Friendly staff. Cute decor and music. Open hella late. The beef is good but heavy on the paprika so make sure you like that spice. The chicken is better IMHO. If you need a break from eating fish and reindeer meat in this town go here. And if you need food really late or on a holiday for sure go here. Recommended. read more

Probably the most classic kebab place in Helsinki. Has served the kebab hungry people of Helsinki for almost 20 years. The portions are huge so you won't leave hungry! read more

Obviously the people 2 or 3-starring this place didn't get the memo: You must be, I repeat: MUST BE drunk or in the throes of a hangover of epic proportions to fully appreciate the delicacies on offer at Eerikin. I don't mean you had one too many beers at Corona drunk. I mean you are obliterated. The harder it is to walk, the better this food is going to taste. If you're so blitzed you can't read the menu, you're in the right place. No offense to the owners of this establishment. They're super nice and the people that work here are fast, efficient, and they'll be your best friends and salvation come 2 a.m. on a Saturday night. I highly recommend the falafel salad which will consist of 5 (the requisite number of balls to soak up the inordinate amount of poison you've ingested) falafels in a "special sauce" that looks like red dye 40 but tastes like sweet nectar, with a squirt of yogurt on top. There will be rice and there will be salad. Now that rice will look normal but once it's blended with that sauce we talked about earlier, it will taste like something Julia Child herself cooked up after a rowdy night out. The salad will be soggy. Such is life. It's still vegetables. Suck it up and do something positive with your life you degenerate. In all seriousness, this is a classic fast-food kebab place in a great central (to the bars) location. The inside is quite nicely appointed (even downright fancy for a late-night joint) and the owners are obviously doing something right (feeding hungry lunch crowds in search of a quick fix and obviously fueling and refueling and even reviving the nightlife crowd). No, as a mostly clean-eating vegetarian with a love of organic macrobiotic hippie shit, I wouldn't eat here most of the time. But I will most definitely eat here after a night out of UNclean living and I highly recommend you do the same. The thing is: kebab is fast food here. This is fast-ish food. It's ok fast food by the light of day. It is amazing unicorn food at 2.30 a.m. Oh and it's cheaper than a pack of cigarettes. So quit smoking and eat your greens. Even if they are soggy. read more

My wife and I were looking for someplace 'different' to try during our stay in Helsinki. Based on one review in English we decided to try it. What a wonderful chance we took! It was a clean, friendly, inviting place. We don't speak Finnish so the staff was happy to come around the counter to see which dishes we were pointing at. We paid the very reasonable price (less than 20€ for both of us) and they told us they would bring out our food. Within a few minutes two large plates were delivered to our table. Each heaping with hot meat, cool vegetables and just the right amount of sauces and seasoning. I was concerned the food may be too spicy but even though the aroma hinted it might be, it was seasoned perfectly. We left full having had a wonderful experience. We highly recommend Eerikin Pippuri. read more

Came here for lunch on a Saturday. Nice looking place to both eat in and take away. Friendly staff and only had to wait 5 mins for food to be brought to our table. Two stars only because we must have ordered the wrong thing: we both had the pita meal. While it looked great on the menu and when served, I was surprised to find it filled with half gyro meet and half marinara sauce. Never had that combo before and it made for a funky and bland mashup of two foods that don't belong together. Maybe it's me and this combo is more standard than I think, but boy - does this make me miss the kebab and pita meals back in Copenhagen. read more

I went to Helsinki for a week and ended up eating here three times during my stay. I'd never had Kebab so don't have much to compare it too. Either way you got a good meal for a reasonable price. The people working there were actually pretty nice and the owner handed out candy to children.(in a not creepy way) read more

Disgusting. As a whole that supposedly Kebab I threw in the trash. They should probably go to Germany to learn how to make a Kebab.

Boyfriend and I were walking around the neighborhood looking for something to eat and stumbled across this place. Decided to go in because there were tons of people eating inside. I got falafel with the garlic potatoes. There was hardly any flavor in any of the food... the garlic potatoes didn't taste like garlic and the falafel tasted worse than frozen falafel from the grocery store. Disappointed. read more