Tiirikkala, a Café located in the most prestigious surroundings of old Turku centre, is a new Café-Bar in the continuation of fine service establishments founded along the riverbanks of Aura in Turku. Located in old wooden building from early 19th century the Café has cathered an atmosphere of 1950's, some of 1970's, and a hint of early 2000's. From the terrace you can watch the river, riverbanks, cathedral, cathedral bridge, old market squares etc. The decoration, architecture, and surroundings are good mix of style and class. Music that they play in Tiirikkala varies maybe little too much, but altogether it seems to search same style, according to the decoration and atmosphere. The Café is also a good addition to the wide but still dull selection of cafés in Turku. From Tiirikkala, Café Art and Café Voltaire have got a good competition. It is very likely that this new Café will be one of the places where I will write my next books.
The selection of cakes and sandwiches is limited, but that might just be good thing. You don't need that much to choose from in a Café, in my opinion, after all, if the offered are of good quality. There is larger variety of beverages. The basic coffees, a nice selection of drinks - choose one and enjoy your life. The quality of cappuccino and caffe latte is decent, even though you will get better from Café Art, also with slightly cheaper prices there too. The staff seems to be little inexperienced with the coffee, but this small detail will hopefully get better. After all, it is just coffee, and even I have made decent cappuccino once.
There is also live music in weekend evenings (at least, I think). So far I haven't been there to listen what kind of music they have, but I could think the style would follow the overall style they have tried to demonstrate.
Even when Tiirikkala is for my liking, I have some small issues, the same issues that I have almost everywhere. For a serial Café-goer like me the seats are of great importance. You want to sit comfortably if you are to visit the place more than once, or once in a year. The chairs in downstairs are best for this purpose, and in some respect the chairs in the terrace - apart from the wabbly high chairs. To be fair, the chairs and couches could be worse, but what makes it more difficult are the tables, or most of them. Upstair couch tables are way too low to enjoy anything - unless you are a very very small person. For a man 6ft tall with way too long legs and hands almost any combination is bad. So maybe it is my own problem? Anyway, this is not a problem only in Tiirikkala, but in most places. Apart from this, I still like the place enough to come back. We'll see what I think after the summer is over, will this work in the depth of the winter, maybe, why not.
