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Restaurant review: PULL



We wanted to visit this restaurant from the spring and at the end of July we had an occasion: our wedding anniversary. Link: http://www.pull.ee/
I booked table in advance on the Internet, since we were with my husband and child, I mentioned that we would need a baby chair for feeding, they sent me an answer that they would take this moment into account.

My husband and I had a goal to try their Pull Grillfest dish, but it is made for 4 people, which is a lot for two of us, so I wrote to them with a question if they can make this dish for two and if so, it would be ready for our arrival, I was told the next day that it will be done for two and cooked for our arrival, very kindly :)

We arrived a little before the appointed time, we went in, after the entrance door there is a small staircase (it is necessary to take into account those who come with the stroller), the waiters welcome you at entrance. I said my name and we were offered two tables to choose, we took the table by the window. One waitress brought us a menu, asked what we wanted from drinks, then another waitress came up and offered us a baby chair (good and clean, by the way!).

All the waiters were polite and spoke Estonian and English. The waiters felt right when we wanted to make an order and immediately approached.

In addition we ordered vegetables for child (Auru-vege, asked without salt), carbonated water (Pull water, 1 € per 500 ml), beer, virgin Mojito (there is no in menu, they made it for me, Costs 8 €).

First they brought water, then bread with butter, then plates (by the way, they also did not forget for child) and after that our ordered dish arrived.


After 5 minutes they brought vegetables for the child, and then the drinks came. In the vegetable plate were: carrots, broccoli, asparagus. Vegetables had real taste, crunchy.


We got stomachs full with Grillfest, it is including different meat: duck, pork, beef, on the garnish three different salads, couscous and beans in a barbecue sauce. The meat was soft, juicy, tasty. Couscous is so tasty! Salads were fresh.

Since it was interesting to try desserts as well, we ordered them but we could not finish. We ordered Eton Mess and Chocolate-rosemary mousse, plus espresso.
Desserts also arrived quickly, then coffee arrived.
Desserts look interesting but not my favorite. Foam from the grenadine had too much flavor, it overshadowed everything else, vanilla ice cream was delicious, but for me too much vanilla. Well meringues are totally ok 😁 I tried the second dessert a bit, normal, but not in my taste :)

In general, we liked it. Would we return here? Yes. Especially I liked the opportunity to order Grillfest for two (the price is twice cheaper then) :)


Yours,
V.O.

Restaurant review: Kitchen rõõm



Good morning! I will get distracted from the recipes today (I did not plan to become a food blogger at all :D) and write a short review about restaurant we visited a couple of days ago, located in Lasnamäe at P.Pinna 8 (link: https: //www.facebook. Com / kitchenroomresto /). Since I saw so many positive reviews, we decided to go and check it out. We visit Lasnamäe not that often and do not know eating places in there, but this time I knew where to go.
It can be a little tight with parking but in this case you can park near the police station. Waiter meets you at the entrance, offers to choose the table. We chose, sat down at the table and were immediately given a menu (there is no English menu, only Russian and Estonian). First we ordered drinks, we took soda water and non-alcoholic mojito (Virgin Mojito). Have asked to bring children's chair, as we could not find it ourselves.

In the beginning we wanted to order a lunch offer and a roasted lagman from the Uzbek menu, but it was not available, same as some other Uzbek dishes (as the waiter said, they were only being prepared at the moment), so we took two lunch offers (chicken sashlik in a Josper stove with baked potatoes and salad), Ajarski style khachapuri, grilled vegetables for the child (asked if there were any boiled potatoes / baked / boiled vegetables, but they did not have), there is one champignon and a piece of zucchini missing on the photo of the grilled vegetables :) I asked to bring black bread for the child, we were kindly given it (there was no other bread offered).

