Top Riga Food & Drink

Riga Central Market is one of the largest in Europe, located at the heart of Riga’s UNESCO-listed Old Town. On this guided walking tour, immerse yourself in local life as you explore the lively market, learn about Latvian cuisine and cultural traditions from your guide, and tuck into a variety of local specialties like smoked meats, seasonal soups, cheeses, dumplings, pastries and more.

The Old Riga, Art Nouveau, and Central Market districts are three highlights within the city of Riga. On this small-group walking tour, visit all three and hear about the history and cultural heritage of Latvia. Learn about local culture from your guide as you stroll Riga’s scenic streets. Take time to sample traditional Latvian food.

Latvian food tour by Rigatrips is tour in local gastronomy in largest open air market in Europe, that will give you understanding of Latvian local food traditions and provide selection of traditional local food samples - meat, bread, cheese, fish, local fermented vegetables, non-achocholic drink and sweets.

Get to know the Latvian towns of Sigulda and Cēsis on this full-day private tour. With a dedicated guide for just you and your party, enjoy personalized attention and a flexible itinerary while learning about the local culture and tasting traditional Latvian cuisine. Stop at a local winery to try the vintages, visit local castles, and snap photos of the scenery in Gauja National Park. Hotel pickup and drop-off in Riga included.

Latvia has a long history of beermaking and with breweries located all around the country, there is an impressive variety of Latvian beers to try. This tasting tour offers the perfect introduction—visit two bars in Riga’s Old Town, learn all about Latvian beers and local traditions from your guide, and sample up to six different beers, accompanied by typical Latvian snacks.

2 hour guided private tour around one of the largest marketplaces in Europe with tasting of many different local goods. Located in the heart of Riga, in just a few minute walk distance from Old Town, Riga Central market is one the largest marketplaces in Europe. It was built in the 1920s, inside several large hangars from World War I originally used for military airships, now serving as food pavilions. During the tour you will have degustation at five different sections: Fish: rye bread with sprats, lightly salted herring, local beer or soft drink. Vegetables: different kinds of salted cucumber (1 day, 1 week, 1 month), marinated cabbage (with beets, cranberry, curry), sauerkraut, marinated wild garlic, spicy carrot. Hemp: rye bread with hemp butter. Cheese: different kinds of Latvian cheese - smoked, with cumin, with cranberries. Meat: ham, different kinds of sausages (smoked, with berries, from turkey, pork, chicken), smoked chicken.  

You will visit the magical medieval cellar in the heart of Riga. From the first moment, you will feel an incredible atmosphere. Local monks will reveal the secrets of producing Latvian wine. You will hear fun facts and mystical legends. What a strange process is required before wine tasting? What local products do Latvians use in winemaking? You will discover surprising and even shocking combinations of flavors. In order to escape from the basement, you will have to guess all the ingredients! Are you ready for an exclusive experience?

Riga Pub Crawl team invites you to discover Riga's nightlife together! Meet with other travellers so you can party together and who knows - maybe find some friends to share other activities with while in Riga! During the tour, you will be visiting 3 different bars and the local dance club at the end with 1 welcome drink (a beer or a shot depending on the place) in each of these 4 places. Apart from the welcome drinks, you will be able to order more drinks by yourselves - all reasonably priced. We're not interested to take you to expensive places! Only to the ones where we would go ourselves! There will be a bar with a place where to sit down and chat so you can get to know each other, there will be karaoke to practise your singing for the public, and of course - there will be live music and a dance floor! Let's say the tour gives you a great start for the best night out! Please note that tour would be cancelled only if there are less than 4 people in the group.

Firstly, after selecting most suitable transport – passenger car or minivan your tour will start along the central boulevards of Riga to Art Nouveau district.  You will be able to discover one of the largest and best-preserved collections of Art Nouveau buildings in the world. After that district excursion will continue to the Riga Central market, where on the way you will be able to enjoy City Canal parks, the Fine Arts Museum, the Freedom Monumen and Daugava river with its bridges. Reaching the Riga Central market you will enjoy the diversity of typical national food. Secondly, you will have the opportunity to leave your transport and continue with a walking tour through Riga Old Town seeing most famous sights like St. Peter's Church, St. Jacobs Church, Dom Square, and St. Dom Cathedral. You will be introduced with a secretes of Cat House and will see Town Hall Square with beautiful and elegant Blackheads House.

One of a kind Beer Bike in Baltics. Easy to pedal with comfy chairs, neon lights, music and roof, just in case if it is raining. Sober driver/guide will meet you and guide to the Riga Beer Bike.

Discover the flavors and foodstuffs of Latvian cuisine on a private, 3-hour walking tour of Riga Central Market. Comprising five huge pavilions dedicated to Meat, Fish, Dairy, Vegetables and Breads, this bustling foodie temple is stuffed with tantalizing stalls, stands and restaurants. With a local guide, explore all the pavilions to discover and learn about Latvians’ favorite staples, and enjoy the gourmet tidbits offered by the vendors. Check out smoked artisanal meats, fresh Latvian buttermilks and traditional cheeses, and be tempted by delectable local cakes, beers and breads, and more.

You will visit the magical medieval cellar in the heart of Riga. From the first moment, you will feel an incredible atmosphere. Local monks will reveal the secrets of producing Latvian wine. You will hear fun facts and mystical legends. What a strange process is required before wine tasting? What local products do Latvians use in winemaking? You will discover surprising and even shocking combinations of flavors. In order to escape from the basement, you will have to guess all the ingredients! Are you ready for an exclusive experience?

