Nip, snack and more

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Nip and snack: Siltanen
Lunch: Dong Bei Hu (Tuomas Vimma: "Best chinese in town")
Dinner: Restaurant Luomo (Vironkatu 8) - Try classic Gin Tonic made out of Organic Gin

Eat&Joy Farmer's Market Food

The Eat&Joy Farmer's Market sets the focus on local, top quality ingredients and organic food. They offer an extensive list of products:
kyytto-forest cow, poro (wild reindeer), grain pork meat, lake Inari, Saimaa fish and roe, smoked specialties, organic and wild vegetables and herbs, indigenous root vegetables, berry jams, mushrooms, small producer’s specialty cheese, churned organic butter, small brewery cider and special beer, organic whole grain and rye bread, organic flour, including great examples of organic ice cream and artisan chocolates.

More info:
Lasipalatsi, Mannerheimintie 22-24, Helsinki

Best of Finland - breakfast

Klaus K's the best of Finland - breakfast consists of many delicacies which are prepared using the best products of Finnish nature. Breakfast includes game, fish, berries and other, preferably organic products supplied by regional small producers. The bread and pastry selection is prepared by their own baker.

View the menu here.

The breakfast is served Monday to Friday 6.30-10 and 7.30-11.30 during the weekends.

More info:
www.ravintolailmatar.fi
Bulevardi 2 / 4, Helsinki.

Monte Rosso Soundtrack CD + DVD is out now

Monte Rosso is a short movie from the creators of the cult series Madventures. It captures the language and lifestyle of a whole generation living in the boroughs of Helsinki.

DVD release also includes a soundtrack mixtape-CD featuring 25 tracks inspired by the movie. The CD is mixed by DJ Street Kobra & Croko-Roc.

Monte Rosso Soundtrack CD mixed by DJ Street Kobra & Kroko-Roc
01. Uusi Fantasia: Mänin teema osa 1.
02. Hector & Oscar: Savu
03. Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu: Magical World
04. Didier's Sound System: Impuls
05. Uusi Fantasia: Mänin teema osa 2.
06. Cascade: Sinun vain
07. Cameo: Kun laiva lähtee
08. Inga Sulin: Hassu homma
09. Kompostikopla: Syvälle
10. Tomi & Sirkka Muhonen: Väyrysen mantra
11. Paroni Paakkunainen: Mango
12. Kaukolampi & CO: Takaa-ajettu mies
13. Petri & Pettersson Brass: Tiidattattaada
14. Katri Helena: Vihreä ruoho
15. Mukajazz: Pedro goes bananas
16. Pepe & Paradise: Kapteeni Koukku
17. Uusi Fantasia: Takaisin-edit
18. Anki: Niin aikaisin
19. Joose Keskitalo: Asematunnelissa
20. Uusi Fantasia: Faija-edit
21. Uusi Fantasia: Nasty Raydio-edit
22. Ka So Re: Standing Still
23. Kap Kap: Full Mooner
24. Jarkka Rissanen & Sons of the Desert: Hip
25. Davo: Niinku täälpäin sanotaan

Better place

Something has finally started to happen in the field of global car industry. Massive fuel wasters are facing huge problems and even in Finland we are finally getting real alternative options.

New Refuel (link in Finnish only) ethanol biofuel cuts transport-related fossil CO2 emissions by up to 80%. New flexifuel cars are required, but to ease the usage those are able to run with normal gasoline or with biofuel. According to St1 their biofuel is ecologically and environmentally sustainable, because as they claim: "Food is for eating and that´s why they make biofuel from waste".

Very interesting new global concept is Better Place (see video above). Better Place is a company that aims to reduce global dependency on petroleum through the creation of a market-based transportation infrastructure that supports electric vehicles, providing consumers with a cleaner, sustainable, personal transportation alternative.

Check out also the small local open source Electric Vehicle community project here in Finland: eCorolla project.

Kitch - new eco bar and cafe

Although the Kitch bar and cafe is a new place most of it's decoration and stuff is recycled. For instance Helsinki-based Costo has made the lamps out of the old bicycle hoops and recycled advertising materials. Electricity of the bar is pure wind power and the usage of the electricity is minimized. Fair trade and organic ingredients are priorized, when the menu is planned, etc. etc.

Way to go Kitch!

More info:
Kitch Bar & Café
Yrjönkatu 30, Helsinki
www.kitch.fi

Funky Elephant 28.5.–30.5.2009 at Tavastia

There are probably countless reasons to why Afro-American funk and its derivatives are so popular in the Helsinki nightlife. The least of these is not the Funky Elephant festival, which will take place for the fifteenth time this year.

More info:
www.funk.fi
We Are magazine.

Ant Gallery

Ant Gallery presents: Out of office (permanently), photographs. 1.-22.5.2009.

More info:
www.antgallery.net
Museokatu 25, Helsinki.

"Villas and Saunas in Finland" by Harri Hautajärvi

Harri Hautajärvi's book "Villas and Saunas in Finland" presents villas and saunas from the marine archipelago via lake district to the fells of the north – a total of 44 individually-designed buildings that represent the best of recent Finnish summer home and sauna architecture. Harri Hautajärvi, former editor in chief of the Finnish Architectural Review, has selected the sites. They all differ from each other in interesting ways, ranging from simple log cabins to spacious villas. Each site is presented in detail through photographs and texts by the architects themselves.

(image: Venturo by architect Matti Suuronen)

Madventures III - Behind the scenes

Finnish Madventures is on a quest to explore the most insane and strange destinations in the entire world!
Check out the behind the scenes clips available on Madventures YouTube channel.