Great tavern “Peetri Toll”

If you are looking for a nice place at Pakri peninsula or in Paldiski to eat, have a refreshing drink, meet friends or relax, Tavern Peetri Toll is the best place to go.

If only the walls could talk, what an amazing stories they could tell you. Step in and immerse and come discover the forgotten flavors of Russian cuisine. Just a short walk from Paldiski railway station, surrounded by two ancient churches you find it. Years ago, when Russian Czar Peter I founded the Baltiskij Port here, this medieval building housed the toll collection point where merchants declared their goods.

Although the Rogerwiek Gulf in Paldiski was used by the coastal peoples from ancient times, it become particularly important at the time of reign of Peter the Great. During the Northern war, Peter the Great picked Rogerwiek Bay as the site for a new deep-water port and fortress for his fleet on the Baltic Sea. Construction works began in 1716 and continued in later at the time of Elizaveta Petrovna and Catherine II. These events laid the foundation of the Tavern Peetri Toll.