The Best of Tallinn = flatfish’s favorites

Speaking of lists, here’s my list of a few of my favorite things – please click on the links if you want to read more…

Umami’s Culinary Mission to Tallinn’s Black Hill

Sometimes it seems that I’m the only person in Estonia who isn’t a fan of the päeva praad – that lunch-time special that most restaurants…

Google Translate doesn’t always work – especially for certain special words – even when those words are used almost every day. No, amps is not…

Fellow Food Lovers! Enough is enough! The time has come to bring an end to the rampant addiction ravaging our eateries from Vienna to Vladivostok!…

Ah, pancakes! Those wonderful pan-fried treats! What could be simpler than frying up a nice round batter cake made from flour, eggs, and milk? Three…

Sometimes you need to go to a supermarket. After all, there are always some things that you just can’t find at a traditional market. And…

Before we head off on that promised tour inside BJT (Balti Jaama Turg), why don’t we pause for a moment to think about the market…

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…

Once you get to know Tallinn’s medieval street names, you’ll find that they pretty much mean exactly what they say. For example, Pikk (Long) was…

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…

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…

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…