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The 100 Best Places to Eat in Estonia

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The best places to eat in Estonia, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide, the White Guide, and The 50 have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. 180° by Matthias Diether comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Tallinn.

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NOA Chef’s Hall and Fotografiska hold the next two places. The White Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with the Michelin Guide next.

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  1. The name comes from the panoramic sweep you get sitting at the U-shaped counter, which wraps around an open kitchen in a sleek harbourside building just beyond the old city. This is a two-Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant run by a German chef whose food leans heavily on contrast, textures stacked against each other with real precision. The harbour view from the tables is the quieter option if you'd rather not watch every move being made.


  2. Aperitifs in a lounge overlooking Tallinn Bay before you're walked through a seven-course creative tasting menu built around an open fire, one course of which you eat standing at the chef's counter. The kitchen is the room, and the cooking moves between Canadian lobster and foraged Baltic produce with enough complexity to keep you leaning forward. It holds a Michelin star.


  3. Perched above the Fotografiska gallery, this modern restaurant looks out over Tallinn's Old Town in a way that makes you briefly forget you came for the food. The kitchen runs a leaf-to-root, nose-to-tail philosophy with enough conviction that vegetable trim ends up as cocktail garnish rather than compost. The cooking is original enough to earn a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the rooftop bar makes a strong case for arriving early.


  4. A turquoise clapboard house with a red roof in a quiet residential neighbourhood, where the green-tiled fireplace the name promises actually anchors the room. This is a cosy contemporary restaurant with bold wallpapers, warm service, and a wine list that leans organic and biodynamic. The cooking is straightforward and honest, the kind that makes a neighbourhood feel lucky to have it. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.


  5. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Baltic with Tallinn's skyline behind it, which is a view most restaurants would build an entire personality around, and NOA mostly lets it speak. The beach house dining room wraps you in wood and natural materials with a vaguely New England mood, but the terrace is where everyone quietly jockeys to sit when the sun cooperates. A Michelin Bib Gourmand spot serving modern, coastal-leaning food.


    Address
    Ranna tee 3, Tallinn, Harju 12112, Estonia · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–11 PM

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  6. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Gulf of Finland, and the retrace out front fills up the moment Tallinn gets anything resembling sun. Tuljak is a modern restaurant with a retro-modernist soul, housed in a building that has aged into cool rather than out of it. The kitchen has a Baltic foundation but roams freely, pulling in Mediterranean, Asian, and South American ideas, and the plating is careful enough to make you pause before eating.


    Address
    Pirita tee 26e, Tallinn, Harju 10127, Estonia · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–10 PM

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  7. Candlelit rooms lined with eclectic artwork in a centuries-old Old Town building, Art Priori is a modern-cuisine restaurant that leans into the romance without overdoing it. The cooking is quiet and precise, letting each ingredient stand on its own rather than hiding it under technique. The cocktail list and wines by the glass mean you can stay longer than you planned, which seems to be the idea.


    Address
    Olevimägi 7, Tallinn, Harju 10123, Estonia · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–Midnight

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  8. Rank 8. Härg

    Steakhouse

    The stone walls and copper chandeliers make Härg feel like a brasserie that materialized in a medieval cellar, in the best possible, no wait, in a way that works. It runs all day, with a charcoal-heavy menu that keeps its eye on local ingredients and a signature rib-eye cooked directly on the coals. The courtyard fills up the moment Tallinn thaws. Portions lean generous, which the room's energy quietly encourages you to meet.


    Address
    Maakri 21, Tallinn, Harju 10145, Estonia · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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  9. 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.


    Address
    Ülikooli 14, Tartu · Tartu
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–4 PM, 6 PM–11 PM

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  10. 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.


  11. Rank 8. Moon

    Slavic Eastern European

    A former blacksmith's shop in a converted industrial complex, Moon takes its name from the Estonian word for poppy and its cooking from Slavic tradition, with a seasonally changing menu built around the kind of simple, local, honest food that sounds like a manifesto until you taste it. Siberian dumplings and carp in sour cream show up regularly, and the team treats first-timers like they've been coming in for years.


