Because I don’t
really have time, and don’t want to bore you, I’m not planning on recounting
all the meals I ate in the Baltics. However, a few stick in my mind so I’ll do
a bit of a precis…
Vilnius
There was a fish restaurant – Zuvine – near our hotel that looked good, so we tried it on our second evening. It wasn’t the best experience. Service was slow (very slow, even for Lithuania) and we never got bread, though they tried to charge us for it later. The waiting staff were not very engaged and seemed to spend most of their time hovering around a table of wealthy (and very loud) Russians.
When we finally ordered, the dished we wanted were ‘off’ so we had to make substitutions. We then waited for 30 minutes for our wine to arrive, which t did after we reminded the waiter twice.
The starter of pickled herring was very good. The mains of Halibut with boletus sauce were very overcooked. Desserts were bland.
It was difficult to get our bill, difficult to get them to correct their errors and difficult to pay, we wouldn’t go there again and were quite disappointed.
There was a fish restaurant – Zuvine – near our hotel that looked good, so we tried it on our second evening. It wasn’t the best experience. Service was slow (very slow, even for Lithuania) and we never got bread, though they tried to charge us for it later. The waiting staff were not very engaged and seemed to spend most of their time hovering around a table of wealthy (and very loud) Russians.
When we finally ordered, the dished we wanted were ‘off’ so we had to make substitutions. We then waited for 30 minutes for our wine to arrive, which t did after we reminded the waiter twice.
The starter of pickled herring was very good. The mains of Halibut with boletus sauce were very overcooked. Desserts were bland.
It was difficult to get our bill, difficult to get them to correct their errors and difficult to pay, we wouldn’t go there again and were quite disappointed.
The rest of the food in Lithuania was unremarkable, though edible
and focussed on pork and potatoes – not a bad thing, really.
The food in Latvia wasn’t anything to write home about and service tended to be very slow and surly. One restaurant in Riga - Restorans "4Rooms" was, frankly, terrible except that the portion sizes were gigantic. For some bizarre reason, everything was served on skewers perched over wooden boards: I always wonder how these are cleaned and sterilised …
One high spot was eating at the ‘Daily’ restaurant below the Town Hall. It seemed to be a self-service cafeteria for the workers there, though anyone was welcome. Food was a little basic but great quality and cheap (we ate for about €5 each!).
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