Of course, the city is full of “doughnutteries” of various calibers.

But in the morning I leave home and walk along Dzirnavu exactly to this one, feeling some very special delight.

A tiny establishment’s slightly away from the tourist path. Next door is the best Riga’s shop of design stuff, not souvenirs but beautiful tableware, textiles and so on, where you wanna buy half of the shop.

To my taste, Kukotava’s the best “doughnuttery” in the city.

If you put a camera overlooking the street with frequency of 1 shot a day, then in about 5 years you can watch Riga’s cafes appear and die – it’s prompt, they open/close down/open/close down. Here everything’s always the same – windy – but Kukotava remains as a bastion.

And so it should be.

Everything’s very authentic. You can order in English or in Latvian and there’s usually a queue, which should be forgiven because of the quality of the bakery.

Everything’s craft (sic!), made of super fat milk and super eggs, and flour is the same. Doughnuts are rolled and molded/baked directly in front of you, right in the hall.

Puff pastry that isn’t at all thin. They don’t have a great variety of fillings. It’s unclear what’s their secret: BUT IT’S DE-FUCKING -LICIOUS.

Each morning everything that’s left from the evening is half price.

And it’s really great that besides sweet ones, they have doughnuts with chicken, cheese, spinach, bacon, meat…

In addition, there’re some really cool cakes, candies, fruit jelly.

And the local blockbuster: the proper Caesar salad. It’s not that case when there’s a sea of sauce with some sluggish leaves drowning in it; it’s crunchy Romano, which is evenly covered, as if with a brush, with a very thin layer of sauce, plus chicken and croutons, which are indeed made not of rubbish, and parmesan. That’s it! Perfect in case your soul asks for mad tasty Caesar, cooked just for you, but doesn’t want to be ashamed for a billion kilocalories afterwards.

And there’s a set of various inexpensive wines from Australia up to Portugal, which is quite good as well.

Do enjoy!