City guide
Helsinki Wine Guide
18 wine bars, 14 restaurants and 7 festivals, starting with one evening of three bars in walking order.
One evening in Helsinki
Three wine bars in walking order, each open when you get there.
Friday evening
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18:00 · Open until 23:00
Tales Wine Bar
Restaurant Teller's wine bar next door, most tables kept for walk-ins.
About 10 min walk
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19:30 · Open until 23:00
Viinibaari Apotek
A wine bar in a 1912 pharmacy whose original furnishings are protected.
About 5 min walk
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21:00 · Open until midnight
Gadeplan
A Kamppi wine bar: rotating glasses at 9–13 €, open to 01:00 Fri–Sat.
Opening hours as of October 2026
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18:00 · Open until 23:00
Viinibaari Apotek
A wine bar in a 1912 pharmacy whose original furnishings are protected.
About 5 min walk
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19:30 · Open until 23:00
Muru Wine Bar
Muru's wine bar: three wines poured blind for €15 on Wednesdays.
About 5 min walk
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21:00 · Open until midnight
Gadeplan
A Kamppi wine bar: rotating glasses at 9–13 €, open to 01:00 Fri–Sat.
Opening hours as of October 2026
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18:00 · Open until 01:00
Gadeplan
A Kamppi wine bar: rotating glasses at 9–13 €, open to 01:00 Fri–Sat.
About 5 min walk
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19:30 · Open until 23:00
Muru Wine Bar
Muru's wine bar: three wines poured blind for €15 on Wednesdays.
About 5 min walk
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21:00 · Open until 01:00
Viinibaari Apotek
A wine bar in a 1912 pharmacy whose original furnishings are protected.
Opening hours as of October 2026
Where to drink wine in Helsinki
Sorted so you can choose, each with its own page.
Wine bars · 18
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Wine bar · Kamppi, Helsinki
Viinibaari Apotek
A wine bar in Joutsen-apteekki, a Helsinki pharmacy of 1912 whose original furnishings are protected.
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Wine bar
Tales Wine Bar
Walk in for a glass next door to Restaurant Teller: most tables at Tales are kept for walk-ins, and Teller's sommelier Heidi Reis writes its list of European wines.
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Wine bar
Gadeplan
A rotating glass list at 9–13 € from growers such as Domaine Matassa and L'Octavin, in a Kamppi wine bar that stays open until 01:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.
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Wine bar
Bar Petiit
A small wine bar in Puu-Vallila's wooden-house quarter where the bottles on offer hang on the wall instead of a list, and dinner is across the street at Plein.
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Muru Wine Bar
A blind set of three wines for €15 on Wednesdays, a champagne from the cellar by the glass on Thursdays and booked tastings on Saturdays, at the wine bar Ravintola Muru runs around the corner on Lönnrotinkatu.
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VinoLippa
Spanish wine and tapas from a canopy kiosk in Kruununhaka's Liisanpuistikko park, run in summer by a father-and-daughter team.
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Wine Bar Klaava
Walk in for a glass next door to Kuurna: Klaava takes no reservations, keeps its own changing glass list and pours themed three-sip tasting sets every three weeks.
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Alkuviini
A natural-wine importer's summer kiosk on Hakaniemi Market Square, pouring its own imports by the glass on an outdoor terrace.
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BasBas Kulma
A wine bar and bistro on a Punavuori corner that won two Gold Stars at Star Wine List of the Year Finland 2023.
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Wine bar · Kallio, Helsinki
Wino
A candlelit Kallio restaurant and natural wine bar with a deep French list, from Jura to grower Champagne.
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Iisi Vallisaari
A wine bar on a 19th-century fortress island, 20 minutes by ferry from Market Square.
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Minne Champagne & Wine
Champagne bar curated by Essi Avellan, Finland's first Master of Wine.
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Maukku
Maukku is part of Helsinki's expanding natural wine network — one of the key venues listed on Raisin alongside better-known spots like Wino and Bar Petiit.
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Dagmar Bistro & Wine Bar
Dagmar Bistro in Helsinki's Bulevardi neighborhood specializes in French wines with a particular focus on Champagne.
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Albina Restaurant & Wine Bar
Chef Teemu Aura (Teemu Aura Patisserie) leads Italian-French bistro in historic Vallila red-brick industrial area.
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Way Bakery Wine Bar
Created by chefs from Michelin-starred Restaurant Grön and a natural wine importer.
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Pinocchio Italian Wine Bar
Gallery wine bar inspired by Ugo Nespolo's Le Avventure di Pinocchio lithographs.
Restaurants · 14
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Restaurant
Ravintola Muru
A Kamppi bistro whose wine list has held Wine Spectator's Best of Award of Excellence since 2017, with a four-course menu of the day at €59; the house's wine list tells guests to ask for its cellar 'Black Book'.
