Cafés in Kadriorg & Pirita

Getting to Kadriorg and Pirita

Tram 1 runs from Balti Jaam to Kadriorg in about 15 minutes, and trams 1 and 3 run from Hobujaama in the center. You pay by tapping a contactless card: a one-hour ticket is €2 and the daily cap €5.50. The final stop is on Weizenbergi, which leads straight into the park.⁵

On foot, you can carry on past the Japanese garden, whose first stage was finished in 2011, to the Reidi seaside promenade, then past the Song Festival Grounds to Maarjamäe.²⁵

Weizenbergi and the Swan Pond

Katharinenthal, the yellow house with a green roof at the park entrance, is at A. Weizenbergi 22.⁵ It calls itself a café and bakery by the Swan Pond and sells cakes, kringel and macarons.⁶ A second Katharinenthal sits at A. Weizenbergi 37, the address of the Kadriorg Art Museum in the palace, and opens 10:00–18:00, until 20:00 on Wednesdays.⁷

ROOTS kohvibaar, at A. Weizenbergi 26, also serves specialty coffee at events around Estonia.⁸ Reval Café is at A. Weizenbergi 34.

Köleri, Koidula and Poska

NOP, at Köleri 1, is an organic café in a wooden house with a terrace, several vegan breakfasts and a small organic shop.⁹ It opens 08:00–21:00 on weekdays and 09:00–20:00 at weekends, and in September 2026 it turned its yard into a gourmet market for a day.¹⁰

Kooker Kadriorg, at L. Koidula 21c, is one of four Kooker cafés in Tallinn and bakes mini pancakes, sweet and savory.¹¹ Vesivärava kohvik, at Vesivärava 42, opens at 07:30 on weekdays, the earliest start in the area; Bueno Gourmet Kadriorg is at Vesivärava 7 and Kohvik Kadriorg at Jaan Poska 45.

Maarjamäe and Pirita tee

Count Anatoli Orlov-Davydov built Maarjamäe Palace at Pirita tee 56 in 1873 as a seaside summer house on a hillside above Tallinn Bay. It is now the Estonian History Museum, with the palace café on site, and the Estonian Film Museum opened a few steps away in 2017; both open Wednesday to Sunday, 10:00–18:00.¹² Laulu kohvik is closer to town at Pirita tee 20a.

The marina and the beach

The Tallinn Olympic Yachting Centre was designed by Henno Sepmann, Peep Jänes, Ants Raid and Avo-Himm Looveer and built in 1980.⁴ Vigri, at Purje 8 beside it, opens on weekdays from 08:30 to 17:00 with tables outside. Nady Cafe, at Merivälja tee 1, runs 08:00–20:00 on weekdays and from 09:00 at weekends; Cafe Velvet is at Supluse puiestee 1 and RS Cafe & Club at Masti 17.