Baker's

Frommer's Review

Although it's been reconfigured, redecorated, and reincarnated many times since it was established in 1915, Baker's is the most deeply entrenched, long-lived drinking and dining complex in Helsinki. It sprawls across three floors, and on busy nights is crammed with nightclubbers -- many of them single. The place sometimes gives the effect of an upscale railway station, where food and drink are dispensed with gusto, dance music plays, and the roulette wheel of a small-stakes casino whirs. Most people come for the cafe, open daily from 7am to 4am, or for the bar, open Monday to Saturday 11am to 2am. If you're hungry, a restaurant (which can be reached through the rest of the complex or from a separate entrance on Kalevankatu 2) serves fish dishes, such as salmon, and meat dishes, such as grilled steaks, Monday to Saturday from 11am to 1am. A la carte items cost 12€ to 30€ ($16-$39). If you want to dance, a club supplies hot music, sometimes Latin-derived, Friday and Saturday from 10pm to 4am. Patrons must be at least 24 to enter.

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