Linnankellari - Helsinki

Great place to spend the summer with good food. A very nice thing, for example, bed. The cold salsa. I recommend using it if you haven’t been there yet!

Decent and comfortable to bite. comes with fresh dressing and unusual old prison taste. it is worth coming by.

Beautiful building (old prison). beautiful falafel burger and chips for vegetarian and good other options for carnivores.

We booked a table for two, for Christmas Eve. When we arrived, there was already some people waiting in the stairs. So we waited behind them, and some others started to wait behind us as well. After 5 or 10 minutes a lady came to say that the restaurant was full at the moment and we should wait at the bar (even if we had booked a table already . We went to the bar upstairs to wait. We asked when are we going to know when there is a table free for us. They told us that they will come to tell us. After one hour waiting we decided to go downstairs again and ask for how long it's gonna take. They told us to wait here that in a few minutes a table will be ready for us. When it was ready we realized that next to us, the people who were waiting behind us, one hour ago in the stairs, were already eating. They brought us some water to wait, but forgot the glasses, we had to ask for it while ordering the food. The waitress can't answer what was in our plates, she had to ask in the kitchen. Some of the food in our plate was not written in the menu (mashed peas , and some written on the menu was not in our plate (pistachio almond . I personally, didn't really enjoy the food and found the quality very disappointing (stringy meat, lack of flavor, really dry, potatoes for starters and main course... . I'm not used to waste the food but sincerely cannot finish there... And not used to give bad reviews on Google maps but I was really disappointed and can't recommend this place unfortunately as I had a very disappointed experience there. I can understand that it was Christmas Eve, probably a lot of work, not the easiest day of the year to work, probably have to adjust the menu for this kind of event... but I don't understand why the food was so low quality and so bad organisation as we had to wait 1 hour and started to eat one hour and half after the time we had booked... One nice point : they nicely offered the glögi to apologize for the waiting time. Some of our friends recommended this place, so I don't understand why our experience was so different. And why is there only 15 reviews on Google maps? Did the owner change recently? PS : we got, both of us, stomachache after the dinner... I don't know if it's linked to the food, but it didn't help to end up well this experience.

This place was actually a prison I thought was pretty cool. Linnankellari organized dinner for me and many other travelers who visit...