A small open-faced pie with a rye-dough crust filled with mashed carrot and potato, sweetened with honey and topped with caraway; a Suiti minority specialty.
Sklandrausis is the dish of Latvia's Suiti minority, a Roman Catholic community in northwest Latvia (Kurzeme) whose food traditions remained distinct under centuries of Lutheran rule. The pie was registered as a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) product by the EU in 2013, the first Latvian dish to receive the designation. The rye-dough crust and the carrot-potato filling reflect Kurzeme's root-vegetable economy. Centrāltirgus and Kalnciema markets are the easiest places to find sklandrausis baked the traditional way.
3 editor picks for Sklandrausis (rye-crust carrot pie) in Riga, ranked by editorial score. All Riga signature dishes · Sklandrausis (rye-crust carrot pie) across every city.
Kalnciema Quarter Market ★ 4.7
pardaugava · Kalnciema iela 35, Rīga, LV-1046
Kalnciema Quarter runs every Saturday in the wooden-house Āgenskalns neighbourhood across the Daugava, anchoring the city's Slow Food farmers' weekend.
Centrāltirgus Pīrāgi Counters ★ 4.5
centraltirgus-maskavas · Nēģu iela 7, Rīga, LV-1050
The bakery pavilion at Centrāltirgus runs multiple counters baking traditional Latvian pīrāgi, bacon-onion pastry pockets that anchor a Latvian lunch.
Liepkalni ★ 4.5
centrs · Krišjāņa Valdemāra iela 62a, Rīga, LV-1013
Liepkalni's Krišjāņa Valdemāra branch is the central Riga outpost of the country's most-cited rye specialist, baking dark Dienas loaf and pīrāgi daily.