II. Main Cultural products 4. Culinary Heritage Section 4.2: Food Service Enterprises and Events Using National Cuisine

4.2.1. Restaurants and Cafes

Restaurant “Salve”, Riga, Latvia. The restaurant positions itself as a place “where different ethnic cuisines that were known in Riga got united under one menu which is called to satisfy tastes of inhabitants of the capital and its guests – all, who value quality and traditions, presented with knowledge of business, in an elegant city manner and sophisticated atmosphere.”

The restaurant menu has a section named “Latvian cuisine of the capital of Latvia”. There are traditional dishes available, like:

• Mixed salad with Latvian cottage cheese

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• Virgin herring tart with beet salad
• Home-made roast pork with marinated vegetables and horseradish
• Black peas with smoked bacon
• Pork ears with stewed sour cabbage and horse-radish sauce
• Braised wheat porridge with porcini mushrooms, smoked cheese and sour cream Latvian sour cabbage soup with beef, served with roasted potatoes
• Pumpkin crème-soup with milk mousse and nuts butter
• Home-made black pudding (blood sausage)

The restaurant also offers Latvian cuisine tasting menu:

• Virgin herring tart with beet salad
• Braised wheat porridge with porcini mushrooms, smoked cheese and sour cream
• Pumpkin creme-soup with milk mousse and nuts butter
• Home-made sausage with beef and pork, served with stewed sour cabbage or - Home-made fish cakes (cutlets) with dill-cream sauce
• Sweet pastry, made of rye bread, whipped cream and cowberry sauce
• National fruit drink

Section 4.2: Food Service Enterprises and Events Using National Cuisine

4.2.2. Countryside Restaurants in Castles, Estates, Guest Houses