What makes this or that country popular and attractive for tourists, except attractions, culture, climate and natural beauties? Kitchen! And what can be interested in a particular city, except its history, architecture, museums, theaters and galleries? Not least of all its restaurants. Spiritual food is fine, but without a tasty, appetizing note the music of your journey will not be completely harmonious.
Going to Tallinn, be calm, your gastronomic requests will be satisfied in full. At first glance it seems that the capital of Estonia consists entirely of restaurants, pubs, cafes, snack bars, shops and grill right on the street where shkvarchat juicy sausages and lures breathtaking aroma of smoked salmon, as well as numerous hotels and inns (again, with restaurants and cafe inside.)
What is it worth to try
Speaking about Estonian national cuisine, it is difficult to single out any specific native Estonian dishes . The influence of the gastronomy of neighboring countries on this plan was too great .The echoes of German cuisine, in the form of the notorious meat sausages and side dishes from potatoes and sauerkraut, are very noticeable here . There is a pinch of culinary traditions from Poland, Denmark, Finland, Russia . However, eclecticism in cooking is always good, because the time balanced , such cuisine, as a result, always differs in variety of dishes and richness of taste . In Tallinn there are many restaurants with authentic national cuisine from Georgian to Chinese . However, the most interesting are the restaurants with local flavor . The highlight of the same T Lillina and the country as a whole are medieval restaurants, the interior and decor of which, as well as the suits of the staff and, above all, the original cuisine, the original medieval dishes according to old recipes create a unique atmosphere of the knightly era. . Consider the most interesting Tallinn restaurants in detail and biased .
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For gourmets
The modern restaurant MEKK located on the outskirts of the Old Town today is one of the most popular establishments in Tallinn. He is one of the best restaurants in Estonia, according to gourmets. The main concept of the institution is given to national traditions in the preparation of dishes plus environmentally friendly local products. The restaurant menu always corresponds to a certain time of the year. In winter it serves pickles, sauerkraut and pickled vegetables and berries.
Faeton Oriental restaurant is dominated by the spring of spring greens, spinach, asparagus, nettles. In summer, salads are offered in abundance from fresh vegetables, desserts from fruits and berries, and fish treats. In the autumn you will be offered gifts of forest and garden, all kinds of dishes from mushrooms, game, with touches of fragrant blackberries and sea-buckthorn. Add to all this the mastery of the chef's skill, exquisite decoration and serving each dish as a small culinary masterpiece and you will have the right impression of high Estonian cuisine.
In continuation of the theme of "high cuisine" let's look into the Senso restaurant located in the city center in the Radisson Blu Hotel Olümpia. The restaurant offers a kitchen with a light Italian touch. The taste and gaze of the gourmets will please, for example, lasagna with saffron, Mascarpone cheese and smoked salmon, stewed lamb chop with apricot chutney, buffalo salad with mozzarella, gazpacho from beetroot fried with Parma ham and orange sauce or pumpkin gnocchi in broth with herbs. @
With national color
If you talk about the cuisine with a national flavor, then you can fully get acquainted with it at the restaurant "Invalid Knight". This is a fairly democratic institution, located in one of the hostels of the city. Here you can taste wild deer fillet with juniper sauce, liver paste, flavored with cognac and wine or traditional soup with pearl barley and smoked sausages. For dinner, you will be offered fruit or berry pouring from your own restaurant wine barrel
Breads and circuses
If you are interested not only in bread, but also in shows, then to you restaurant Peppersack . This institution is only 30 meters from Town Hall Square in one of the oldest buildings in Tallinn . In 1370, there lived a merchant Hans Pepersak . His name, which translates as "Bag with pepper" and named the restaurant . The medieval menu and the interior of the institution are complemented by interesting performances: duels on swords, opera arias and even belly dance . The menu will intrigue you with with fancy thematic names of dishes, among which are the "Spearman's Holiday", "The Dream of the Craftsman" or "Weakness of Mother Margaret" .
Behind the beer
Restaurant Hell Hunt . Actually this pub, the evidence of this and the interior and atmosphere . But prepare here so that to call this place a normal pub, just do not turn the tongue . The dishes are fairly simple, there is obvious enough appreciable curtsey towards German or Czech cuisine . But they will be cooked so on conscience and will give you so sincerely that even if you are a great connoisseur zyskov and refined cooking, you will still leave this place, falling in love with this place . Here is such a magic . It's hard to recommend any of the dishes, try any . You will equally impress the carbonate from the neck with baked potatoes and onion sauce and spicy sausages from chopped meat with sauerkraut and caraway seeds . And, of course, excellent beer is served here! In addition to the famous brands, here they brew their own beer "Hell Hunt", dark and light .
Another similar exquisite pub in the Town Hall Square, with the self-titled name Beer House, again draws to the restaurant's name, not otherwise . First, its scale. In a closed hall can accommodate up to 300 people, on the inner terrace of 125, and in summer, there is still open a summer veranda. Secondly, the restaurant has its own small factory for the production of beer. Here you can try 7 branded varieties and participate in the beer rally!
In addition there is a very tasty and original cuisine. You will be surprised by sausages from game with mustard sauce, puree from fresh cranberries, potato pocket with mushrooms-bitter and beetroot and horseradish. And this is the name of just one dish! Impressive? Still here you can taste a roasted roast beef with rosemary and a beer soup with smoked ribs. By the way, in the restaurant you can buy a brand beer Beer House, in a beautiful ceramic bottle.
For Lakomok
All, men now know exactly where to get them. But, that would not hurt the girls, it is worth mentioning one nice place, the oldest cafe-confectionery Maiasmokk - "Lakomka". This is the most famous cafe among tourists, which is famous for its baked goods and desserts for more than 100 years.
Located on the ancient Pikk street, with exquisite interior and maddening smells of cinnamon, vanilla and chocolate, this place is worthy, that you would visit it at least once. If there is no time to enjoy delicacies for a cup of coffee, then you can buy something from the cafe's production for memory. Here you can buy chocolate, Kalev sweets, famous Estonian liqueurs, creamy Vana Tallinn Cream or raspberry Kannu Kukk.