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    Kappeli

    4.2 (83 reviews)
    PriceyCoffee & Tea, Brasseries
    Closed 10:00 am - 12:00 AM (Next day)

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    What's the vibe?
    Classy
    Loud
    Good for kids
    Dogs allowed

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    Salmon soup
    Secil A.

    Delicious food, quick service, lovely ambiance. Highly recommend the soup and the creme brûlée!

    Perch
    Nayiri M.

    Excellent restaurant! Very attentive service and friendly staff with a sense of pride toward their food. I enjoyed the perch. Perfectly cooked with excellent sides! My husband had the liver dish and said it was the best liver he's ever had! Highly recommended this spot. It is an old restaurant as well with a rich history!

    Albert K.

    Cute coffee shop. Various pastries and salad and sandwiches. Bar on one side, restaurant on another. Excellent coffee to pick from and salmon soup.

    Dessert
    Tonya G.

    Kappeli is set in a beautiful building from the 1800's. The surrounding glass windows and chandeliers make it a very romantic setting. The service was on point. All three people assisting our table were kind and friendly. We started with a salmon appetizer. The salmon was raw, fatty and oh so delicious! My daughter ordered the reindeer roast. She said it was tasty, not gamey; however, she thought it was way too dry to eat. I had the smoked salmon as my main dish. It was good, but I preferred the appetizer. Our dessert was like a blueberry cake/crumble. It was very light and not too sweet. If you are in Helsinki, this is a must dine restaurant.

    Seared salmon Kappeli Restaurant Helsinki
    Beverly R.

    Kappeli restaurant has been in the same spot since 1867, and it looks like they have not missed a beat in all these years. In our first visit to Helsinki, we walked by this lovely restaurant, skimmed the menu and made reservations. The food was delicious, the building is beautiful and our service was fastidious. My husband ordered the seared salmon. It was served with mashed potatoes, root vegetables and an unusual sauce, licorice maybe? My salad consisted of mixed greens and watercress with shaved onions, shaved pickled onions, small spicy peppers, pumpkin seeds and baby carrots. I ordered the reindeer steak and reindeer sausages, which were served with mashed potatoes and root vegetables. The dessert was especially amazing: lemon cake with fresh and dried strawberries, topped with rhubarb sorbet. Fabulous!

    Norman W.

    Just along from the harbour nestles this wonderful restaurant. A restaurant of times gone by. So easy to imagine the writers, poets and artists of old Finland sitting there with a cup of coffee thinking about their next piece of work. We popped in for a coffee and inside was going back generations as it hadn't changed. Great service from wonderful, helpful, staff and the coffee was delicious. I managed to avoid buying one of their beautiful pastries. Next time, maybe. Lovely selection of various offerings of main meals which were being purchased at an alarming rate. This proves how good they were. Looking forward to our next visit to Helsinki and this restaurant will be a definite return visit.

    Seating area by the window, this was on the restaurant side versus the cafe side
    Paul P.

    Fantastic restaurant and cafe near the harbour square and close to the water. The prices were high though service was fantastic and spot on. I felt very cared for. Food was of high quality and delicious. Very rich in flavor. They had an outdoor patio for smoking with many tables. The cafe had many pastry choices and WC available for guests. We went by earlier and saw the plentiful amount of guests. I would highly recommend as a date experience or special experience as the meal was expensive but for us worth it. The wine too was well paired and delicious.

    Large cappuccino and it was delicious.
    Erik B.

    We stopped for early morning coffee and it was great. There aren't many cafes open early Saturday morning so we felt fortunate to find Kappeli and take a break on our city exploration.

    Tiffany N.

    I liked the food choices. There was live music outside while we dined. It was a treat but was also a tad bit loud.

    Ayesha M.

    Great quiche. Had to ask them to warm it twice tho but it was delicious. Very nice cafe right in the city center

    Pan fried local fish

    Our boutique hotel recommended this restaurant which was close and still open at 9:00. We were greeted by a very nice older woman whose name was something like Paiva. There is a dining room with big beautiful windows overlooking the Esplanadi Park. It is elegant with high ceilings and whimsical architectural details but not stuffy or formal. There is also a cafe, a bar and outdoor seating. The food is Finnish and very good. We had salmon soup which is like a milk-based buttery chowder. We also had the pan fried fish with veggies which was excellent too. Every appetizer and dessert we tried was very tasty. The waiter was very professional and friendly. She was from Nepal. It is an historic place that still is extremely well run. Don't miss it while you are in Helsinki!

    carrot cake, iced latte
    Josh T.

    Super pretty design that gives it a nice vibe. Enjoy your pastries, salmon soup, or coffee in the middle of the park that offers nice views of the harbor. Apparently this place is the best known for their salmon soup. Unfortunately, I didn't get the chance to try it. Instead, I got carrot cake and iced latte. Carrot cake was good and latte was good. Nothing amazing. I expected a little better since it was pricey. Either way, cute place!

