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Exploring Culinary Secrets Of Ventspils

Ventspils is a beautiful Latvian port city with a long history and a profound cultural heritage. This city has quite a number of culinary secrets, and Eatagram invites you to explore them.


The Baltic region, with its distinctive culinary scene, determines the city’s dining traditions. Local diet is based on centuries-old recipes, but welcomes contemporary gastronomic trends.


We’ll start our day in Ventspils with trying Sklandrauši, a traditional Latvian rye pie with a sweetened carrot and potato mix filling. Then we’ll savor Pīrāgi, small and flavorful bacon-filled pastries.


The Baltic Sea provides the coastal Ventspils with an abundance of fresh seafood. Restaurants of Ventspils offer a wide range of seafood based specialties. We absolutely recommend that you try smoked fish and Ventspils Siltums, a delicious seafood soup  with shrimp, mussels, and fish. All seafood delicacies are prepared with a bunch of local spices and herbs.


Ventspils benefits from its agricultural heritage. Most of its restaurants practise the farm-to-table approach, purchasing fresh ingredients from the local farmers. 


If you’re a total coffee-addict, Ventspils will be your personal paradise on earth. The city’s coffee shops are luring travelleres with mind blowing coffee aromas and cozy interiors. So,stop by, sit back and luxuriate in a cup of rich espresso drinks with local  pastries and cakes. Be sure to try debessmanna and kliņģeris cake.


For those who tend to get the most out of their dining experience and go beyond trying merely local cuisine, local restaurants serve international specialties, including Italian and Asian ones.


Ventspils will comfort you with its delicious food and hospitality with a backdrop of medieval  architecture and gorgeous views of the Baltic Sea.


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