Innocent Café is a cafe in Centrs, Riga.
Innocent Café on Blaumaņa was one of the first Riga rooms to push brunch and specialty coffee, run by some of the city's most awarded baristas.
Must order: The brunch eggs plate and a flat white pulled by the head barista.
Tip: Weekend brunch books up; the weekday lunch service is a calmer arrival.
Address: Blaumaņa iela 34-2, Rīga, LV-1011, Riga
Rocket Bean's Blaumaņa cafe sits one block off the design corridor, the room locals pick for evening filter coffee and a longer work session.
Signature drink: Pour-over filter
Tip: Opens until 20:00, the same late close as the Raiņa branch; quieter than the Old Town counters in summer.
Rocket Bean's Miera cafe is the original Riga branch of the city's flagship specialty-coffee roastery, serving filter, espresso and brunch in the design.
Signature drink: Filter coffee
Tip: The Miera Street branch is the slowest, most local of the five Rocket Bean cafes; weekend brunch fills up fast.
Rocket Bean's Dzirnavu cafe is the central Riga branch, a corner room on the Dzirnavu strip that locals fill for filter coffee and a quiet weekday work sit.
Signature drink: Espresso flat white
Tip: Smaller and quicker than Miera; the seating turns over fast at lunchtime.
MiiT Coffee on Lāčplēša started as a bicycle workshop that served drinks and grew into a vegetarian cafe pouring Latvian Tiny Giant and Berlin's Five.
Signature drink: Single-origin pourover
Tip: Vegetarian-only menu of breakfast, lunch and cakes; brings cyclists, students and the design-district remote-work crowd.
Rocket Bean's Raiņa branch sits on the canal-park edge of Old Town, the late-opening Rocket Bean for evening espresso after a Vērmanes park walk.
Signature drink: Flat white
Tip: Opens until 20:00 weekdays, the only Rocket Bean that stays late; an after-dinner espresso option close to most Old Town restaurants.
Rocket Bean's Blaumaņa cafe sits one block off the design corridor, the room locals pick for evening filter coffee and a longer work session.
Signature drink: Pour-over filter
Tip: Opens until 20:00, the same late close as the Raiņa branch; quieter than the Old Town counters in summer.
Rocket Bean's Miera cafe is the original Riga branch of the city's flagship specialty-coffee roastery, serving filter, espresso and brunch in the design.
Signature drink: Filter coffee
Tip: The Miera Street branch is the slowest, most local of the five Rocket Bean cafes; weekend brunch fills up fast.
Rocket Bean's Dzirnavu cafe is the central Riga branch, a corner room on the Dzirnavu strip that locals fill for filter coffee and a quiet weekday work sit.
Signature drink: Espresso flat white
Tip: Smaller and quicker than Miera; the seating turns over fast at lunchtime.
MiiT Coffee on Lāčplēša started as a bicycle workshop that served drinks and grew into a vegetarian cafe pouring Latvian Tiny Giant and Berlin's Five.
Signature drink: Single-origin pourover
Tip: Vegetarian-only menu of breakfast, lunch and cakes; brings cyclists, students and the design-district remote-work crowd.
