Restaurant Luomo in english

Luomo, Helsinki

Luomo is one of the Michelin-star restaurants in Helsinki. Luomo opened in 2009 and got its first Michelin-star quickly. The restaurant is located near center of Helsinki in city district Kruununhaka. It is quite a small place, with seatings to 30 people. Ambience in Luomo was relaxed and easy going.

The menu is very short, mysterious and funny. We chose five course menu and took recommended wines as a half version. Before the actual dishes we received a few greetings from the kitchen. One of them that we liked the most was a salmon dish served with apple sauce.

For the starters we got three different dishes: "Cassis with cheddar", "Lobster & rose" and "Foie gras miso". Cassis with cheddar was our favourite one. We also liked "Lobster & rose", which was very beautiful. "Foie gras miso" wasn't that amazing. We found it too complicated and it had too many flavours. We didn't really catch the main idea of that dish. 

Juhana chose "Cheek & beets" and Pauliinas choice was "Porridge of forest mushroom" for main course. Our favourite one of the mains was Pauliinas choice. Risotto was perfetto! It was soft and tasty (didn't need any salt) and with lots of forest mushrooms. "Cheek & beets" included veal cheeks, beetroot and smetana. The dish was nice but nothing special. With each dish we got different kind of bread (focaccia etc.) with butter. The selection of breads was wide and they tasted really good. 

Deserts were wonderful. "Snickers" was very very sweet and rich of chocolate, basically snickers bar exploded on the plate. Another desert sounded very odd or what do you think about having "Eggplant with curry" as a desert? It was absolutely the weirdest desert, which we have ever eaten. Surprisingly in spite of the weird mixture of the ingredients the dish tasted really good and sweet. It would have been mission impossible to guess the ingredients. 

After the dinner we got coffee. The kitchen brought the final sweet greeting with the coffee. Service in Luomo was excellent. Everything worked and we loved our waiter who was very polite and professional. During the evening we got lot of information about the food and wines. If you enjoy good, well made food with wonderful wines, the restaurant Luomo is the right place for you. Luomo


Service **** ½ 
Ambience ****+
Food ****+
Quality compared to price ****+


Vironkatu 8, Helsinki

Juuri in english

Restaurant Juuri, Helsinki

Ambience and Service
The restaurant itself is divided in two; the main area in front of the restaurant and little back room where our table was. When you are making the reservation ask for table in the main section, it’s much cozier. The back room works well for a bigger group if you want to have some privacy. The service was ok, nothing special. The atmosphere was pleasant though.

First the waitress brought bread and carrot butter foam which were really delicious! The restaurant has wide selection of non-alcoholic drinks. They had several beers including wheat beer, cider and wines and sparkling wine to use from. We chose currant leaf sparkling wine and it was excellent!

Food
We decided to go for sapas even though we had the EatHelsinki 2010 book because sapas are the speciality of the restaurant. Sapas means finish tapas, little dishes made of traditional finish ingredients.

We chose eight sapas a' 4.30€.

Mushroom soup and rye bread stick

Cabbage leaves filled with crayfish and cottage cheese in melted dill butter

Beetroot and nut loaf with small mushrooms

Roasted swede with cauliflower purée

Grilled serpent root with rosehip compote

Egg cheese spiced with oregano, baked on top of straws

All of the ingredients were top-of-the-line. Also the flavors were very good. Mushroom soup was little disappointing. The soup was ok but not very rich or creamy like we like it. Cabbage leaves filled with crayfish and cottage cheese in melted dill butter was amazing! As also were beetroot and nut loaf with small mushrooms and roasted swede with cauliflower purée. This is why we loooove food! For desert we chose baked ice-cream with blue berry meringue (7, 4 €), delightful! The sizes of the dishes varied a lot. Mushroom soup was regular appetizer size when the grilled serpent root with rosehip compote was just a bite.

We were pleasantly surprised with high-class, well prepared and well-seasoned food! We can sincerely recommend restaurant Juuri. The pricing was little bit high. Portions were small and we would recommend 6 sapas if you don’t eat the main course and you’ll have appetite for desert left. http://www.juuri.fi/

Ambience *** ½

Service ****-

Food ****

Price compared to quality ****-

Korkeavuorenkatu 27

Mange Sud in english

Mange Sud, Helsinki

Ambience

Mange Sud is a great discovery in Helsinki restaurant scene - thanks to EatHelsinki 2010 Book! We have visited Mange Sud more than once and have always been very pleased with the food and the atmosphere of the restaurant. Mange Sud is an elegant restaurant, the interior is simple but warm and the service is always great!

