What would make you happy in a restaurant? What kind of experiences are you looking for right now? Answer three short questions and find your favorite place in Helsinki this spring. Follow our tips and you can eat out in restaurants you have never heard of. Helsinki offers a lot during spring! Take a test [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kruununhaka which is best known for its governmental buildings, e.g. the House of Estates and the Finnish Bank, and flea markets and second hand shops, is also an interesting gastronomic jewel among the districts in Helsinki. At a walking distance from the city center there are both enchanting cafés Qulma and Espresso Edge, as well [...]
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 [...]
