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Cafés in Kalamaja & Telliskivi

The Brick, Fika and Nihe at Telliskivi 60, the market cafés of Balti Jaama Turg, Vana-Kalamaja coffee shops and Maru at the Seaplane Harbour.

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Kalamaja, part of the Põhja-Tallinn district, lies just northwest of the Old Town on Tallinn Bay. Balti jaam, built after the railway to Saint Petersburg opened in 1870, stands between it and the center.1

Telliskivi Creative City, founded by Jaanus Juss in 2007 on the grounds of the Baltic Railway Company factory, took its first tenant, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, in 2009. Its ten buildings cover more than 25,000 m² and host nearly a thousand cultural events a year.2 Locomotives were once repaired there; about 250 companies and 1,500 people now work in its buildings.3

Local tip: The Brick closes at 16:00; for an evening coffee in the same block, Nihe Kohvik at Telliskivi 60a/2 stays open until 21:00 every day.5

At a glance

38Cafés listed
23With opening hours
08:00Earliest opening
23:00Latest closing
  • Opens earliest: Fika, from 08:00 (Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00 · Sat–Sun 10:00–17:00).
  • Closes latest: Boheem, until 23:00 (Mon–Fri 10:00–22:00 · Sat–Sun 10:00–23:00).
  • Most common features: wi-fi (18%), outdoor seating (18%), card payment (16%).

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Coffee chains in Kalamaja & Telliskivi

Telliskivi 60

The Brick Coffee Roastery, at Telliskivi 60/2, is a roastery and brew bar that buys from named producers to show the flavor of each growing region.4 It opens 09:00–16:00 on weekdays and 10:00–16:00 at weekends. Fika is next door at 60a/1 and opens at 08:00 on weekdays. Nihe Kohvik, at 60a/2, is an all-vegan café open every day from 09:00 to 21:00.56 MeGusto is at 60/1.

Balti Jaama Turg and Kopli

The market by the station opened on 1 October 1993 in limestone warehouses from the 1870s and reopened after rebuilding on 19 May 2017; it trades 09:00–19:00, Sundays until 17:00.7 Veg b12, a café inside, serves food that is fully plant-based, much of it free of sugar and flour.8

Across Kopli, Rohe Kohvik at number 4 is Nihe's sister café and opens daily 09:00–21:00.6 Further along, Boheem at Kopli 18 stays open until 22:00 on weekdays and 23:00 at weekends, and Willa kohvik is at Kopli 35b/2.

Vana-Kalamaja and the side streets

Vana-Kalamaja has the most cafés of any street in the area. Rocket Bean, a roaster with cafés in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius, is at number 8, opening at 10:00 on weekdays and 08:00 at weekends.9 Polina tervislike magustoitude kohvik (healthy desserts café) at number 6 makes vegan cakes and bread.10 Flower Garden Cafe, at 7a, stays open until 22:00 on Fridays and Saturdays; Bogapott, Piko and Kohvik Vaffel are on the same street.

Kohvik Kohalik, at Manufaktuuri 4/1 in the Manufaktuuri quarter, is a café with an apple garden.11 The Culture Kilometre, a former railway embankment that became a walking trail in 2011 and a street in 2015, ends at Kalamaja park on Tööstuse, where Salt'sUp soolakohvik, T35 The Breakfast Club and Vernalia cafe are.1

Seaplane Harbour and Noblessner

The Seaplane Harbour museum, in a former seaplane hangar of 8,000 m² at Vesilennuki 6, opened on 12 May 2012; the 1936 submarine Lembit is its main exhibit.12 Its café is Maru, open daily 12:00–20:00, with Mini Maru in the same complex.13

Next door, Noblessner was the Russian Empire's largest submarine yard, named after Emanuel Nobel and Arthur Lessner; twelve submarines were built there between 1912 and 1917. Bus 73 runs along Kalaranna to the Noblessneri stop.14 Proto Kohvik, in the PROTO invention factory at Peetri 10, has its own street entrance and opens at 11:30.15 Puente is at Vesilennuki 24.

Sources

  1. Kalamaja, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  2. Telliskivi Creative City, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  3. Telliskivi Creative City, Telliskivi, accessed October 2026
  4. The Brick Coffee: specialty coffee roastery and bar in Telliskivi, The Brick Coffee, accessed October 2026
  5. Nihe Kohvik, Telliskivi 60A2, Nihe Kohvik, accessed October 2026
  6. Vegan as the day is long: a plant-eater's guide to Tallinn (Samantha Sharp, 22 October 2024), American Councils Study Abroad, accessed October 2026
  7. Balti Jaama Market: history, Astri Group, accessed October 2026
  8. VegB12 vegankohvik, Balti Jaama Turg, VegB12, accessed October 2026
  9. Rocket Bean cafés in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius, Rocket Bean, accessed October 2026
  10. Where to go for vegan in Tallinn? (Noora Laine-Müller, 27 July 2022), Estonian World, accessed October 2026
  11. Kohvik Kohalik, Manufaktuuri 4/1, Kohvik Kohalik, accessed October 2026
  12. Seaplane Harbour, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  13. Kohvik MARU, Lennusadam, Estonian Maritime Museum, accessed October 2026
  14. Noblessner: an old shipyard, Visit Tallinn, accessed October 2026
  15. PROTO kohvik, PROTO Avastustehas, accessed October 2026
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FAQ

Kalamaja & Telliskivi cafés: questions

Which cafés are in Telliskivi Creative City in Tallinn?

At Telliskivi 60, The Brick Coffee Roastery is a roastery and brew bar open 09:00–16:00 on weekdays and 10:00–16:00 at weekends. Fika, next door, opens at 08:00 on weekdays, and Nihe Kohvik, an all-vegan café, is open daily from 09:00 to 21:00.

Where are the vegan cafés in Kalamaja, Tallinn?

Nihe Kohvik at Telliskivi 60a/2 is all-vegan, and its sister café Rohe is at Kopli 4, opposite Balti Jaama Turg, open daily 09:00–21:00. Inside the market, Veg b12 serves fully plant-based food. On Vana-Kalamaja, the healthy desserts café at number 6 makes vegan cakes.

Which café is at Tallinn's Seaplane Harbour museum?

The museum café at the Seaplane Harbour, Vesilennuki 6, is Maru, open daily from 12:00 to 20:00, with Mini Maru in the same complex. The museum opened in a former seaplane hangar in May 2012. Next door, Noblessner has Proto Kohvik at Peetri 10.

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