Sült is a signature dish of Estonia; we have verified places to eat it in Tallinn. Estonian head cheese: meat from pork hocks slow-boiled with bay, allspice and pepper, then set into a clear aspic. Start with where to eat Sült in Tallinn.
Sült · Tallinn
Estonian head cheese: meat from pork hocks slow-boiled with bay, allspice and pepper, then set into a clear aspic. Sliced cold and served with mustard and rye bread at Christmas smorgasbords.
Sült belongs to the broader European tradition of head cheese (German Sülze, Polish galareta), absorbed into Estonian cooking through Baltic German aristocracy and Hanseatic trade in the 13th to 19th centuries. Estonian farmers boiled pork hocks for hours with bay, allspice and pepper, then set the gelatinous broth into a mould. The slices became a winter staple at every Estonian smorgasbord and remain a Christmas-table standard alongside verivorst.
Where to eat in Tallinn:
- Rataskaevu 16
- Olde Hansa
- Pegasus
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