Lümanda Söögimaja

Western Estonia & the Islands


This rustic restaurant, occupying a schoolhouse once attached to the photogenic church adjacent, just does old-fashioned Saaremaa cuisine. You'll taste dishes that have nourished the islanders for centuries – fish soup, boiled pork with turnips and carrots, and cabbage rolls – with nothing frozen or imported from afar. There's also a shop selling local crafts as you enter.


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