Skilandis is the smoked pork stomach of Sumeliškės: Lithuania's only protected AOC food product, made of seasoned pork meat stuffed into pig's stomach and cold-smoked for months.
Where to eat it: 3 restaurants across 1 city.
Skilandis (Sumeliškės skilandis specifically) is the only Lithuanian food product with the EU's protected designation of origin (PDO). The Sumeliškės village near Vilnius has made it since the 17th century. The pork meat is mixed with garlic and herbs, stuffed into pig's stomach and cold-smoked over alder wood for two to four months. Find it sliced thinly at Halės Turgus smoked-meat stalls and on heritage menus across Vilnius.
Tip from the editors. This is not a home-cook recipe. Buy at Halės Turgus or order in a Vilnius traditional Lithuanian restaurant.
Halės Deli inside Halės Turgus sells a Lithuanian-craft beef burger for €7 to €9 sourced from the market butcher stalls, with Genys craft beer alongside.
Try: Lithuanian beef burger
Tip: Combo with a craft draught around €11. Pair with a stop at the cheese stalls for a market lunch.",
Etno Dvaras on Aušros Vartų cooks dishes certified by the Lithuanian Culinary Heritage Fund in a cavernous cellar with street-level windows on the strip.
Signature: Cepelinai, Bulvių blynai potato pancakes, Šaltibarščiai
Order: Cepelinai with bacon-mushroom sauce; pair with a bowl of šaltibarščiai cold beet soup.
Tip: Heritage Fund certification means every dish must be 100 years old by recipe. Touristy but real.
Senoji Trobelė on Naugarduko is a family-run Lithuanian room with painted ceilings and a 75-percent Žalgiris mead balsam fermented for two years.
Signature: Cepelinai, Vegetarian potato dumplings with spinach, Žalgiris mead balsam
Order: Cepelinai with curd cheese; finish with a glass of Žalgiris mead balsam.
Tip: Twelve minutes uphill from Vokiečių. Order the daily-baked linseed leaven bread to start.
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