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Hours
Sun
12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Mon
11:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Tue
11:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Wed
11:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Thu
11:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Fri
11:30 AM - 12:00 AM
Sat
11:30 AM - 12:00 AM
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Ratings and reviews
4.5
Travelers' Choice 2024
RATINGS
Food
Service
Value
Atmosphere
Food and ambience
Italian, Pizza, Mediterranean, European, Lombard, Northern-Italian
Does this restaurant serve Sardinian food?
Details
About
Pizza is prepared in a live fire oven, which is the only one in Tartu. Of course, you can also enjoy great pasta dishes. Some pastas come straight from Italy, some are made on site, like cannelloni. We also offer authentic Italian meat products: Parma ham and salamis.
CUISINES
Italian, Pizza, Mediterranean, European, Lombard, Northern-Italian
Special Diets
Vegetarian friendly, Vegan options, Gluten free options
Meals
Lunch, Dinner, Brunch, Late Night, Drinks
FEATURES
Takeout, Reservations, Outdoor Seating, Seating, Highchairs Available, Serves Alcohol, Full Bar, Free Wifi, Accepts Credit Cards, Table Service
Contribute
4.5
709 reviews
Excellent
400
Very good
202
Average
58
Poor
34
Terrible
15
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ArtyomGM
Daugavpils60 contributions
Aug 2023 • none
I'm not an expert in Italian cuisine, but what my family and I ate at this restaurant we liked: a variety of pastas and pizzas at reasonable prices. The menu is quite extensive in Estonian, Italian and English. Not a bad wine list. There are several classic desserts to choose from including cannoli, tiramisu and panna cotta. Limoncello from the freezer completed the evening. We dined with our family (5 people) here on two evenings. Every evening there are a lot of people, a lot of families, very noisy and very atmospheric. After 19:00 I recommend reserving a table in advance. The coffee is also very good. The speed of preparation and service were very good. However, you should discuss everything with the waiters several times in English so that there are no misunderstandings. There are tables in the courtyard, but since it was rainy, we didn't go there.

Written August 5, 2023
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kawoom
Zurich5 contributions
Oct 2024 • friends
Amazingly good and authentic Italian. You can choose between Neapolitan and “normal” pizzas and they are both very delicious. The wine was good, it's on Italian TV and those who want to get gelato too. The only criticism is the uniform of the waitresses. The fact that in 2024 young women still have to serve in semi-transparent white shirts and short skirts so short that you can even see the reinforcement of tights is unnecessary to me - especially given the high quality of the food.
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Written October 11, 2024
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keithmalin
Guildford350 contributions
Jul 2024 • family
La Dolce Vita, located in central Tartu, offers a “classic” Italian experience of pizza, pasta and other delights. It can get very busy, and the low vaulted ceiling means that it can also be noisy - another “Italian” experience. Reasonable service levels (except when really busy) and good prices, especially the house wine (15€ for 0.5l).
Written July 9, 2024
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Eija S
1 contribution
Jul 2023 • couples
I made a table reservation few days ago for tonight. This is the first time we left the restaurant without having a three course dinner with aperitives and avecs. When we arrived to restaurant the service at the outside terrace was so poor and I think there were trainers working at he terrace, they did not know what is Martini Bianco, which we wanted to order as aperitives etc. We have had dinner in this restaurant since 2009 every time we visit Tartu (at least four or five times a year). Food is good in this restaurant but this time the service was really poor and we changed the restaurant.
Written July 21, 2023
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HeikkiHelin
12 contributions
May 2023 • friends
Good food, poor service. Food was brougth to the table before any water & vine. Secondi was brougth to table before we had finished primi. Oil and winegar was brougth to the table after One of us had finished eating Secondi. Service has to improve!
Written May 12, 2023
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HL65
Heinola310 contributions
Dec 2023 • couples
This seems to be a very popular place, we were lucky to have a reservation. We chose a focaccia as a starter followed by tagliatelle with pesto and vegetarian fusilli as main courses. Food was tasty and the portions quite generous. Service was very quick but a bit shy. The bill for the meal was about 40 euros, very reasonable.
Written December 28, 2023
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Framais
Tallinn1 contribution
Aug 2020 • none
I loved the atmosphere of this restaurant, the venue is located on the ground floor of an old (medieval?) building. The venue has been renovated and it has an outside space as well. The pizza was delicious (whichever pizza you order you can choose between Roman and Neapolitan style, I preferred the Neapolitan one) and the service professional and courteous. All the staff was wearing protective masks and a hand sanitizing gel dispenser was available at the entrance. Added bonus the owner is a really nice person, always smiling and positive.
