20 Aug 2017 • Ruoka Helsingissä

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Some quick restaurant reviews for Helsinki, in no particular order:

• La Soupe: can get a nice cup of soup and a quiche in a few minutes. The soup is slightly greasy but good. They used to just have a daily menu on the website but they changed and it and now it's more confusing
• Soppakeittö: better soup but more expensive and you have to eat it there
• Roslund: Great burgers and great chips
• Corretto: very good bolognese on wednesday, very good lasagne on friday. I assume the other stuff they do is good too but I never tried it
• Smyg (Sinne): been twice and haven't really liked it either time
• Stone's: nice chips but the burger was WTF AWFUL. Just really bad tasting meat
• Fig: too slow at lunch but the dinners are solid
• Karl Johan: used to do really nice pea soup on thursdays and had a really nice spicy beef soup once, but they seem to have dropped all that and replaced the lunch menu with fucking meatloaf every day. Really nice for dinner
• Pompier: pretty good lunches but pretty greasy too. Super quick. They also have pea soup thursdays but I don't like it
• Krog Madame: pretty good lunches that are not greasy. Also quick
• Gran Delicato: other people seem to like it but I've only ever found it ok
• Oba: the toasted flatbreads are decent, the meatballs are really excellent
• Ateljé Finne: real good
• Muru: big disappointment because I other people said it is great. Firstly put the goddamn menu on paper, I don't want to have to decide with the waiter standing there and I'm going to forget exactly what they say. Secondly the food was just not that great. I can make better risotto than what I ate there and Muru is probably the most expensive restaurant I've been to so that just shouldn't happen
• Limone: it's pretty good and only a few minutes away
• Salve: massive portions of eh food
• Blue Peter: 25 euro lunch buffet that is worse than any 10 euro buffet you can find in town
• Karl Fazer cafe (the big one): nice but mad overpriced. Went a bunch when J was expensing everything
• The basement of Stockmann: nice pastries
• S-Market: if you can get the warm garlic bread or ciabatta it's great, 35 43 cent croissants are great too.
• K-Market: go to S-Market instead
• Rivoletto: go to Corretto instead
• Red Koi Thai: is a favourite at work but I thought it was meh
• Mei Lin: eh
• New Bamboo Center: eh
• Fat Ramen: eh
• Beijing 8: dumplings that don't taste of anything with some sauce to dip them in
• Factory: eh
• Kungfu Kitchen: eh, expensive for lunch
• Ônam: I like the lemongrass chicken
• GIWA: really nice simple food, S says it's legit Korean
• Helkatti: the best
• Surely other places I forgot...