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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The “Silva” bistro, bakery and café

The bistro is in the centre of Jelgava and offers fresh canapés, cakes, pierogi, cookies and other baked goods. It works with local producers of ingredients.

Latvian cuisine: Bacon pierogi, potato pancakes, wheat-potato porridge with bacon sauce, whipped fool with milk. Grey peas with bacon during the season of the Winter Solstice.

Special foods: The “Duke’s Sail” – oven-roasted pork with caramelised sauerkraut, roast vegetables, lingonberry sauce and horseradish.

Distance from countries capital city45 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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The “Rukisi” weekend home

This weekend home is in a lovely location near the reservoir of Rugāji.  The owner breeds and processes fish and serves Lettigalian foods.  He also works with local farmers and fishermen.
Latvian cuisine: Smoked fish (carp, Peipus burbot, tench, catfish, bream), canned bream, carp, tench and bream soup, grit porridge with cured meat, home baked rye bread, local cheeses.
Special foods: Tench goulash.

Distance from countries capital city220 Active season months1-12 Accommodation available Accepts tourist groups Pre-order required Accepts individual travellers
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Hot Potato

A popular restaurant and bar, located in a long basement of a medieval wooden building in the Old Town of Liepāja. The menu includes steaks, stuffed pork fillet, lamb kebabs, local fish, and potatoes cooked in different ways.

Active season months1-12
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The “Pils” café

The café is in the “Pils” guesthouse, near the Knight Castle Hill and Gunpowder Tower of Kandava. These can be seen from the café’s terrace.

Latvian cuisine: Pea soup, homemade dumpling soup, cream of mushroom soup, chilled beet soup, roast pork, homemade steak haché, stuffed flounder, potato pancakes, stacked rye bread.

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 Accommodation available
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Kafejnica "Staburadze"

The cafe Staburadze is situated in the centre of the city Kuldiga.

Distance from countries capital city154 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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Silva teahouse

The teahouse is in a lovely location – the southern part of Pilssala Island, near the pedestrian bridge over the Driksa River.

Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups
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The “Tervete” beer bar

The bar is in Tirgus Square in the historical centre of Dobele, offering Latvian cuisine and Tērvete beer, which is brewed from Latvian ingredients. A summer terrace is open during the season.

Latvian cuisine: Cold soup, grey peas with bacon, Tērvete steak haché, Tērvete leg of pork.

Special foods: Tērvete cheesecake.

Distance from countries capital city73 Active season months1-12 Accepts individual travellers This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts tourist groups
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Kafejnica "Baravika"

The cafe Baravika is situated in the centre of Rezekne city. It offers a wide variety of dishes.

Working hours: Mon-Fri 8.30 līdz 18.00

Distance from countries capital city238 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups
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The saloon of the White House of the Rundale Castle

The saloon is in the 250-year-old servants’ home of the Rundāle Castle, with a brick floor, pot-bellied stoves, a smokestack and other historical objects. Meals are served on antique dishes, and hot beverages are served in cups from the Kuzņecovs Factory.

Latvian cuisine: Roast ham with eggs, potatoes with mushroom sauce, roast goose, crabs boiled with dill, pancakes with honey, bread soup with whipped cream, stacked bread, country teas, apple pie.

Special foods: Pork shish kebab with oven-roasted potatoes.

Distance from countries capital city77 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accommodation available Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Raganas Burgers

This restaurant-burger shop specialises in 100% Latvian beef burgers, selected pizzas and natural french fries.

Active season months1-12