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Restaurant
Plein
A set-menu dinner in a former butcher's shop in Vallila, ranked first on Time Out Helsinki's 2026 list; four courses cost 59 €.
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Restaurant
Winest
A Georgian restaurant on Kasarmitori where the wine comes with the feast: a four-glass tasting of 6 cl pours, served only with the shared Nadimi menu.
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Restaurant · Helsinki (Punavuori)
Flor
A 49 € surprise menu and wines by the glass, directly across Iso Roobertinkatu from its sister restaurant Natura, which holds a Michelin Green Star.
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Restaurant
Palace
Palace sits atop the 1952 Olympic Games harbour building — 2 Michelin stars and a EUR 180 tasting menu with an optional EUR 150 wine pairing.
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Restaurant
Old Market Hall
Finland's three iconic foods each have a perfect wine partner — and discovering them is the quickest way to understand Finnish wine culture.
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Restaurant
Kuurna
Antto Melasniemi and Heikki Purhonen opened Kuurna in 2005 — the restaurant that ignited Helsinki's wine scene before anyone called it a scene.
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Restaurant
Spis
Spis brings the natural wine philosophy to the dining table — a restaurant where every bottle on the list is chosen with the same low-intervention ethos that drives Helsinki's wine bar revolution.
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Restaurant
Adlerfelt
Adlerfelt is a natural wine restaurant inside a 250-year-old fortress building on Suomenlinna — the UNESCO World Heritage island 15 minutes by ferry from Helsinki's Market Square.
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Restaurant
Demo
Demo moved to the 14th floor of We Land tower in Ruoholahti in October 2024 — trading Punavuori's street-level intimacy for panoramic sea views.
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Restaurant
Lonna
Lonna is a speck of an island — just 300 metres long — sitting between the mainland and Suomenlinna fortress.
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Restaurant
Olo
Olo opened in 2006 and earned its Michelin star in 2011, joining a line of starred Helsinki kitchens that began with Palace Gourmet in 1987.
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Restaurant
Grön
Grön has 16 seats and a Michelin Green Star — one of the world's smallest restaurants with a sustainability award.
Festivals & events · 7
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Festival
IISI Wine & Music Festival
A two-day festival on Vallisaari fortress island: dozens of producers pouring more than 100 wines from across Europe, food from three kitchens, live music into the night.
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Festival
Little Italy Festival Finland
Italy comes to Finland - FREE entry Italian food, wine & lifestyle festival touring three cities.
Trails · 8
Routes through the city, stop by stop.
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Trail
Helsinki Fork & Glass
Finnish food meets world wine. Start at Hakaniemi Market Hall for karjalanpiirakka, discover the 137-year-old Old Market Hall, learn the three essential Finnish pairings (reindeer+Pinot, gravlax+Grüner Veltliner, cloudberry+Sauternes), then eat your way through Michelin-starred kitchens where reindeer meets Burgundy and Finnish terroir becomes fine dining.
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Trail
Helsinki Wine Calendar
Helsinki's wine year runs March to November — and every season has its event.
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Trail
Prohibition to Master of Wine
Helsinki's 500-year relationship with alcohol, told through the streets.
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Trail
Fortress Islands & Seaside Wine
A day on Helsinki's archipelago — fortress islands, torpedo bays, and wine with 360-degree water views.
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Trail
Hidden Helsinki
Where locals go. The outer-ring neighbourhoods and specialist gems tourists won't find on Google.
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The New Wave
The explosion. From 2020 onward, Helsinki went from 'interesting wine city' to 'can't keep up with the openings.'
Little quests · 20
Short city challenges: landmarks, markets, walks. Fun between glasses, but not places to drink.
- Walk 52 Defiant Buildings in Katajanokka
At Katajanokka
- Walk the UNESCO Fortress That Saved Helsinki
At Suomenlinna
- Stand Inside Engel's Vision at Helsinki Cathedral
- Walk the Streets Where Independence Turned to War
- Order "Hard Tea" Where Helsinki Dodged Prohibition
At Hotel Kämp
- Buy a Bottle at the State Monopoly
At Alko
- Cross Helsinki's Dark Season Between Two Wine Worlds
At Kappeli
- Sit Where Sibelius Drank with Painters
At Kappeli
- Excavate the Rock Church
- Find the Bomb Damage on the Three Smiths Statue
- Walk Engel's Boulevard to the Plague Cemetery
At Bulevardi
- Sail Through Helsinki's Fortress Archipelago
- Sweat, Plunge, Sip at Helsinki's Last Wood-Fired Sauna
- Hunt the Valley of Death on Vallisaari
- Count the Design District Orange Circles
- Taste Karjalanpiirakka at Hakaniemi Market Hall
- Decode Senate Square's Booze Merchant Secret
- Cross the Class Divide Bridge & Time the Sibelius Bells
- Find the Tsarina's Stone Before Finland Existed
- Taste 137 Years at the Old Market Hall