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Tallinn: A Winter Wonderland
Tallinn is one of the very few cities in the world where you’ll actually hear the locals curse and complain that the winter hasn’t been cold enough. Visiting foreigners, darting from hotel to café to avoid the chilled winds, understandably think the Tallinners are all quite mad. This year the locals got their wish. The mercury has registered steadily below -7c since a week before Christmas and there’s more snow than you can shake a stick at - not that there would be much point in that. With luck, the weather pattern will hold, and Old Town will retain its beautiful, snow-covered, picture-postcard look well into February and March.
OUR Tallinn HIGHLIGHTS
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Scandic Palace
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Depeche Mode
Vilnius has its Frank Zappa statue, so it's only fair that Tallinn has this bar dedicated to Depeche Mode. For normal humans, this is just a friendly dive bar stuffed with fan memorabilia. But if you
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Viimsi Spa
Just 9km from downtown Tallinn, the friendly and ultra-modern Viimsi Spa Hotel offers a full range of services in its health and beauty centres, and its leisure centre includes a 25m swimming pool an
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Ö
Despite being named for one of Estonia’s hardest-to-pronounce vowels, Ö is well worth seeking out. The atmosphere of stylish, charcoal-coloured furniture, with dove-wing chandeliers overhe
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Mademoiselle
Considered for years to be one of Tallinn’s best places to get a delectable dessert, this classic café also boasts an a-la-carte menu and still lives up to its reputation. Along with the m
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Nevskij
Given the way the St. Petersbourg Hotel's high-class restaurant is decorated, it might very well be mistaken for Russian intellectual's sitting room, were it not for the fact that a smart waiter gree
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Latest Tallinn Comments
Warm and nice personl! Excellent beer and food! Great atmosphere to be spend evening with friends. Just try it and you will love it..[...]
Hmm. Well, it's probably fair to describe the food as 'heavy', but I'm not sure that's altogether inauthentic. Not the sort of place I would ever usually choose for a meal, but completely surprised me - fantastic attention to detail in the front o[...]
Great service and cute shop! I like the lingerie: hot but delicate at the same time :)[...]
went to the new Boost juice in Rocca Al Mare shopping centre.awesome service, so different to typical estonian service level, and sensational smoothies. love the way they personalize their service by asking for customers first name :)[...]
You have to ask yourself who built it and why.The history of the Baltic states is one of centuries of occupation (the Swedes, the Danish, the Germans, The Russians, The Germans again, the Russians again..) These 'occupiers' built the major cities, a[...]
The food was good, but the waiting staff and management were appalling. Wine ordered was out of stock and their recommendation was a bottle at double the price. One of the main courses served was completely different to what was ordered and the sala[...]
Should the Estonians and Latvians remind their pro-Russian counterparts about what the Soviets did the last time they came to "liberate" them: namely the destruction of the Kopli, Kalamaja and Moigu cemeteries in Estonia and the Lielie Kapi in Riga,[...]
One word : excellent ![...]
Thanks for the interesting stories, now I know which places to exactly visit. Maybe one day when I'm not feeling lazy I'll go and investigate myself. :D[...]
It tastes like shit. All the food is cooked in a microwave owen. I rather eat my own vomit than eating this kind of horseshit.[...]
i want to go to Tallinn Estonia[...]
Awesome food. Cozy atmosphere. We had four-course lunch menu. Borscht was superb. Stroganoff smooth, and silky. Bellini’s just right. Would go back in a heartbeat.[...]
It is excellent. Very good service and food.[...]
Wirulane is very quiet and peaceful place.Good meal, fast service.Personally I had there excellent pike-perch with horseradish last week.Of course, Kama is very good.[...]
Lovely atmosphere, good service and best seafood risotto I ever had excepting Sicilian one.[...]