May 2023.
Riga has astonishing architecture, gorgeous parks, quality beer and food, and one of the best art deco streets in Europe.
But the reason you MUST go is an indoor market,
housed in five (5) old Zeppelin hangers. The ones where they recorded “Physical Graffiti”, I guess.
We’d spent seven hours in Riga in 2010, three of them in those hangars, and wanted to see how gentrification had treated it.
But first, a raspberry croissant in Caffeine. There’s always time for cake in Riga.
The market looked even bigger, if that’s possible, with the cheap clothes relegated to the sort of outdoor stalls last seen in Hitchin and the upmarket food indoors.
OK, not quite Borough Market but getting there.
There’s a few basic bars-cum-cafes in the meat pavilion;
this one seemed to be serving beer for about 2 euros, but it wasn’t the one I remember from my 2010 visit that frankly was the scuzzy old man’s boozer of your dreams. RIP Unnamed boozer.
Still, an absolute feast for the senses. See ! They have food !
We had an early lunch at Siļķītes un Dillītes (in the western hanger), which is pronounced like it’s written.
I thought Mrs RM might go for eel,
but our choices were more conservative.
About £20 for herring, soup and fish and chips, one of the best meals this year.
Worth a trip just for that tiling on the wall.
retiredmartin 
There’s some nice food there. I’d have had several of those gherkins off the market and I like pickled herrings.
I had a massive punnet of local strawberries for only £1.65 from a market stall in Bath recently waiting for the Ale House to open, and shared them with a couple from Hove waiting for a bus tour, the husband though tempted to get round some proper pubs instead.
I once had an office in a tall building shaped like that being built for testing barrage balloons during the war.
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