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Zetor Helsinki
32 Reviews Very special atmosphere with funny decorating. Very popular - mostly among tourists so you find crowds of them there. this also makes the prices a little bit higher. Sometimes crowded and hectic. But...
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Plevna - Brevery and pub & Restaurant Tampere
7 Reviews Whether you like dark or pale lager, stout or wheat beer, all these tasty beers, and many more, can be enjoyed in the historic surroundings of the Plevna Brewery Pub & Restaurant. Plevna was...
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Kappeli Helsinki
11 Reviews There are over 600 restaurants in Helsinki. Kappeli is a very famous restaurant (since 1837). Scandinavian cuisine, e.g. the Kappeli sandwich (different Finnish fishes, egg, lettuce), good cakes and...
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Harald Tampere
4 Reviews My favorite restaurant in Tampere! Waitresses are dressed in Viking style, glasses weigh a lot, plates are far from ordinary... names for the portions are funny :) Here you can eat even pheasant,...
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VAPIANO (Old name was Texas & Eatz) Helsinki
12 Reviews Vapiano Helsinki is now open. With its big and sunny summer terrace it is the best place to have lunch or spent the evening with friends in the heart of the city. Lot of choices of fresh pasta, pizza...
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Näsinneula Tampere
5 Reviews The rotating restaurant is in the Näsinneula Observation Tower at the height of 124 meters. From there you see a very wonderful panorama over the city, many lakes, forests and ridges dating back to...
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Lappi Helsinki
10 Reviews This restaurant felt like it was straight of the 1960's to 1970's, which has both good and bad aspects - keep reading. The decor is something like being in a log cabin in Lapland, especially if you...
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Salud Tampere
6 Reviews This spanish-style restaurant has always been and still is the place to eat when I'm in Tampere. ................. To have a glimpse at their fantastic menu check Salud : www.bodega-salud.fi/english
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Cafe Ursula Helsinki
10 Reviews I'll forget the view because so many tips already enthuse about it. However I haven't noticed any reference to its interesting location close to numerous beautiful buildings that house the embassies...
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Pancho Villa Tampere
6 Reviews There are four Pancho Villa restaurants in Tampere and two of them are situated on the main street Hämeenkatu. On my previous trip to Tampere I had a lunch at Hämeenkatu 23, which in on the street...
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Himalaya Helsinki
4 Reviews In Ravintola Aangan restaurant you will always feel like a distinguished guest. Welcome! Ravintola Aangan has become a popular name Finns signify for mouth-watering Nepalese cuisines. The restaurant...
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Ristorante Napoli Tampere
5 Reviews Ristorante Napoli on Aleksanterinkatu is a small italian restaurant with a nice atmosphere. The prices are cheap, especially during lunch hours and the portions are HUGE! There are 100 pizza options...
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Saslik Helsinki
5 Reviews They present themselves with: ´a culinary trip to Czarist Russia´ and they are not exaggerating. It definitely is! When you´re having an incredibly good dinner, no matter which night of the week you...
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Tillikka Tampere
5 Reviews After looking around quite a while for a good place to eat we found this restaurant. The food is nothing really fancy, but typical for Finland. The service was friendly and the prices modest. We ate...
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Cantina West Helsinki
8 Reviews Some people say this is one of best palces in Helsinkin,and some say it is over-rated.I don´t know why it has so different opinions.But we liked it,that I can tell!! It was so popular,that we couldn´t...
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Katupoika Tampere
2 Reviews EDIT! IT´S CLOSED AFTER TENS OF YEARS. wE WEREN´T THE ONLY ONES TO THINK THE NEW OWNERS DIDN´T DO IT RIGHT, AND THEY HAD TO SHUT IT DOWN. This used to be one of our favourites.Now they have a new...
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Teatteri Helsinki
6 Reviews Very ultra modern decor, fresh outta the Superman(chrisopher reeve) home planet JOREL. Cool music from the adjacent bar can be heard(warning, older travellers might not like this.) Staff friendly,...
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Vohvelikahvila Tampere
3 Reviews They have a good selection of waffels,sweet or salty.You can eat them with ice-cream,or whipped cream-with jam or chokolate-sauce,or with smoken salomon or mushrooms,ghevre or taco-flavoured minced...
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Wayne's Coffee Helsinki
8 Reviews Wayne's Coffee offers a nice deal for thos very expensive coffees - buy 9 coffee's get _any_ 10th coffee for free. Unfortunately the offer is valid only in certain Wayne's Coffees and doesn't include...
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Chicos Helsinki
5 Reviews There are several locations around Helsinki and it is a good choice for a price range and food quality somewhere batween fast food and mid priced restaurants. The food is basic american,tex-mex,BBQ....
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Pikku Nepal Helsinki
4 Reviews My visit here was a pleasant experience - I had an enjoyable meal of starter and main course. The portions were large and reasonably inexpensive. The staff were very good and service was excellent....
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Cafe Carusel Helsinki
7 Reviews Unpretentious atmosphere, it is more like a bar with a side facing the street in the second floor that is fairly nice. The food is reasonable Spanish style, you can get self service soup and bread...
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Juttutupa / Marco Polo Helsinki
4 Reviews If you want to eat Pizza but the Marco Polo is full, then you just go to the room which is more like a hall next door. This hall is inbetween the Marco Polo and the pub/bar called Juttutupa. The...
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Papa Giovanni Helsinki
5 Reviews I visited Papa Giovanni Spaghetteria in August 2007 and had a nice enough salad (I think it was Chicken Caesar Salad) there. Although the service was speedy and friendly, I didn't think it was that...
