Twenty-sixth floor, whole city out of the glass. Overpriced, and you go once an evening for exactly one drink at sunset. Start here so you can see where the night is going.
Elizabetes iela 55, 26th floor
A candlelit apothecary cellar built around Rīgas Melnais balzams, the black herbal liqueur that tastes like medicine until it does not. Have it in the hot blackcurrant, not neat, the first time.
Kaļķu iela 10
An old music school that still smells like one. Around ten the courtyard tells you within a minute whether tonight is a going-out night.
Skolas iela 15
Where the night goes when it is going well. Loud, warm, nobody performing, cash is easier.
Ernesta Birznieka-Upīša iela 22
Summer only: a pine-shaded beer garden dropped into the middle of the old town, plastic furniture, cheap Latvian beer. Nothing about it is trying and it is perfect.
Tirgoņu iela
In order. Start high, end in a basement, do not fight it.
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