Gastronomy in Tallinn Try local tastes is another experience not to be missed if you really want to get to feel the soul of Tallinn and Estonia in general. Being a Baltic city, with its characteristic low temperatures (especially in winter), strong specialties and pots are the order of the day. But the truth is that during the summer you can also enjoy fresh salads, made with excellent vegetables from the fertile land in Estonia. In Tallinn we find excellent restaurants of all kinds, offering everything from international cuisine to the medieval cuisine typical of the old city. There’s even a restaurant especially curious: what we see in Viimsi, which will definitely draw attention to form, which mimics a boat turned around.


But let’s really what we want: food. Meat is the staple food in Tallinn, either chicken or pork and hunting (especially moose and wild boar, but it is even possible to find places to serve reindeer and even bear, the latter is rare to find, because hunting is limited). The food restaurants specializing in traditional Estonian dishes like trotters (SULTs), sausage (sauerkraut, of German heritage) stew, pea soup and verivorst verevorst or a kind of cold cuts like our sausage, prepared meat and pig blood. Potatoes (kartulid) are central to Estonian cuisine, in addition, all meals are often accompanied by the traditional black leib or rye bread.

The fish also has its presence in the city and the rest of the country. Surprisingly, in spite of fishing ports, food estonia not too recipes basa in fish. You can taste the Baltic Sea species such as herring or sprat (a variety of sardine little known in Spain, typical of the North Sea), prepared usually smoked. The profusion of rivers and lakes in the interior also gives wonderful pieces of eel, trout and salmon, the smoked and marinated, in this case, are very common. Perch and crayfish also consumed a lot, especially during the summer.


The cafes of Tallinn offer a splendid variety of sweets and desserts, chocolate being Kalev (whose shop we can find in the neighborhood Rotermann) the most famous and popular, along with the marzipan from the same brand. As the most popular drinks, beer takes the cake, especially the brand Saku and A. Le Coq. Vodka is also common, and the liquor typical of the city, the vain Tallinn.