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Perho Helsinki
2 Reviews The Perho, which is run by the Helsinki Culinary School, is located a bit outside the centre near the Rock Church. Future chefs, waiters and waitresses are working at the Perho as part of their...
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This is heaven for game lovers! It's a charming wood house in the middle of the green. The specialities are bear, rabbit, birds and of course reindeer. This is really an experience if you've never tried this kind of meat before!
Koti Pizza, which means homemade Pizza, is a Finnish franchise company that you find in the whole country. It is a good choice if you are in some hurry and/or your budget is not so high. Never had a bad pizza, I think all of them are good.
We were walking around the Esplanada in Helsinki, and then made our way back to the Hotel. On our way back, both our stomachs started fussing. We had to find a place that would still be open and when we did for some reason my chaperone was completely excited.I found out why very fast, the decor in the place is centered around tractors, farm animals and humurous vintage publicity ads (you will need a translator). I chose a delicious silence of the lambs (knuckle and fillet of lamb, minty red wine sauce, garlic potato and pureed carrots) and had my first and welcoming taste of Salmiakki (finnish licorice liqueur).
- Rye bread ('ruisleipä'). The best (and only real?) bread there is. There are many different rye breads. Be careful if you aren't use to it, since too much rye bread can cause some gas into your stomach.- Karelian pasty ('karjalanpiirakka'). Actually more bread than a pasty.- Pea soup ('hernekeitto'). Looks totally horrible. Tastes good - or at least I think so. There are actually people who like it and people who really hate it. Even better if you can get it smoke flavoured.- Pancake. Ok there are pancakes as "usual" pancakes (or crepes), which in Finnish are called 'ohukainen' or more unofficially but more commonly 'lätty'. A little bit better version is the ones made outside with BIG frying pan - known as 'muurinpohjalätty'. And then there is this what in Finnish is called 'pannukakku', which is a direct translation from the word 'pancake'. It is much thicker thing baked in the oven,...
This is about restaurants in general.A very sympathetic gesture in Finland is that all restaurants that I went to had special signs beside every menu item stating if it was gluten or lactose free (there was a third but I forgot that one, maybe gluten AND lactose free).Even the trucker's café's by the highways had those.
The Finnish burger-chain 'Hesburger' can be found all over the country and is okay. There's also a great number of international restaurants but try and find one serving Finnish food - that can be a bit of a surprising experience and is really good! Smoked and dried reindeermeat served with mashed potatoes and berries.Pies of arctic berries, Karelian pastries and other kinds of baked things. Finns are masters when it comes to baking!!!
in xmas the children are playing while mummy is preparing the xmas food :)) the typical xmas meal consists of three parts, cold and warm starters, warm main dish, and the cheese, the fruit and other sweet stuff for dessert. the starters are mainly fish, different kinds of herring, salmon, and a cooked fish called 'lipeakala', which has a funny texture :)) you eat it with white sauce and peppar. there is also a traditional colourful salad called 'rosolli' that refers to vineagred beetroot, carrots, onion and pickles. the main course is usually ham or turkey, but as i don't eat meat, i eat some vegetable patee and fish. this you eat with three kinds of oven baked purees: potato puree, rice&carrot puree, and rutabaga (swedish turnip) puree. homemade lingonberry (puolukkahillo) jam is accompanied :) the typical xmas bread is spicy and sweet (limppu). for dessert you have different kinds of...
Situated in the middle of the Kaivopuisto-park.The building itself is an old wooden manor house and looks very distinguished and antiquish.Don´t be fooled ! It is THE n.1 party spot in the city during summer, the line-up to get inside is notoriously long but it is worth it. the 'Kelkka' A simple, yet effective little coctail. Contents: 2cl.Finlandia Vodka 2cl.Passoa liquer 4cl.Fresh Orange JuiceThis drink WAS INVENTED in Helsinki, in a small but excellent bar that specializes in Finlandia Vodka. Can´t remember the name though... Someone help me!Well anyway this formula has rapidly spread through the continent to the extent that last summer in Kos (Greek Island off the coast of Turkey) it was recommended to me by greek bar-maid. Small World, eh?
Zetor - 'Restaurant and bar for happy tractor drivers'Or so they claim - I'm not a tractor driver but I was pretty happy all the same after my visit here and there are loads of tractors & farm machinery to be found inside this huge bar/restaurant.Haven't been to a restaurant where a lot of the tables & chairs are bits of old farm machiner before!!!Also they let us in even though one of our group was being pushed in a supermarket trolley & even made sure the trolley was waiting for us when we were finished ;-)I don't have any photos of Zetor itself but this one shows some of the group just before we arrived there! Very reasonable food with plenty of choice & generous portions (most main courses were around €10)
It is hard to specify a particular place as favourite place to eat in Helsinki but if you want to try Finnish food then you must visit SAFKA in Helsinki which has an excellent selection of Finnish cuisine.The service is very prompt, food is excellent.
Hotel Kamp Helsinki
16 Reviews and 332 Opinions Located on Pohjoisesplanadi, in the heart of Helsinki, Hotel Kämp is one of the city's most...
Sokos Hotel Ilves Tampere
5 Reviews and 59 Opinions I stayed at Sokos Hotel Ilves for one night in July 2011 and had a very pleasant stay in this 4 star...
Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel Turku Turku
4 Reviews and 125 Opinions We had never stayed in Radison hotels before, because they are allways more expensive than any other...
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Q: Right - here's the brief. I've got a maximum of three days, and am going to pick up a car from either Helsinki or Tampere....
A: go to the koli national park. thats not too far so you can get to see something in 3 days, and its one of the most beautiful landscapes in finland.
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