A comfy but classy restaurant on the 1st floor of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Töölö offers some good value for your buck in a pretty quiet environment. It's a typical hotel restaurant meaning you wont find many people outside the hotel guestlist, but therefore the surroundings are quiet and suite also for the panic disorder type.
A basic tagliatelle with shrimps (14,90€) works well for a starter. Made with a typical from-the-store-counter fresh tagliatelle, but the shrimps are decent quality. Not exactly sure how the Finnish restaurants keep their seafood fresh at the heart of the winter, they certainly dont use the live stock in aquariums like many fine restaurants elsewhere. Probably banned by the government here.
So you cant help thinking that the octapus and scallops must be out of the freezer (or even worse, from a jar) but it's all good by Helsinki standards. The pine nuts are unnecessary as well as the pea pedicels, the olive oil missing from the serving but a fresh pasta can never go wrong for an italian.
For the main course I chose the cheapest on the menu, "maissikana", roasted chicken with some corn polenta. Good value for money (16.90), the polenta especially good even though buttery, with all you can take bread and a decent wine list that I am not going into.
Service is quick and decent leaving a good feeling behind. It's a hotel restuarant, missing all personal falovor, but as mentioned before, offers decently priced good food for the lazy traveller who doesn't like to explore the neighboring restaurants or is already sick and tired of them.
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