The places in Riga the guidebooks miss. locals-only counters, after-hours rooms and the spots tourists walk past.

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Off the beaten plate

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LOWINE

LOWINE is a wine bar room in Centrs. Order the chef's snack flight and ask Aleksei for an off-list bottle; the family runs the room from prep to pour.

MiiT Coffee

  • ★ 4.4
  • Vegetarian
  • €€
  • Centrs

MiiT Coffee is a vegetarian specialty-coffee cafe that began as a bicycle workshop, with a regulars' crowd of cyclists and designers most tourists never meet.

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