Food

Actually we have always chosen the menu option because it has been the best deal and they have always had great discounts like two menus in a price of one. So also this time we took up on their offer for two eats, one pays. Most of our party of seven chose Menu Maison (42€), which included 3 dishes: Pumpkin risotto, Sea bar and Tiramisu. We took a half wine baggage (14 €) to go with the menu.

Pumpkin risotto was wonderfully creamy and soft. With a pinch of salt the taste just got better…Risotto came with white wine.

Pumpkin risotto

The tiramisu was huge! It was very good. The only little thing was that it seemed like the chef had spilled a whole bottle of alcohol to the desert. It almost seemed like we got really drunk from the dessert ;)

Tiramisu

Service

The service in Mange Sud is always good. When it comes busy the little mistakes increase; they forget to bring the bred, you have to wait for the water… But they are always very polite and friendly. We changed the reservation details several times and they were very flexible and understanding towards us.

Mange Sud has become one of our favorite restaurants in Helsinki. The atmosphere is great and laid back and the service is friendly. The food is always great, little bit expensive though. Mange Sud

Ambience 9+

Service 9

Food 9-

Price compered to quality 8+

Luomo 6.11.2010

Luomon toinen vierailu oli yhtä onnistunut kokemus kuin edellinenkin. Täällä toimii kaikki :). Saavuimme ravintolaan illan ensimmäisinä asiakkaina, mikä oli jostain syystä meistä huvittavaa. Menu oli edelliseltä kerralta muuttunut. Luomossa on mahdollista valita kolme, viisi tai seitsemän ruokalajia. Päädyimme tälläkin kertaa viiteen ruokalajiin ja otimme myös menuuseen kuuluvan viinipaketin puolikkaana versiona.

Alkusnackseina saimme pienet tötteröt, jotka sisälsivät tomaattia ja parmesaania. Toisena alkusncaksina tarjoilija toi pöytäämme savuiset lasipurkit - jännittävää. Lasipurkeissa oli munakoisokaviaaria. Molemmat snacksit olivat erittäin maistuvia ja jänniä suupaloja.

Viiden ruokalajin menuuseen kuului kolme alkuruokaa. Ensimmäinen alkuruoka Punajuurta ja vuohenmaitoa oli loistava setti. Annos sisälsi montaa eri ainesta näiden kahden edellämainitun lisäksi, mm. tryffeliä Tanskasta. Kaunis, jännittävä ja ihana kokonaisuus!

Toinen alkuruoka oli kampasimpukkaa kookosmaidossa. Makuelämyksenä ei mielestämme niitä parhaita, mutta viinin kanssa toimi todella hyvin. Kolmannen alkuruuan myötä saimme elämämme ensimmäistä kertaa maistaa kateenkorvaa. Annos jakoi mielipiteitä - kateenkorva voi siis olla hyvää tai ei niin hyvää. Kateenkorva tarjottiin bataatin kanssa ja annoksessa oli myös suklaata. Jännittäviä makuyhdistelmiä, mutta toimivia ja hyviä.

Illan pääruuat olivat hirveä ja turskaa. Hirvi tarjoiltiin tattiliemessä kera wasabivaahdon ja mustajuuren. Turskan seurana oli munakoisoa ja paprikavaahtoa ja muutamia muita aineksia. Makoisaa ja erityisesti turska oli hyvää.

Superhauska oli pikkuinen väliruoka ennen varsinaista jälkiruokaa: karpalosorbettia vodkageelillä, joukossa myös hiukan kinuskia. Kirpeä ja makea suussasulava ihanuus.

Varsinainen jälkiruoka oli taas yksi erikoisimmista jälkiruuista, mihin olemme törmänneet: Herkkutattia ja suklaata. Ensi alkuun kuulosti hurjalle, mutta oli ihan älyttömän hyvä jälkkäri. Annoksessa oli myös tyrnimarjajäätelöä ja kakkua. Kreisejä raaka-aineita, mutta ah niin hyvää :)

Luomon leivät ovat superhyviä. Tällä illalisella saimme maistaa vuohenjuustosämpylää, valkosipulifocacciaa ja misoruisleipää. Kaikki ihanan lämpimiä ja maistuvia. Tästä tykkäsimme kovasti.
Tunnelmaltaan ravintola oli rento ja letkeä. Viihdyimme ja tykkäsimme. Palvelu koko illan aikana oli koko ajan erittäin hyvää. Tarjoilijat olivat rentoja ja asiantuntevia ja asiakasystävällisiä - tästä on vaikea pistää paremmaksi. http://www.luomo.fi/

Tunnelma ****+
Palvelu    *****-
Ruoka     ****½
Hintalaatusuhde ****+

Vironkatu 8