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
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Latvia

The “Dziles” bakery

The Dzīļu bakery in Malnava is a symbol of Krāslava and it is located next to the Malnava manor park. The lady of the house prepare hearty Lettigalian dishes and other country goodies. In the bakery the owner bakes different types of bread, for example, rye-bread, sweet-and sour bread, as well as makes cakes on pre-order. She also offers to groups and families to bake bread, pies, cakes or pizzas together. The tasting and Latgalian dishes in nowadays’style. A walk around the park of Malnava manor and stories about the white gate. Local bread is famous in Kārsava. The bakery offers brunch on weekends, as well as markets of local crafts and other products.
Latvian cuisine: Lettigalian bacon, pearl barley porridge with side dishes, potatoes stuffed with bacon and onions, sautéed vegetables with meat, berry bread, tea with honey.
Special foods: Local Dzīļi bread with bran, raisins, cranberry jam and linen seed.

For children and teenagers Agri Heritage Distance from countries capital city270 Active season months1-12 Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups Pre-order required
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Latvia

The “Celotajs” saloon

Located in the Mežotne Castle, the saloon offers fine and tasty dishes and beverages. Tours of the ornate castle are available, and the location has one of the loveliest English-style landscape parks in Latvia.

Latvian cuisine: Potato pancakes, rolled marinated herring, trout with potatoes in their jackets, blood sausage with lingonberry sauce, grey peas with bacon, stacked rye bread with cranberry jam and whipped cream.

Special foods: “Bauska Thaler” – pork in the form of a thaler with a sauce made with Bauska beer.

Distance from countries capital city76 Active season months1-12 Accepts tourist groups This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts individual travellers Accommodation available
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Latvia

The “Policijas akademija” café

This popular eatery is in the centre of Ogre and in a pre-World War I building that housed Soviet military headquarters during the Soviet era. Musical evenings are organised.

Latvian cuisine: Cheese plate, mutton soup, mushroom soup, grits with mushrooms, filet of catfish, wild berry sorbet, pancakes.

Special foods: Baked cheesecake with berries.

Distance from countries capital city37 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers
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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 “Ragalu krogs” saloon

The saloon is on the edge of the Rīga-Daugavpils road (A6), works with local fishermen, and grows herbs and greens in its own garden.

Latvian cuisine: Cold soup, sorrel soup, chanterelle, soup, potato pancakes, filet of Daugava catfish, bream or pike-perch.

Distance from countries capital city94 Active season months1-12 Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance
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Latvia

The “Aveni” saloon

The saloon is opposite the Machinery Museum on the edge of Bauska. The nationally historical interior allows visitors to comfortably feel different than others.

Latvian cuisine: Oatmeal, milk soup, pumpkin soup, cold beet soup, homemade steak haché, potato pancakes, crepes, bread soup.

Distance from countries capital city66 Active season months1-12 Pre-order required Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups
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Latvia

The "Sapnis" café

On the 141st km of the Riga-Jekabpils highway you can rest and have a meal in the motel Sapnis. There is a cafe on the 1st floor as well as the hall for celebrations.

Distance from countries capital city141 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers Accommodation available
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Latvia

The “Mezinieku majas” guesthouse

The guesthouse breeds cattle, grows fruits and vegetables, produces dairy and meat products, boils cheese on a campfire, teaches people how to make cheese, bakes bread according to ancient recipes, and offers Lettigalian weddings.
Latvian cuisine: Rye bread, 14 kinds of cheese, farmer’s soup, locally brewed beer with demonstrations of how that is done.
Special foods: Dumplings with mushroom sauce.

Distance from countries capital city250 Active season months1-12 Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups Accommodation available Pre-order required
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Latvia

The “Katrinkrogs” saloon

The saloon is on the shore of Lake Alūksne and the Jaunsētas country tourism and leisure centre.  The log saloon’s interior is based on the style of the 17th century, when a girl was born in the area who was raised by her foster father Ernst Glick and would later become Empress Catharine the Great, Wife of Peter the Great of Russia.
Latvian cuisine:  Pike or pike-perch soup with fish from Lake Alūksne, pork tongue, fried egg in a coat of flour, stacked rye bread with loganberry jam and whipped cream.
Special foods:  Lunch a la Maliena – stock with profiteroles.

Distance from countries capital city201 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accommodation available Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers
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