Pop-Up Restaurant Tokyo Girl

Bali-Hai on Iso-Roobertinkatu used to be my favourite restaurant when it first opened in 2007. At the time it had the same cool concept as my previous hangouts Tori and Slussen. However, I did not visit the place anymore during the past years as the owner changed and the quality went down.

After Bali Hai closed in December 2012, there is a pop-up restaurant Tokyo Girl in the same premises.

Tokyo Firl, Iso-Roobertinkatu 35-37

Restaurant is serving only in January and it is a test of the new restaurant concept by Richard McCormick, the guy behind several Helsinki restaurant, such as Shanghai Cowboy, New York Ninja (Korjaamo) and Siltanen. He has lots of thing going on as Shanghai Cowboy will move to Annankatu and new restaurant Krog Madame is opening in February.

Some minor changes in interiors, but still same furniture and overall lay-out. A bit too dark as you could not read the menu without mobile phone light and not really see what you were eating. The food was thai-inprired, really tasty and good value for money. And really friendly service by fashion deigner Antti Asplund.

There is lots of good things going on in Helsinki restaurant life!

My New Favourite Brunch in Helsinki

Culture Factory Korjaamo has so many great things going on, like concerts, theatre, art exhibitions, book shop, tram museum etc.

Now they also have re-newed brunch by New York Ninja, which instantly became my favourite one in Helsinki.

Good buffet with wide selection of salads, vegetables, fruit, yogurt, eggs and bacon etc.

And the dessert cakes were heavenly!

For brunches I also like Dylan a lot, but Korjaamo is much more convenient due to its location in Töölö and also for the athmosphere.