28 mid-range places in Tallinn, editor-picked. The comfortable everyday-good restaurants in Tallinn, with real cooking and no surprise on the bill. All Tallinn food.
28 places
Order Braised elk roast with potato and beetroot gratin (€28.60); add the Estonian cheese platter.
Rataskaevu 16 is the Old Town's mid-priced Estonian comfort-food room, with braised elk, beef tenderloin and chef's choice white fish on a dietary menu.
Try Texas-style barbecue and 24 craft beers
Põhjala Tap Room in Noblessner runs Texas-style barbecue and 24 Põhjala craft beers on tap past midnight on Friday and Saturday in a converted naval shipyard.
Order Whatever the rooftop honey course is; the kitchen leans plant-led with Estonian small producers
Fotografiska runs a plant-led Nordic Sunday brunch atop the photography museum, with rooftop honey, herb-garden vegetables and views across Telliskivi.
Põhjala in Noblessner is Estonia's largest craft brewery, founded in 2011 by four Estonian beer enthusiasts plus Scotsman Chris Pilkington, RateBeer top-100.
Order The weekday lunch set, or a natural-leaning glass pour with the day's main.
Lore Bistroo on Peetri in Noblessner is the LP Hospitality group's Bib Gourmand bistro for modern Estonian cooking in a relaxed harbour-side room daily.
Try Rooftop cocktail bar with Nordic small plates
Fotografiska runs cocktails and small plates atop the Telliskivi photography museum into the early hours of the weekend, with rooftop honey and herb-garden.
Order Cardamom bun plus a sourdough sandwich; flat white from the rotating European roastery
RØST in the Rotermann Quarter runs a walk-in Saturday brunch with sourdough sandwiches, cardamom buns and filter coffee until 17:00 each week.
Order Whatever the night's seasonal main is; the menu is shorter than the parent room.
Väike Rataskaevu on Niguliste is the small-format sister to Rataskaevu 16, serving a tighter dinner-only Estonian menu two streets away in the Old Town.
Paper Mill, founded 2020 by Margus Varvas, roasts in the old fire-station of the former Cellulose and Paper Factory, with up to 30 coffees a year.
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Order Wood-fired pizza for the table; the nasi goreng and bao buns are the long-running cult orders.
F-hoone in Telliskivi has anchored the creative-city restaurant scene since 2010, with wood-fired pizzas and Asian plates in a rail-industrial hangar.
KOKOMO is a micro-roastery in the Põhjala Tehas factory complex in Kopli, focused on single-origin beans with the roaster running in view of the cafe counter.
Tanker in Jüri south of Tallinn was founded in 2014 and runs Sauna Session, a flagship beer flavoured with birch whisks, now exported across northern Europe.
Try Medieval Hanseatic feast with live music
Olde Hansa on Vana turg runs the medieval Hanseatic feast in candlelight until midnight every night, with live hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe music Wed to Sat.
The Brick is a small specialty roastery and brewbar in the Telliskivi creative city, roasting on-site and pouring single-origin filter and espresso.
Tuletorn is a tiny family-run brewery in the Põhjala Tehas complex on the Kopli peninsula, pouring IPAs and small-batch Estonian beers across eight taps.
Order Pelmeni and borscht; the kitchen pickles, ferments and sour-creams its own dairy.
Moon on Telliskivi is a Michelin-listed Russian room running Siberian pelmeni dumplings, borscht and dairy-led mains; it moved to a new Telliskivi address.
Lehe is the craft brewery established 2013 in Keila just outside Tallinn, with a Humulakoda brewpub in central Tallinn pouring refreshing, tasty original.
Try Soviet-decor cafe with late kitchen and craft beer
Must Puudel on Müürivahe runs a late kitchen into the early hours of the weekend, with savoury bowls, craft beer and the same Soviet-decor crowd that fills.
Order Sharing plates from the seasonal menu; the kitchen leans Italian and Spanish with Estonian produce
Mantel ja Korsten in Kadriorg runs a Mediterranean-leaning weekend brunch in a restored 1920s villa near the palace, holding a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand.
Saku south of Tallinn has brewed Estonian beer since 1820 and is the country's largest mass-market brewery, with tours of the historic site by appointment.
Try Cocktail bar with bar snacks
Sigmund Freud Bar on Sauna runs Old Town cocktails plus bar snacks into the early hours, with the kitchen ticking past midnight on weekends.
Order The Champagne brunch flight; the kitchen layers French technique on Russian classics
Tchaikovsky inside Hotel Telegraaf runs a Sunday brunch under the glass-roofed atrium, with French-Russian-Estonian cooking led by executive chef Denis Golik.
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