Popular with business diners, classy Emo serves dishes such as crab cakes with coriander and fennel, salt-baked trout with herb and juniper berry salad, halibut with wild garlic crème, and duck with red cabbage and apple in an elegant dining room decorated in sedate sage-green and oyster-grey hues. Astutely chosen wine pairings are available to complement each course.
Emo
Helsinki
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