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

Pampukas café

This summer terrace café is on the beach of the Preiļi park, and it offers 100% natural ice cream with berries, as well as fresh pancakes.  The café is only open from Mother’s Day (May 8) until Father’s Day (September 11).  Tourist groups are offered tours and tastings of cheese-based ice cream.

Active season months5-9 Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance
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Latvia

Krodzins "Slageris"

The small bar is situated in the city of Madona and there are seating places for 35 people.

Distance from countries capital city165 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 “Hercogs” family restaurant

The family restaurant "Hercogs" is situated in the centre of the city of Jelgava, alongside Duke Jacob Square. The chefs use local ingredients and have a partnership with the “Rudiņi” deer garden.

Latvian cuisine: Cold soup, venison goulash soup, venison chop, roast pike-perch or catfish, roast pork, sautéed lamb, potato pancakes, sea buckthorn dessert.

Special foods: Filet of beef baked on rocks.

Distance from countries capital city44 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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Estonia

Home restaurant KIHNU KÜEK

Home restaurant on Kihnu Island, where owners make rich meals, using the island's local ingredients, mainly fish.

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Latvia

The “Turiba” café

The café is in the centre of Aglona on the edge of the Dagda road (P60).
Latvian cuisine: Pork cakes, potatoes with herring and cream, cottage cheese crème with strawberries.
Special foods: Rolled dishes.

Distance from countries capital city226 Active season months1-12 Pre-order required Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Estonia

Castle restaurant ALATSKIVI

The main building of the grand manor Alatskivi has a restaurant serving local specialities. The rich history of the manor house connects Estonian peasant culture, Baltic-German culture and Scottish culture depicted in the manor's architecture. The restaurant menu combines these three values. Favourites of the guests are Peipus pike perch and pork chop, but many guests also love the surprising Scottish dessert and local onion jam.

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Latvia

GALDIN, KLAJIES!

A family restaurant, located 12 km from Talsi, that offers traditional Latvian cuisine.

Distance from countries capital city103 Active season months1-12 Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance
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Latvia

The “Priedes krogs” saloon

The saloon is the Latvian Open-Air Ethnographic Museum. It is an historical saloon that was transported to the museum from Vecumnieki, preserving the smokestack, bread oven, etc. Dining can be accompanied with demonstration of crafts and performances by local musical groups. Latvian weddings are organised here, as well.

Latvian cuisine: Sprat sandwiches, lampreys, stuffed pike, a dish of three types of onions, bull testicles in a creamy sauce, grilled piglet, homemade country bread, soup cooked on a campfire, pancakes.

Special foods: Priede saloon roast in loganberry marinade.

For parties Distance from countries capital city14 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts tourist groups Accepts individual travellers
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Latvia

The “Eglaines” guesthouse

The guesthouse is on the shore of the Ancient Amata River Valley, and it was built with natural materials – local dolomite blocks. It serves ecological foods, including potatoes grown in bio-humus, wild berries and mushrooms, and country treats and greens from the guesthouse’s own garden.

Latvian cuisine: Baked and grilled trout, beefsteak, wild mushroom and chanterelle sauce.

Special foods: A puffy Eglaine cake made of rural eggs, pecan cake with ice cream.

Distance from countries capital city78 Active season months1-12 Accepts individual travellers Pre-order required Accommodation available Accepts tourist groups
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Latvia

The “Sipres” cafeteria

The cafeteria is on the main street in Līvāni, offering country cooking and Latvian dishes.

Latvian cuisine: Potato pancakes, cold soup, pearl barley and barley porridge, pork ribs with sauerkraut, bread soup. 

Special foods: “Rocks of Dubna and Daugava” – potato dumplings stuffed with cottage cheese in a cream sauce.

Distance from countries capital city163 Active season months1-12 Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance