The actual question for every tourist is the opportunity to eat on a trip delicious, inexpensive and preferably with a national flavor . In Riga this question is removed . Or - on the contrary - it grows to serious sizes . There are about two hundred various restaurants in the city, in which you can try the cuisine that characterizes every corner of the earth . There are quiet quiet restaurants where you can spend a romantic evening, restaurants decorated in national style, restaurants with a noisy show program, pompous institutions and modest snacks e .

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Riga restaurants Riga Traditionally, every restaurant has its own face and maintains the highest standards of customer service quality. A significant place in the menu of most restaurants is occupied by dishes of national Latvian cuisine or prepared from Latvian agricultural products. This is fully consistent with the concept of slow food, which implies the use of seasonal farm products, always environmentally friendly.

In 1996, the company Slow Food Riga was established, which aims to track the supply of products from farms directly to the chefs of restaurants that support this movement.

The flagship of the movement was the gastronomic restaurant Vincent, which is located in the most picturesque area of ​​the city, at Elizabetes iela 19 . Guests of the restaurant can be completely sure of the ecological cleanliness of the ingredients of their dish, get full information about the products from which the dish is cooked . It is possible because the chef of the restaurant Martins Ritins personally monitors the purchases of products and does it directly from the producers, bypassing any intermediaries . There is always a seasonal menu, a pleasant atmosphere and high I have a chance to chat about something pleasant with the chef who often goes out to enjoy the impression of the dishes he cooks .

The restaurant - without exaggeration to say - has worldwide fame: he was visited at various times by Elton John, Angela Merkel, Prince Charles, Emperor of Japan

The restaurant Le Dome of the hotel Dome Hotel & Spa is widely known. It is available not only to those who live in the hotel, but also to all comers. The restaurant concept is based on dishes made from fish caught in the Baltic Sea, the cuisine here is also seasonal. In addition to the delicious dishes, the restaurant is attractive with a top terrace, which offers an amazing view of the Daugava and the Dome Cathedral. The restaurant is very popular in artistic circles, it is better to reserve places here in advance, especially at a time when the New Wave concerts take place in Jurmala.

Simple delights in Riga

Another popular restaurant in the creative circles is another restaurant, Hotel Neiburgs, in which, in fact, usually stop and visiting stars. The restaurant is famous due to the unique gift of the chef: he is able to cook unusually delicious dishes from such common foods as pumpkin, beetroot, cottage cheese, rhubarb, pearl barley. Guests are invited to taste salmon marinated in beetroot with horseradish sauce, fried flounder, an unusual dessert made from rye bread, rhubarb and whipped cream

Gourmet restaurants ...

The best gourmet restaurant is the Renommé restaurant in the Gallery Park Hotel Hotel . Elegant, romantic, extraordinarily delicious . The chef of the restaurant worked before in the most famous institutions of Europe, and for Riga he, having interpreted traditional French cuisine, developed a number of new dishes, for the preparation of which they are used exclusively with zonal farm products . As a result, the menu, in fact, is a list of culinary masterpieces . The restaurant's wine list amazes with wealth and thoughtfulness . It should be added that the interiors of the restaurant halls are not inferior in sophistication to its kitchen .

... and lovers of noisy feasts

The network of restaurants "Lido" is widely known . It is popular both among tourists and among the residents of the city . Characteristic for these restaurants cooking dishes almost in front of customers and decorating halls in national style : solid wooden furniture ь, woven panels on the walls, ceramic dishes . The kitchen here is excellent, the prices are moderate, and the atmosphere is friendly . The biggest institution is a three-story building, located outside the city in a wooden building with a mill and is a whole entertainment complex that visits more every day thousands of guests .In addition to the restaurant halls, it has its own brewery, which prepares beer according to old recipes, and a confectionery shop, from which it is simply impossible to refuse products. . There are numerous concerts, attractions, playrooms for children . Restaurants of the Lido network are middle price category, most of them have free flow halls and are not related to fast food .