This establishment needs a recent review! It all started as we dropped by In midafternoon to ask about the need of a reservation. After a short hesitation and an explanation that a large group was expected in the evening, the host said " We can make a reservation for you... how about that table by the window?" It got better from there. Later we were seated promptly in a very busy restaurant at our table by the window . While all the staff was busy, they seemed to make time for all their customers. We ordered wine, bruschetta, the prawn fettuccini, and ended with a tasty tiramisu. Then came a personal thank you from our server along with one from the host who made our reservation...oh, and I forgot my phone and the host came running out of the restaurant to return it! It was a great evening ! read more

Great goat cheese-filled ravioli in a casual setting. Fast, attentive service with some real Italians running the show. Recommended. read more

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Great service and food! The octopus entree, veal entree, and king prawns pasta dishes were superb. The fresh focaccia bread was nice and warm. The homemade salad dressing was flavorful. I would highly recommend this place. read more

This is a very pleasant Italian restaurant on the ground floor of the über-cool Klaus K Hotel. Service was quite pleasant. I ordered one of two set menus. I started with the vitello tonnato, little pink slices of cold roasted veal set on a salty tuna sauce. I have had better versions elsewhere, but this one was quite nice nonetheless. Next up was the night's winner, a small plate of ravioli filled with (I think) parmiggiano reggiano and served in a thyme-infused butter sauce and strewn with little mushrooms that they call chanterelles but I think were another variety. Quite spectacular! I then had a rather small portion of Arctic char, one of my favorite fish varieties. It was cooked a bit more than I normally like, but still moist. It was served with a root vegetable puree (very buttery and delicious), a medley of crunchy cucumbers and apples and a very discordant black olive puree, which I found too salty and assertive for a mild fish like char. Dessert was a very decent tiramisu. The set menu was 48 euros. I don't think that is a bad value in an expensive city like Helsinki. read more

Toscanini - Very delicious ravioli with chanterelle butter sauce. - Italian Near Me - Helsinki, 18

Amazing Italian gem in Helsinki. Food was super fresh and well prepared. Wine list well matched the food. Service discreet but on spot even on a busy Friday. Congrats to Enrique our server and the chef who put the dinner together. Highly recommend to the demanding foodie or international globetrotter snob. read more

Toscanini is an ultra cool looking Italian restaurant but outside of looks, there's not much else. I came here with my sister and we ordered of the set menu. I got a green cold soup with microgreens but holy soup, Batman, it was overseasoned. For my next course, I got a clam pasta ragout dish but the ragout wasn't proportional to the amount of pasta I got. What's worse was that the clams were about the size of a quarter. Very very tiny. The dessert was the winning part of the meal (tiramisu). Despite the tasty dessert, it was still a pretty poor dining experience. It was busy and our server left halfway during our meal and it was pretty clear that the message wasn't relayed to the rest of the server team. I had to get the restaurant manager to close out our tab. If you're visiting Helsinki, best to avoid Toscanini. With the looks of the Klaus K, it looks super swanky and high end, but maybe it's best if they stick with hospitality and steer clear of culinary. read more

We stayed in the Klaus K and had a meal at Toscanini on our first night. I had the risotto and my wife had the Arctic char on the veggie purée. Both were well cooked, nicely seasoned and very tasty. We went on to desert, I had the amaretto apple crumble and my wife had the blackcurrant flavoured mascarpone. Her comment was that her desert was 'to die for', mine wasn't quite that amazing but very nice, with ice cream and apple slices on top. Service was good and friendly, nice beer on offer too. Nice atmosphere with an amazing shiny ceiling. read more

Excellent pasta, slow service though!! Staff is friendly and helpful. Limited wine list read more

Toscanini - Tiramisu - Italian Near Me - Helsinki, 18

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We had a lovely evening with wonderful appetizer antipasto plates, followed by pasta dishes. I had tiger shrimp, deliciousness all the way. Good flavors all the way. read more

Toscanini - Italian Near Me - Helsinki, 18

Just had my second dinner here in two days. Marvelous. Fabulous. Excellent. Service is perfect. Chef is accommodating. Cannot say enough positive statements. Try it and you will be very pleased. Zena from New Jersey USA read more

This was my 3rd stay at the Klaus K hotel and I had alsways wanted to try this restaurant located on the street level of a really nice hotel. What a mistake. The service was really bad. Our waitress who was often supported by an assistant waiter was downright rude, so was he. Why don't places get that no matter how good the food, Toscanini was marginal, the service makes or breaks the experience? Asked if we wanted anything before menus were provided, having to ask for bread, that was brought with no plates, had to ask for olive oil, ordering a bowl of olives was difficult, it goes on. People were having to flag her down, get up to pay because she was ignoring table after table, and he acted surprise if anything was requested. The meal was ok, but not worth the service challenges. I ordered Carbonara special. The pancetta was nice, smoky but the dish was dry. Same for my husbands pasta. Our friend ordered risotto with scallops (2 maybe...) which looked really good if you don't mind few scallops. By the end of our meal at least 4 different people came to our table bringing dishes, etc. none were helpful. Not sure if this feedback should go to hotel or not. Don't waste your money or time or palette on Toscanini. Too many wonderful places right in the area with excellent food and service. read more

Great location in the stylish Klaus K Hotel, right in the heart of Helsinki's Design District, and the cuisine did not disappoint. The homemade ravioli with asparagus and a sage butter sauce lingered with every bite. I followed the ravioli with one of the most flavorful tiramisus I have had in ages. read more

I only had their buffalo mozzarella appetizer because quite frankly they had a very limited menu and if you were not in the mood for pasta, you're out of luck. The lump of mozzarella in my salad was cold in the middle. Really? How can you screw up such a simple dish? read more

We came to Helsinki on a business trip and really did not have a lot of time to spent on meals. But we were craving for something different than eating salmon, so we decided to come here despite the 3 star rating because it is the closest italian restaurant to our hotel that looked descent. It turned out to be a relatively good experience because the food tasted great! The fried octopus with raw salmon was great, really loved the pasta dishes we ordered particularly the tiger prawns fettuccine. The angus steak was quite awesome also. For desert, the tiramisu did deserve to be their top desert dish. Now the service. Although not rude, we didn't fell very welcome either. The waiter forgot to tell me one of the dishes we ordered was sold out until I asked him. Thank god we decided to share everything on the table and I was quite stuffed by the time I found out. It just seemed that they may have been under staffed because I can tell his frustration came from being overwhelmed with his tasks at hand. It was decent of him to apologize in the end for his lack of attention, but unfortunately the night was ruined a bit. I would still come back the next time though because the food was worth it. read more

Good food and the staff are very friendly. Went in there two nights for the three nights stayed in Helsinki. Dishes are very reasonably priced too. read more

We had a great dinner here! The starter snacks of bread and cheese and olive oil was wonderful, with both a truffle cheese and gorgonzola spread. We also liked the restaurant's white wine, Proseo. For appetizers we had a green salad and tomatos with bufala - both excellent. For mains, I had the pumpkin ravioli with sage oil and my friend had the spicy lobster pasta. Again, both excellent. Desserts were not as evenly wonderful. I had the lemon pannacotta with cloudberry soup and merengue, which didn't quite go together. The pannacotta was a little tough without a lot of flavor. The tiramisu was wonderful, however, and we even ordered it again for room service the second night. Recommend making a reservation - the place was totally booked. read more

Excellent pasta but appetizers were not anything special. Also long wait times put a slight damper on the experience. Service was very friendly but food took a long time to come out. read more