TOP 10 restaurants serving traditional Estonian food

The medieval restaurant Olde Hansa is the home of a rich merchant, whose guests enjoy delicious, authentic Hansa-era meals and drinks, authentic period music, and service that is always friendly. All of the dishes on the menu, including the many wild game delicacies, are cooked using 15th-century recipes and methods. Likewise, medieval musicians delight guests every night of the week except Mondays.

The tavern, which was built in true Hanseatic style, offers Estonian cuisine. In addition to different meat dishes, a large selection of different fish (eel, perch, flounder, herring, and pikeperch) is also offered. The menu also includes Estonian forest products such as chanterelles and cowberries. For dessert, you can enjoy our nostalgic snowball soup and sour milk pancakes. Here, you can host receptions, lunches, and dinners for groups. During summers, you can have a good time and enjoy delicious meals in the Hansa Hoov courtyard which has a fountain; various concerts and theatre productions are staged here.

Maria Farm is a great place for both resting and organising seminars, combining these with activities in nature and different fields. A new party and seminar hall for 80 was built in December 2010. The threshing room of the tourist farm with the original stove is suitable for smaller groups. There is a huge 200 m² shelter for organising outdoor events. The restaurant at the Maria Farm offers traditional Estonian farm food and delicacies from game.

In Palmse manor house complex in Lahemaa national park there is Palmse Pub which offers the dishes of our ancestors, for instance authentic farm hand’s gruel and home made bread. When the weather is nice, the food is served outside so that parents would have a chance to keep an eye on their little ones when they go squeaking the swings on the farm hands’ swing hill. About a hundred people can fit under the roof of this pub which means that it is possible to have bigger get-togethers and proper folksy weddings and parties with a larger crowd of people!

A restaurant of local flavours, located in a unique windmill in Kuressaare (from 1899). The menu has different wild game meat, smoked fish, house drinks made from local berries, house wine made from local apples, and the Veski beer. In summer, you can eat in the garden, on the terrace, or on the balcony. We organise events for both adults and children – performers from Estonia and abroad, special dinners, cooking lessons for children, etc. Order a house tour or a tasting of the island's beers or drinks. If you wish, we can ask folk dancers or musicians to perform here. There are five floors for different events. Veski is selected as one of White Guide's TOP100 Estonian Restaurants!

The Café Tsäimaja (Tea House) offers a selection of traditional food served in the handicraft ceramic dishes; the visitors can listen to Seto songs and music. There are 64 seats in the Tsäimaja; the terrace with 24 seats is open in summer. Dining for groups, organisation of events, using the meeting hall, etc., available by prior arrangement.

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 the museum in 1968 and reconstructed between 1969 and 1973. Since 1993, it has again operated as a tavern, offering delicious national dishes every day! If booked in advance, you can hold seminars, parties and other events here for 20 to 150 people including coffee breaks, lunches and dinners.

Welcome to Sangaste Rukki Restaurant – a place where rye, the Estonian national crop, is honoured! If you want to enjoy both traditional and new flavours of Southern Estonia in a cosy and friendly environment, you have come to the right place. We use Sangaste rye flour in our dishes, which is ground in the mill of Loona Farm in Võrumaa. Rukki Restaurant is located in the Sangaste Rye House, where there are also 12 comfortable and romantic guest rooms and a grocery store where you can buy goods from the local producers of Sangaste and South Estonia. We look forward to seeing you!

Kaerajaan is a modern version of local traditions – it is named after a local traditional dance and its interior design elements and food are influenced by Estonian cultural heritage. The old chairs that we selected have been upholstered to offer comfort; copper decorations that resemble old traditional reed compositions and gigantic lights with mittens hang from the ceiling.

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 make Saaremaa cooking so special. All of the vegetables we use are organically grown in the surrounding fields and the fish on the menu comes direct from the catches of local fishermen. Come and enjoy authentic Saaremaa farm food!