Riga Nightlife

Friday night we were going to essential, when decided to stop to Royal before! Very cosy place, gives a strange feeling as you are somewhere you have been before. Personal is extremely friendly. Girls performers were just amazing, the show was going each 10 or 15 minutes, but not girls were dancing show! Prices were surprisingly normal, as for example beer was 3 Ls, comparing to SKY Bar or Studio 69 with it's 4 Ls. Rather small place, so after 2am it became pretty crowdy, but for us it was even better! I was said that for more privacy you should come on Monday or wednesday.

Entrance fee everyday is 10 Ls, and you can try to negotiate a free drink as we did :) So overall a great place to spend an evening, you can just hit the bar and enjoy performers, or order some lap dances or something more. Trip to essential we moved to saturday :) Highly recommend to everyone!

Dress Code: No special requirements, but I think no sportswear allowed!

Saw a great performance by the Latvian Blues Band @ Bite's Blues Club in Riga.

The band was great.

The joint sucks. Half of the beers in the menu were not available, also missing were many of the food items. Just like in Soviet times -- 50 items on the menu, only 2 available!

Worse of all was the management of the place. Blatantly smoking in their own "non-smoking" establishment and then deceiving dinner customers about cover charges for the music. Maybe they can rip off tourists from across the street in the Albert Hotel, but those of us who regularly visit Riga (and would be loyal "regulars") will never go there again. And we will inform all of our friends and colleagues of our bad experience there.

Dress Code: Suits to sandals

I am in Riga now, fine so far good food and beer at OK prices in the Old town. If your coming here as a stag party as we are how you get on all depends what you are looking for and how you behave. We have come as a 40 something group and we are flying the UK flag by being well mannered respectful and not drawing attention to ourselves. However still had a suspect cocktail that we are sure contained no alcohol, and you really need to know prices before you buy anything at all.

City itself is small and has some great buildings.
If your coming to get pissed up and for for strip joints I can almost guarantee you will have a bad time and experience. Vultures will inmediatley home in on you and do there best to fleece you. And if your inside a strip club with Russian Mafia I can only wish you a safe return home with an empty bank account the least of your worries. I sat across from Babylon last night which looks very enticing but strange how it is empty with the occasional mugs being drawn in. If you want strip joints I recommend you stay in the UK and go to Spearmint Rhino. You really do not want to be in Riga if it was the last place on earth. Expect to be robbed blind if you go in these places is the warning on all the website and the american embassy even tell you to steer clear on certain bars including the above mentioned.

At the airport there are pocket guides, pick one up and read it from front to back and you will have a good time I think. We are following a guide to recommended bars tonight and I will write again tomorrow as to the results.

If you like to spend nice time with some nice girl in Riga,dont go to any clubs,or old town.My advice is-just take alook on www.intimmmeitene.lv or bumper.lv or www.kurtizanka.lv
internet is the best way to find some. Usually price is about 25 lats per hour(about 40 euro),and that includes massage,sex,room.

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Apparently the name in English is Captain Enrico's Watch is the name of a classic Rigan film from the 1960's. This seems like a fairly trendy joint, popular with 20 something locals. We strayed in from our hotel, The Albert which was just across the road and the night became a highlight of the trip.

Dropping in fairly late in the evening, after 9pm, we were still able to grab a bite to eat. Grilled salmon steak with mashed potato with sundried tomato and leek, in a mushroom sauce was great and a good price at 4.70 lats. Burrito also got the thumbs up around the same price.

Then the cocktails started flowing... I'm not sure how full this place gets, it was quiet enough for us on a Saturday night to stay seated and be served at the table by the very friendly waitress who spoke perfect English. Cocktails were between 3.00 for a normal one (Pina Colada or the gorgeous raspberry daquiri) or 4.75 for a massive (lovely) Mai Tai. They were pretty strong, but miraculously in the morning neither of us had hangovers despite us pretty much getting through half the cocktail menu between us before leaving in a snowstorm at 3am.

They also do breakfasts.

That club is in the Vernissage complex that is 5 minutes stroll from the McDonald' s in front Hotel de Rome.

That club is called Fashion club for a good reason....you're gonna find the best models you've ever seen.....Didn't you know that Latvia often organize contests to recruit models for Elite agency?

Latvia is famous for having the most beautiful women in the world. Fashion club offers nightly models show and of course these models are clients of the club.

Surprisingly, they are not that superficial and arrogant as you might think.

The club is quite big, it had two main rooms and the drinks are very reasonable, around 2 Euros for a beer.

Dress Code: Not specially but be quite smart.....If you want to a attract a model.....don't go with shorts and trainers....remember it's fashion club, everybody is very well dressed and you will see the highest class of Latvians and Russians...

I recommend seeing Riga as well in the night time - everything looks impressive as in my photo - Doma Laukums (Cathedral Square). Bridges, most famous buildings are decorated with lights, you can easily do tour at the night too. Riga offer much discos, bars, restaurants, casinos too.

Strolling past St. Peter's Church in Riga Old Town, I came across the newly opened Kiwi Bar at 7 Skarnu. The New Zealand themed bar has a good selection of local and imported beers at great prices with 'real' English breakfasts served, as well as local and indian dishes. The ambience in the bar is great and there are a number of large screens showing live sports event. Thanks to the beautiful latvian girls Liga and Kristina working in the bar for their great service that kept me supping on the local Zelta beer until the early hours of the morning. For sure, the next time I'm in Riga I will pay another visit to Kiwi Bar.