Lasipalatsi square in August 18-21, daily from noon till 8 pm. Italian merchants and importers will sell pastries, coffee, cheese, books and trips. More information about the Italian Market: Italian Institute of Culture (only in Italian and Finnish)

Punavuori district celebrates Rööperifest on Thu 18.8. and that same day is Edel City (at Fredrikinkatu 33) has its 1-year birthday. In one year this brand has reached a strong position offering a world-class selection of ethical and ecological luxury items so that customers can spoil themselves without spoiling the environment. Majority of the products [...]

Next weekend the young Helsinkians will once more gather to celebrate urban culture, indie music and neverending summer to the artificial pastures of Suvilahti.

The jewel of the Töölönlahti Bay, café kiosk Tyyni (in English: calm), which is located next to the Opera house on a great viewpoint on a rock terrace built next to the bay, is  hosting this summer for the first time a campfire club with live music. This club enables town residents to grill some [...]

Next to the wellknown restaurant Juuri there is, since the beginning of June, a winebar called Latva (in English: treetop). The speciality of restaurant Juuri is a delicacy called Sapas. Sapas is an authentically Finnish hors d’oeuvre, handmade according to Finnish culinary traditions. In our kitchen we transform Finnish gifts of nature in an innovative [...]