Kiri sõbrale

I wanted to tell you about the diner in the Central Station in Tallinn. I was there just a minute ago, ordering a meat piroscka and a coffee. Well, it took about 3 minutes of waiting for the coffee that was too hot to be drinken right away – and I didn't really have that much time any more, my train was to leave in less than 10 minutes. The waitress was rather inpolite, but I think she is the only one there who can speak good estonian. So better wait and not argue, I'd say. So I sat down to table in the back, behin the large beer barrels. It's this kind of a bigger table, where you can sit down without asking anyone and without paying attention who is already there. This time there was an old man drinking tea. Well, you have to pay attention anyways, because this is not a very nice place – it is opened 24/7 and every kind of people go there (although it is wrong to say so, since decent people tend to avoid the place), especially young (russian) guys who look like they have connections with the criminal world. And drunks and asocial older women and so on. It is not a very clean place and you would not like to spend a long time there. But the thing is that they have the best piroschki. They are this kind of oil-baked big buns with meat or jam in them. Russian kitchen. Very very tasty and very very fresh. You can see the group of women working in the opened kitchen, making those delicious pasteries. It is a pitty that I didn't have more time to drink my coffee. I love this place. It is somehow so real, so authentic. It is just purely functional. I came to Tallinn on Friday by train and I had an extra half an hour. I went there to have my morning coffee with a jam piroschka. Men behind me were ordering food and a beer. It was 9.10 in the morning. Sun was shining.