Balthasar Garlic Restaurant @ Tallinn, Estonia

Garlic soup, garlic ice cream, even garlic-infused vodka and beer - this beautiful Estonian restaurant overlooking Tallinn's medieval square is dedicated to one of our favourite ingredients, resulting in food and drinks with distinctive garlicky dynamics, mellowed down to more palatable dimensions to ensure a harmonious balance of flavours.

Balthasar Garlic Restaurant

Tallinn Old Town, Estonia.

Leib @ Tallinn, Estonia

Nestled in a verdant garden, Leib makes soulful, lovely use of what Estonia's hard-toiling farmers have cultivated and harvested - the menu is an earthy tribute to traditional black rye bread produced with natural leavening, Jarveotsa farm quail with warm potato salad and chimichurri sauce, and cherry cream yoghurt topped with dried egg yolk.

Leib Restaurant

Tallinn, Estonia.

Olde Hansa Medieval Restaurant @ Tallinn, Estonia

Bear with us: Ursine creatures roam in abundance in Estonia's sprawling forests, legally hunted for their meat, which is available in restaurants like Olde Hansa in Tallinn's bustling Old Town. This friendly medieval-themed venue serves delicious fire-cooked bear loins (the full-fleshed flavour should suit hot-blooded carnivores) with saffron-tinged spelt, as well as other game meat like elk fillet (surprisingly gamier than & not as tender as the bear) braised in truffle oil & spiced with juniper berries. Wash down with schnapps herbal liqueurs laced with caraway seeds & pepper, plus dark honey beer that a bear might love.

Olde Hansa

Tallinn Old Town, Estonia.