It's not bad, it just doesn't live up to the hype. It's not that hard to make fin pancakes. Sub par.

When I was in Thunder Bay for one night (en route from Calgary to Toronto) I made a point to have breakfast at The Hoito. Yes, mostly because I heard about it on tv, but also because there aren't really any Finnish or even Scandinavian restaurants where I live (Edmonton, Alberta) unless you count eating at the cafeteria at Ikea and I'm sure many people are shaking their fists and yelling, "no!... more

We've been here quite a few times, the first couple of times were complete magic. But like life, the magic wears off. We were there and the server asks us if we would like more water which we said we would. She doesn't come back, ever. We ended up patiently waiting about an hour for our bill and water. We ask another server where our server went and she tells us she went home. We were... more