Kohvik Energia — Restaurant in Tallinn

This place opens at 8 am and offers sweet pastries and small snacks. There is no crowd. But it is not a fancy place, nor a cheap one - approx. 2 EUR for a small bread, butter, and slice of ham. If you have a rough morning after a crazy night before, hair of the dog might be a blessing. Other than this, it is a very sad place emotionally: the regular clientele in the mornings are people in their late 40-s, they just sit alone and stare into the abyss. Or people in their 70-s during the day, who are just nostalgic and are trying to connect with their friends. Those friends might not be alive anymore. The toilet is free if you buy anything, get the key from a very uncaring waitress. The whole is a relic of someone's past. But not the...

Nostalgia trip to soviet times (with the main difference being that the current place is clean, pleasant, and with adequate service). For a complete experience, it would be cool if they played authentic 70s-80s soviet music, but alas, just a generic elevator music from the speakers.

Clientele tends to be people who remember the soviet times and who are spending time to wait for their trolleybus to travel home at old-timey part of Tallinn - Mustamäe.

Highly recommended visit for tourists to get a glimps of the bygone era. Drop in for a reasonable priced pint of beer (4 EUR as of March 2024), simple breakfast, or coffee and a pastry. This is a place for a quick visit, and...

I went for an afternoon coffee and their machine was washing itself for about ten minutes since we came, of course we got the coffee in the end but there were plenty of other customers who didn't get their cappuccino and had to opt for a simple black coffee. The buns were pretty dry and have probably stayed in the open for a...