Description: Café Esplanad is my favourite café summer and winter. It's always busy and quite full, in summer the queue is long and people brim over onto the street on little tables. The clientéle is youthful.
It's sort of budget, if you are in for a coffee and carbohydrate splurge (a splurge is never the cheapest option and this is definately the cheapest cafe on the Esplanade). The soups are generous, so are the salads. The various filled bagels and baguettes are mouth-watering. You get adequate coffees and teas. But the reason this is so well known is that they have possibly the biggest cinnamon rolls in town! locals call them "korvapuusti" which actually means a bang on the ear... The other danish pastries are also big and so good...
To top the atmosphere, if possible, some evenings they cram in a singer and two jazz musicians! In the evenings there is an age limit of 18 or 20.
If this is too full or busy for you, try the sister cafe, called Café Succes, a ten min walk away in a very fancy part of town called Eira.
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