A folkpub with ancient Latvian discotheque with live music every Wednesday 21.00 - 01.00. Really! Other events http://www.folkklubs.lv/en
Really cheap place right in the centre of expensive Old Riga with best regional food classics - pelmeni and "maizes zupa" for desert. I always go there when returning to Riga. Kitsch and a bit trashy
One of the biggest markets in Europe, built from abandoned German 1st World War Zeppelin hangars. Try cottage cheese snack "Kārums" in Milk Pavilion and ask for sauerkraut juice in Vegetable pavilion.
Simple and good Uzbek-Latvian family bistro facing Fish and Gastronomy pavilions of the central market. Great manti (type of dumplings), stews, soups and bread!
Nice fish-cuisine spot between vegetable and fish pavilions of the Central market.
Go up to the highest churchtower in Old Riga - 121m. Saw somewhere on the internet that its open also on Sundays. I myself want to go there finally too!
Culture house with free atmosphere. Latvian speciality-hot Riga black balsam with blackcurrant juice. People talking talking talking, then some French band or swing dancing in the meantime (evenings)
After the crisis people understood that good living is what matters, not some house in the outskirts/swamp or another jeep. This is the first street that saw small creative places clustering together.
Riga's first real Berlin-like turkish kebab place in the Quiet Centre. Wonderful self-baked bread, soup or pide. Good!
I would call it, first overhipped place in Riga - enormous queues and superhip events. Nice food too.
Recommend - they have really interesting tours. Quite a must-see to get to know the history of this region. Besides, the waffel-replica Middle age Blackheads house next to the museum looks stunning :)
Most scenic, postcard outlook on Riga and most valuable property on this coastline. Half gentrified, half falling apart fishermen's village with wonderful wooden houses when going deeper in the island
The stage of Riga. You are in the audience, Riga is performing for you. Nice and quiet place with floating gallery "Noass" docked to it. Just opposite from the Old Riga skyline.
First example where wooden house district was made really hip. Brothers-entrepreneurs restoring old LADA cars and their wooden houses with great love. Now market and all kind of concerts every Weekend
"Dockland" in Riga, port area that artists since 2005-2008 turned into first creative quarter. Now artists are gone, but the feeling and some more commercial activities are still there.
Need a shirt or trousers? Small place, but certainly more vintage and better than any Humana Vintages in Berlin
Old Āgenskalns village, wooden houses, crooked sand roads and countryside feel.
Hmm, leftist scene of Riga to the right from Caka street. Very good to spend time in. Chess, intelligentsia used books, discussions and concerts.
My favorite neighborhood in Riga. Peace, wooden buildings, forgotten industry, cobble-stoned streets, going to the church in childhood in white snowy Christmas.
Magic forest with little, private, luxury beaches stretching up to the tower. Cross the bridge and go to the TV tower along the island's coastline facing the opposite side of the city centre.
This is how the Russian administration of the Central Market sees gastro markets in the western Europe. Good side - food is mostly ok and it is within the exciting Central Market.
