Top Riga Food & Drink

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.

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.

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.

Take a day trip away from Riga and avoid the hassle of traveling with a group tour on this private tour to Rundale and Jelgava Palaces, Bauska Castle, and the Hill of Crosses. Enjoy time to explore independently and the option to add on additional excursions.

Our Riga ART NOUVEAU walking tour is NEW and FRESH offer in Riga! With us you will see more, as we will not only pass by Alberta street buildings, but we will also walk with you through Riga boulevards and parks. Explore silent centre of Riga in a more relaxed and pleasant walk. It will involve 2 hour walking, but in a calm and relaxed way.

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Learn about Riga’s Soviet past as you explore the city’s highlights on this walking tour. Learn about the history of the city and what it was like to live during the Soviet era. This private tour is perfect for those who love Soviet history and want a deeper look at life behind the Iron Curtain.

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.

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.

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.

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.  

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.

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.

More than 8 years of experience organizing sightseeing tours in Latvia and Baltic states makes or clients fully satisfied. Only experienced and professional guides speaking on different languages. Riga – capital city of Latvia and the pearl of the Baltic States. The city, which is more then 850 years old. The largest city in the Baltics. There are many cafes and restaurants and a number of interesting sights, such as the Dome Cathedral, Blackheads House, bringing luck watch “Laima” (in Latvian – “happiness”), parks and museums. In Riga, you will also see, hear, remember: – Unique architecture: Art Nouveau, as well as Gothic, Classicism, Baroque, etc .; – Riga Old Town historic district; – Riga Central Market – the largest market in Eastern Europe;

Before and while the pub crawl is ongoing, you may suggest with your guide the type of pubs you want to go. Your options with this guided pub crawl that range from old Irish and Latvian pubs to hardcore party and dance bars. You can visit up to four bars on this guided pub crawl which is more than enough to familiarize yourself about what a true nightlife in Riga is.

A professional chef will guide you and share with own cooking tricks! You will Learn Latvian cuisine traditions and secrets, Taste of local delicacies and Find out the best places to buy souvenirs.

Riga is a very diverse city with different architectural style buildings and even different culture areas! If you feel like you can cover the Old Town by yourself, but you'd also love to see surroundings with a local guide, this is perfect! We'll take you through some of the main sights around the Old Town. We'll tell you stories, funny legends, show you some beautiful architecture and point out weird and charming things so you get to see our city from a different point of view! Tour is quite flexible, so if you have something else in mind that you'd like to see in the central circle of Riga, we can easily customize this tour. Let's go for a ride, shall we?

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.

Riga is a city with a long history. After spending the day exploring its medieval lanes and buildings, enjoy an entertaining medieval banquet. You’ll be met at your hotel and walked to the venue in the central city. Your hosts will be dressed in medieval costume, and you’ll eat your tasty, medieval-inspired three-course meal by candlelight, just like in the old days. Kick off a night of partying in style.

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.

This authentic Riga City tour shows the best that city can offer in enjoyable sequence, combining comfort of tourist vehicle and picturesque walks in company of knowledgeable, enthusiastic and experienced guides sharing the love for their city.

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 can be very different depending on which part of it you're in. On this tour you'll see all the various districts and hear about how they came to be and what they are now. Starting from the early 20th century's Art Noveau and garden city, wooden houses, little gardens on an island in the river, through soviet occupation with it's monumentalism, but also scant functionalism, then back to the independent Latvia's modern architecture - this tour has it all. You'll get from place to place in a comfortable vehicle driven by your guide, but keep in mind - there's still quite a bit of walking involved. If you've already seen (or just don't want to see) the Medieval Old Town, this is the best choice. Most of the places in this tour are less or non touristy, so you'd get a better perspective on what Riga really is. Alternatively - if you haven't seen the Old Town yet, but only have one day, we can pop it in the itinerary as well - the tour is highly customisable. Just let us know!

Have an afternoon of bonding and quality time on one of the days of your Riga stag weekend when you and the lads book an interesting and exciting Riga Tea and Shisha (Hookah) experience. It won’t be like anything you’ve tried before and we have a strong feeling that you’re going to want to do it again real soon!