Café Narva — Restaurant in Tallinn

⭐ Café Narva: Where Time Stands Still… and So Does the Service ⏳🥴

Ah yes, Café Narva — a historic Tallinn treasure! And by “treasure,” I mean buried in 1952 Soviet waiting-room energy, complete with pastries that feel like they survived the Cold War. 🕵️‍♀️🥶

Ordered a coffee and a cake. Waited 23 minutes. Got a mug of bitterness (and not just from the coffee) and a slice of something that looked like it was baked during Estonia's independence referendum. 🇪🇪🗳️🍰

The interior? Think retro nostalgia meets melancholy cafeteria. I swear I heard a ghost whisper, “Don’t do it…” as I sat down. 👻☕😬

The staff? Imagine your Soviet grandmother scolding you for existing. Warmth level: Absolute Zero. ❄️💔

Ambiance: 2/10 Pastries: 1/10 Existential crisis: 10/10

Would I return? Only if I was filming a sad art movie called “Pastry of...

Having seen this by place for a long time, I finally had the opportunity to go to this place. It’s a legendary cafe in Tallinn with a lot of history. The place still has an old Soviet charm that oozes out in the tables and the cutlery. It transports you back to that age.

We ordered a pistachio pastry, a cream roll, a cheese pastry and some coffee. The coffee was ok. The pistachio pastry seemed to be artificially sweetened and tasted like sugar with food coloring. It left a bad taste in the mouth as I was expecting an authentic taste. The cream roll was again seemingly sweetened and after a while our taste buds got tired of the extra sweetness. The cheese pastry was as ok. Maybe we did not order the right things, but be it seemed that the place is past...

We expected something special because it was a first place we've been recommended to visit in the capital of Estonia. But it was actually an average place.

Do not go there to eat food, you will spend a lot of time to stay in line and nobody interested to serve you when you come and take a seat: 1st time to get a menu,2nd to make an order. Website menu is not relevant, be ready. Quality of the food is much lower then price. Meet was dry and salad was not fresh. The bread was from yesterday.

What was OK is "soljanka" soup and dark beer. We spent around 30Euro for a lunch for two adults and pancakes for our both children.

I'm sure that this place is great to have a coffee time with fresh baked cookies and buns, it...