Despite the fact that restaurant was half full, food came pretty quickly, dishes were cleaned in right time. The food was delicious, especially we liked adjika for shashlik :) Khachapuri was tasty, just from the oven, mm! By the way, if you take grilled vegetables for child, then make sure that they do not put salt, I forgot to clarify that :) (for those who do not give salt to the children), I tried vegetables myself and it was delicious, my child ate them with pleasure :)


We decided to order "Pavlova" cake for dessert and free coffee was served with dessert. The dessert is beautiful, it tastes good, too, sweetness is perfect. We used a button on the table to ask for bill, waiter came quickly :) there were many waiters around.

A very nice bonus is a coupon for 6 € (20% of the bill), which can be used in 2 weeks without the minimum purchase amount, you can just come to have a free lunch :)
There is a children's play room with toys, a TV, a drawing table, outside there is a terrace with slides for children.
I hope that they will be resolve problem with English menu and in the menu will appear neutral products for children who have allergies to dairy products and products containing eggs :)



Yours,
V.O.

New bakery Kördiööbiku in Miiduranna Konsum



Good morning! Today I want to tell you a little about the new bakery, which is located in the same building as Miiduranna Konsum (address is Ranna tee 46a). Found this store just a couple of days ago and since it was already closed at that time, I came back yesterday to check out what is being sold in there and to take some photos to share with you :)
This building has been empty for a long time and a new bakery, where you can sit and drink coffee, is just a great idea (Pizza Grande is, unfortunately, closed). If there were no signs on the outside, I would hardly have noticed that now there is a small cafe-bakery. Since people may not notice it as much as I do, I'll tell you a little about the cafe and show what I bought in there :)
The cafe takes orders for cakes, pies and other baked stuff. Serves a nice woman, the cafe has 3 tables where you can sit, relax, have a snack. There are various salty patties (around 0.60 euros per piece), sweet buns, sweet and salty bar-cakes (about 3.90 euros), pies, cakes, sweet and salty biscuits.

I bought a zephyr cake, a tiramisu cake, a cinnamon roll and a meringue roll with a nutty taste. All is packed in boxes and buns are put separately in a cellophane bag.

Zephyr cake. Zephyr is thick, with a sour taste, which should be in zephyr. Not too sweet. The basket is too soft because of the jam in it, so it falls apart and is easier to eat with a spoon. Jam inside the basket is sour, so by the end everything becomes too sour, it is better to add banana instead of jam :) The zephyr itself is delicious.

A cinnamon bun. A bun with cinnamon as in the old days, for me the roll is a bit firm and dryish, I prefer the modern version, when cinnamon and sugar are mixed with butter. But this bun immediately inspired school memories :)

Roll-meringue with nutty taste. Raspberries add acidity, the roll itself is not very sweet, which is good for me. What I personally missed is juiciness, I prefer "wet" meringue rolls.

Tiramisu cake. I bought this cake for my husband, since I do not eat anything related to coffee, but I tried a piece for the sake of feedback. The taste is quite soft, for me just right. Inside the cake there is jam, this also has soft taste, could be a bit more sour. It looks simple and pretty :) The flower is made of sugar mass.

Now we need to try something salty, since our Violia, Pihlaka, Lavendel and Tampe have already been tried :)


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Yours,
V.O.

