Tallinn’s Tastiest Pastry
Tallinn’s tastiest pastry – the “Savory Little Basket” (soolane korvike) – really needs a better name. Even the staff at Røst – Tallinn’s finest bakery…
Estonia’s Next Favorite Food?
Warning! This is a test to see if I can write something about arepas – Estonia’s next favorite food – in just 500 words. Fortunately…
Oh La Muu! The Art of Enjoying Estonian Ice Cream in Winter
Now that I think of it, there used to be “street food” back in Soviet times. Of course, there wasn’t much of it, but it…
Revisiting Tallinn’s Best Market: BJT
When I was living in London and exploring at least one of its 300 markets every weekend, I realized that I needed a definition for…
Tallinn’s New Life of Spice
If you were to visit Tallinn from another planet, you might assume that Estonia’s national soup is tom kha gai (chicken galangal soup) given the…
Tallinn’s Best Burger
Grillburger. There. I said it. Without beating around the bush. Or plotting an indirect course by going off on multiple tangents. Or heading on a…
Tallinn’s Glorious Sourdough Reformation
There’s always something in the air. And that something almost always includes a few spores of wild yeast. These days, some of those activist spores…
Estonian Peanut Butter?!?
Who’d a thunk it? OK. So, maybe it really was almost hot enough this Estonian summer that you might have been able to grow peanuts…
The Quest for Tallinn’s Perfect Cinnamon Bun
Don’t cinnamon buns remind you of miniature labyrinths? After all, they have those long and looping outer layers covered with tantalizing hints which will eventually…
Kalamaja’s Secret Bakeries
OK. So, they aren’t really secret bakeries if I’m telling you about them – and if someone else told me about them before that. They’re…
Over [the] Moon in Kalamaja?
Ah, what a difference a definite article can make! “Over the Moon” once described my delight each time I visited my beloved Moon Kohvik (Poppy…
My Tallinn Market Guide: The Best & The Rest
When someone tells you that something is “the best,” what they usually mean is that it’s their favorite. In other words, they’re describing their subjective…
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