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best retaurants and cafés in Helsinki

Kuuma is the coolest breggie place in town. Start your morning with a big coffee, healthy juice and that image cool avocado toast. In this bright café you just want to stop the time, have another cup of coffee and read those fancy magazines.

Write down: Kuuma, Pursimiehenkatu 12.

Date & Kale is a healthy restaurant, which menu includes those perfect smoothie bowls that you just need to take a picture and posted on your Instagram account. Are you already following @Anniskk (Anni Kravi) on Instagram? Well, she is the one of who is behind this restaurant concept. Its other owner, Richard McCormick, is known by his many restaurants, and that he is the man who you call when you want to eat tasty food in Helsinki.

We ate there salty pancakes, which were insanely good. Also, I have to mention that it easy to go with kids.

Write down: Kamppi shopping center/ Kortteli, Urho Kekkosen katu 1.

Mumin Kaffe is so easy to go with kids when you are having a round in Stockmann department store. This recently opened café is excellent when you want to have that coffee break while your kids are plying with Moomin characters or reading Moomin books in beanbag chair.

Write down: Stockmann, 5. kerros. Aleksanterinkatu 52.

Holiday Bar. This bar-restaurant opened last year, but I never had a chance to visit it. Luckily this summer place just opened when we were in Helsinki. We went there for a brunch on May Day known as “Vappu” and had absolutely perfect veggie brunch that I’ll never forget.

The place is decorated with holiday spirit in mind, and here you just want to relax, meet your friends for a drink or dinner and have that mini break when you a really out of office (in your mind also). Good music, friendly staff (who speaks normally only in English) and good music – I am sure you want to have another drink when you get there.

Write down: Kanavaranta 7.

And look: One of those pressdays that we went during our stay, I found my new pair of eyeglasses. I have to have it.

 

What? You can change a nappy here!

Pariisissa meillä on oma suomalaismammaporukka, joka kokoontuu säännöllisin väliajoin. Kun yksi vinkkasi viestiketjussa kahvilasta, jossa olisi hoitopöytä ja vielä syöttötuoli, oli tuo ihmepaikka käytävä tsekkaamassa. Niinpä sovimme mammatreffit St. Michelin lähellä sijaitsevaan A. Lacroix Pâtissieriin.

Ja totta se oli: kolmet vaunut ja kolme vauvaa mahtuivat sulassa sovussa kodikkaan konditoria-kahvilan nurkkapöydän äärelle. Siinä me söimme lounassoppaa ja kahvittelimme kaikessa rauhassa. Pari isompaa vauvaa (oma mukaan lukien) istui kiltisti syöttötuolissa vaihdellen kirjoja ja naksuja keskenään, ja me äidit saimme vaihtaa kuulumisia keskenämme. Mitä luksusta! Ja kuten aiemmin mainitsin: ei vaipanvaihtokaan ollut stressaava kokemus, kun käytössä oli tilava vessa ja se ihka oikea hoitopöytä.

Hoitopöytä oli erityinen myös siinä mielessä, että se oli ensimmäinen, jonka näin pariisilaiskahvilassa. Edistystä.

Suosittelen, jos kaipaat breikkiä ja haluat kahvihetkesi olevan nautinnollinen pienokaisesi kanssa.

Ja niin: A. Lacroix Pâtissierin kakkutarjonta viettelee sekin niin, että haluat takuulla piipahtaa tuossa kodikkaassa paikassa uudelleen. Psst. Testaa ainakin Tigré-kakku.

 

With two other Finnish mothers we have a little gathering from time to time. Normally, we meet at someone’s place, because in Paris, well you know the deal; it is kind of difficult to enter a small cafeteria, not to mention to change a diaper.

When my friend said that we should meet in this cafeteria where there is a highchair and changing table in the bathroom, we all wanted go there immediately.

And it was true, in A. Lacroix Pâtissier we could all fit in with three prams and with our babies. We settled down at the corner table where there was space to sit down comfortably on a sofa and the babies could have chairs of their own. While two bigger babies concentrated on exchanging books and snacks, us adults had time to catch up and have a lunch and coffee. And when it was a time to change a nappy, it was so nice that you didn’t need to figure out where and how, when you could just do it in the bathroom on a real changing table. What a luxury! And what a huge step in Paris, that you can actually find a place like this.

I totally recommend A. Lacroix Pâtissier if you are on holiday with your little one and you are walking around St. Michel, and if you just need a little coffee break without stressing about how it will work out with the little one. Of course you will be addicted to A. Lacrox’s delicious cakes. Try the Tigré cake, or take two pieces, because here you can easily chill out for a couple of hours with your child.

A. Lacroix Pâtissier, 11 Quai de Montebello, 75005, Paris.