Winter Apple cider

I wrote last year about some seasonal winter drinks available in Estonia. Here’s a new one that popped up on the shelves this year: Kiss Winter Apple cider. I expected it to taste a bit like this Woodchuck Fall cider I tried in the States in September but never had a chance to write about. [...]

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Tallinn Restaurant Week: Balthasar

The second restaurant we visited during Tallinn Restaurant Week was Balthasar, which has made a name for itself as a garlic restaurant. Almost every dish on the menu contains garlic and the dessert menu even includes garlic ice cream. For Restaurant Week their two-course lunch menu was as follows: Root celery and garlic soup with [...]

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Tallinn Restaurant Week: Ö

All right, I’m finally getting around to writing about the restaurants we visited over a month ago for Tallinn Restaurant Week! First up: Ö. Restaurant Ö (which means “island” in Swedish) is considered one of the best restaurants in Tallinn. It’s a little pricey so when I saw that they were participating in Restaurant Week [...]

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Russian food

In my last posts I reflected on my two weeks in St. Petersburg, Russia a bit but didn’t say a whole lot about food. I’ll cram all that into this last post. While in Russia I tended to eat a heavier lunch with my colleagues during the day and then eat simply (fruit, maybe a [...]

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Some thoughts on Russia

I got a few comments yesterday on how St. Petersburg is (or seems) beautiful, and it truly is. Grand, ornate buildings line the streets, and you could spend days just walking around admiring the architecture. Not to mention all the incredible culture housed inside the buildings (art museums, history museums, ballet theaters, churches, swanky shopping [...]

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