    Address
    Telliskivi 60/4, Tallinn, Harju 10412, Estonia · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–11 PM

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  12. A century-old art nouveau villa in the quiet Nõmme suburb, where the menu categories read "Can't Resist," "For a Real Gourmand," and "Cherry on Top" instead of the usual starters-and-mains routine. It's a modern European restaurant spread across two floors of small, interconnecting rooms that feel genuinely intimate rather than cramped. The cooking leans on classical foundations with contemporary touches, and the menu stays short enough that the kitchen can actually pull it off.


  13. Rank 8. Tchaikovsky

    Modern French

    A glass roof, a chandelier, gilt frames on every wall, and a living green wall behind glass that keeps the room from feeling too buttoned-up. Tchaikovsky is a formal restaurant inside Hotel Telegraaf, in the middle of Tallinn's Old Town, serving refined cooking that layers classical French technique with Russian touches. The Siberian dumplings with horseradish beurre blanc are the kind of thing that makes you wonder why more places don't combine the two traditions.


  14. A hotel restaurant with pine trees and the Baltic on one side and Angelica Udeküll's cooking on the other. The TV chef turned restaurateur builds her modern Estonian menu around her grandmother's recipes and things she picked up traveling, and the drinks list splits neatly between international bottles and local producers. The setting is quiet enough that you notice what's on the plate.


  15. Rank 15. Pull

    American Steakhouse

    The anchor tenant of a converted 19th-century grain elevator in Tallinn's Rotermann district, Pull is a meat-forward grill restaurant where exposed stone walls and concrete pillars do most of the decorating. Dinner leans hard into charcoal-grilled Estonian cuts, with a "Dirty Steak" that has apparently earned its name. At lunch, almost everyone orders the dish of the day, which tells you something about the pricing.








  16. Address
    Sulevimägi 1, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–11 PM

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  17. Address
    Müürivahe 27, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–10 PM

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  18. Address
    Ringtee 75, Tartu · Tartu
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–10 PM

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  19. Address
    Telliskivi 2, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Wednesday 5 PM–11 PM

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  20. Address
    Ranna pst 1, Pärnu · Pärnu
    Hours

    Closed today, opens Sat 6 PM

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  21. Rank 21. Tabac Brasserie & Bar

    French Cocktail Bar



  22. Address
    Poldri 3, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–3 PM, 6 PM–10 PM

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  23. Address
    Ülikooli 15, Tartu · Tartu
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–10 PM

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  24. Address
    Estonia pst 4, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Wednesday 11 AM–7 PM

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  25. Rank 39. GMP Patisserie

    Parisienne Bakery





  26. Address
    Karja 10, Haapsalu · Haapsalu
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–8 PM

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  27. Address
    Suur Sepa 18, Pärnu · Pärnu
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Wednesday 8 AM–5 PM

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  28. Address
    Kauba 11, Viljandi · Viljandi
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–10 PM

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  29. Address
    Viljandi mnt 6/Kalmistu tee 1, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–9 PM

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  30. Address
    Vana-Posti 11, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–11 PM

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  31. Address
    Vana-Posti 7, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–11 PM

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  32. Rank 39. ODESSA Restaurant

    Ukrainian Eastern European



  33. Address
    Kesk tee 27, Viimsi · Viimsi
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–9 PM

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  34. Rank 39. One Sixty

    Barbecue


    Address
    Telliskivi 62, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–10 PM

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  35. Address
    Tori 4, Kuressaare · Kuressaare
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–9 PM

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  36. Address
    Vase 14, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–11 PM

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  37. Address
    Supeluse 26, Pärnu · Pärnu
    Hours

    Open now, until 11:59 PM

    Wednesday Midnight–11:59 PM

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  38. Address
    Kastani 42, Tartu · Tartu
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–11 PM

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  39. Address
    Lossi 11, Kuressaare · Kuressaare
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–10 PM

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    Website



  40. Address
    Lääne 1 b, Jõhvi · Jõhvi
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–8 PM

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  41. Address
    Õle 33, Tallinn · Tallinn
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–7 PM

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  42. Rank 77. Muna

    Modern Café


    Address
    Raekoja plats 2, Narva · Narva
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Wednesday 9 AM–6 PM

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  43. Rank 77. Prelude

    Wine Bar


    Address
    Lossi 4, Kuressaare · Kuressaare
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 6 PM

    Wednesday 6 PM–Midnight

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  44. Address
    Pärna 19, Kuressaare · Kuressaare
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–11 PM

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  45. Rank 77. SARDIINID

    Seafood



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