Must-see restaurants in 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…

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…