Beer is one of the most popular beverages in Latvia, it has been brewed here since ancient times.
One of the spring traditions in Latvia is tapping of birch tree juice.
If a dessert very characteristic to traditional Latvian cuisine should be named, it would be bread soup.
Riga has its own official cocktail – Clavis Riga.
Latvia's traditional souvenir - amber - is now available not only in beautiful ornaments, paintings or crockery, but also as candy!
Hemp-seed butter usually is made of sweet-cream butter and hemp seeds that are crushed and added to the butter.
Latvians say about them-selves that they are great eaters, therefore rich dishes are characteristic to the traditional Latvian cuisine.
Slightly bitter scent reminding of summer even in mid-winter, golden brown colour and unmistakeable taste - Riga Black Balsam is Latvia's most characteristic alcoholic drink.
For decades Riga is proud of its unique Rīgas Sparkling Wine.
The unique and delicious Latvian-made rye-bread gorgeously smells like a cornfield and a wood stove.