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 “Eglite” café

The café is in the centre of Ludza, offering a large menu and complex lunches.  A speciality of the house is freshwater fish from lakes in Latgale.

Latvian cuisine: Pike, tench, carp and pike-perch dishes, with blood sausage, other sausages and pig’s snout prepared on order for the Winter Solstice.

Special foods: Cold appetizer of ground fish with ingredients

Distance from countries capital city261 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

The “Oskrogs” café

The café is located 1.5 kilometres from the Ķegums hydropower plant. Home-grown ingredients are used to produce berry sauces, pumpkin, and marinated cornichons in brine.

Latvian cuisine: Cold soup, pork in mustard, crepes.

Special foods: Crème of cottage cheese with stewed berries.

Distance from countries capital city52 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups Accommodation available
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Estonia

Café KAPA KANTRI

Traditional Estonian food from products of organic farms Saare Ubin and Vatsliku.
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Latvia

The “il Capitano” restaurant

The restaurant is on the shore of the Bay of Rīga, between the VIA Baltica highway (A1) and the sea. It is part of the “Kapteiņu Osta” territory, which is surrounded by the meadows of Randa. The restaurant has a summer terrace with beautiful sunsets.

Latvian cuisine: Cold beet soup, potatoes with cottage cheese and herring, smoked eel, oven-baked catfish, baked pike-perch with hemp butter, cottage cheese buns, strawberry soup.

Special foods: Fish soup.

Distance from countries capital city106 Active season months1-12 This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance Accepts individual travellers Accommodation available Accepts tourist groups
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Latvia

Pastry shop GARDUMS

Located in the centre of Gulbene. The cake shop in Gulbene, offering various sweetshop goods from natural ingredients, freshly made juices, aroma teas and coffee, as well as salads and appetizers. In Gardums it is possible to taste snacks and dishes typical for Gulbene district. 

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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Lithuania

Berneliu uzeiga Silainiai

Piedāvā ļoti gardus Lietuviešu tradicionālos ēdienus. Var pieņemt līdz 1000 personām.Pieņem bankas kartes, ir āra terase, dzīvā mūzika kā arī autostāvvieta.

Distance from countries capital city104 Active season months1-12
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Latvia

The “Sturitis” café in Madona

Located in the centre of Madona, the café offers foods based on fruit and vegetables from its own garden.
Latvian cuisine: Cold beet soup, sorrel soup, chanterelle soup, grey peas with bacon, herring, barley porridge with crickets, mushroom sauce, seven types of jams, raspberry or strawberry desserts, crepes filled with potato, pumpkin, apple and rhubarb, cottage cheese pastry, juices, herbal teas, ice cream cocktails.
Special foods: Homemade biscuit cake with fresh berries.

Distance from countries capital city165 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 “Koklites” seaside saloon

The saloon is on the seashore with a lovely view of the beach at Saulkrasti. Here different water sports and entertainment activities are organised.

Latvian cuisine: Cold soup, baked filet of cod, homemade steak haché, roast pork, pancakes with cottage cheese, caramelised oatmeal.

Distance from countries capital city51 Active season months5-10 Accepts individual travellers Accepts tourist groups This destination has specific opening hours which you must determine in advance
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Latvia

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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Latvia

The “Daugava” cafeteria

The cafeteria is in the centre of Krāslava next to A6 highway. It has been recognized as one of the environment friendly enterprises in Latvia. Contact the cafeteria in advance to be served Lettigalian dishes in clay dishes.  The cafeteria also has a bakery.
Special foods: Meat served in a black clay pot, potato dumplings.

Distance from countries capital city262 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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