Restoran-vinoteek Umb Roht

Umb Roht, in a central Tartu courtyard, greets its guests with a display of gardening tools on the walls right by the entrance. In the beginning, the restaurant served food grown in nearby gardens, where similar implements must have been used to keep the weeds at bay. The cuisine then took a turn towards the exotic, only to return to more familiar coasts.

The beverage program may be even more of a reason to visit. Specifically the wine. This restaurant is a special kind of everyman’s vinotheque.

It serves humble, pleasing, attractively priced, adult grape juice. The list changes with the menu, and the pairings are notable in town. This is also why the small restaurant is always bustling––seekers of solitude would do well to go elsewhere.

Small craft drink makers are springing up in Tartu like mushrooms after rain. It pays to check the drinks list for the newest additions.