The 12 best ice cream shops in Helsinki

Cheese and milk manufacturing company

Still a great place!!!

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(Translated by Google) I do not recommend it to anyone with my own experiences. (Original) En suosittele kenellekään omien kokemusten kanssa.

(Translated by Google) I've been to the store. The wonderful staff and the people at the factory will find everything you need, so that you don't have to go to the store after a long day. (Original) Myymälässä olen käynyt. Aivan ihana henkilökunta ja tehtaan väki löytää kyllä kaiken tarvittavan, ettei pitkän päivän jälkeen tarvitse kauppaan lähteä.

(Translated by Google) Kipparijuusto is apparently made in Vantaa, which is one of my favorites. It's just sad when the packaging has been changed to a "stupid" design and it takes up too much space in the fridge. (Original) Vantaalla valmistetaan ilmeisesti Kipparijuusto, joka on yksi suosikeistani. Harmittaa vaan, kun pakkaus on muutettu "tyhmän" malliseksi ja se vie jääkaapissa turhan paljon tilaa.

It is right by the railway station and belongs to Finland’s most popular burger chain. The food arrived fast, the burgers were tasty, and we had none of the stomach issues we sometimes get at McDonald’s or Burger King. I give it four stars only because the self-service ordering screens were confusing, the English translation was messy, and we had to rely on our phones for Google Translate. Everything else was great, so I still recommend it.

Nice little burger joint ! The burger was nice, and the sweet potato fries just the perfect mix between crunchy and soft. The service was quick, and it was overall very nice. I do however would like to note that the menus aren't fully translated in English, so it's nice to have a Finnish friend with you :)

1. The burger is really delicious! Soft drinks are free from the dispenser on the side of the counter. I didn’t know at first and ordered from the machine, which comes with canned drinks instead. 2. The beef in the burger is super good compared to many other burger chains I’ve tried. 👉 A MUST-TRY place!

Very friendly service, empty and quiet atmosphere during Saturday lunch time when I was the first customer to arrive. I tried their Burger of the month Reindeer burger which was pretty meh 😐🫠 Lacking flavour, but very expensive cost me over 19 € as a meal incl. truffle dip 🤤😋

One of the best fast food I've ever eaten anywhere in the world. The soft bread is good and artisanal and is prepared in front of the tables, artisanal fries, freshly cut and fried. The quality of the ingredients of the hamburger are exceptional. Quiet and clean environment, open and visible kitchens, clean and very friendly and professional staff. The price is right. The drinks are self-served. I will gladly return every time I return to Helsinki.

This is a really great hamburger restaurant. The Friends buns and juicy patties, which are handmade in-house, are particularly appealing points. The Friends Burger is my favorite. It has an only one that sets it apart from other hamburgers. I love everything including the bun, patty, and original sauce. I go back again and again. When it comes to hamburger shop in Finland, I strongly recommend to eat the Friends Burger !

The burger was delicious, but the ordering vending machine wasn't fully in English, making it slightly challenging to use. The service was friendly, and you need to keep your receipt for the toilet access codes. The atmosphere was decent, though the burger smoke made it a bit too smelly.

Nice historic surroundings in a building that was supposed to be temporary, built for 1936 Olympics. Excellent food, also vegetarian - limited selection. Waiter knew the selected wineries' stories very well. Some minor mishaps in serving to a table of 12 didn't spoil the experience.

Had coffee twice here during my visit in Helsinki. The restaurant has really comfortable chairs and nice views (one side facing the main street the other Amos Rex), coffee is not bad. Worth a visit if youre nearby and its too cold to stay outside

I must admit, I had some doubts as the place was recently obtained by S Group. We had a wonderful afterwork dinner on a Friday. As we were in early, the restaurant started with plenty of available space, but coming to the end of our full menu, the place was starting to pack up. All of the meals were absolutely lovely. The tastes were pure, and especially the sauces were exquisite. The pikeperch was the best I've ever tasted. The waiter's service was very friendly and we felt that we were taken care quite well. The waiter's wine recommendations, which differed a bit from the menu, were spot on. I was very pleased that the waiter dared to challenge our initial thoughts on the menu and did his best to lead us to a better experience as a whole. If we were to suggest improvements, the room would need better acoustics. The plain walls and roofs will cause a lot of echo, and the room will sound extremely loud with all tables booked.

Nice chill atmosphere on the terrace. Nostalgic interior in. Lunch salad was fine. The Karelian hot pot had too fatty pork. Otherwise good. Sweet potato soup was nice. They had excellent dark coffee but unfortunately no desert. Have been here before at after-work. Will come again.

Beautiful food in this 2nd floor restayrant. The reindeer was beautifully tender, the blueberry sorbet with the creme brulee was so packed with blueberries it must have been a health food. Service attentive and helpful...but it was very quiet...come on people its delicious and so close to the station...a pre flight location

A wonderful old restaurant with traditional Scandinavian food. Fine dining about 60 euros for a 3 course meal. And not a tourist in sight! Salmon and reindeer options are done very well, as is the mandarin sorbet! Staff are professional and friendly. And the speak fluent English. The old saying of "where there are linen napkins, there is quality" stays true.

