Autumn Riga Restaurant Week runs late October to early November, the city's longest-standing food festival with three-course menus across 80+ participating.
Tip: Restaurants apply each year by early September; the Michelin Selected rooms book first.
The Riga Street Food Festival runs late August with international and Latvian street food vendors, craft beer, live music and family programming across two days.
Tip: Free entry; pay-as-you-go food stalls. Best in late afternoon when the live music programme starts.
Autumn Riga Restaurant Week runs late October to early November, the city's longest-standing food festival with three-course menus across 80+ participating.
Tip: Restaurants apply each year by early September; the Michelin Selected rooms book first.
Riga Food is the Baltics' largest food industry exhibition at the Kipsala International Exhibition Centre, with tastings, cooking demonstrations and a marketplace of Latvian and international producers.
Tip: Tickets bookable in advance on bt1.lv; the Latvian craft beer pavilion and patisserie demos are the strongest visitor draws.
The Riga Street Food Festival runs late August with international and Latvian street food vendors, craft beer, live music and family programming across two days.
Tip: Free entry; pay-as-you-go food stalls. Best in late afternoon when the live music programme starts.
The Doma laukums piparkūkas stalls run as a focused subset of the Old Town Christmas Market, 80+ traders selling Latvian gingerbread, mulled wine and meats.
Tip: The piparkūkas stalls cluster on the Dome Square's western edge; arrive before sunset on weekends to beat the queue.
The Riga Old Town Christmas Market runs on Doma Square from late November to early January, with 80 traders selling piparkūkas, mulled wine and smoked meats.
Tip: Open daily through the run; weekends are busiest. The piparkūkas gingerbread and gluhwine stalls are the food anchors.