
Charcoal Chocolate Tartelet
2025a The Delicious Tartu dessert served at Café Crepp comes with a story about how it came to be. The goal was to make a black tartelet, without using food coloring or other harmful chemical dyes. Charcoal seemed neutral enough to use. As a result, the tart turned out to be a bit black, but […]

Glazed butternut squash steak with ratatouille and kale chips
At the Maitsva Tartu Food Festival, a vegetarian main course is strictly recommended. I chose roasted pumpkin for this, for which Joosep prepared a wonderful coffee-BBQ glaze.The six components of the dish were the same as the duck fillet main course.In recent years, I have started making fried pumpkin in the fall, either with cheese […]

Duck fillet with ratatouille and kale chips
During the 2025 food festival, a total of over 27,000 special menus were ordered from the 22 participating restaurants. These statistics were published in Tartu Postimees. This number is more than ¼ of the population of the city of Tartu. The winner of Tasty Tartu was the restaurant TOKO. Excellent result! Congratulations to the people […]

Goat’s cheese and beetroot croquette in a crust of black bread
In 2025, Café Crepp was one of the 22 restaurants that hosted the food festival Maitsev Tartu. The festival’s idea is to give restaurants a boost during the winter period and develop and introduce local food culture and new food concepts, flavors, and local ingredients.In this and the next two posts, I would like to […]

Irish Stew
A historical dish from Ireland. It was a simple food that was cheap and could be prepared in large quantities and preserved. The first recipes for this dish can be found in 17th-century notes. Today it is a common pub and restaurant dish. This dish is traditionally made from lamb or beef and various roots. […]