Terrace Entertainment – Or Let Your Customers Stare at the Parking Lot?

Summer is coming. Terraces are opening. And then everyone sits around waiting for customers to magically show up. Works great – if you have no competition. But you do.

Every restaurant opens a terrace. Everyone puts up the parasols and sticks a plant in the corner. That’s the bare minimum. The question is: what are you doing differently?

We’ve figured that out for you.

Lettukestit – Yes, You Read That Right

The concept is simple: free pancakes for customers, a DJ plays and the pancake chef is a Finnish social media personality or artist. That last part is the trick.

When someone with 50,000 followers shows up to flip pancakes on your terrace, guess what happens? It ends up on their story. And their feed. And your terrace ends up on thousands of screens – without you spending a cent on ads.

The DJ keeps the vibe going, pancakes get people to stop, and a familiar face brings the crowd. Simple formula, but it works every time.

BEEF – Grill Master and Beats

Same idea, different angle. A grill master smokes and grills, the DJ handles the soundtrack. If Lettukestit is the light and fun option, BEEF is the one that keeps people around until the evening.

The smell of smoke carries far. It’s the best marketing you can get – literally an ad for your terrace floating through the air.

Vinyl Wednesdays – Wednesday Is the New Friday

Wednesday is traditionally the quiet night. The day when staff twiddle their thumbs and watch the clock.

Solution: give it an identity. Vinyl Wednesdays means a DJ spinning nothing but vinyl records. Funk, soul, disco, classics. That analogue crackle and flipping through record sleeves is an experience in itself. You can’t get this from Spotify.

Combine it with an after-work deal, and suddenly you’ve got a Wednesday people actually look forward to.

White Party – The Most Instagrammable Night

The entire terrace decorated in white. Tablecloths, flowers, lights, everything. White dress code for customers. DJ plays.

This is the night that spreads on social media by itself, because everyone wants to take a photo. All you need to do is open the doors – we handle the decor, the music and the atmosphere.

Works especially well as a summer opening party or around Midsummer.

Ibiza Nights – The Balearics in Finland

Deep house, sunset, ambient lighting. That feeling of forgetting you’re in Finland for a moment. For Friday and Saturday nights, this is a sure bet.

Pair it with a cocktail menu – Aperol Spritz, sangria, mojito – and you’ve got a concept people come looking for, not just a terrace they stumble onto.

Stand Up Terrace – Laughter Sells

Comedian for the early evening, DJ takes over after. Low threshold, high entertainment value. People come to laugh, stay to drink.

Our DJs

Behind the concepts is a team that knows what they’re doing. Here are the DJs running your terrace nights:

Amanda Harkimo – One of Finland’s most well-known DJs. Over ten years of experience from clubs and festivals, versatile style from EDM to hip hop and house music. Amanda brings her own fanbase and a name that’s recognised.

Amanda at Nice Events →
Instagram: @djamandaharkimo

DJ Snabu – Over 17 years of experience and smooth mixes. A Tampere-based open format DJ who reads the crowd and builds the atmosphere from start to finish. From clubs to weddings, festivals to terrace nights.

Snabu at Nice Events →
Instagram: @djsnabu

DJ Pauli (Paulin Pelivideot) – YouTuber, streamer and DJ whose audience is counted in the hundreds of thousands. 151,000 YouTube subscribers, 50,000 Twitch followers and 39,000 Instagram followers. When Pauli comes to play, the audience follows.

Bonus Card: Magician Mika Värtö

Mika is the 2025 Nordic Champion in restaurant magic. That means close-up magic at tables and the bar – not some “is this your card” routine, but genuinely mind-blowing stuff from a metre away.

Mika works as an add-on to any of the concepts above. It’s that “what just happened” moment people talk about for weeks.

Meet Mika →

Your Entire Summer in One Phone Call

Our point is this: you don’t need to reinvent the wheel every week. We build you a programme arc for the entire summer – concepts, performers, tech, everything. You focus on what you’re good at: food, drinks and customer service.

Call or send a message, and let’s plan your terrace summer together.

Nabil Samari Nice Events OY 📞 +358 40 195 0045 ✉️ nabil@niceevents.fi