Restaurant review: The Mess

18 03 2016

The Mess claims to be the living room of the Mothership of Work (MoW) working space collective. MoW is recently opened co-working hub for creative companies and individuals. Restaurant The Mess, which was officially opened on the 4th of March 2016, serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and keeps doors open late night. Role models for concept come from New York.

Entrance divides restaurant in two spaces, bar/dining room with kitchen and second dining room. As music is played quite loud and if you only come to eat, second dining room might feel better.

Dinner menu is quite short which applies to wine list too. The Mess stresses that it has taken into account special diets as well as vegan choices. Therefore, post includes review of tasted vegan dishes.

For starter ordered HOD DOG Spiced pork sausage, red onoin jam, sauerkraut

Hot Dog at The Mess - reijosfood.com
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Sausage was enough spicy and with jam and sauerkraut combination was excellent. Minor problem with bread as it was soft from the bottom but upper part was too dry. Maybe the price 12€ is a little bit too much for Hot Dog, but of course, this was not typical fast-food dish.
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For main course had CHICKEN Chargrilled chicken breast, zuccini, mac & cheese
Chicken and Mac & cheese at The Mess - reijosfood.com
Taste of char grill was obvious and it always gives some additional flavor for meat. However, chicken was too dry and it required spiced mayo. Mac & Cheese was ok and actually paired quite well with chicken.
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Vegan dishes
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For starter tried HAPPY COW Crispy eggplant, salad, spinach, preserved lemon & chili dressing
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For a starter, this dish was very tasty, and filling.  Egg plant was fried, not my favorite kind of food, but must admit, the spices used gave it a good flavor.  What made this salad great, was the chilli dressing.
Main course RISONI Roasted pumpkin, marinated feta, spinach, gremolata, pasta was vegetarian, not vegan, but asked to replace feta with tofu.
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Originally a vegetarian dish with feta in it.  The feta was replaced by tofu, which if it had been marinated, would probably had made for a better dish.  The pasta was just plain tasteless.
For wine had glasses of Coltibuono Chianti Classico and Goyam from organic Emiliana wineyard in Chile. The prices of wines are expensive compared to the restaurant’s overall look.
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It is quite difficult to review The Mess because it is diversified, but on the other hand confused. Maybe after few months restaurant finds it’s place in Helsinki dining scene. Concept is neither unique or food out of the ordinary.
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REVIEW: FOOD 3/5 – VEGAN FOOD 2/3 – SERVICE 4-/5 – OVERALL GRADE 3,5/5
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http://www.themess.fi/

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18 03 2016
Eartha (21:12:40) :

A $12 hot dog should be the best thing ever!

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19 03 2016
reijosfood (05:50:18) :

True! Thanks for reading the post!

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