OFD, through her voracious research, found a place to eat in Tallinn Estonia ~ Olde Hansa. She sent us the website with the menu. Hubby's tastebuds could not find a single item that looked or sounded edible. So Olde Hansa was ditched as a lunch stop while in Tallinn, but that did not stop OFD and me from exploring when we happened upon the place just off the Square in Old Town.
Olde Hansa is a restaurant in the Old Town in central Tallinn, Estonia, located in the protected Pakkhoone building.
The building is part of the cultural heritage of Tallinn and consists of three old storerooms. The storeroom at the corner of the street collapsed in 1654 and was rebuilt from 1655 to 1657. At that time the three storerooms were connected into a single baroque style building. Baroque portals and stone slabs were built into the facade. A large cellar was built at the basement of the new building, supported by support beams. The building was heated. A stairway connected the old and new parts of the building.
In the latter half of the 17th century, the building served as a storeroom for foreign products sold on the market.
Despite a partial renovation in the 19th and 20th century, the original outside facade of the building was kept intact.
All info in Italics is from Wikipedia
The restaurant Olde Hansa with 300 customer places was opened in the building in 1997, becoming one of the most famous tourist destinations in Tallinn.
The style of the restaurant, including the food and drink, the cutlery, and the attire of the staff, is modeled after the Hanseatic League.
Original recipes of the Hanseatic time are used, without ingredients introduced to Europe in the 15th century or later. For example, the recipes do not use any potato or maize.
There is a furnace room on the third floor.
there is an outdoor patio area
The staff is in period costumes.
There are many game dishes, including elk, bear and pheasant. The drinks include house beer and pepper schnapps.
no electric lights, only candles on the tables
The bill for the meal is dated 1400AD and can be paid by magic (credit card).
a box garden of herbs
and a barrel of herbs
I think it would have been an interesting experience, but honestly, our on-shore time did not allow for the a meal of this undertaking. Instead, the three of us had a pizza before we parted ways to go back to the ship or continue to explore and shop. This was the one piece of the explore part!
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