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Pork knuckle traditional Estonian foodSource: Johannes Hoimoja

Top restaurants serving traditional Estonian food

Here are the best restaurants where you can try traditional Estonian food, tried-and-true dishes, and modern ways of preparing local ingredients.

Traditional Estonian cuisine is hearty, featuring local ingredients such as rye, sour cream, dill, and potatoes.

However, the flavors are far from simple. Back in the day, home cooks used a variety of preservation methods, including smoking, pickling, and fermenting, to add complex tastes to their dishes. Here are the best restaurants to try authentic Estonian food.

Restaurant Kaerajaan

Restaurants

Kaerajaan is a modern version of local traditions – it is named after a local traditional dance and its interior design elements and food are...

Restaurant Kaerajaan

Source: Restoran Kaerajaan

Kolu Inn

Bars & pubs

Kolu Inn is a small highway tavern with one stable that was constructed in the village of the same name in Kose parish in 1840. It was transported to...

Kolu Inn

Source: Kolu Kõrts

Olde Hansa

Restaurants

The medieval restaurant Olde Hansa is the home of a rich merchant, whose guests enjoy delicious, authentic Hansa-era meals and drinks, authentic...

Source: Olde Hansa

Hell Hunt Pub

Bars & pubs

With its pleasant atmosphere, delicious food and affordable prices, Hell Hunt is popular with both locals and tourists and is open to visitors every...

Source: Hell Hunt Facebook

Restaurant Farm

Restaurants

The restaurant Farm located in the Tallinn Old Town and offering modern Estonian cuisine values organic produce. The long traditions of the Estonian...

Restaurant FARM

Source: Restoran Farm

Maria farm cafe

Cafes

Maria Farm cafe offers traditional Estonian farm food and delicacies from game. Farm hostesses treat you with fresh seasonal salad, pork, salmon,...

Source: Maria talu, Facebook.com

Palmse manor house pub

Bars & pubs

In Palmse manor house complex in Lahemaa national park there is Palmse Pub which offers the dishes of our ancestors, for instance authentic farm...

Palmse manor house pub

Source: SA Virumaa Muuseumid

Restaurant Saaremaa Veski

Restaurants

A restaurant of local flavours, located in a unique windmill in Kuressaare (from 1899). The menu has different wild game meat, smoked fish, house...

Source: Saaremaa Veski

Sangaste Rukki Restaurant

Restaurants

Welcome to Sangaste Rukki Restaurant – a place where rye, the Estonian national crop, is honoured! If you want to enjoy both traditional and new...

Sangaste Rukki Restaurant

Source: Sangaste Rukki Maja

Lümanda Tavern

Restaurants

Lümanda Tavern, situated in an old church school, offers a menu of tasty farm food. It is the perfect place to get a real taste of the dishes that...

Lümanda Tavern

Source: Kuressaare TIK

Altja Tavern

Restaurants

Altja Tavern is in Lahemaa National Park in northern Estonia. It retains its thatched roof and interior design of old and is a great place to refresh...

Source: Altja Kõrts

Café Tsäimaja in the Värska Farm Museum

Restaurants

The Värska Farm Museum offers Seto national dishes from handmade clay dishes and plays Seto music. On the first floor of the house, there is a...

Source: Võrumaa Arenduskeskus / Sven Zacek

Tammuri Farm Restaurant

Restaurants

The restaurant does not have a fixed menu. We prepare our food using fresh seasonal products, which is preferably of local origin. We have been...

Tammuri Farm Restaurant

Source: Jürgen Vainola

Hansatall tavern

Bars & pubs

The tavern, which was built in true Hanseatic style, offers Estonian cuisine. In addition to different meat dishes, a large selection of different...

Hansatall tavern

Source: Hansahoov

Valge Hobu tavern

Restaurants

The Valge Hobu tavern is located close to Jõhvi, at the 160 km mark on the Tallinn-Narva highway. In the granary barn of the former Edise manor...

Valge Hobu tavern

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/users/cattalin-560479/

Suure Töllu Körts (the Great Tõll Tavern)

Bars & pubs

Suure Töllu Körts is a nice and respectable place for organizing events and parties. In this tavern, everything is as big as the great hero (Suur...

Source: Suure Töllu puhkeküla

Trahter Birgit (Tavern Birgit)

Bars & pubs

The Tavern Birgit is located on the Tallinn-Risti-Virtsu highway before the town of Lihula. The log house with an eye-catching thatched roof is the...

Trahter Birgit (Tavern Birgit)

Source: Trahter Birgit

Mäeküla Pub

Bars & pubs

Half way from Tallinn to Tartu, Mäeküla Pub stands at the heart of Estonia in Järva County; it has enough room for 60 people, and during warm...

Mäeküla Pub

Source: Piret Sihver