1. Old Town (Vecriga) - cobbled lanes and pastel-painted houses, Town hall square and Blackheads, Opera House, Monument of Freedom and Laima (happiness in Latvian) clock next to the monument, St.Mary’s Cathedral, Dome Cathedral (and it’s Christmas markets, around it), St. Peter’s church.
2. Art Nouveau - Alberta street (World UNESCO heritage) also known as Jugendstil in Germany, amazingly beautiful buildings with little cafe’s in them.
3. For Panoramic view - Panorama Observation Deck (around 3€) or SkyLine bar at Radisson’s (27th floor) with the transparent elevator, can grab a coffee or mulled wine while looking at the beautiful scenery.
4. Central Market (HUGE) with all the local deliciousness.
5. Cat House (look up and search for the black cat of the roof - it brings luck) in Old Riga at Livu square
FOOD:
1. Lido (our national cuisine) - better to go to Krastmala Lido (with Taxify, around 5€) because its huge, with the Christmas tree and feeling, like a little Christmas wonderland or...there are plenty of tiny Lido’s at the city centre
2. BakeBerry - amazing eclairs and all, mega delicious
3. Innocent Cafe (Illy coffe) on Blaumana street - the most delicious coffee and hipsterish, super friendly cafe with snacks and all
4. Tokyo sushi - cheap and mega delicious hot sushi’s (try Asama - 2x for 14€), totally worth it, huge portion).
5. Rozengrals - in Old Town - authentic restaurant, even with the ancient, authentic water well from 1293, like....veryyy authentic, haha
6. Fat Cat cafe - BEST eclairs EVER
7. EASY wine - you just go, take a wine glass and pour yourself a wines of the huge variety, to taste them all, you can snooze 50g, 100g, 200g, haha
8. 1221 - authentic, mega beautiful restaurant - could even take a picture of it from the outside, since it’s really from 1221, from 13th century
Riga is amazingly delicious. Like really delicious.
So you can’t get wrong. Mostly.
And pizzas... pizzas ar divine. Even better than in NYC or Naples, honestly.
Everything’s on TripAdvisor is honest as well, like ratings, so you can simply choose one of those places, cafe’s, too.
