Zestii Kitchens Kallio

Zestii Kitchens Kallio Helsinki chapter of food-culture entrepreneurs' collective, Zestii Kitchens.

Our cafe & eatery in Kallio serves weekly changing breakfast, lunch, brunch and bites, with features diverse culinary background our team bring to Finland 🇫🇮 🌏

[Week 39- Lunch]We have new face joining our kitchen from Assam region, North East India. India is vast and diverse. Peo...
21/09/2026

[Week 39- Lunch]
We have new face joining our kitchen from Assam region, North East India.
India is vast and diverse. People’s identities are strongly connected with regional foods - our chef of the week Kazu tells us.
If you have been to our place to taste the food of Anaya, who has been presenting West Coast and Southern style of cooking, you’ll be treated with a fresh surprise this week.
In a little mountainous corner with geographical and climate features closer to the humid South East Asian highland, Kazu’s “thali” meals features bamboo shoots, ginger, and black sesame. Instead of meat, which is preserved by smoking and used often in cooking in the region, Kazu adopted tofu in one of his dishes.
Come discover another batch of Indian cooking this week! Lunch comes with either filter coffee or brilliant, sweet, floral cup of Assam tea to pair with🫶
Clear ginger broth
Dahl - toasted Mung beans and grated coconut stew
Tofu and bambooshoot
Stir fried zucchini
Coriander and Mint Chutney
Jasmine rice
📍Zestii Kitchens Kallio (Kaarlenkatu 15)
📆21-25.9 (Mon-Fri) 11:00-15:00
Welcome!

16/09/2026

Following the wonderful Oonam celebration, our resident chef Anaya is coming back with more of seasonal celebration around food🥳.
This weekend, 19-20.9 will be Anaya’s Modak & more PopUp- a feast on the plate💗
Cafe opens as usual with coffee, tea and pastries. Between 11:00-15:00, Anaya is serving special menus. Due to the preparation complication, she would like to know how many of you are coming in advance. Pre-book your portion from link in bio 🥳
Ganesh Chaturthi celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha.

For many, Ganesha represents: wisdom and learning,new beginnings,strength through difficulties, prosperity and good fortune, the removal of obstacles. That is why Ganesha is often remembered before beginning something new.
In India, Ganesh Chaturthi brings homes and communities together.
A Ganesha idol is brought home or installed in a community space with prayers and offerings.
The days are filled with:
🌺 flowers and decorations
🪔 lamps and prayers
🥥 traditional offerings
🎶 music and gatherings
🍚 festive food
🤍 family, friends and community
And, of course, Modak — Ganesha’s much-loved sweet. Modak is a traditional Maharashtrian cuisine made with rice flour, coconut and jagerry.
Modak is derived from Sanskrit word “Moda” which means happiness, and Modak means something that brings happiness.

Our friend and fellow food-culture entrepreneur Aino is back in our kitchen this week. She has 2 cultural roots - from G...
14/09/2026

Our friend and fellow food-culture entrepreneur Aino is back in our kitchen this week. She has 2 cultural roots - from Greece and Finland. And she has been active introducing Greek food culture to Helsinki people in the past years. You might have seen her online as aino mavrigiannakis | greek food | recipes | insider travel , talking in front of camera into a little fluffy microphone on top of colander 🤓 Her cooking features seasonal abundance, Greek traditions and food practices she learnt from both family tradition and professional kitchens.

She cannot help but offering many add-ons to turn a lunch into full Greek daytime feast. You can pick and mix what you like, to eat like Greek 🇬🇷

📍Zestii Kitchens Kallio (Kaarlenkatu 15)
📆14-18.9 Mon-Fri / 11:00-15:00

Welcome!
GARDEN VEGETABLE GEMISTO RIZO — 15.80 €

Herby tomato rice, risotto-style, topped with roasted late-summer vegetables.

