Moose & Wildlife safari with campfire dinner from Helsinki
Get the best chance to encounter moose and other wildlife in their natural habitats. Enjoy a light campfire dinner in a pristine forest, as we guide you through the mo...
18 Grams is a cafe in Jatkasaari, Helsinki.
Editorially verified May 28, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Part coffee bar, part listening room. Good for an afternoon coffee in the newer harbour district of Jätkäsaari.
Get the best chance to encounter moose and other wildlife in their natural habitats. Enjoy a light campfire dinner in a pristine forest, as we guide you through the mo...
Explore Nuuksio National park in winter on a guided snowshoe hike with hotel pickup from Helsinki. Enjoy a private experience with a certified guide and refuel with an...
Explore Nuuksio National Park on a guided hike with hotel pickup from Helsinki. Enjoy a private experience with a certified guide and refuel with an open-fire lunch.
Address: Livornonkatu 6, 00220 Helsinki
Rams Roasters on quiet Neitsytpolku in Ullanlinna is a family-run cafe and bakery pouring top roasters, known for some of the city's best cinnamon buns.
Signature drink: Specialty coffee and a cinnamon bun
Tip: A laptop-free neighbourhood room on a residential Ullanlinna street, sharing the block with Restaurant Aoi. The home-baked korvapuusti is the order.
Karl Fazer opened this French-Russian cafe and cake shop on Kluuvikatu in 1891, still the city's grand chocolate-and-cake room under a glass dome.
Signature drink: Hot chocolate with a Fazer pastry
Tip: The breakfast buffet runs on weekday mornings and brunch on weekends. Buy a box of Fazer chocolates on the way out.
Cafe Regatta is a tiny red lakeside cottage near Sibelius Park serving korvapuusti and coffee; in summer the tables spill onto the shoreline rocks.
Signature drink: Cinnamon bun and coffee by the sea
Tip: Bring the coffee outside and sit on the waterfront rocks. Cash-friendly, cramped indoors, and busiest on sunny afternoons.
Café Aalto sits on the upper floor of the Academic Bookstore, a 1969 Alvar Aalto building on the Esplanadi, looking down over the books and skylights.
Signature drink: Coffee and cake among the bookshelves
Tip: Reached through the Academic Bookstore on the Esplanadi. Order a coffee and a slice, then browse the design and architecture shelves.
Ekberg has run on Bulevardi since 1852, the oldest cafe and bakery in Helsinki, where the patisserie counter keeps an old-world ritual alive.
Signature drink: Coffee with a Napoleon pastry
Tip: Come for the morning pastry counter and the Napoleon mille-feuille. It has been a Bulevardi fixture since 1852.
Andante opened in a former Punavuori flower shop, pouring fruity hand-brews from rotating European micro-roasters that change every couple of weeks.
Signature drink: Rotating micro-roaster filter coffee
Tip: Ask what guest roaster is on the brew bar; it changes every couple of weeks. A design-district spot built for slow filter coffee.