No booking, no ceremony. Somewhere you can turn up at nine and still be fed.
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Ask for the filter, not the flat white. Window bench on the left is the good one — go before ten or the whole street's laptops arrive.
Miera iela 29
Where I sat out the entire winter of 2023. Cheap lunch, courtyard in summer, and they never once made me feel like I should leave.
Lāčplēša iela 10
The kebab worth the walk. Order it with everything, eat it standing up, don't overthink it at 2am.
Ģertrūdes iela 22
Cinnamon bun, black coffee, ten minutes on the step outside. This is my actual morning, not an aspirational one.
Miera iela 19
Old town without the old-town tax. Get the eggs and sit in the window facing the church.
Meistaru iela
Saturday, before eleven, the far left aisle. Smoked sprats and the brown bread from the stall by the door.
Nēģu iela
Worth crossing the river for. Lunch in the hall, then the second-hand shop two doors down.
Nometņu iela
Wooden houses, Saturday market, good cheese guy at the back. Get there at ten, it thins out by one.
Kalnciema iela 35
Pīrāgi from the window, eaten on the tram stop bench. Two euros, unreasonably good.
Brīvības iela 85