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Restaurant review: MySushi Mere pst



I visited MySushi (Tallinn, Rotermanni, address: Mere pst. 4) already twice during this summer, so I will write about what I have tried in there. Link: http://mere.mysushi.ee/

The first time we visited it on the Tallinn Maritime festival, cause we wanted to try their`s dessert, which I already heard about on Facebook. Since I was with a baby stroller, we decided to sit on the terrace, the weather was also nice. At the entrance we were greeted by waitresses, we could choose a table by ourself. We took a table, waitress brought a menu, which is provided on the tablets with pictures and descriptions. In addition to dessert, I decided to try Caesar salad with king prawns.

I took a salted caramel latte as drink. Actually I do not drink coffee but I really wanted to try this latte. For dessert I took the Sous bois cake. My friend took panna-cotta and strawberry home-made lemonade (Strawberry Love).

We added our order to the basket on the tablet and handed it over to the waitress. Drinks arrived first and then salad. Salted caramel latte is unreal! This is now one of my favorite drinks (and one of the reasons why I came back here a second time), the taste was wonderful. My friend's lemonade was pretty sweet for me, mason jaris trendy.

Our desserts were brought together with the salad. Honestly, I did not like the salad at all. There was absolutely no flavor in it, a simple salad, a little shrimp, a Parmesan, a boring sauce. Absolutely nothing was memorable, so the second time I would not take this salad. And it looked completely different than in the picture on the menu (but actually everything was different from the pictures) :D

My dessert was delicious, the sweetness was diluted with a layer of jam, but the size of the cake was too big for me and I could not eat it all :) I did not try panna cotta but my friend liked it. The waitresses were polite and served us quickly. Some new clients sat at the next table and wanted to smoke but then they saw us with a stroller and moved to the back tables, very nice of them, thank you :)

The second time I got here without a child and with another friend, literally next day. And this time we came here for dessert (I really wanted that salted caramel latte and try other desserts from their menu) but since I almost did not eat in the previous restaurant we visited before MySushi, I decided to order sushi, they also had a 50% discount campaign for all sushi from the menu.

This time no one greeted us, although there were many waitresses. We chose the table, sat down, there was one tablet on the table, which someone was using before and, apparently, for some reason left, leaving the tablet on table. When finally the waitress came to our table, she was going to take our order from us, but we told her that we had not even been given a menu, this tablet lay on the table before we came here. She quickly brought us the second menu and we could check it. This time I took tempura sushi with shrimps, for dessert red velvet. My friend took a Kiev cake and a cocktail. Unfortunately, I was informed that the machine broke down, so neither latte nor cocoa is served today, so I took green tea.


We had to wait for our drinks this time but sushi, despite the fullness of the restaurant, came quickly. I'm not looking for real Japanese sushi in Estonia, because it's pointless (and my husband makes them for me anyway), so I'm trying out "non-standard" European versions. I liked sushi, crusty outside and cheesy inside. Good filling, the sushi does not fall apart. But the minus for me is the size of sushi, since it is impossible to put a whole piece in the mouth, it is necessary to bite off half first, which is unusual for me, since this is not a very good manner.

Immediately after the sushi waitress brought us desserts. I like red velvet and velvet in Mysushi I liked too, ate it all with pleasure. Since I adore the Kiev cake, I tried this dessert from a friend but, unfortunately, I did not like it at all, from Kiev cake there is only meringue, the taste is completely different ..
The waitress was polite, worked quickly.

Will I return here? Yes. I want to drink cup of caramel latte and try some more desserts, they look very appetizing :) And I also want to get here for lunch, I looked at the menu several times and it seemed very attractive, but I do not know when I'll get here at lunch time.
And one more bonus, which I did not know about, is free parking (1 hour). If we come to lunch, then will use take this opportunity :)



Yours,
V.O.


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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.

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.