Country Holidays

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 “Sturitis” café in Talsi

The café is located in the centre of Talsi, near Church Square, not far from Talsi lake.

Latvian cuisine: Bean, sorrel and chilled soup, grit or pea porridge, sautéed vegetables and meat, homemade steak haché, grey peas with bacon, pork ribs, potato pancakes, whipped fool, fruit juice gelatine with milk.

Distance from countries capital city115 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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Estonia

Café AMPS & LONKS

Just 20 minutes’ drive from Pärnu, in the old Tõstamaa forestry building, Amps & Lonks café offers travellers a little rest and pizza made from fresh local produce. Especially popular, is the pizza with home-reared beef and fresh salad. You can also order in advance.
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Latvia

Bistro "Bine"

The cafe is situated in the centre of Talsi.

Distance from countries capital city115 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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Latvia

Panna

The café is in the centre of Lielvārde and offers a full feeding service, including breakfast, dinner, supper.

Latvian cuisine: Cold soup, fresh cabbage soup, baked carp or catfish, steak haché, grey peas with bacon, pancakes.

Distance from countries capital city54 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 “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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Latvia

The “Raganas kekis” saloon

The saloon is on the edge of the Murjāņi-Valka road (A3) and is easily recognised because of the building and various fairy tale characters in the yard.

Latvian cuisine: Cold soups (beet, bean, sauerkraut, sorrel), roast leg of pork, blood sausage, pork ribs, berry dessert with toasted oats, stacked rye bread.

Special foods: “Fiery Soup of the Ragana Kitchen”.

Distance from countries capital city47 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

Kafejnica "Lasite"

The cafe is situated in Stende, approximately 12 km away from Talsi.

Distance from countries capital city113 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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Latvia

The “Udensroze” café

The café is in the market square of Vecpiebalga, opposite the Lutheran church.  It works with local farmers and sells products from a local smokehouse. 
Latvian cuisine:  Pork crackling, potato pancakes, cold beet soup, roast pork, mutton sausages with sauerkraut, homemade sausages, pike-perch filet, crepes, Piebalga honey, cloudberry jam, strawberry soup with ice cream.
Special foods:  “Ķencis’ solyanka”.

Distance from countries capital city128 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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Latvia

Restaurant RATES VARTI

A gourmet’s favourite in the very heart of Valmiera, opposite Valmiera Town Hall Square.

Here every guest can become a gourmet and enjoy a variety of flavour "bouquets"

and seasonal products that come from local farms.

The restaurant's Summer Garden is designed to highlight Valmiera as a Hanseatic city of a medieval merchant association.

Latvian cuisine: A selection of Latvian cheeses, Valmiera salad, potatoes in their jackets with cottage cheese, cold kefir soup, lamb soup, pike from Lake Burtnieks, baked filet of catfish, leg of lamb steak, roast pork ribs.

Special foods: Rye bread baked in honey.

Distance from countries capital city107 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