Noa restaurant



Noa restaurant. It was the day we married just one year ago.
I made reservation two weeks before. While we are living by and weather was nice (except wind), we decided to walk to restaurant. There is usual entrance with stairs and entrance for people with baby strollers and handicapped people just in front of sea. Waiter opened door for us and welcomed. But after that nobody paid attention to us, even if there were minimum 4 waiters same time and everyone saw us. I made voice first and said that we have reservation on my name. Waitress did not check their`s reservation book and just showed us only two available tables in restaurant without "reserved" mark. That means that nobody cares about your reservation and special requests which I marked in my reservation (what`s for they do have this reservation system then?). Well, nothing to do, we chose table on second floor just near real tree under open air roof. We needed to go out and enter from another door while we were with baby stroller. Nobody is meeting you in there and we needed to move some small tables which waiters are using for holding trays on, because it was just in front of this climb thing leading to second floor. Btw, waiter saw us moving them and did not even tried to help. Okay.
We got menu on our spoken language without request and started to choose. Waitress who served our table was smiling and friendly.
After order was made we got bread, butter and our drinks pretty fast.
As starters we ordered Foie Gras Slider and Eggplant Burnt End. Unfortunately we needed to wait for almost 1 hour to get them. When they finally arrived to our table waitress apologized for long time waiting and we started with our anniversary dinner.
Eggplant (on picture) had pretty strong goat cheese taste, it was covering all other tastes, so if you like goat cheese, then go for it!
My heart was stolen by Foie Gras Slider, it was really-really tasty. Crunchy inside and sweet notes of honey inside made my face smile. Mmmm, I still can feel the taste. It was popular among other restaurant guests as I could see.
For main course we had Marble Steak and Josper Rack of Lamb. I very like steaks. Juicy, big and soft steaks.. I ordered medium one and got that. Steak was not so bad and I enjoyed it.
Josper rack of lamb also was not that bad and tasted good. But it was very interesting, that I saw other Noa restaurant review and guests ordered same dish but it looked so different. I checked one more time if it was the same dish and it was. I was really surprised, that one dish can look THAT different!
Luckely we did not need to wait for main course that long but I asked waitress (it was different waitress who I was watching all that time while her face was looking really tired and annoyed *lol*) how long time does it take to get dessert. The answer was around 10-15 min. Alright.
While our baby got hungry and tired of being in stroller, we were waiting for waitress to come to make order. Finally I saw another waiter (I guess it kind of waiter`s help, they have different uniform and only help to serve dishes), I called him and he started to move to our table when suddenly he stopped a bit far from our table and I said that we would like to order dessert. He asked me one more time and I repeat "dessert", he asked me: "receipt?", no, dessert, please! *conversation was on local language just in case*. He finally understood what we want, no any smile and excuse, only a but rude "Aaaa" and he disappeared. After few minutes our waitress came and I repeated that we would like to order desserts and we made our choice already.
As a dessert we had Chocolate "hot and cold" and Tropic. Dessert came quickly but on of the desserts was wrong. We got goat cheese cake instead of Tropic. But it was solved fast and we got what we want.
As a chocoholic I had Chocolate "hot and cold". It was not bad but there was not enough this hot part in it.
My husband had Tropic dessert and it was tasty. I am not a big ice-cream fan but this coconut ice-cream was really soft, tender and tasty. Yum.

After finish our dinner, we asked for receipt, got it, payed and other waitress helped us to come down to first floor with baby stroller and opened door for us. I asked her if she could take picture of us and the answer was "probably not" and door was closed. Well, I was shocked a little bit but who knows the reasons why she could not take picture of us :D

Wishing tasty dinners,
V.O.

Piece of France

This evening I spent in a lovely old-fashioned French cafe named "Josephine". Located on Vene street 16, it has two branches, one of it is Pierre Chocolaterie.
My friend Julia is one of the confectioners there and making all that "death by chocolate" yummies.
I am taking my chicken and ham quiche as a first course and choosing the best place near big window lightened by sexy legged lamp.
As a second course I recommend to try my favorite truffels: Toscana (nut nougat and milk chocolate), Les Femmes Savantes (white chocolate and coconut) and Crispy (milk chocolate, nuts and raisins).

Everyone can find something according to his taste over here: big slices of different chocolate cakes, pastries, cheescakes, soups, salads, sandwiches, hot chocolate made from a real chocolate with interesting extras etc.
Irish coffee chocolate cheescake (including espresso and whiskey).
Josephine (secret recipe).
Calvados (cream cheese, whipped cream, white chocolate, apple jam and calvados).

Ask for a green tea with mint - it will make your mind relax ;)

Wishing sweet days,
V.O.