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Brown Sugar

This upmarket coffee shop and restaurant sells delicious home-made cakes and biscuits downstairs and offers a small menu of international cuisine upstairs in what looks a bit like a floor of a Venetian palazzo, but with views of the Riga Esplanade instead of the Grand Canal. A business lunch is ava [...]

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Baznīcas 1/3

tel. (+371) 67 28 13 08

Open 09:00-22:00,
Sat Closed,
Sun Closed.

C&L - Coffee & Lunch

The location on Alberta iela, Riga’s most impressive outdoor art nouveau gallery, will no doubt guarantee this small café a steady clientele of tourists. The interior includes photos of the city’s most picturesque façades and even antique-style streetlamps as lighting, but the [...]

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Antonijas 13 (entrance from Alberta)

Open 10:00-22:00

Caramel Rouge

Stylistically, this smart café and cocktail bar with comfortable red couches and collages of old posters advertising Alfred Hitchcock films can certainly hold its own with the city's trendiest establishments. Unfortunately, the international cuisine, although reasonably priced, doesn't really [...]

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Antonijas 13

tel. (+371) 29 44 60 00

Open 10:00-24:00,
Fri 10:00-02:00,
Sat 10:00-02:00.

Double Coffee

Double Coffee not only offers a smoking section, but also a huge selection of delicious Java, tea and real hot chocolate. Sandwiches, breakfast food and, of course, cocktails are all listed on the menu cleverly disguised as a glossy magazine. Unfortunately, you'll have to light it up and smoke it t [...]

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Grēcinieku 11 (entrance from Kungu)

tel. (+371) 67 22 31 63

Open 09:00-23:00,
Sat 10:00-23:00,
Sun 10:00-23:00.

Istaba

One of Riga's funkiest cafés, The Room overlooks a trendy gallery below, offers limited seating and has no menu to speak of. The chef asks each diner what he fancies eating and roughly how much he'd like to spend and then sets off to work. Cocktails, beer and coffee can also be had at this culinary experiment where art and gastronomy collide. Dinner is served Tuesday - Saturday 18:00 - 23:00.
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Barona 31a

tel. (+371) 67 28 11 41

Open 12:00-24:00,
Fri 12:00-01:00,
Sat 12:00-01:00.

Junge

A franchise of the popular German chain of bakeries – Stadtbäckerei Junge – this modern café offers coffee-coloured walls, plenty of seating and tasty food and drink to take away or to enjoy on the premises. Order éclairs, cakes, pies, pastries and gourmet sandwiches with [...]

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Blaumaņa 17

tel. (+371) 67 24 26 10

Meta-Kafe

Located in a restored brick building behind the Central Market in the up-and-coming warehouse district, Meta-Kafe is popular with both arty youngsters sporting blonde dreadlocks and mature Bohemians wearing turtlenecks and blazers. A small menu of affordable international cuisine and a cheap brunch [...]

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Maskavas 12/1 (Spīķeri)

tel. (+371) 67 20 49 93

Open 09:00-23:00,
Sat 10:00-23:00,
Sun 10:00-23:00.

Osīriss

The first of opera director Andrejs Žagars' many café ventures, and the only one to survive, Osiris found a successful recipe in the mid-1990s and stuck with it. Inexpensive breakfasts, sandwiches, international cuisine and a romantic ambience make this place a favourite of local big shots, politicians and intelligentsia so make a reservation for dinner. The only drawback is the horrible iron tables that were obviously created as torture devices for long legs. [...]

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Barona 31

tel. (+371) 67 24 30 02

Open 08:00-24:00,
Sat 10:00-24:00,
Sun 10:00-24:00.

Passarella Café

This Italian-style café of the old school boasts an early 20th-century interior of crystal chandeliers and red marble tabletops which is only befitting of Old Riga’s most impressive Art Nouveau building. It’s more of a place to sip coffee and chat or to read the paper than it is a place to eat a huge meal, but a small selection of delicious panini, salads and deserts are available. [...]

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Kalēju 23

tel. (+371) 67 21 41 37

Open 09:00-22:00,
Sat 10:00-22:00,
Sun 10:00-18:00.

Vecmeita ar kaķi

Duck down into the cellar across the square from Riga Castle for a pleasant surprise - friendly service, some of the cheapest meals in Old Riga and an abundant menu of international cuisine as well as a few vegetarian options. Drinks specials may lift your spirits, but mind your head on the wa [...]

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Mazā Pils 1

tel. (+371) 67 32 50 77

Open 11:00-23:00

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