Ekberg 1852

Ekberg 1852 is a bakery, patisserie and café at Bulevardi 9, within walking distance of Senate Square but on a calmer stretch of the city centre. The business began in 1852 and describes itself as Finland’s oldest bakery and patisserie; the present venue combines a takeaway shop with a table-service café. That dual role matters: visitors can pick up bread and pastries for the walk or sit down for breakfast, coffee and a full meal. Traditional sweets share the counter with newer recipes and seasonal products.

The bakery makes bread, pulla—Finnish sweet buns—cakes, pastries and savouries, while the café serves coffee, soups and lunch. Historic specialities include mille-feuille and Champagne Cork, a cream pastry shaped like a bottle cork. The café menu also lists a weekday breakfast buffet, weekend brunch buffet and weekday lunch. Reviews praise the pastries, cinnamon buns, breakfast and classic atmosphere; some customers mention slow coffee service or very sweet cakes, and there are critical comments about service. The Bulevardi 9 listing reproduces a Google rating of 4.2/5 from 3,532 reviews in the check made on 11 October 2026.

The café opens 07:30–19:00 on weekdays and 09:00–18:00 on Saturdays and Sundays; breakfast and brunch run until 14:30 at weekends, while weekday lunch ends at 14:00. The website lists café and shop schedules separately, and the shop may close earlier, so check the service you need. The published telephone number is +358 9 6811 860. Compared with Café Engel, Ekberg is farther from the cathedral but lets visitors turn a coffee stop into a visit to a historic pastry house, with breakfast seating and a bakery counter.