Riga for digital nomads

Best cafes

Riga's cafe scene is a small, stubborn ecosystem that punches above the city's size. The Old Town is dense enough that a serious specialty roaster, a rock-club kitchen that never quite closes, and a proper tea house can all sit within a ten-minute walk of one another, and the Quiet Centre north of the boulevard adds a second tier of espresso rooms designed for people who work from a laptop and take their filter black. What follows is twelve cafes chosen for what they do at their address: where the coffee is treated as a craft, where the room is worth sitting in, where the hours are honest, where a waffle or a donut or a slice of pizza is the reason to walk in. Chains appear where a specific branch earns its slot on geography or timing; independents appear where the person behind the bar is the point. Addresses, phone numbers, hours and websites all come from OpenStreetMap and the venues' own sites, cited inline so you can verify before you go.