    Pastries. We tried the pastry of the day which was very good
    Milli B.

    The ambiance was really nice! Lots of windows that let natural light in. Very clean and well kept. The servers were pleasant and very welcoming. We tried the reindeer with mashed potatoes, this was kind of simple meal with good flavor. It was an easy dish to eat. The citrus shrimp salad tasted fresh and light. Later we moved to the cafe side to have coffee and try the pastry of the day. We went around noon so it was not very busy

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    Excellent food, service and ambience. Best fish preparation and el puré de papas es de otro mundo. Le doy cinco estrellas.

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    Pastis - Chicken and veggies

    Pastis

    4.2(19 reviews)
    0.4 kmKaartinkaupunki
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    Date of visit: 9/4/2024…read more What a let down! We had high hope for this restaurant as it was our last meal in Helsinki and hubby had had enough of eating salmon and shrimps and reindeers lol. Anyways, almost all orders were a mess! Hubby's orders: - Pastis escargots gratinated with Roquefort: EXTREMELY SALTY! The sauce was inedible! - Foie Gras brioche with apple and thyme chutney: it was a slice of liver, lightly cooked (pan fried) served on a piece of brioche. Def not how we usually had it in France. Not a fan! - Grilled flank steak with roasted carrot and sauce bavaroise: Not good! Meat was neither tender nor juicy. The sauce was also bad. Hubby knows his way around his meat so when he says no good, it's better to stay away from it! - Pastis truffle fries: the fries on its own was fantastic, the sauce it comes with, however, was really REALLY salty to the point it was inedible! I ordered the 4-course Menu du Chef (set menu): - Tartar ala Pastis with egg yolk and dijonnaise: shrimp tartar. it was ok. - Chantarelle soup with pickled chantarelles and pepper oil: delicious! - Poached cod with savoy cabbage and creamy tomato sauce: fish was perfectly cooked (confit). Sauce was ok, again a bit on the salty side. - Dessert was poached pear with some cream on top: not a fan. We ended up just eating the poached pear for not wanting to waste it. Service was great. When asked why some dishes were extremely salty, our server just answered that's how Finnish people like their food: with a lot of salt! We were like REALLYYYYYY?!?!?!?! Oh well!

    This French restaurant has a lively ambience perfect for a date night or nice evening out! The…read moreservice is amazing and the food is fabulous!! You simply can't go wrong on any menu item. The cream of asparagus soup is to die for! Be sure to order it. It's creamy and delish! We ate here a couple times on our visit to Helsinki because the food and ambiance was so lovely. This is a must visit!!

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    Ravintola Töölönranta

    Ravintola Töölönranta

    3.2(9 reviews)
    2.0 kmTaka-Töölö
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    Pricy restaurant in a very nice settlement, often crowded by big groups of both Finns or tourists…read more One of those restaurants where food is well-prepared, well-presented, good wine list, but the service side is completely forgotten; slow, unorganized I felt completely forgotten, I needed to almost shout to get the attention of a waitress, since all the waiters in the room seem to avoid checking and make eye-contact with customers. First several delicious starters(listed below in my personal preference order, being the first three must-try): -Beer marinated beef with garlic mayonnaise (Pure perfection!) -Finnish goats milk Gruyere with currant wine gelé ( the most innovative, great combination and very balance taste) -Vichyssoise with asparagus (very well done, but) -Cured lamb tartar with malt bread -Peppered and lightly salted salmon with pickled cucumber -Herring caviar seasoned with sherry, new potatoes Main dish: -Grilled whitefish with lemon risotto and crayfish sauce (Although the whitefish and the crafish sauce were finely done and they worked wonderfully together, the lemon risotto spoiled the dish.Risotto was undercooked and hard) Dessert: - Lemon Cremè Brûlée (really unbalanced on the taste it seems the dishes with ölemon do not work well in this restaurant) However I tried a little bit of my friend's choice: -Vanilla soup with poached rhubarb and organic strawberry sorbet (This one was a delicious combination) Time between starters and main dishes waiting over 30 minutes!!! One importan point in restaurant business is to end the serving of a table. Once you have started the table, you should be very concentrated on the demands of the table till the full meal ends. You cannot have more than 5 minutes between one dish and next one, apart from desserts, since they are ordered afterwards. However, many of the desserts are already made and just need to be plated it up, so it should not take that long either. If problems in the kitchen, customer should be informed to decide if they want to keep on waiting or notlack of communication is the worse feauture of any customer oriented business. Summing up: Pricy: dinner for two + bottle of wine over 120 euros. Food deserves 4 stars, but service was a complete failure, so only two stars.

    Decent food and friendly service but not well organized which detracted from the experience. Good…read morelocation is likely a crutch and there's little evidence that management is ensuring that customers are being taken care of

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