Restaurant POBRE — Restaurant in Helsinki sub-region

Do NOT waste your time or euros at Pobre Helsinki unless you enjoy being disrespected, ignored, and served raw meat by a waitress who treats customers like trash.

Our group of friends walked in excited to try tapas (you know, the kind you share?). Instead, we met the rudest, most condescending older waitress in Finland. She didn’t speak Finnish or Swedish – fine, but her attitude was VILE. When we politely asked for starter recommendations, she snapped, “Just order 4x of the same thing or soup.” Wow, Michelin-level advice!

We told her we were waiting for one friend to arrive before ordering mains. Did she care? NOPE. She slammed the starters down before our friend even walked in. Then came the “main event”: we ordered two identical meat dishes – cooked veery differently (one raw, the other medium-well). When I pointed this out (as we dont like raw meat), she had the AUDACITY to BLAME ME in front of the entire restaurant! “It’s your fault,” she hissed. Excuse me? Your job is to serve food, not serve attitude and incompetence.

The entire night was a dumpster fire. We should’ve walked out, but we naively hoped it’d improve. Spoiler: IT DIDN’T.

To the owner: Train your staff or rename this place “Pobre Service” to match the experience. Your waitress single-handedly destroyed what should’ve been a fun night. We’ll never return, and we’ll tell everyone to avoid this arrogant, overpriced joke of...

I just had dinner in this place last night with my in-laws and we were very disappointed. First of all, the waiter came to get our orders and he was leaning forward on our table his face was very closed to my father in-laws wine glass! Very unhygienic. Secondly, he wasn’t sure if the kare-kare was beef or pork! Thirdly, my mother in-law asked for a cold white wine (it was our 2nd bottle, 1st one was served warm) he served us again another warm wine! I was very embarrassed to my in-laws. But the worst of all was, the waitress was giving us wrong foods! She came with two mains which wasn’t ours and when we told her that these was not our order and that we believed we should start with our appetizers first, she was surprised like “oh you ordered appetizers? Come on girl be attentive and give the right food to the right table not going around with plates of food in your hands trying to find the right table! It was a very bad service and so unprofessional. Oh and btw, foods were just ok not great or excellent. We couldn’t finished all the courses. I didn’t eat my dessert it was way too sweet! I am proud to be a filipina but I wouldn’t recommend this restaurant especially with people who have high foods...

I liked to go to Pobre for lunch every now and then, but my last experience was not so enjoyable anymore. The atmosphere in the restaurant suits the concept. Nothing fancy, but it's great for a quick meal.

At my last visit I that I return the dish that I ordered, because it was way too salty and flavors were not balanced. I like salt a lot, but this was way over it. Service was kind and served another dish I asked for instead. Generally there is no real table service. You order at the counter and get your meal to the table. That's about it with the service.

What changed my opinion from a decent lunch place to not that good anymore are the price/quantity ratio and the off balanced flavors. Portions got smaller and are not filling anymore. The taste of the food was always something different, often on the sweet side, which can be a bit too much for the general taste, but adding sugar is common in a lot of asian cuisine's. It can prevent the natural flavors to come through and covering them up, if used to much.

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