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I found this quite pervasive practice in Helsinki of giving restaurants a big hunk of didactic anchorage through these geographic names of cities or entire geographical regions. No guessing what sort of dish and style of food \u2014\u00a0even anticipating for you the decor you might find inside or style of service. It’s all implied in the name of the place.<\/p>\n

Why do I blog this?<\/strong> Things observed \u2014 street level user interfaces. The readable, legible city without any need for data services or ubiquitous computing modules. Quite nice.
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I found this quite pervasive practice in Helsinki of giving restaurants a big hunk of didactic anchorage through these geographic names of cities or entire geographical regions. No guessing what sort of dish and style of food \u2014\u00a0even anticipating for you the decor you might find inside or style of service. 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