September is Estonia\u2019s nationwide Food Month, coinciding with the harvest season in gardens and fields. Numerous food festivals, markets and harvest events are being held across the country, involving restaurants, farm producers and tourist attractions alike. Here is a summary:<\/p>\n
The month begins on 1\u201310 September on Hiiumaa, where one more warm spell and tourists are awaited: in the form of older female chefs, as the Estonian equivalent of an Indian summer is the term \u201cvananaistesuvi\u201d, or \u201cold women\u2019s summer\u201d. A list of island restaurants that remain open in autumn can be found here<\/span><\/a><\/span>. In Central Estonia\u2019s J\u00e4rva County, meanwhile, a festive pop-up dinner is served at four unusual locations on four \u201c\u00d6\u00d6\u00d6\u00d6 Caf\u00e9 Wednesdays<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d. The Saaremaa Food Festival<\/span><\/a><\/span> on 4\u201313 September consists of lunch and dinner offers at restaurants, an autumn market and street picnic in Kuressaare, an apple-themed home caf\u00e9 day and side events on the island of Muhu.<\/p>\n The weekend of 5\u20136 September is one of the busiest of Food Month. On Saturday, there is the V\u00f5rtsj\u00e4rv Eel Festival<\/span><\/a><\/span>, T\u00fcri\u2019s Apple Festival<\/span><\/a><\/span>, as well as various food and harvest markets in Haapsalu<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Kuressaare<\/span><\/a><\/span> and J\u00e4neda<\/span><\/a><\/span>. On Sunday, it is the turn of a themed day<\/span><\/a><\/span> featuring 24 manor, garden and restaurant businesses spread from northern Lahemaa into the surrounding Harju and Viru regions, offering food, medicinal herbs, wines and eye candy in the form of art.<\/p>\n The Onion Route area on the shores of Lake Peipus becomes a haven for local flavours on 12 September. On that day, the 32 home caf\u00e9s and farms marked on this Google map<\/span><\/a><\/span> will be open for \u201cBuffet Day<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u201d. On the same day, the UMA MEKK local food market<\/span><\/a><\/span> will also take place in R\u00f5uge, southern Estonia.<\/p>\n At the Estonian Open Air Museum\u2019s Kolu Inn in Tallinn, a regional food week will be held from 13\u201320 September, during which a tasting menu featuring six traditional Estonian dishes will be available for \u20ac25. The week culminates on Sunday with Estonian Bread Day<\/span><\/a><\/span> and an autumn market.<\/p>\n At the end of September, on 23\u201324 September, the international FoodFair<\/span><\/a><\/span> trade fair for professionals will be held at Unibet Arena in Tallinn. It brings together food-industry companies from Estonia and abroad, restaurant and accommodation-sector staff, as well as local producers. You do not need to work in the food business, however, to visit the Lamprey Festival<\/span><\/a><\/span> in Narva-J\u00f5esuu on 26 September. There, local fishermen, chefs and the public come together around a fish species that rarely makes it onto restaurant menus, and attitudes towards it are likely to be distinctly divided: you either love lamprey or hate it.<\/p>\n The September food theme can also be experienced at Tallinn hotels. Several of them supplement their breakfast offerings during Food Month with Estonian ingredients such as farmhouse bread, kama and berry jams. Information on participating hotels that also sell their breakfast buffets to non-guests can be found on Visit Tallinn\u2019s \u201cEat like an Estonian!\u201d page<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September is Estonia\u2019s nationwide Food Month, coinciding with the harvest season in gardens and fields. Numerous food festivals, markets and … Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":161856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[25830,27049,28159,312,13168,13583,13625,15031,19436,21764],"class_list":["post-161861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-markets","tag-foodfair","tag-food-month","tag-local-food","tag-estonian-food","tag-saaremaa-2","tag-food","tag-food-festival","tag-estonian-bread-day","tag-onion-route"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t