Elite

Elite is a restaurant located in Töölö in Helsinki, Finland, at Eteläinen Hesperiankatu 22. Elite was founded in 1932. The original restaurant manager was Ernst Mattas. The restaurant moved to its current premises in the new Reitz house in 1938, where a separate building was designed for the restaurant on the ground floor. Ernst Mattas's successor was his son Willy together with his wife Margaretha up to 1985, when the restaurant was taken over by Alko's daughter company Kantaravintolat and then by Arctia up to 1997, when it was bought by Royal Ravintolat together with other Arctia-owned restaurants.