To spend a lot of money on food in Tallinn, you'll have to eat to your heart's content. Even in the city's best restaurants, which offer such delicacies as smoked quail in caramel sauce with goose liver, the average bill is around 50-75 EUR.
The "tastiest" prices in Tallinn's restaurants are:
- Tallinn-style pancakes with meat - 4.4 EUR;
- a hearty lunch at Rokka al Mare, consisting of traditional Estonian dishes - 5 EUR.
Restaurants and cafes in Tallinn offer quite similar prices and menus. For example, in many cafes you can not only have a coffee and dessert, but also order a full second course.
The best cafes in Tallinn:
Anneli Viik - delicious handmade chocolates are served here. Address: 30 Pikk Street, tel: +372 644 4530, website;
Asian Cafe - Asian, Chinese and Indian cuisine. Address: Kopli, 4, tel: +372 640 6011, website;
Bonaparte bistroo - here you can enjoy fresh truffles and homemade ice cream in an informal atmosphere. Address: Narva mnt, 5, tel: +372 682 5024.
Tallin's favorite tourist restaurants with drool-worthy reviews:
Tchaikovsky Restaurant. Some Russian restaurants in Tallinn are located right in hotels, and Tchaikovsky is no exception. Here you can eat buckwheat pancakes, the freshest pirozhki with traditionally Russian fillings (cottage cheese with green onions, potatoes, bacon with juniper berries, whitefish with perlovka), airy pancakes with caviar, stuffed cabbage, etc. Tasting menu of 6 dishes will cost 75 EUR per person. Address: Vene 9, tel: +372 600 0600, website.
The tavern "III dragon". The medieval atmosphere is fully reproduced in the institution. In the menu of the tavern, as in the XV century, just 2 soups, pies with different fillings (meat, game, venison). Prices are very clear: food - 1 EUR each, drinks - 2 EUR each.
The manner of communication with visitors is medieval-assertive, not modern and polite. The drinks are dark beer and cider. Pickles are free, but you'll have to get them out of the barrel yourself. The staff of the tavern does not serve spoons, so you have to drink hot nourishing soup from a pot. The average bill is 6 EUR.
Ribe Restaurant serves perfectly cooked fish, beef, and game, among other dishes. The restaurant's specialty is the incredible variety of ice cream. Here it is made of cucumbers, cheese, and other seemingly incompatible with dessert products. It turns out to be delicious - as proof of that, there are always full halls, which not all restaurants in Tallinn can boast of. Dinner will cost from 30 EUR per person. Address: Vene 7, tel: +372 631 3084, website.
F-Hoone Restaurant. It is a real hipster loft, equipped in one of the workshops of the former radio factory building. Most dishes are cooked on grill, even Caesar salad. Excellent kebab is made of pork. Prices here are low (lunch costs 10 EUR on average), and portions are huge. Address: Telliskivi, 60, tel: +372 680 1114.
