Riga for foodies

Best restaurants

Riga eats along a short walk. The old town packs its restaurants into medieval streets between Doma laukums and the station, and the twelve rooms below sit almost entirely inside a 20-minute radius of that grid, with a small cluster pushing north across the canal into the LV-1010 embassy quarter. The cooking splits three ways: Latvian regional kitchens working rye, dill, cured pork and forest berries; internationalist rooms doing steak, pasta or fusion for the business lunch crowd; and a handful of one-idea specialists worth the detour on their own terms. What follows is not a ranking of ambition, it is a ranking of usefulness to a visitor with a week and roughly eighteen meals to spend. Read the hours first, then the address, then the paragraph, in that order. Every factual line traces to OpenStreetMap or the venue's own site, and the opinions are ours to defend.