Written August 8, 2020
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Reza
Viimsi11 contributions
Jul 2020 • none
Food quality is great and portions are in proper size. Waiting time to get the food is quite short. Location is good, almost easy to find with or without car. menu covers wide range of Italian cuisine and various drinks, which is good and bad. Good because you have variety of choices and bad because it is complicated (Italian names with no picture of the dish, so you don't know actually what to expect if you haven't had such a dish before, you are not a native Italian or an expert in Italian cuisine.
Indoor space is quiet tightly packed and it is almost full at all time, so it is not easy to move around when the restaurant is full. tables for two are quite small and there is not much space left on the table when the dishes are on it.
Stuff are young and energetic which is great, but tightly packed restaurant when it is full, makes it complicated for stuff to serve the food or communicate with the client or share some information about what is in the menu.
Written August 2, 2020
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FarAway49291834746
1 contribution
Jul 2023 • friends
Lovely garden, great pasta and even better service from Rene. We both had pasta recommended by our waiter Rene and both dishes were delicoius. Bottle of Pinot was also fitting. Tiramisu was to my liking and I am fussy with my Tiramisu. But the best thing still was the atmosphere created by superfriendly and smiley Rene - you made our night one to remember, thanks!
Written July 17, 2023
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Matkaaja
Eura118 contributions
Nov 2022 • friends
The food in general os very good and the place is nice. Not giving 5/5 is more about how it is done.
About the food I must say that the pizza was the best I’ve had outside Naples. The only thing that I do not understand why you have Napoletean pizza and some form of so called pizza. Discard the rest and stick with the real thing. It is good.
The downside was the lack of undestanding on timeing. Your menu is long, do not rush to the table after 18 seconds. And if you do, save the situation by taking the order on drinks.
More severe instance was that my pizza came right after the starter arrived. Not nice. My friend also had to wait for her food long after mine arrived.
At the end the clock turned around. We had to wait for the plates to been taken away. We had to wait for the dessert order. We had to wait for the check. Also my dessert arrived long before my friend’s.
The food is good, timeing is not. It is a restaurant, not a clock so 4/5.
Written November 19, 2022
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Zuzana
Senec10 contributions
Jun 2021 • family
We stopped in the restaurant for quick lunch on week day. Quickly we ordered two pizzas. Our meal came back in just few minutes i was absolutely impressed by the time they prepared the food. Pizza was delicious it had really beaten my Italian pizza experience. After the perfect main course we decided for the desert and tiramisu was just perfect ending of great lunch. Would definitely come back to try one of their many pasta dishes.
Written July 29, 2021
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Jay
El Albir1 contribution
Apr 2021 • none
Poor, poor, poor for this price and reputation of the restaurant. Small, not tasty etc.
Ordered some pizzas trough internet platform. Using these solutions sounds like perfect possibility for the restaurant to sell crapy quality not facing real client and taking responsibility. Sad.
Written April 16, 2021
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Erik
3 contributions
Nov 2020 • friends
Ordered pizza “frutti di mare” + gorgonzola cheese and my friend took pasta with chicken and parmesan. Both dishes were amazing. Thanks and i will definately visit you again, when I’m going to visit Tartu again!
Written November 9, 2020
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Liisi L
3 contributions
Feb 2020 • none
You simply can not go wrong with anything in La Dolce Vita menu. Their salads are plentiful, gorgeous and tasty. Their pastas are creamy, soft and delicious. Pizzas are prefectly crunchy and the desserts... You must try the "Fagottino al cioccolato con mascarpone" - it is a masterpiece.
Written February 17, 2020
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KarenG
11 contributions
Feb 2019 • none
I visited this restaurant on a work trip during 2015(forgot to write a review!) I had the Fillet steak with a gorgonzola and truffle sauce. My goodness!! It was so good that I had to go back for it again the night before I left for Ireland!
A tender, perfectly cooked piece of meat and the sauce was to die for and that's coming from blue cheese's smallest fan.
The staff were amazing, friendly, efficient and never left us waiting to ask for anything. Highly recommended, it will be the first place I visit if I ever get the chance to go back to Estonia.
Written January 4, 2020
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