It was a cold and rainy day and we needed a place with soft sofas to sink in and a cup of hot tea. We headed to Tony’s Deli, a small Italian influenced bistro in the heart of Helsinki. The setting was perfect. It was past the lunch hour so the restaurant was quiet and we had the whole bar nook for ourselves. Perfect.
Since the lunch had quieted donwn, the waiters didn’t really pay any attention to us. But we found the tea service all laid out on the bar and helped ourselves. And happily we sat on the comfortable sofas for an hour or so and helped ourselves for a second cup.
When it came time to pay, we actually had to struggle to find a member of the staff but when we eventually found one and told that we’d like to pay for the tea. He told us that today the tea was on the house.
Obviously we had had helped ourselves for the tea service that was left behind from the lunch but still it was a pleasant surprise in a city where most of the time you end up paying 2-3 € for a cup of tea that more often resembles yesterday’s dishwater.