Good lunch place in the city center. Food is generally good. I'd recommend checking the menu before coming, as the more the menu is to your liking the better the experience. When I tried the menu with schnitzel it was too oily for my taste but the day with salmon soup was good because they have warm vegetable dish made with tomato sauce. Good coffee is a bonus to the lunch.

Food is fresh and delicious. The biscuits at the end of the meal was alright, but i have tasted nicer ones. We had mixed pairing with the menu. We sat in the restaurant as it was quite cold outside. We are a big group of 8. Even though they fit us in, it was a little cramp and i was bumped into by the wait staff a couple of times.

Every dish was delicious and its own art piece. Great wines and also tasty non-alcoholic beverages. Great for vegetarians also! The atmosphere in this place is cozy; the building itself is unique. To top it off, we really enjoyed the laidback and friendly service. Topnotch experience!

By far the best dinner we had in Helsinki. Warm and welcoming atmosphere, creative and very delicious dishes.

Interesting flavors, but really small portions - our group admitted the next day they ended up eating something else later in the night, as we left pretty hungry. I honestly hate being the person leaving a review like this, but throughout the multiple-course tasting dinner, we wondered "when will the entree rounds finish and the main course get served", just to get the dessert come out aka the last course (which I loved, the homemade toffee cubes were so good!). As for the "interesting" flavors, I think some of the food was a tad overflavored/oversalted. I love flavors, but the the salt was really overpowering in some of the dishes.

Fine-dine in a idyllic classic neighbourhood cornerhouse. Amazing food and service. Lovely terrace suring summer

Very good experience! I’ve loved the 4 courses menu, every plate was really good with tasty and well balanced flavours. I think the main course was really terrific. Very good atmosphere and lovely service. Totally worth the price (witch was, by the way, very honest). Highly recommended!

Very nice overall experience. Great service, remarkable wine selection and food pairing. Nice creativity for the dishes, fresh local ingredients. The size could be slightly bigger. Would happily visit again. Highly recommended.

This hypermarket is one of the best grocery stores close to city center. Large multi-level parking garage and a short walk from Ruoholahti metro station for pedestrians. Alko alcohol store is located next to the store.

Why are the self-checkouts always closed in the morning? It’s absurd to make people wait in line with 2 items when perfectly good machines are sitting unused with no explanation. This store clearly doesn’t value customers' time.

City Market offers everything you could need, with a great variety. We especially loved their selection of ice creams and yogurts. They also sell ready-made meal

Nothing to complain about… very good and huge and located in the city center that offers most of the typical city market things!

Biggest selection of any grocery store (hypermarket) in the central areas of Helsinki. Love the steak selection🥩

The first time I've been there I didn't expect the size of this shop, it's huge! Indeed it's quite big, and variety of items is very diverse. They have everything!

Its very good and its in a convenient place in Helsinki City near metro station. IT have enough parking place.

It's not a big store, but it has almost everything.

an excellent small store, you can buy a half liter of still water in a plastic bottle for 1.27 Euros. Large selection of products from local manufacturers and from neighboring European countries.

This shop abuses its clients, as it considers them as captive cash cows at the end of the tram line in a dead end. Short selection of bad quality expensive products. Some items are 30 % more expensive than in the first alepa outside of katajanokka, 500 meters the opposite way. Not familly friendly. Large selection of mussels in can, probably for the elder people's house above the shop.

Small supermarket which offers all necessities. The staff is friendly and helpful. Payment by Credit Card is possible.

Very good bakery & bread for a very good price (croissant 40ct, baguette 80ct) + all other necessary products available.

Store is a walking distance from Eurohostel nearby. It has very low prices, compared to other stores around Helsinki. And you'll find everything you need.

Pretty basic neighborhood grocery store where you can get the essentials.. Beer, milk, diapers, sallads etc

Flavours are not real/good, clearly they use only artificial essences and not the real ingredients. Pear flavour tasted like soap. Huge portions, do not get more than one ball.

Undoubtedly the biggest ice cream portions in Helsinki! For the price of 1 ball at competitors, you get the equivalent of 4-5 balls (and it's called just 1 ball here). The taste isn't the best, the flavors aren't very intense, but it's still sweet and cold, not bad by any means and for the price-amount ratio I can't complain! Service was friendly as well ❤️

Huge scoops for an adequate price. Price to shop size relation is better than in most places

Biggest portions in Helsinki. From any other ice cream kiosk you would have to pay 15€ for the same amount. Here it was about 4€ Flavour and tecture could have been better but I was very happy overall.

Such rich flavours of ice cream. Try the orange for something refreshing. Apple-cinnamon is superb, too. Finland is the only place I've seen with pear-flavoured ice cream, defo worth a try, it is delicious. Big scoops!

