Winest

Come for a Georgian dinner where the wine is part of the menu. With the shared Nadimi feast, the house pours a tasting of four 6 cl glasses for 25 € a person. On the house's own site, one of its team names the Saperavi of Tamuna Bidzinashvili, who makes qvevri wines in Gremi in eastern Georgia, as a favourite. The house's site shows a Tripadvisor Travelers' Choice 2025 badge.

Expect a sit-down restaurant rather than a bar counter. The Nadimi for two brings Pkhali spreads, a salad with walnuts, Adjaruli Khachapuri, Shkmeruli and grilled pork; the vegetarian Nadimi swaps in Lobiani, Khis Soko and Lobio. Adjaruli Khachapuri is a boat-shaped cheese bread with egg yolk and butter, and the khinkali are handmade with beef and pork. The menu also carries plant-based options.

Winest serves dinner from Tuesday to Friday, 17:00 to 23:00. At weekends it opens earlier, at 14:00, and stays open until 23:00 on Saturday and 22:00 on Sunday, which leaves time for a long shared meal. It is closed on Mondays, so plan a Monday wine evening elsewhere in the city. Hours can change; the house's own site carries the current ones.

Winest is at Eteläinen Makasiinikatu 4 on Kasarmitori, a square in Kaartinkaupunki with no market trading despite its name. The nearest trams stop at Eteläranta, about 100 m from the door, and at Kauppatori by the Market Square, about 300 m away. For more places to drink wine in the city, see Helsinki.

Winest is a Georgian restaurant at Eteläinen Makasiinikatu 4, on Kasarmitori square in central Helsinki. It moved there in spring 2026 from Unioninkatu 30, where it ran as a wine and cocktail bar. The kitchen makes khachapuri, handmade khinkali and dishes with walnuts, and Georgian wine is poured with the meal; the Georgian clay-vessel method, qvevri, has been on UNESCO's intangible heritage list since 2013.

Winest traded as a wine and cocktail bar at Unioninkatu 30, in the Wuorio building, which the decorative painter Salomo Wuorio commissioned as headquarters of his paint business. Its licence there ran from January 2024 to April 2026, under Joy and Wine Group, a company registered in 2023. The bar served Georgian and European wines. In spring 2026 it reopened on Kasarmitori as a Georgian restaurant.

Ask which Georgian bottles are open that night; the list is not published online. A team note on the house's site names the Saperavi of Tamuna Bidzinashvili as a favourite. She founded Kortavebis Marani in 2014, makes her wines in qvevri in Gremi, and her Saperavi named Temo joined the menu at Noma in 2023.