There are many legends and stories hidden in the walls of the old Central Market building. You will find out how this market became the largest and most modern market in all of Europe. Your guide will tell you how the pavilions of the Central Market were used during World War II and hear what was the purpose of this building in Soviet times. You will also see interesting cellars of the market and the places around it. At the end of the tour, you will have a chance to try many different kinds of delicious Latvian food: fish, cheese, meat, specific jam, drinks and more. You will also discover interesting and unexpected product combinations.

Latvia boasts an amazingly wide selection of exciting beers and a thriving beer culture. It's like "Mojito" in Cuba or tequila in Mexico- must try when you are in the country! Did you know that Latvia’s long and rich beer culture most probably started by accident? You will visit 2 trending traditional beer bars with a large selection of beer. In the first bar, you will try 3 kinds of beer accompanied by traditional Latvian snacks. One of them- rye fried bread is extremely popular in Latvia and works perfectly with the beer. It's a match! What the unusual ingredients were used to make a beer? In 1-hour open-air tour, you will learn how did the beer influence the city and the culture. What is a ‘green spoon’? Why were the Latvians adding rocks to the beer mixtures in wooden casks? You will finish the tour in the bar and will try 3 more kinds of beer. Everyone will find their favorite one. And which one is the most popular in Latvia?

The event will take around 2 hours and during the night there will be soft drinks provided in addition to the beer that has been drunk. As your table has been reserved there is no need to worry that you will be separated from your friends. Once you are fully fed and have had something to drink, you will be able to venture forth into the night and continue enjoying yourself in the more modern surroundings of other city centre venues.

If you are on a weekend away in Riga, it is more than likely that there will be plans to sink a fair few pints. When you are in Riga, there is the chance to mix that desire with a beer tasting session meaning that you can discover beers that you would not find any other way. You will be taken to the best pubs that Riga has to offer and as part of the session you can try 4 different Latvian beers.

The city center restaurant is an genuine medieval restaurant complete with a vaulted banquet room and is fully decorated with ancient mark and medieval elements. The dining room’s ambiance will take you back to 1293, the period wherein these facilities were first used as a festival place and wine- vault for the ancient City Council of Riga. The restaurant’s menu provides a fusion of good food and interesting history. You can try cedar nuts and rabbit meat with prunes that were served in 14th century or have a taste of the barley cake that King Philip I used to eat way back in 11th century. The medieval table can seat up to 15 persons which is ideal for larger groups going out for a stag weekend in Riga.

Visit the pearls of Gauja National park - Gutmana cave and the magnificent surrounding of it, Turaida Castle and mount Dainu, Krimulda Castle winery and Malpils manor restaurant. Enjoy local wine tasting, see the beautiful Gauja river valley from the top of Turaida Castle tower. At the end - head to Malpils manor and enjoy 3 course dinner made by one of the best chefs in Latvia - Aija Gabrane!

Let’s be honest though- chances are you are there for reasons other than the history of the wine. We know, we get it. We’ll just throw some history in there to appease the intellectuals- really; we’re just all about the wine. This is a great activity to try some new flavors and relax with those you are closest to. Kick back and relax and let your worries melt away as we bring you some of the best wines in the country. We will teach you all about the different varieties and we’ll let your senses go wild. There are five basic steps in wine tasting: color, swirl, smell, taste, and savor. Don’t worry though if you skip a couple steps and go straight to the gulping- your secret is safe with us.

A private tour through the tastes and flavours of people of Latvia. Through centuries Latvians have absorbed traditions and cuisines from all the cultures that has ruled in these lands - Germans, Swedes, Russians - and after all, even Soviet Union had it's own way of doing kitchen stuff. Maybe because of taste, but probably because of necessity latvians have acquired their own distinct taste for stuff and this tour is all about that. First we'll wander through the central market and have a taste of whatever seasonal products are available (around 10 different types of foods/drinks), then move on to an authentic soviet style "cafeteria" and try some more there. And for the finale - a proper meal of Latvian traditional foods. So if you choose to book this tour please come hungry:) Keep in mind - we mostly eat seasonal stuff, therefore the foods can vary greatly from tour to tour, so the attached pictures are just an example.

You will go into at least 3 pubs during the tour and there will be 3 free beers lined up for you while you are there – 3 a night not in each pub. The guide will speak English so can tell you about the pub you are in and also a little about the drinks on offer. As there are drinks provided, it is important that you turn up sober or there may be concerns about providing you with the free beverages and that will not do.

We invite you for a short trip in the traditional and modern world of Latvian flavors! This will be a slightly different journey than usual; it will mainly focus on Latvia's culinary heritage from ancient times to the present day. This will be a great opportunity to discover something new, have a good time, relax, indulge in the unusual taste and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy…During the tour, we will enjoy tasting beer, wine, cheese, baking traditional rye bread, enjoying a live fire cooked meal and visit a candy factory where everything remains as it was in the 1950s. The program provides you with the opportunity to meet people who know their craft well. They are professionals in the field who maintain Latvian traditions, realize and implement their culinary heritage and create new products.

This is a guided tour and our informative guide will pick you up from your hotel and walk with you all the way to the pub. As said before, this activity is the most ideal way to jump start your evening while having a pint of good brew!

A female guide will pick you up and take you to the brewery. You will spend 3 hours touring the Basuka brewery building and learning all about the process of beer making and then you get the chance to try some of the beers before being returned to your hotel. The guide speaks English so there will be no problem understanding what is being said about the beer production. Tours are run all year long and as with many of the other attraction there needs to be 8 people to book. Once you have finished the tour, you will be ready to go out on the town and enjoy the rest of the day in a happy frame of mind.