Kuu

I dined at this restaurant with my partner and we had a good time.
The interior is quite modest and cosy, with a warm appearance. Staff were very friendly and service was good.
One of the entrees we ordered were outstanding, that being the beef carpaccio. Words cannot describe the sensation of eating it! There were many textures and flavours in it. It was crisp but beautifully tender when bitten into, it was very fresh, it tasted sweet but salty with the vinaigrette, it had added crunch with the crushed nuts. The whole thing just melts in your mouth.
The mains we had were the reindeer fillet with braised barley salad and port wine sauce, while my partner had the entrecôte. The reindeer was very tender and tasty with the port wine sauce. It was cooked perfectly. However, I wasn’t a fan of the barley salad, and didn’t feel that it went well with the reindeer fillet because the textures clashed too much. The barley was a bit chewier.
The entrecôte was nice, but a little on the salty side.
The desserts we had were also quite nice and balanced.
Though it is on the pricy side, I overall enjoyed experiencing a slice of Finnish cuisine at this restaurant.

Kuu is a traditional restaurant run by the owners of equally good (or perhaps even a touch better) restaurant Carelia. This is a typical neighborhood restaurant focusing on traditional Nordic dishes and produce. It is not the place to go to experience new, innovative or cutting-​edge cuisine but they do offer very well prepared food.
Service is also very nice and flexible. On our recent visit I did bot find anything that really was to my liking among the starters but they very nicely offered to make the beetroot and blue cheese risotto from the mains into a starter. S opted for the goat cheese salad. We were almost equally pleased bit I would say that the risotto probably was a bit sharper. From the mains we enjoyed the lovely reindeer as well as the garlicky lamb. Both dishes perfectly executed.
Staff of impressed greatly with fantastic wine pairings. The wine list is not huge but carefully selected and the champagne (Pierre Gimonnet Cuvée Fleuron 2006) we had as an apéritif was really excellent. Actually we were too full for dessert but still managed to share the vanilla ice cream with berries — simple but good.
All in all a great place. What I may say is that to be a neighborhood restaurant it may be a bit on the pricey side to come every week but the quality is also very good.

Reading all the wonderful reviews and then experiencing something mediocre made me quite disappointed. I ate reindeer fillet as a main dish and the cheese platter for dessert. The reindeer meat was very tasty and tender, but the side components were quite boring. The plate felt as if it came from the STONE AGE, it was so lame. A few additional vegetable components with a crunchy texture would have made all the difference. The cheese plate was also quite unimpressive, there was nothing interesting about it. Considering the price levels I would have expected more.
A friend of mine said in Kuu’s defence that they have the best salmon soup in town, perhaps I’ll give it a try. Moreover, some of the table company ordered the ‘namalake’ dessert, which looked really nice and got compliments — I think that’s something more worth ordering than the cheese platter.

This was advertised to us as a really nice place to go for fine dinning in Helsinki… But to be honest i was not impressed at all
Food wise it offers you a an infused look at the local Finish cuisine but with not great surprises… The usual things on the menu that you can find cheaper in most restaurant. The only difference is that they pay a lot of attention in the presentation. Personally i did like some of the dishes i ate and especially the reindeer fillet and the apple pie desert.
On the wine list i must say although i was not terribly disappointing i did expect to see more wines especially from Italy and Spain. They seem to have an obsession with French wines and the very expensive kind giving someone with a normal budget a very limited choice. on the other had i found wines that are usually normally price to be crazy overpriced making things even more worse.
Now service was it was just a disaster. I found our waiter very blunt to the poin0t of been rude and completely unfamiliar with the wine list. When i asked for him to suggest a desert wine for us he lost complete the earth under his fit and i could see that he was struggling to give an advice.
In any case if you have nothing planned and money to spend for a night then i would suggest giving it a shot. In my opinion i would not rate it as a Michelin star restaurnt

Wow! Per Zufall an einer Strassenecke in Helsinki gefunden (genau genommen eigentlich nur, weil das Taxi einen Umweg machen musste) und dabei ein echtes Feinschmeckerlokal entdeckt. Sehr aufmerksamer Service (auch das Brot wird vorgelegt), hervorragende finnische Gourmetküche und sehr nette Atmosphäre. Wer auch immer mal nach Helsinki kommt, dem kann ich dieses Restaurant empfehlen. Tip: Unbedingt das hausgebackene schwarze Roggen/​Malzbrot probieren — das ist so köstlich, das es als Dinner ausreichen würde!

This was one of the best meals we had in Finland. We went there for dinner and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. The menu is modern and the cuisine is really refined. I like how the integrate some Scandinavian touch to some classical dishes. The reindeer filet we had was tender and soft, the smoked salmon soup just a great combination of flavours and the dessert delicious. For the quality that is offered prices are really good.

So sorry, Kuu. I heard you were Fantastic. And I wanted to like you more but left feeling disappointed. Here’s why:
— Portions were small (even for European standards). Some of us left hungry. And one of us needed a post-​midnight snack. That said, the flavors were good overall (great butternut pumpkin risotto) — but for what you get, it’s just not worth the hefty price tag.
— Service was Slow. Wait staff was friendly, occasionally forgetful (they’d forgot our bread request), and would disappear for long stretches of time. And this being when the restaurant was only half-​full.

A few young women, whom we met in the sauna, together agreed that our first Finnish dinner should be at Kuu. We found the resto easily, just behind the Crown Plaza hotel. My friend had reindeer, and found it to be tender, and almost reminiscent of elk. The lingonberry duck was delicious. We stayed on the covered patio despite a sprinkling of rain. Kuu means moon, but there was none of that this night. Instead, we wrapped in felt blankets, offered to all diners. Our waiter called for a car to take us back to our hotel. (heart) Helsinki !