Friday, 29 January 2016

Eating in Tartu: YliCool Cafe Lounge

First Impressions

As the name suggests, the restaurant is trying to be cool, and partly succeeding. The interior is clean and simplistic, very modern and Scandinavian. The restaurant lacks some personality, and the atmosphere could be more comfortable. Now it is more like an operation room had a baby with an Ikea catalogue. The service was adequate, but a bit distant. The dinner set was very imaginative and a lot of attention had been put into the small details. 

The Food

As a whole, the menu was unimaginative, and nothing caught Bokkila's attention at first nor even second glance. The prizes of the main courses vary between 12-19 euros. Soups, pastas and salads are 5-8.5 euros. The daily lunch is 5 euros. The restaurant offers gluten- and lactose free options, also sugar-free desserts. How modern!

Bokkila ordered:

Warm meat salad with red pesto and vegetables - The meat of the dish is pork, but you can change it to veil or chicken. The veil was chewy, but tasty. The salad was fresh and varied. 3/5


Vegetable pasta without pasta - In this dish pasta free pasta translates to slices of warm vegetables. In stead of a pasta, it is more of a warm salad. It is also possible to order this "pasta" with chicken, pork or veil. All in all rather bland, the vegetables used were quite typical, no surprises there. 3/5


Mango Coconut Panna Cotta - A dessert that would take you to the tropics. The tastes of mango and coconut complimented each other, light and creamy, a very fresh experience. This was more what we were expecting to have in this trendy restaurant. 4/5

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