Greek yoghurt or vegan lemon-tahini sauce

Tursi salad — crunchy mixed vegetable pickles

Coffee or tea included

*Gluten-free

// EXTRAS //

Bread — 3 €
Feta or hummus — 3.50 €

SIDE MEZE — 6.50 €

Bread, olives, tomato-garlic spread and feta or hummus

FULL MENU — 25.80 €
Gemisto rizo + side meze + dessert + coffee

DESSERT — 7 €

Galatopita with plums and pistachios
or
Vegan tahini-chocolate cream with plums and pistachios

🍴BRUNCH MENU 12-13.9🍴The Green PlateCreamy zucchini baba ghanoush with poached eggs, spicy chili oil and a bright tomato...
11/09/2026

🍴BRUNCH MENU 12-13.9🍴

The Green Plate

Creamy zucchini baba ghanoush with poached eggs, spicy chili oil and a bright tomato, cucumber & sumac salad. Served with warm bread

Moroccan Morning

A delicate Moroccan crepe with carrot & bergamot jam, Egyptian-style beans, harissa-glazed carrots with tahini yogurt, and fresh tomato & parsley tabbouleh

🌞THE REST OF SEPTEMBER🌞Autumn is in the air. Summer buzz is calming down. We had some irregular schedule past weekend an...
11/09/2026

🌞THE REST OF SEPTEMBER🌞
Autumn is in the air. Summer buzz is calming down. We had some irregular schedule past weekend and this week but rest assured September continues with mix of regular cafe operation and exciting events 😆
🥗WEEKEND BRUNCH
Nature and farm loving Rita, of French-Moroccan background returns to our kitchen this weekend (12-13 September) and 26&27 September with brunch menus reflecting harvests from Majvik Biodynamic farm, and kitchen secrets she learnt from her mom💗
🌊RE ｜SEA ｜D
Zestii co-founder Minaë and resident chef Anaya is responding to the call from renowned chef Jouni Jouni Toivanen and his fellow to participate in their initiative of placing food and cooking in the context of broader environmental and social sustainability. The two will show up on Sunday 13.9 at RE|SEA|D ‘s event. Check out their account for details.
🥟FOOD CULTURE POP UP
Our residence chef Anaya is introducing another celebration menus Modak on 19-20 September. Anaya Sathe

Anyen Tealato is coming back to serve more scoops on 3&4 October🍨 Have you tried their Asian tea infused gelato, and our collab flavours and menus? anyentealato
🍴WEEKDAY LUNCH
14-18.9 🇬🇷Aino of Ataraxia Food Production is taking over our kitchen to serve up Greek comfort food for lunch! aino mavrigiannakis | greek food | recipes | insider travel We see her a lot online, but hey, we need to be fed with the food she discusses on her digital channels! This is the opportunity for meet and greet our digital food creator in real 🤤
21-25.9 🇮🇳New wind from North East India blows into our kitchen 🥳 Kazu is a phenomenal kitchen creator, mixing different texture, temperature and space flavouring in his cooking. Now we have West Coast and South style@by Anaya, and North East style by Kazu. India is vast and diverse. You’ll enjoy the differences😋
28.9-2.10 🇯🇵 Our baker girl Lisa is returning to our lunch kitchen, with the menu built around her signature shokupan. We can also take preorder of loaves of Shokupan during the week. Stay tuned for more information Lisanleipomo

07/09/2026

Dear Neighbours and customers,

We are back to Kallio 7.9 (Mon) after PopUp weekend at Kaaos Studio💃👋

This week there will be *no lunch service*. We have a few works in the kitchen.

On top of that, we came to find out the road work takes place right in front of us😅

We will be closed 8-9.9 (Tue-Wed) due to that.

