Dinner At Juuri

Restaurant Juuri is located in Korkeavuorenkatu near Design Museum.

The speciality of the restaurant are Sapas appertizers with traditional Finnish flavours. Sapas are really tasty mouthfuls and there are some 15 different options on the menu priced EUR 4,50 each. You can take 2 each and share with 2 people so both get to have a taste as starters. But these are so tasty one wants to eat them all and as a main dish it was recommended to have 6-7 sapas each.

This time we chose Smoked bream and potato mousse with fried rye dough, Mushroom brioche with onion and cream cheese, Black sausage and Baked oregano cottage cheese with gooseberry and green pepper jam. All were delicious!

As a main course we both chose the dish of the day which was really nice salmon.

Two desserts were tested and I preferred Apple and rowan berry crumble with birch and yoghurt sorbet and salty liquorice sauce over Swiss roll with chocolate and caramel, salt caramel ice cream and pine fudge sauce.

Overall really good experience and excellent food. Sometimes the service can be little bit stiff, but now we had really good waiter. The only thing was that the noise level at restaurant gets pretty high at times so it is hard to have a conversation.

But the restaurant is definitely worth a visit because of the great food! And after dinner you can have a drink at next door Latva Bar.

  

After Work With The Girls

Gosh, how energizing it is to have an After Work with some lovely friends. Just to take it easy for few hours, sit down, sip a drink or two, catch up and share your stories. You feel so refreshed after good conversations and lots of laughs.

The place we met was totally new for me Latva Bar, sister restaurant to Juuri and located on Korkeavuorekatu near Design Museum. Talking of which, I really should find time to visit also Design Museum as it was a while ago. They have interesting exhibitions all the time, especially this year Helsinki being World Design Capital 2012.

Latva was a perfect choise and had great ambience for an After Work in the middle of the week. Neat interiors and cool decor. I especially liked the Marimekko's Socks Rolled Down classes and tealight candles inside a grater as well as wooden interiors.

 
Latva's menu was fascinating with good selection of wines, cocktails and beer plus some Finnish tapas ie. Sapas from Juuri's kitchen. It was Tuesday today so maybe too early in the week to try too many of the treats on the menu, but there were lots of temptations. 

Verkstrand's Manhattan

Latva seems to be quite popular and all the tables were full (well, the restaurant is not that big). That is always a positive sign. Nice music in the background and not too much noice. Need to come here again!

And absolutely need to have After Works more often, also in the middle of the week.

Entrance to Latva