The Top 17 Places to Eat Near Kolm Sõsarat

The kitchen garden behind this small, remote Estonian restaurant is tended by one of three sisters; a second cooks the set menu, and a third runs the dining room. It's the kind of family operation where the honey in dessert comes from their father's hives out back. Modern and playful, but rooted entirely in what the land around it produces, this is the sort of place that makes you wonder why anyone bothers with cities.

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The name is a portmanteau of "joy" and "choice," which tells you something about the level of whimsy at work here. This split-level hotel brasserie attached to a shopping complex in Tartu runs a menu of creative Baltic and local dishes that start pretty and finish with real force. Drinks at the cocktail bar first, then dinner as the room fills and gets louder, which it does reliably as the night goes on.

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The Post and Telegraph building's ground floor houses this faux-industrial neighborhood bistro, where three friends built the place they actually wanted to eat in. The menu follows the seasons closely, with pikeperch from nearby Lake Burtnieks and local lamb doing most of the talking. Ask the team about wine pairings; they clearly enjoy that conversation. Live music drifts through occasionally, and the terrace earns its keep in summer.

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A modern restaurant inside Hotel Lydia where the menu traces back to an actual family cookbook from the 1920s, belonging to the founders' grandmother. The cooking doesn't stay there, though: the team uses those old recipes as a starting point and pushes them somewhere ambitious and contemporary. The room matches the food, smart and current, without much nostalgia on display. It's the kind of place that earns its concept rather than just wearing it.

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A whitewashed modern restaurant on the banks of the Emajõgi River, TOKO runs a short menu with international leanings, the kind of place that puts chicken thighs on a paratha and calls it a taco without irony. The rooftop terrace is the draw in summer. Part of the same family as NOA and Tuljak, it has the easy confidence of a group that knows what it's doing, and the caviar bump at the start suggests the kitchen isn't above a little luxury.

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