Café restaurants in Helsinki
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Café Engel
This heavenly spot in the Senaatintori hums with tourists and university students alike. There’s always a good selection of cakes and enticing meals often of a vegetarian bent such as a beetroot lasagne. It’s a cultural hub with films shown in the courtyard during summer, irregular piano recitals and a plump English-language magazine selection.
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Café Esplanade
This large, busy space is a perfect spot for a variety of needs and wants. Oversized Danish pastries and excellent Finnish pulla, a traditional wheat bun, are good accompaniments to coffee (bottomless) or espresso; for lunch, there are spectacular salads and a variety of wines served by the glass.
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Ylioppilasaukio
Helsinki University has several student caféterias around the city, where meals cost under around €5. They include Porthania (1311 4298; Hallituskatu 11-13; ;10:00-16:00 Mon-Fri) and the huge Ylioppilasaukio , tucked away down an alley next to Zetor.
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Soul Kitchen
In Kallio, to the north of central Helsinki is Soul Kitchen, a loungey, retro café and bar. The menu is listed on a record sleeve - make your selection while checking out the liner notes. The burgers, salads and steaks are some of the best around.
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Café Helmi
A kindly Russian grandmother would happily take tea from the distinctive lilac-and-white cups in the courtyard of this Tsarist teahouse. They do one of the best Runeberg tarts, but regular cakes and chocolates will also have you loosening your belt.
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Café Ekberg
There’s been a cafe of this name in Helsinki since 1861 and today it continues to be a family-run place renowned for pastries like the Napoleon cake. The buffet breakfasts and lunches are also popular, plus there’s fresh bread to takeaway.
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Porthania
Helsinki University has several student caféterias around the city, where meals cost under around €5. They include Porthania and the huge Ylioppilasaukio (260 9491; Mannerheimintie 3B
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Zucchini
One of the city’s few vegetarian cafes, it makes up for it with friendliness and fresh baked quiches and piping-hot soups. The sunny terrace out the back is stunning in summer.
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Café Chapman
Near the dry dock on Susisaari is a pleasant café in an old stone storehouse. There's a busy terrace in summer.
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Café Fanny
Try this café, on the beautiful cobbled Old Town square, for watching Porvoo drift by.
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