Must-see restaurants in Old Town

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    Leib

    Old Town

    Leib (Estonian black bread) is a thing of great beauty and quiet national pride, and you'll find a peerless rendition here: dense, moist, almost fruity in…

  • Manna La Roosa

    Old Town

    This restaurant-bar is truly a multisensory adventure. Housed in a French-style villa built in 1872 and once used as a pharmacy, its interior is a wacky…

  • Tai Boh

    Old Town

    This superb pan-Asian eatery adjoining Manna La Roosa feels like a baroque fever dream. Picking a focal point among the opulent kitsch is hard: the…

  • Tchaikovsky

    Old Town

    Located in a glass-roofed pavilion within the upscale Hotel Telegraaf, Tchaikovsky offers dazzling fine-dining mise en scène: armchairs surrounding linen…

  • Chocolats de Pierre

    Old Town

    Nestled inside the picturesque Masters’ Courtyard and offering respite from Old Town hubbub, this snug, lavishly decorated cafe is renowned for its…

  • Vegan Restoran V

    Old Town

    Visiting vegans are spoiled for choice in this wonderful restaurant in a timber-ceilinged, stone-walled setting. In summer the four streetside tables…

  • Kehrwieder

    Old Town

    Unlike many places around Tallinn's Town Hall Sq, this cosy chocolaterie-cafe has an invitingly relaxed ambience. Stretch out on a couch, read by…

  • Dominic

    Old Town

    With a softly lit, old-fashioned dining room inside a 14th-century house, good French-inspired cooking and a winning wine list, 'Wine Restaurant' Dominic…

  • Plant

    Old Town

    An excellent example of the flourishing vegetarian and vegan dining scene in Tallinn, Plant is the finished article, from the clean style and hanging…

  • Must Puudel

    Old Town

    With eclectic retro furniture matched by an equally wide-roaming soundtrack, courtyard seating, excellent coffee, long opening hours and select nights of…

  • Von Krahli Aed

    Old Town

    You'll find plenty of greenery on your plate at this rustic, plant-filled restaurant (aed means 'garden'), beneath the rough beams of a medieval merchant…

  • Farm

    Old Town

    Aside from the wild boar, you won't see any of the stuffed animals carousing at a table in the front window (a wolf, a fox and others) on the menu, but…

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    Olde Hansa

    Old Town

    Period-garbed servers labour beneath large plates of game meats in medieval-themed Olde Hansa, once a Hanseatic merchant's house, now the place to indulge…

  • Kuldse Notsu Kõrts

    Old Town

    The glitzy Hotel St Petersbourg is an unlikely setting for a pocket of faux-Estonian rusticity, but this smartly whitewashed 'inn' is a great place to try…

  • MEKK

    Old Town

    The name of the ground-floor restaurant at the Savoy Boutique Hotel is a contraction of Moodne Eesti Köök (modern Estonian cuisine) – defined here as a…

  • ORE

    Old Town

    The sleek, arch-vaulted dining room, Scandi-styled furniture and moody lighting set the tone for a refined and pricey dinner. Vegetarians are quite well…

  • Pegasus

    Old Town

    This sleek restaurant occupies three design-driven floors of a Soviet-era building with porthole-style windows and roughcast walls. There's a lightness of…

  • Ribe

    Old Town

    Occupying a corner position on Old Town’s main eating street, with tables spilling outdoors in summer, Ribe serves New Nordic food in a quite formal…

  • Väike

    Old Town

    If you've ever had a hankering for braised elk roast, this warm, stone-walled place can sate it. Although it's hardly tethered to tradition, plenty of…

  • Texas Honky Tonk & Cantina

    Old Town

    If the quality of margaritas and guacamole is the barometer for Tex-Mex legitimacy, then call Tallinn the new Lone Star State. These here halls, bedecked…

  • Elevant

    Old Town

    Intriguing aromas arrest visitors as they ascend the wrought-iron staircase to earth-toned dining rooms where diners linger over some of Tallinn's best…

  • Vanaema Juures

    Old Town

    Food like your grandma used to make, if she was a) Estonian; and b) a really good cook. ‘Grandma’s Place’ was one of Tallinn’s most stylish restaurants in…

  • La Bottega

    Old Town

    Ancient wooden beams and stone pillars contrast with a sweeping pine staircase in a high-ceilinged dining room walled with shelves of wine – an…

  • Clayhills Gastropub

    Old Town

    With live music on weekends, comfy couches, a stone-walled upstairs room and sunny summer terrace, Clayhills is a very pleasant place to take a break from…

  • Kompressor

    Old Town

    This Tallinn institution will plug any holes in your stomach with one of its 29 different sweet or savoury varieties of pancakes. Don’t go thinking you’ll…

  • Chedi

    Old Town

    Chedi's metallic tones, shiny lacquerware and attentive service immediately signal ambitions higher than those of most Asian restaurants in Tallinn. You…

  • III Draakon

    Old Town

    There's bucketloads of corny atmosphere at this Lilliputian tavern below the town hall, plus super-cheap elk soup, sausages, oven-hot pasties and other…

  • Rimi

    Old Town

    Old Town has almost no convenience stores, making this small but well-stocked supermarket particularly handy.

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