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 [...]

In the immediate vicinity of the famous landmark Sokos Hotel Torni and one of Helsinki’s most central restaurant streets one finds Helsinki’s fresh breeze of Vietnamese air – hand-to-mouth Rulla. Rulla, that fits 20 customers, offers Vietnamese treats: fresh, healthy and filling hands-on eating summer rolls. The restaurant space, designed by Finnish interior design company [...]

Close by to the Helsinki city center, on scenic Mustikkamaa Island, lies restaurant Alia in a glorious villa. The name Alia stands for “the other place” and refers to the fact that it was the second restaurant of the Michelin star restaurateurs at Postres. Even Alia has received a Michelin guide honorable mention. The same [...]

Finnish Paulig wants to encourage professional coffee makers and therefore awards again the best coffee with its annual coffee competition. The goal is to emphasize the importance of everyday work for good quality concerning coffee. Café Lasipalatsi as the only Helsinkian café has been selected as one of the three finalists concerning the Gruppo price which is [...]