The defining Rakvere restaurant — a stone-vaulted cellar at 3 Pikk Street with a short menu of modern Estonian dishes done seriously. Local pork loin, smoked Baltic herring with potato cream, wild mushroom soup in autumn, and a dessert list that always includes a riff on Estonian kohuke.
Prices are moderate by Tallinn standards — a three-course dinner with a glass of wine sits around €35 — and the service is friendly without being chatty. Book ahead at the weekend; the cellar is small.