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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Estonia

Guest house PUISE NINA tavern KOGRE

A place where you can enjoy nature and food. The tavern Kogre got its name from Seven Fish Soup - crucian (koger), is the seventh fish. The owner is a fisherman, and together with his wife he prepares various dishes from his catch.

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Latvia

Kafejnica "Piladzitis"

The cafe Piladzitis is situated in Kuldiga next to the Venta rapid and an old brick bridge in Parventa. Piladzitis offers substantial and Latvian dishes.

The cafe’s working hours: 9:00 – 20:00, no days off

Distance from countries capital city153 Active season months1-12 Accepts tourist groups This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts individual travellers
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Latvia

"Rozmalas" restorans

The restaurant offers a range of delicious and healthy meals from a range of international dishes with a wide variety of drinks, freshly baked biscuits, truffles, cakes and seeded breads are also available with lunch or dinner meals.

There is a special daily offer available on weekdays and ability to organize a range of themed events, all catered for with food, drink and our freshly baked goods. A children’s menu is available for younger guests as well as playroom and a playground located next to the windmill.

Distance from countries capital city76
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Latvia

The “Aitinlauvas” saloon

The saloon is on the edge of the Rīga-Liepāja highway (A9) at the 22 km road marker. Most of the dishes are based on ingredients from the forest. The interior design is based on hunting, and there is a paddock of wild deer alongside the restaurant.

Latvian cuisine: Roast buck, roast wild boar, venison steak, roast lamb, stuffed river trout.

Distance from countries capital city40 Active season months1-12 Accommodation available Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Latvia

The “Pures bekereja”

Located on the main pedestrian thoroughfare in town, the baker offers bacon pierogi, cottage cheese and cinnamon pastries, sweet pretzels and tortes. Vintage bicycles can be rented.

Distance from countries capital city38 Active season months1-12 Accepts tourist groups This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts individual travellers
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Latvia

The “Lejasmalas” leisure facility

The Lejasmalas leisure base is on the banks of Lake Leja with a beautiful view of islands in the lake.  It offers Lettigalian dishes made of locally soured products.
Latvian cuisine: Potato dumplings (or carrot dumplings), 7 types of cheese, homemade boiled, baked and blood sausages, warm dishes with pork offal, fish soup, smoked eel, stuffed pike, fish cakes, birch juice, moonshine alcohol.
Special foods: Auleja cottage cheese pierogi.

Distance from countries capital city247 Active season months1-12 Accepts tourist groups Accommodation available Pre-order required Accepts individual travellers
Facilities  appropriate for children
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Latvia

Pub KANTES KROGS

The beautiful wooden building, located right at the entrance of Gulbene, provides a place for guests to have a meal, enjoying the perfect atmosphere for relaxation and well-being. Home cooking and Latvian dishes.

For parties Distance from countries capital city184 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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Latvia

The “Zvejnieku seta” restaurant

The restaurant is at the bridge across the Salaca River, offering traditional Latvian dishes, as well as dishes from other European countries.

Latvian cuisine: Sprats with egg, fish soup, farmer’s breakfast, cooked butter beans, chicken livers with mashed potatoes, Kurzeme stroganoff, potted farmer’s stew, crepes and potato pancakes with potatoes, stacked rye bread.

Special foods: Homemade sheet pastry.

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

A banquet on the farm, restaurant "Otra puse"

The “Banquet With Fishermen” event in Roja allows guests to examine the work of fishermen and to enjoy the seafood which they produce. Guests will ride out into the sea in fishing boats and then dine together with the fishermen (fish soup cooked on a campfire, rye bread, butter, smoked fish, beer or kvass, and pastries). The fishermen will teach guests local songs and dances, as well as games related to strength and cleverness. The “Otra Puse” restaurant offers meals.

Latvian cuisine: Fresh fish (“The Morning Catch”), Latvian onion soup, porridge, grit sausage, smoked fish, potato pancakes, rye bread dessert, beer, the “Dzimtenīte” beverage, herbal tea, birch juice, apple cider. 

Special foods: “Made in Roja” – fish from the region, “mackerel in in grass,” “cottage cheese tower with fresh strawberry sauce”.

Agri Heritage Distance from countries capital city120 Active season months5-10 Pre-order required Accepts tourist groups Accommodation available Accepts individual travellers
Facilities  appropriate for children