June 2012

Win exclusive experiences in Helsinki!

The Best of Helsinki competition gives you the chance to vote for Helsinki’s best tourism experiences. All participants will be entered into a prize drawing for the chance to win the first ever Key to the City, entitling the holder to exclusive experiences in Helsinki! The winner gets all this: 1 night stay for two [...]

Matchless! Designers inspire Michelin star restaurant – Toikka & Aarnio at Chez Dominique this summer!

Photo: Elisabeth Heinrichs

This summer top chef Hans Välimäki’s restaurant Chez Dominique has decided to keep its doors open throughout the summer, something that happens only at rare occasions. Besides embellishing Helsinki’s gastonomical summer, it also offer a true summery surprise: Finnish design shine in the restaurant both on the plates and in the interior! Hans Välimäki’s tribute [...]

Meet the locals in Helsinki

Traveller Info.

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.

Rhododendron blooming is at its best in June

Discover an unforgettable experience of Finnish nature in The Rhododendron Park in Helsinki! The park is an eight-hectare area, which was originally bog. The oldest rhododendrons have been planted in 1975.

What is the Finnish “juhannus” and what to do with it?

The Midsummer Train.

Finns will celebrate Midsummer, or “juhannus” as it is known in Finnish, on 22 and 23 June 2012. How to celebrate Midsummer in Helsinki.

The Finnish Design Shop pops up at the Old Customs Warehouse!

tullijapakkahuone

The Finnish Design Shop has just opened a new pop up shop for the summer at the Old Customs Warehouse on the waterfront of Katajanokka district, in conjunction with finnishdesignshop.com. The shop offers over 400 items of Finnish and international design, filling the entire ground floor of the grand and picturesque Old Customs Warehouse building. [...]

Vintage Helsinki posters on display at art cafés Espresso Edge and Summer Edge throughout the summer!

Photo: Café Summer Edge

At a walking distance from the immediate city center of Helsinki, and next to the green Kaisaniemi park, in Kruununhaka, lies café Espresso Edge that has charmed by-passers already for eight years. Belonging to the same café family, there is also 2-year-old Café Summer Edge which is located on the historical center of Helsinki. The [...]

Historical Café Empire is opening tomorrow

Source: Café Empire/ City of Helsinki Media Bank

Historical Café Empire will be open in the Sederholm House 9–17 June 2012, from 11 am to 6 pm.

European Athletics Championships arrive in Helsinki

Appy in Turku. Photo: Petri Krook / Helsinki 2012 office

Best athletes around Europe gather to compete at the legendary Helsinki Olympic Stadium 27.6.–1.7.2012 when Finland hosts the European Athletics Championships for the third time.

In coffee thrill-seekers’ paradise “Good Life Coffee” coffee is an affair of the heart

Source: Good Life Coffee - Peeta Peltola

When stepping into Good Life Coffee the customer immediately notices that the wall between the street door and the internal door is decorated with old used coffee bags – the coffees that have left a memory in the life of the café owner. In this Kallio based café coffee is truly appreciated and it feels [...]