Trilogies and Summer-Express at the restaurant Monaco

Tallinn boasts plenty of good hotel restaurants. It is also a positive sign that they are making more and more efforts to live up to the wishes of their clients.

The summer menu of the restaurant Monaco at Nordic Hotel Forum has two major novel touches. The popular lunch menu has been turned into Summer-Express and many dishes are now offered in trilogies.

The Summer-Express is a set menu consisting of a salad, pasta and cake that will be available all summer long. As a novel touch, the menu can be ordered all through the opening hours of the restaurant and put together by the clients themselves. Its price - 125 EEK - allows yet another first rate restaurant to win over the visitors of eating places with cheap but uninspiring food.

Every restaurant-goer knows that it is worth entering a restaurant that already abounds in visitors. Earlier, Monaco was packed at lunch-time, yet not that much in evenings.

Now the situation is entirely different. The change can be largely put down to the second novel touch - serving of food in trilogies. The idea of trilogies originates in France where the raw material of a dish was prepared in three different ways, yet served all at once. However, the restless Estonian clients are looking for more.

Thus, our trilogies are put together in two different ways. The first trilogy follows a certain theme. The classical seafood trilogy in the picture has been made of our most popular items of seafood – salmon, tuna and scallop. Three different small portions with yet a larger number of fascinating tastes are served all at once and virtually with the price of one dish!

The second idea of the trilogies is about tasting. You can taste three different soups at the same time to find out which of them is the best and worth ordering next time.

Nowadays, restaurant-goers are more adventurous. However, if they can find everything they are seeking at one place, they settle down and do not try randomly new restaurants.

It is definitely not an overstatement to call the Monaco trilogies a smart modernization of the old and aristocratic degustation menu of culinary art. The clients can taste what, as much as and when they please.
A single trilogy can easily serve as a lunch or an afternoon meal eaten while chatting to a friend.

Oleg Alasi, the chef of Monaco is very adventurous when putting together his trilogies. The three desserts in the picture differ a great deal. However, while eating they do not compete with each other, do not exclude each other or come across as mismatched in any other way.

No doubt, drinks may become an issue, in particular, when the client is fastidious when it comes to matching the food with wine. Apparently, water would be the best complement to the food as long as there are no drink trilogies.


It looks as if we are in for a historical summer that gives Tallinn food that is more diverse than ever with client friendly prices!