Went here with high hopes reading many positive reviews saying "Best Ice Cream in Helsinki" and "Authentic Italian Gelato". I only wish these reviewers one day get to taste a real Gelato and see how much better life can be. I'm normally don't leave negative review but this Ice cream was so disappointing I had a few tastes then threw it to the ducks. I had strawberry and lemon. Both were very artificial tasting and way too sweet. The colour should have warned me. Strawberry are not bright purple, ANd lemon is not neon yellow. I doubt a single real berry was in the whole tub. Also the texture. This is NOT gelato. Gelato is soft and smooth. This was just plain, commercial, boring Ice cream. The ice cream is rather pricey and (as a previous review mentioned) the pricing makes you want to get 2 or 3 scoops. The scoops are so huge that even if the ice cream tasted good I'm sure some would be thrown away. Good for the local ducks I guess. I think the worst is the expectation of 'authentic Gelato'. The use of the Italian flag. I felt so cheated. False advertising. No Italian would put their name or the good reputation of their country against such an imposter. I'm pretty sure there are EU laws against such atrocities as this.... In summary this was genuinely one of the most disappointing ice cream experiences of my life.

Truly a gem in the park near the sea. This little ice cream stand (and it's three siblings in Kaivopuisto) serves the most delicious traditional flavoured dairy treat in the city. Made with full fat cream, so rich and so smooth. The only way to eat ice cream is with a waffle cone, in my opinion, which you can get here. Heavy duty and no leaks.

Good shop, the blonde girl is a problem solver, give her a raise

My family lived next to this store for 3 years and there were probably 10 days in total during all this time that we didn’t go into it 😅 Very conveniently located, everything is always there, even what you don’t expect to find there. I was always surprised by this 😅 Special thanks to the staff, mostly always friendly. We moved, but we remember you with warmth😊

Ok place to shop some food

Very good store with a good variety of products, convenient working hours and a friendly service. Also great location. You helped us a lot for 3 years, and we are grateful!

Small but with all the necessary! Easy in and out purchases

bit expensive but has everything for a quick grocery store visit

Great store and also a post pickup

A small coffee place with ice creams. Nothing extraordinary, decorated nicely.

(Translated by Google) Ice cream tastes good But the only snacks here are cookies General cafes provide many snack options, but here they only have ice cream, coffee, tea and biscuits, so there are not many choices. (Original) 冰激凌味道不错 不过这里的点心只有饼干 一般的咖啡馆都提供不少点心的选择，不过这里只有冰激凌、咖啡、茶和饼干，选择不是很多

(Translated by Google) The ice cream is delicious, with apple base and various flavors to choose from. (Original) 霜淇淋好吃，蘋果基地，有各種口味可選擇。

(Translated by Google) It's so delicious and the price is right. I recommend the pistachio flavor. (Original) 너무맛있고 가격도 적절합니다 피스타치오 맛 추천드려요

(Translated by Google) Super tasty, ice cream based on apple, got to try different varieties (Original) Super lecker, Eis basiert auf Apfel, durften Sorten probieren

(Translated by Google) Exceptionally good ice cream, especially the "raspberry & mascarpone" flavor. (Original) Exceptionellt bra glass, speciellt smaken ”hallon & mascarpone”.

(Translated by Google) Apple-based ice cream. Sweet and delicious 😋 (Original) Äppelbaserad glass. Sött och gott 😋

(Translated by Google) A lot of people, and in bad weather, it's boring to wait in line outside to get in. (Original) Paljon ihmisiä ja huonolla ilmalla ikävää odottaa ulkona jonossa sisäänpääsyä.

(Translated by Google) Great place (Original) Loistava paika

(Translated by Google) I haven't received such unhappily small portions in a month, the tiny ball was barely pressed into the cone. The frustration was compounded by the do-it-yourself, tired and far from cheerful attitude of the customer service staff. It felt as if the employees were serving under duress and wanted to get rid of the customer as quickly as possible. It's a pity, because the wonderful milieu could offer a great opportunity, and the experience as it stands is perhaps one of the weakest in Helsinki. (Original) En ole kuuna päivänä saanut yhtä onnettoman pieniä annoksia, pikkuruinen pallo hädin tuskin painettiin kiinni tötteröön. Turhautumisen täydensi asiakaspalvelijoiden teennäinen, väsynyt ja iloisuudesta kaukana oleva asenne. Tuntui, kuin työntekijät palvelisivat pakon edessä ja haluaisivat asiakkaasta mahdollisimman nopeasti eroon. Sääli, sillä upea miljöö voisi tarjota loistavan tilaisuuden ja nykyisellään kokemus kenties yksi Helsingin heikoimmista.

(Translated by Google) It's a nice race, but it always closes too soon (Original) Ihan kiva kiska, menee vaan aina liian aikaisin kiinni