The Russian restaurant Bellevue closed

In 2013, Bellevue’s interior looked like this. OUTI JÄRVINE/KL

The Russian restaurant Bellevue, which was located in Helsinki, has stopped operating.

Located in Katajanokka, Bellevue reportedly had the honor of being the world’s oldest Russian restaurant operating outside of Russia.

In 2021, a reporter Mika Remes evaluates in Optio that the Russian cuisine of Bellevue, which has reopened its doors, tastes delicious.

French-Russian dishes from the tsarist era were offered in Bellevue, updated to modern times.

The place was founded in 1917 by an Estonian-Russian Grigory Pavlov his Finnish wife Hulda Helénin with.

In the 1920s, Pawlow gained fame in the illegal whore business. Strong tea was also known in Bellevue. Since then Pawlow finnished his name Reko to Paulo.

In the 1970s, Bellevue moved Ragni Rissanen For the Rivoli group. Remes writes in Optio that Bellevue’s glorious history did not help when the doors closed in 2019 after the owner company ran into financial difficulties.

In 2020, Bellevue was opened by a new owner, a real estate investor and restaurateur from Turku Zhiming Peng.

Peng told Helsingin Sanomat last week that Bellevue’s sales fell significantly after Russia started a war of aggression against Ukraine a year ago.

According to him, sales decreased to less than half of what they were before the war.

Actor Ville Haapasalo the Davai Davai restaurant he piloted closed its doors in six months. The restaurant presented the food cultures of the Soviet Union.

Its menu was a cross-section of the cuisines of Russia, the Baltic countries and the Caucasus.

However, the war started by Russia in Ukraine hit the young restaurant’s business.

In Helsinki, the Russian restaurants Saslik and Troikka located on Calonius street in Töölö are still in operation. Troikka was founded in 1968, Saslik in 1972.