5 cafés in 1 city. Places change: check opening hours before you go.
Fredrik Edvard Ekberg founded it in 1852, making it the oldest café still operating in Finland; it moved to Bulevardi in 1915. Napoleon cake, Krapfen and Runeberg torte have been on the counter since the 19th century.
Order: Runeberg torte (in season, Jan–Feb) · Napoleon cake
Karl Fazer and his wife Berta opened a French-Russian confectionery at Kluuvikatu 3 on 17 September 1891, the start of the Fazer company. The café still trades at the same address.
Order: Fazer chocolate cake · Coffee with a Fazer Blue bar
Fewer recent sources for this one: check it's open before you go.
Facing Senate Square and the Cathedral, Café Engel occupies one of Helsinki's oldest stone buildings (1765), with a façade by Carl Ludvig Engel, the architect of the square itself.
Order: Coffee and cake · Breakfast
💡 Weekend breakfast runs until 5pm.
A red wooden cottage on the shore near Sibelius Park, open all year. You can buy a sausage and grill it over the open fire outside.
Order: Cinnamon bun (korvapuusti) · Coffee · Sausage for the fire
💡 Outside food isn't allowed, and the fire isn't lit in strong wind; open daily 9am–9pm.
Kaffa set out to make Finns, the world's biggest coffee drinkers, also drink the world's best coffee. Its roastery and café share the Pursimiehenkatu site in Punavuori.
Order: Filter · Espresso