Ravintola Lasipalatsi

Frommer's Review

Only a handful of other restaurants in Finland, such as the Savoy, are so clearly and closely linked to a specific architect and a specific period. Built in 1935, this restaurant sweeps in a gentle, glass-covered curve along the junction of the two busiest boulevards in Finland, about a block from the railway station. It was originally conceived as a site for the care and feeding of visitors to the eagerly-awaited Helsinki Olympic games of 1940. Today, it's loaded with a mass of diners from everywhere, with just a whiff of formality and grandeur from the uniformed staff. Service, though well meaning, isn't particularly coherent or organized. Menu items include vorschmack, fried pike-perch with a sauce made from a combination of Finnish cheeses; and grilled wild salmon.

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