Art is a personal experience, a thrill for different senses – a symbiosis of emotions, thoughts, sensations. Art is silence – the moment before judgement when a grape is still a delightful taste but not yet a word.
In Art Priori high-level art is elegantly combined with excellent food. The restaurant’s interior has been executed according to special creative projects in the spirit of Gothic architecture characteristic of Tallinn. Ideas of the old world are linked with the new in a modern way.
Art Priori has three separate dining halls – high value original art is exhibited in each of them. Paintings from the past up to contemporary times offer intellectual and aesthetic experiences that accompany the delicious food like refined gourmet.
The airy main hall with high ceilings is decorated with a stylish inner balcony. Usually the room is set for 30 people but it is also suitable for “long table” events for a larger group.
Accommodating about twenty people, furnished with comfortable sofas, a projector and a screen, this room can easily be customized for special events.
An elegant private room with exceptionally valuable paintings. A room for up to 10 people to enjoy splendid meals in sumptuous atmosphere.
The restaurant’s open and creative mentality and the possibilities provided by the premises allow organizing events of most different nature either by the restaurant itself or based on ideas and cooperation suggestions presented from outside.
The restaurant’s everyday priority are events of food and art.
Variety is also provided on the kitchen side. In addition to our own chefs Art Priori invites over renowned guest chefs from outside whose menu is presented and offered in the restaurant as a special event.
On Monday, 26 September at 19.00, in the Old Town of Tallinn, at Olevimägi 7
Autumn in Art Priori begins in a motley and colourful way. We will be serving appetisers from our new menu and opening the new art exhibition of Juss Piho’s paintings.
Art acts as our most excellent companion. Juss Piho’s oil paintings in our restaurant’s halls once again create a new set of moods. Each exhibition tells its own unique story. The figures in Piho’s paintings have been like frozen in time. The viewer can contemplate the world of unknown characters, with the moments captured as if they were shot on film, provoking discussions about what has been or will be. Art speaks to us on a personal level. The pictures and their stories offer a pleasant company alongside excellent food and good music.
This autumn, Art Priori will be serving an a la carte menu, from which everyone can combine their desired selections; however, there will also be degustation menus put together by our chefs, showcasing their own exciting vision for your dinner.
For those who are in the mood to simply enjoy the art-filled atmosphere of Art Priori with light snacks and a glass of wine, there is our wine hall served by a sommelier.
You are cordially invited!
On Monday, 26 September at 19.00, in the Old Town of Tallinn, at Olevimägi 7
Autumn in Art Priori begins in a motley and colourful way. We will be serving appetisers from our new menu and opening the new art exhibition of Juss Piho’s paintings.
Art acts as our most excellent companion. Juss Piho’s oil paintings in our restaurant’s halls once again create a new set of moods. Each exhibition tells its own unique story. The figures in Piho’s paintings have been like frozen in time. The viewer can contemplate the world of unknown characters, with the moments captured as if they were shot on film, provoking discussions about what has been or will be. Art speaks to us on a personal level. The pictures and their stories offer a pleasant company alongside excellent food and good music.
This autumn, Art Priori will be serving an a la carte menu, from which everyone can combine their desired selections; however, there will also be degustation menus put together by our chefs, showcasing their own exciting vision for your dinner.
For those who are in the mood to simply enjoy the art-filled atmosphere of Art Priori with light snacks and a glass of wine, there is our wine hall served by a sommelier.
You are cordially invited!
26.09.2016 - 29.01.2017
With this exhibition, restaurant Art Prior is presenting contemporary Estonian paintings, offering a fun change of pace from our displays thus far, where the focus was mostly on the history of art and classical sentiments.
Today, the restaurant is filled with the large-format works and massive figure compositions (with some smaller colourful plant motifs placed in between) of Juss Piho, a freelance painter and renowned book illustrator.
In Juss Piho’s paintings time seems to have been frozen, if only for an instant. The viewer is invited into the world of characters created by the artist, to seemingly unknown rooms which become more familiar the closer you get, reminding you of something about yourself or someone else, as if hidden in the deepest corners of your memory. These pictures provoke one to create stories and discuss what took place before or what will happen after the artist, by raising his brush to the canvas, has halted the images. Piho’s paintings are guileful, aloof in their strangeness while familiar in their simplicity. Slowly they start speaking to us, weaving stories, pleasantly haunting us through dynamic groups of people – a lady in a long white dress, or a bird or a cat on the corner of a tablecloth. Large clean intersecting surfaces in the background of Piho’s paintings give each thought some space, just like his characters give a reason to each story and course to each feeling.
Juss Piho (1963) has been actively exhibiting his works since 1987. He is a member of the Estonian Artists’ Association and has won several awards, mostly for his book illustrations, with his 2001 international book illustrations triennial from Japan deserving special recognition. His works can be found in museums as well as in private collections. Though a large part of Juss Piho’s creations consist of drawings and book illustrations, today he can be predominantly considered to be a painter, and a very good painter at that. He is one of those who remains engraved in your memory long after you have seen his creations, urging you to keep coming back to them, as if they were your personal memories.
In the restaurant Art Priori, art is a companion, friend, and partner with whom to communicate and lock eyes, in such a way that it touches something, changes something for the better, making it deeper and clearer.