We have two days in Tallinn. What restaurants would you suggest for lunch and dinner? We would like to try Estonian food, but welcome other suggestions too.
Thnak for any advice!
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Well, you don%26#39;t have to wander round the old Town long to find a good selection of restaurants.
My favourite was The Beer House, which is huge, informal and has a great menu. I%26#39;m not a beer drinker myself and there was plenty of other choice. It%26#39;s just off the square in Dunkri
www.beerhouse.ee/ However, this is more Bavarian than Estonian.
Annoyingly, I can%26#39;t recall the name, but there was a more Esti style restaurant opposite the Alexander Nevski Cathedral.
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We liked Vanaema Juures (Grandma’s Place): Rataskaevu 10/12, tel. 626-9089, yummy home cooking in a stone walled cellar with period furniture. Reservations recommended and a two minute walk from the main square.
If you get a bit peckish during the afternoon there%26#39;s also the Choccolaterie Cafe at Vene 6 (entrance in the courtyard) for fantastic gooey cake in a theatrical tea room.
Otherwise there%26#39;s loads of restaurants in and around the main square.
Have a great trip!
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I have a best friend and his family, who have lived in Tallinn %26quot;forever%26quot;, so I visit most every year. I was just there a month ago, and we ate in three very good restaurants.
1) Kuldse Notsu is a true Estonian restaurant specializing in pork dishes. They have an excellent cold cucumber soup --- a favorite of mine --- (as I recall, it was incorrectly labeled in English as %26quot;cold cabbage soup%26quot;). A house specialty is the pork shank. With beer and vodka you have to have to eat the toast with garlic and bacon fat. Trust me, it is all very good.
schlossle-hotels.com/st.petersbourg/gastrono…
2) My friend took me for lunch to a Georgian restaurant, since he is Russian, and I have been to Tblisi, in the past. It is called Pirosmani, named after a famous Georgian artist, Niko Pirosmani. If the weather is warm enough, they have a very nice garden, in which you can eat. I%26#39;ll be sure to eat here in the future.
http://www.pirosmani.ee/
3) One evening we ate in a rather new kosher restaurant in the new synagogue. Even though I am not Jewish, we ate here, because another friend opened this restaurant in the last half year or so. It is called Moses.
Another Estonian friend told me, before we drove there for dinner, that is seems strange eating in a synagogue, (like eating in a church), but he assured me, that once I was there I would really like it. And I did!
The various salads and appetizers are great with vodka (I was with Russians!). For my main course I had the %26quot;oily fish%26quot;, and it was great. I don%26#39;t know how it is called in English --- this translation is from the Russian.
Don%26#39;t worry if you don%26#39;t speak Estonian or Russian, because the servers speak English. When told I was a guest from Florida, our waiter, Max, immediately started to speak English with me. Then he realized I was speaking Russian with my friends, so he went back to Russian, also.
www.moses.ee/index.php?lang=en%26item=143
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Hi there are a few of our favourite restaurants which serve Estonian cuisine
Eesti Maja at Lauteri 1 who serve a mixture of meat and fish dishes including the wonderfuly named %26quot;Piggy Under a Cloud%26quot; and delicious drink/dessert Kama - good food, good service and good value - their website is www.eestimaja.ee
Vanaema Jurees , Rataskaevu 10/12 is a cosy cellar restaurant serving hearty meat and fish dishes - lovely food - the lamb with blue cheese was very good - and a great atmosphere.
Balthasar - Raeojka plats 11 - is a garlic restaurant serving International cuisine featuring, well, garlic! The food and service are both excellent - the garlic soup and garlic ice cream being particulary delicious - more expensive than some but the food reflects this and the location overlooking the town square is great. Their website is www.balthasar.ee
Must Lammas at Sauna 2 is a stylish restaurant serving such Caucasian cuisine such as Georgian Cheese Pie with yoghurt sauce (Lovely!), trout with plums and raisins and Shashlyk grilled meat. Very good food in a relaxed atmosphere - as the name of the restaurant translates as Black Sheep they also sell Black Sheep Ale produced in Masham in the Yorkshire Dale not far from where i am originally froms! Their website is www.mustlammas.ee
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Another vote for Kuldse Notsu Körts (The Golden Pig) on Dunkri which serves local dishes of enormous size at a good price. Try the starter of roasted farm bread, a deep fried dark bread served with a garlic dip, a combination probably bad for health but great to eat.
Beer at the Beer House is good (if you like good, unfiltered beer rather than the awful gassy mass-produced stuff), but we weren%26#39;t impressed by food there.
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Hi
We have eaten in %26quot;Kapten Tenkes%26quot; restaurant several times, it%26#39;s on Parnu Mnt, about a couple of hundred yards past the Scandic Palace hotel if you pass the hotel on your right and walk up the hill a little way. It costs roughly half of what you would pay in the centre of the Old Town.
It is a Hungarian restaurant not Estonian, but the food is simply lovely. I would suggest %26quot;Hedgehogs in the Mist%26quot;, shared between two for a starter and then their %26quot;Balaton Trout%26quot;. mmmmm heaven!!!
We%26#39;ve been to Tallinn loads of times and have eaten in lots of restaurants but this one is tops for us.
We also rate the %26quot;Peppersack%26quot; very highly.
Jackie
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For Estonian food I would recomend Kuldse Notsu Körts.
If this is your first time in Tallinn you should consider to go to Olde Hansa, it%26#39;s a restaurant with medival atmosphare, but some would say it%26#39;s a tourist trap. Irather say it%26#39;s a sort of Disney. But they have very good honeybeer.
Other restaurants I would recomend are: Makharev, which serves very good meat, and if you go to Vabadanje vallak (the freedom place) you%26#39;ll find a cafe/restaurant named Kui Klub which have good food (mostly sallads) and are much cheaper than those restaurants in town center.
Cafe Bogapott is great for coffee and for pancakes with icecream and jam. :-)
Tristian and Isolde at the town hall is also a good cafe worth a visit.
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I am a big guy and found the portions in Tallinn tiny and the cost pricey. The beer house was over priced. A large beer and two cokes cost me over 200ekk, that over £10. We tried food there, over priced and to be honest poor. A pork Knuckle and a potato sausage cost 260eek. We tried the place on the reports from here, the good thing tho is the beer is really good, as they brew it in house, not cheap tho.
We like cheap and cheerful and found our hotel the reval inn, near the sada market and port. It had good portions and reasonably priced, so ate there a few times. Anyone can eat there. If your on a budget look it up.
Here are my photos
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Gloria (on Müürivahe) is often said to be one of the best restaurants in Europe and I have never been disappointed there. Even in Soviet times the dedicated staff managed to conjure up superb food. It%26#39;s pricey for Tallinn but should be considered seriously if you wish to have a culinary experience rather than just fuelling up. Book in advance.
Another place I%26#39;m surprised hasn%26#39;t been mentioned by precious posters (too obvious, perhaps) is Ye Olde Hansa (just off Town Hall Square - can%26#39;t be missed, watch out for young lads and wenches in medieval dress). The menu is medieval and there is live music in the same vein at weekends. Try the bear meat. OK, it%26#39;s touristy but undeniably fun.
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I would also recommend Ye Olde Hansa.
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