Café Narva - Tallinn

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Café Narva

Café Narva
3.5 / 5 (526 reviews)

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Last update: 17.01.2026 from: jay

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★ 3.5 / 5 from 526 reviews
jay-snake206
01.12.2025

Simply put: Best old fashioned cafe I have visited so far. We ordered salty and sweet pastries with coffee for two, totaling 10,20€ Ordering might be an issue if you don't speak Estonian or Russian. Using translate and/or lens helps enormously but to be honest, you can't go wrong here. Only down side for all the picky eaters is that everything has gluten, lactose and dairy. Food: 5 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 5 Service: Dine in Price per person: €1–10 Vegetarian options: None whatsoever. Parking space: Not sure

p-i-r-e-t-1
01.12.2025

Food: 3 Service: 4 Atmosphere: 4 Price per person: €10–20 Parking space: Difficult to find parking Parking options: Free of charge street parking

incognito-auditor-1
01.12.2025

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 Regret” Meal type: Lunch Price per person: €30–40 Food: 1 Service: 1 Atmosphere: 1

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