Hidden wine cellars of Helsinki

Wine consumption is growing fast in Finland. Nice wine cellars try to meet the higher demand. Here is a list of few good ones to try in Helsinki (most of the links are in Finnish only): G. W. Sundmans, Olo wine cabinet, La Bodega, Carelia, CWC, Sörnäisten viinikellari, Wine cellar of Ruttopuisto.

Anyway, if you prefer more traditional. Try Helsinki Vodka. Look at their slogan: "How Finns relax".
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Finnish electro scene: beat beat beat

Is it burning your ears or not?
Try and decide: Eero Johannes, KA SO RE, JESSE (album release party @ Korjaamo 12.4.08).

Excellent stuff.

Postres: Restaurant of the Year gained Michelin star

The best Finnish restaurant of the year 2008 is awarded to Postres. La Société des Gastronomes Finlandais (Suomen Gastronominen seura) awards annually the restaurant of the year. For some reason this has been correlating with the Michelin star nominations in past few years. No exception this year.

Postres gained it's first Michelin star this year. As did another newcomer Carma. Chez Dominique holds on to its two stars and Demo preserves the star it gained last year. G.W. Sundmans has lost its accolade, meaning that Helsinki (and Finland as a whole) now has four starred Michelin eateries.

The Sommelier Blog summarizes this nicely: "All the star restaurants in Helsinki are now small privately owned, it was not actually a big surprise to me that G.W. Sundmans lost their star. I think that this is good wake for Royal Ravintolat to sharpen up and really start thinking in new way and making their restaurants more different from each other.".