During the upcoming ten months restaurant Chez Dominique hosts ten internationally known top chefs. This fall e.g. Anatoly Komm from Russian restaurant Varvary, Mauro Colagreco from French restaurant Menton, Heiko Nieder from Swizz restaurant The Dolder Grand and Carlo Cracco from Italian restaurant Cracco will be seen in Chez Dominique’s kitchen. Each guest will visit [...]
Helsinki Festival continues until 2 September. This year’s programme offers spectacular modern circus and theater, startling visual arts as well as music from gentle folk to African sounds and from symphony orchestras to chamber choirs. Most of the performances still have tickets left. Buy yours and join the celebrations!
As the summer cools off, a familiar breeze from the Finnish waters reaches Helsinki as restaurant Lasipalatsi organizes its annual Fish Weeks in August-October (6.8.-13.10.2012). This is the ninth time Lasipalatsi hosts these fishy theme weeks. According to the restaurant, pike perch is the theme weeks’ most popular type of fish. Merely during last year’s [...]
Helsinki’s fall brings new forms of design to the design capital! The following five weeks are the busiest during the whole WDCHelsinki2012 year! The so called “September of Design” offers a wide range of events for design lovers, e.g. the Helsinki Design Week, the international design house exhibition Everyday Discoveries in Suvilahti, the interior and [...]
A rural-like feel hits Helsinki when the local and organic food event “Delicacies of Finland” (Herkkujen Suomi) conquers the Railway Square in the end of August. The event that already last year became widely popular brings some 150 local and organic food producers from 18 different provinces to Helsinki on the 23rd of August -25th [...]
A new festival will be held this year on 22-23 September in the historic centre and cultural buildings of Helsinki. The “Era of Autonomy” festival is one of the main events of the “Helsinki 200 Years as Capital” anniversary year this autumn. The festival will present, for example, theatre and poetry in the spirit of [...]
During 11–17 August the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre played host to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress. Helsinki, the World Design Capital 2012, bathed in sunshine for the entire week, putting on its best face for participants of the largest congress held in Finland this year. The congress brought together more than 4,000 [...]
The Helsinki Street blog is the first Finnish platform created and run by professional photographers and dedicated solely to street photography. The Helsinki Street collective, made up of award-winning Finnish photojournalists, launched the photography blog in May 2012. The site attracted widespread attention from the start, with over 12,000 visitors in the first month alone. [...]
G.W. Sundmans has been awarded with the ”Best of Award of Excellence” award by American Wine Spectator magazine. No other Finnish restaurant has yet received this particular award, and since it is considered the Michelin ranking of wine lists, the award is significant within the wine industry. This award is given to restaurants which wine [...]
Helsinki has a beating heart! Torikorttelit (Tori Quarters) is the “new old town” which is located between the Senate Square and the Market Square. On Saturday August 18, at 3 pm – 9 pm there is a block party at the Katariinankatu street with jazzmusic, indiebands, wannabe-ballerinas and outdoor cinema. PROGRAMME 18.8. The opening of [...]
