Help me pick a restaurant for our last night in Helsinki!

Thanks to everyone here on this forum, my husband and I have settled on some nice, cheap lunch places to enjoy in Helsinki later this week... so, with the money we%26#39;re saving, we%26#39;d like to enjoy a nice dinner our last night!

We will be hitting up Zetor and Juuri our first two nights. For our last night, we can%26#39;t decide between:

Saaga (looks fun, but is it too touristy?)

Nokka (looks great, but so expensive... and are there no wines by the glass??)

Kosmos (like the menu, but maybe too stuffy for us?)

Aino (checked out the menu, it looked nice)

Since I%26#39;m really sick of making travel decisions at this point, any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!

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Aino is aimed squarely at the tourist market. Which is not to say the food%26#39;s bad, of course, but if you don%26#39;t like tourist places...

For 1930s-style functionalist elegance and ambience without breaking the bank, you could try the Lasipalatsi restaurant on Mannerheimintie (upstairs in the white building opposite the Sokos department store, very near the railway station). The Helsinki menu is all local ingredients, and the reindeer here is as fine as any I%26#39;ve tasted. I took a Chinese visitor there not long ago and she was most impressed.

I%26#39;m afraid wine is expensive in any Finnish restaurant - it%26#39;s a high-margin item in this country, with prices double and upwards of what you pay in Alko shops. Still, in Lasipalatsi you can have a very pleasant reindeer meal with a drink each for a total of €100 or so.

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Juuri is a good restaurant, but I would not eat at Zetor, it%26#39;s better for drinks. You could consider Tori on Fredrikinkatu http://www.ravintolatori.fi/ or Bar 9 on Uudenmaankatu http://www.bar9.net/ instead.

You could also consider restaurant Salutorget for last night http://www.royalravintolat.com/salutorget/ (sorry, seems to be only in Finnish). Of the restaurants you have preselected I would choose Kosmos

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The two nicest restaurants in Helsinki, if price is no object, in my opinion, are both Russian: The Bellevue and The Alexander Nevski:

The Alexander Nevski is opulent, while the Bellevue is more historic, dark and romantic.

The Bellevue was founded by White Russians and was one of Mannerheim%26#39;s haunts.

Mannerheim also liked to dine at Koenig, anouther nice restaurant, but it can get noisy sometimes when the bar area becomes a nightclub.