Catering

Saloons, cafes and other places in small towns and the countryside which offer tasty dishes made of local products and on the basis of traditional Latvian recipes – ones which differ from region to region.

  • Special programmes are offered to visitors, with meals, stories about holiday and everyday traditions, and songs. Sometimes visitors are involved in preparing the food.
  • Menus use local names for dishes along with explanations and a discussion of the local dialect.
  • Providers of Latvian foods also use ethnographic styles for interior design, as well as dishes, furniture, textiles, etc., from local craftspeople.
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Latvia

The “Dzirnas” café

The café is in the former administrative building of a collective farm in the centre of Gaigalava.  It cooks dishes with ingredients from its own farm and others.
Latvian cuisine: Bean soup with pearl barley, sauerkraut soup, pea soup, beet leaf soup, sorrel soup, fish soup made with tench or carp, ribs, roasts, false rabbit, oven-baked carp, dried fish, cottage cheese crème with berry sauce, baked apples with vanilla sauce, woven roulettes, dried fruit, quince candies.
Special foods: Bean pancakes.

Distance from countries capital city247 Active season months1-12 Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance

Latvia

The “Burviga Razna” leisure facility

This facility is on the southern shore of Latvia’s second-largest lake with a lovely view of it.  Lettigalian foods are prepared from local ingredients, some of which are grown on site.
Latvian cuisine: Cottage cheese pierogi and potato dumplings with cream sauce.

Distance from countries capital city271 Active season months6-9 Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups Accommodation available Pre-order required
Facilities  appropriate for children

Latvia

The Hercogs Jekabs saloon

The saloon is in the centre of Jēkabpils near the Daugava River dam. It offers exotic dishes.

Latvian cuisine: Cheese salad, wild mushroom soup, ramekin of chicken or pork, strawberry soup with ice cream.

Distance from countries capital city137 Active season months1-12 Accepts individual travellers This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts tourist groups
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Latvia

The “Skriveru majas saldejums” café

The family enterprise (formed in 2006) makes home-made ice-cream from fruit and berries. They make both classical – such as plombieres, cream, joghurt ice-creams and sorbets and nowadays cuisine’s „miracle”- sprat, blue cheese, horse-radish and potato ice-cream with tomato sauce. Till now 80 different ice-cream recipes have been tried. If you book a visit beforehand, you can have an excursion and learn everything about the process of making ice-cream from the chefs themselves. In the cafe it is possible to try different ice-cream dishes – each one with a different ice-cream sauce. The cafe also welcomes pets!

Special foods: Horseradish ice cream with herring.

For children and teenagers Distance from countries capital city81 Active season months1-12 Accepts individual travellers This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts tourist groups Must register in advance
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Latvia

Restaurant PASTNIEKA MAJA

The "Pastnieka maja" restaurant is an old restored building in Old Liepāja. Legend has it that a postal carrier named Arvīds used to live there, and the building has been praised for its interior design. The menu offers an attractive look at the life of Arvīds, and it is up to you to believe or disbelieve those stories.

Latvian cuisine: Cold soup, sorrel soup, oven-baked cod, catfish and plaice filet, grilled pork ribs, porridge with a bacon and onion sauce, potato pancakes, crepes, stacked rye bread.

Special foods: Smoked cod with potatoes, onions and dill in a ceramic ramekin.

Distance from countries capital city216 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers Optional meals
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Latvia

Pavaru maja Ligatne

The chef's house is located in the former Līgatne Maternity Hospital "Wilhelma". It is intended as a place for chefs as well as other interested parties to do, create and experiment. The author of the idea is chef Ēriks Dreibants. The aim of this place is to encourage you to explore and discover the unique tastes and experiences of our region. The chef's house supports the slow food philosophy and the surrounding farmers and producers.

Next to the house there is a Nature Observers' Garden, where there is a playground "Nest in the Tree", a magnifying glass for a closer look at the elements of nature, and a picnic area with a fireplace. There is an herb garden in the garden, fruit trees and berry bushes have been compiled, but in the center of it, next to the Bird Watching Square, there is a Butterfly Meadow.

Active season months1-12 Optional meals
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Estonia

Tavern KAALI

For many years, Kaali tavern has offered the best Estonian and Saaremaa dishes and drinks from local ingredients, as well as introduced guests to the history and culture of the island. Visitors of Kaali meteorite crater and museum can enjoy a delicious meal here.

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Latvia

The “Bruzis” restaurant

A restaurant and a three-star hotel that is located in the former beer brewery of Kalnamuiža, in the valley of the River Abuls, in the territory of Smiltene Park. The restaurant offers Latvian cuisine and caters for seminars.

Distance from countries capital city133 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts individual travellers Accommodation available Accepts tourist groups
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Estonia

Inara Vanavalgõ Kohvitarõ

Lovely café, located in the old folk house; here you can buy unique cheeses, dumplings, chanterelle-bean-pear barley soup, vadsas, meadow-sweet syrup drink.


Latvia

Bistro "Laipas"

Atrodas Rīgas – Ventspils autoceļa (A 10) 88. kilometrā, pašā Abavas krastā. Pie stāvlaukuma interesants objekts – senais Zemgales un Kurzemes robežstabs un vēsturisko novadu robeža. Piedāvā kempinga pakalpojumus.

Distance from countries capital city85 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accommodation available Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers