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My favourite restaurants, cafes and wine bars in Helsinki 🇫🇮
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items My favourite places for lunch, dinner, coffee & wine In Helsinki ❤️
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Coffee
Wine bars
Dinner
Modern French cuisine, seasonal menus, and an extensive natural wine cellar. A beautiful light-filled space and a perfect location in Kallio.
Maukku
Modern, seasonal Finnish cuisine using local, small-producer ingredients. High-quality wines. A special location in the Katajanokka area.
Restaurant Wellamo
A laid back bistro with a strong emphasis on French and Italian classics. People say they have the best food in Helsinki, and I agree! So, book early, it’s very popular. If you can’t get a table, there’s always Bas Bas Kulma and Bas Bas Studio next d...
Bas Bas Bistro
Authentic French bistro classics with a Nordic touch. Lovely, vibrant athmosphere in the centre of the town.
Le Coucou Vert
A cozy, family-run bistro in Helsinki's Kruununhaka neighborhood, celebrated for its intimate, candlelit atmosphere and high-quality, seasonal Finnish dishes. A classic!
Kuurna restaurant
Modern Nordic/European with a focus on sustainable fish and plant-based ingredients.
Bona Fide
A cozy bistro-style restaurant serving classic, high-quality Finnish cuisine. Located in a former sculptor’s atelier (by Gunnar Finne). A classic!
Ateljé Finne
Small & cozy izakaya offers a wide range of small, flavorful plates and an impressive selection of artisan sake. Reservation is a must!
Sake Bar & Izakaya
Highly acclaimed, cozy neighborhood bistro in the Vallila district of Helsinki, Finland, known for its creative, seasonal, and sustainable Nordic cuisine. Reservation is a must!
RESTAURANT PLEIN
Lunch
Delicious locally sourced salads, creamy risottos, and handmade pastas. Great coffee! They also have two other equally good cafes in the centre, at Lasipalatsi and Kluuvi
La Torrefazione
Mediterranean menu focusing on ingredients cooked over an open fire, including grills, mezes, and fresh fish.
Restaurant Pamela
Intimate, 6-seat Japanese restaurant offering a modern, healthy, and authentic Tokyo-style café experience. Nowadays they have a second lunch spot in Kluuvi shopping centre.
OWAN – Japanese Restaurant in Helsinki
A vibrant, modern Italian-inspired bistro located within Dance House Helsinki at the historic Kaapelitehdas.
Restaurant Traba | Helsinki
A popular bar and bistro located in the Kallio district, known for it’s relaxed vibe, natural wines, and fresh, seasonal food. Open all day. No reservations, so be there early!
Harju 8
A cozy neighbourhood spot in Punavuori
Bistro Nolita
Coffee
Excellent coffee, bread, pastry and location in the heart of Kallio district. Also, great natural wines!
WAY Bakery
A cozy cafe in little red wooden house on Lauttasaari Island. In the summer you can sit in the lovely garden.
Puhuri by Patisserie Teemu Aura, Lauttasaari
A classic cafe with a view over to the Helsinki Cathedral. Has stayed almost the same since 1990’s. A classic!
Cafe Engel
Cozy little cafe in Lauttasaari. Salads, pastry, coffee, matcha and soft ice!
Kahvila Mutteri
Cute Japanese style cafe with sandos, purin pudding, matcha, coffee and drinks. A fun little location next to an old movie theater.
Café Tampopo
Cafelito is a cozy, Spanish-owned café and deli in the Kallio neighborhood. In the evenings it turns to Vinolito (from 17:00), offering tapas and wine. Next door to Maukku restaurant.
Cafelito / Vinolito
Finland's oldest bakery and café, serving customers since 1852. It is a beloved local institution famous for its traditional pastries, daily breakfast buffet, and classic atmosphere.
Ekberg Café
Bakerika is a popular meatless bakery-café in Punavuori area. It is famous for its stunning vintage cakes, signature naked cakes, daily vegan pastries, and fresh focaccia.
Bakerika
18 Grams is a bright, minimalistic listening cafe located in the Jätkäsaari district of Helsinki. The name refers to the ideal amount of coffee grounds used to brew a perfect double espresso. The cafe merges high-quality artisan coffee with high-fide...
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Wine bars
Bar Petiit is a cozy, intimate natural wine bar located in the historic wooden-house district of Puu-Vallila.
Bar Petiit
Located at the historic Teurastamo abattoir area in Helsinki, B-Side Bar is a cozy, industrial dive bar specialized in American whiskeys. Also has a big & popular summer terrace!
B-Side Bar
Wine bar specializing heavily in Italian natural, low-intervention, and small-producer craft wines
Viinibaari Pinocchio
Klaava is Restaurant Kuurna's wine bar, located next to Restaurant Kuurna on Meritullinkatu. Wine Bar Klaava offers good wines and snacks.
Klaava winebar
Vinolippa is a charming, Spanish-style pop-up wine kiosk located in the historic Liisanpuistikko park in Kruununhaka, Helsinki. Operating out of a protected 1940s Functionalist visor-kiosk (lippakioski), it serves Mediterranean wines, vermouth, tinto...
VinoLippa
The Alkuviini Kioski in Hakaniemi (Hakaniementori square) is a popular summer wine bar and café run by a local natural wine importer.
Alkuviini - Natural wine importer and bar
Smallest wine bar in town. Great natural wines. Selected vintage furniture for sale.
Tokoi
Wine Bar Apotek is a cozy wine bar housed in a historic 100-year-old Jugendstil pharmacy building in central Helsinki. It offers artisan European wines, seasonal small plates, and a private room in the former laboratory.
Viinibaari Apotek / Wine Bar Apotek