Kuressaare Restaurants

I didn't eat here, but it's a popular tourist spot and gets good reviews for the local fare. The key selling point, however, is that the restaurant is built into an original old island windmill. It's worth a trip just to see that.

Expect lots of meat on the menu, and your waiters and waitresses to be dressed in embarrassing local period costumes.

It's called Ruunipizza Pannkoogikohvik, which means its a pizza/pancake cafe (literally Runestone Pizza Pancake Cafe). The pancakes are good, but the service indifferent the day I went. The location is great though, with a view over the main square. It's shame then that I got a sweet pizza with a savoury filling...

The pancakes are good, and freshly cooked, so it's unfortunate the attention to detail let them down.

This place is so new it wasn't mentioned in any guide book, but it was so popular we decided it was worth checking out. We weren't disappointed. Tasty food, relaxing decor and music, and good service.

It's a strange mix of a cocktail/coffee bar and a cafe/restaurant. It's like the owners can't make up their mind what they want. Or they think that catering to everything will bring in more punters. Don't let that put you off.

I'm not sure what the cocktails are like, but as they were as popular as the food they're probably pretty good.

I wouldn't have expected quality Italian food in a small town miles from civilization, but that's exactly what I got at la Perla. The pizza is ok, with a great sauce but iffy base. The pasta is the thing to order. It was so good I went back for seconds.

The price is also very reasonable for the quality.

the village of Kurressaare is only tiny so you can just stroll up the main street and see many cafes and restaurants to dine at. Most of the restaurants are placed around the main square of the town and can easily be reached by foot.

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The hotel has two restaurants one indoor and also the terrace restaurant. The weather was perfect for us so we opted to dine outside on the terrace overlooking the swimming pool.

The indoor restaurant is very comfortable with table/ chairs and also small booths if you want to have an intimate dinner. The restaurant also has lovely sea views which overlooks the small Kuressaare yacht club and sea.

There is also a fab bar area if you which to have pre dinner drinks.

Favorite Dish: Any of the fish seafood is excellent.

Friendly innkeeper. Good choice of pasta and pizza's. Make a reservation or queue up if you are with more than 4 persons.
We had two pastas
a beer and a soft drink
two desserts and two cappuccinos
price 370 lets (7-2005)

Favorite Dish: Good tasty food.
Tiramisu is not worth the try, not enough mascarpone, it was more like a cake.
When it is busy it can take some time to get you bill.

Estonians tend to eat food that is not very spicy and unfortunatly many times that I have eaten ethnic food there it tends to be a little bland and "Estonianized": so I was pleasantly surprised when I ate at La Perla because it was exactly what I think of as "Italian(american Italian anyways :):) )" food . It was very good and reasonably priced. (More like $5-$15 than $11-$20)
The staff was very friendly. We ate there late one evening when it was empty, with a small child, and the waitress actually cleared off a table by ours and brought out toys for the child to play with after he was done eating. We ate there for lunch and dinner and both were very good.