[Week 36 - Lunch]End summer vegetables, probably the last chance for chilled noodle dishes, before cold weather arrives…...
31/08/2026

[Week 36 - Lunch]
End summer vegetables, probably the last chance for chilled noodle dishes, before cold weather arrives…This season makes Minaë, Japanese chef and co-founder of Zestii, crave cooking cold buckwheat noodles.
This week, though it doesn’t feel that way, it’s supposed to be warm, humid, rainy weather. come for refreshing buckwheat cold noodle salad for lunch.
We have beautiful “Nihachi soba” - 20：80 ratio of wheat flour and buckwheat flour noodles from Naraya 奈良屋 . You can buy the noodles at Hachi in Punavuori! hachi_kauppa

📍Zestii Kitchens Kallio
📆 Mon-Fri 11:00-15:00

Zestii Kitchens is more than a lunch cafe. We want our place to be supported, sustained and made to work as a hub of mea...
25/08/2026

Zestii Kitchens is more than a lunch cafe. We want our place to be supported, sustained and made to work as a hub of meaningful people interaction!
We work with community building partners and provide roof and quality bites and beverages to help gatherings to be more fun and delicious!
This week we have 4 different partners organising events.
26.8 (Wed) Reading circle by Slow Food Helsinki

28.8 (Fri) Japanese culture PopUp by Japanese Young students delegate. Supported by タイガーモブ | 海外で挑戦するならタイモブ and UTD Education

29-30.8 (Sat-Sun) Anyen Tealato & Zestii Kitchens
Gelato & Waffle weekend PopUp anyentealato

30.8 (Sun) Asian Book Club - Asian Lit Chat meet up
ASIAN BOOK CLUB HELSINKI 🌏📚
We are here to work with small good things in the world, someone’s first step and new start. We are here to keep our hood alive and thriving with vibrant culture and diversity of people.
Come stop by, sign up, join the community💗

[Week 35- Lunch]Japan week continues. A trip to Okinawa this week at Zestii Kitchens Kallio. When Japanese encounter del...
24/08/2026

[Week 35- Lunch]
Japan week continues. A trip to Okinawa this week at Zestii Kitchens Kallio.
When Japanese encounter delicious food from abroad, the first thought is always “Would this be good to@eat with rice 🌾?”
Just like that, Tex-Mex style taco filling, introduced in Okinawa and landed on the bed of rice. Except, Minaë is making it meatless, with crushed härkäpapu (broad beans) from Finnish soil. Our premise sharing partner, local farm co-op OmaMaa produces fantastic crushed härkäpapu, perfectly fit for minced meat recipes to be meatless.
If you want more protein, top Taco Rice with “onsen egg” - Jiggly, runny eggs for fun!
Lunch served Monday to Friday, between 11:00-15:00, or until sold out. See you this week at Zestii Kitchens Kallio 👋
📍Zestii Kitchens Kallio (Kaarlenkatu 15)
☕️ Kahvila 9:00-17:00
🍴Lounas Ma-Pe 11:00-15:00

Zestii Co-founder and a kitchen bee from Japan returns to our kitchen this week with her “onigiri” rice ball meals for l...
17/08/2026

Zestii Co-founder and a kitchen bee from Japan returns to our kitchen this week with her “onigiri” rice ball meals for lunch.
2 onigiris, 2 side dishes and Miso soup has been a canvas of creativity for Minaë. It serves variety of dishes in one meal, and keeps room to reflect seasonality. Both are essentials which defines Japanese cuisine.

This week we have abundance of seasonal, local harvests from agroecological farms around Helsinki. When we have beautiful produce from local soil and people, kitchen activity becomes a humble service dedicated to worship their beauty.

Come and recharge for your day with carefully cooked, hearty comfort meals for lunch this week!

📍Zestii Kitchens Kallio(Kaarlenkatu 15)
📆17-21 August (Mon-Fri) 11:00-15:00

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KaarlenKatu 15
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Maanantai 09:00 - 17:00
Tiistai 09:00 - 17:00
Keskiviikko 09:00 - 17:00
Torstai 09:00 - 17:00
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