A friend and I planned a trip to Vaasa, Pori and Tampere. The friend came from Oulu and I travelled to Vaasa at the end of July. The trip was to finalize my cafe tour of the 30 loveliest cafes in Finland featured in the Iltalehti paper. After visiting a cafe in Kustavi, I had only two cafes left. One was in Vaasa and Pori. So, we planned to visit both Vaasa and Pori.
However, in Vaasa, we found the cafe, Raawka, was closed for their summer holiday. We got disappointed about it, yet, enjoyed Vaasa a lot visiting Kvarken archipelago and finding great restaurants.
We took Onni bus from Vaasa to Pori after spending two nights and three days in Vaasa. It’s a shame that main cities on the west coast of Finland are not directly connected by train. It would be nice to have such a railroad all the way from Kemi to Turku (and Helsinki).
When we arrived at Pori bus station, our friend kindly came to picked us up and drove to the Petras Cafe.
Appearance of the cafe wasn’t as fancy as most of the loveliest cafes listed in the Ilatalehti. However, we noticed it was quite popular among locals. There were customers of all ages. It’s a cafe loved by locals, I realized.
Also, the cafe offers extensive selections of sweets, food, and drink. I think you could see many of them in the above photo. “Diversity” felt right to describe Petras Cafe.
We had been eating a lot of food and sweets by the time we got to this cafe, and it was close to our dinner time. And portion of the sweets looked big. We decided to share one strawberry cake which was nice.
When we were leaving the cafe, we noticed the sign “Kahvi 1€” with a picture of a dog. We wondered if the coffee is 1€ only for dogs 😉 But we concluded it is 1€ for everyone including dog. We talked about such a thing only for fun, of course.
Only one more cafe to visit to complete the 30 cafes featured in the IL article. At the end of the trip, we were already making a plan for the next visit. I am actually writing this post on the train to Vaasa right. I have asked the cafe if they were open today and they confirmed it. I can’t wait to get there!
This post is related to the Iltalehti article “Japanilainen Yumi kiersi Suomen kahvilat: ”Suomalaisilla on aarre” “
Petras Cafe
Yrjönkatu 11, 28100 Pori