We're staying on the 7th floor, here at the Scandic Grand Marina. Our room is small, spare, and - after a four hour return ferry to Estonia - it feels just as good as home.Tried to muster up the gusto to go into the city for dinner, but ended up settling for the hotel dining room, and were we ever glad. I finally got my modern Finnish meal: potato gnocci in a mushroom cream sauce with parsnips and three Riva-sized goat's cheese medallions.
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Last night, we took a couple different street cars into one of Helsinki's Northern neighborhoods for a Sbinks family standby: hearty, street-level vegetarian food. Vegemesta turned out to be a grimy little burger stand in an industrial-looking outpost a few blocks past Helsinki's most popular outdoor market. But it had a friendly cook who explained the menu to us in English, a cooler full of naturally-fermented drinks, an aging Mac with free Internet access, and a brand new copy of Vice magazine on the tiny little table (conveniently seating just two people at a time).
They had vegan schnitzel and fish burgers, but we stuck to the stuff that God intended to be made from soy: veggie burgers, which came with came with cheese, mayo, red pepper spread, lettuce, and tomato on rye.
4 comments:
I like the one of your legs in the vator.
I miss you!
what? gnocci aren't italian?! oh my confused life just got more confused.
That's why I said 'modern' Finnish meal. You know...an international take on potatoes -- the national vegetable in Finland.
Now your life should be less confusing.
whewf. identity crisis averted. and don't forget... bonus points if you find christina's cafe in copenhagen.
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