• Private Tour
• Carbon Neutral

See and taste the other side of Riga - Agenskalns! Avoiding the tourist crowds, a personalized tour with tastings. If you are interested in contemporary life, culture and delicious organic food, then this tour is right for you!

Destination

Riga, Latvia

Category

Food Tours

Duration

3 hours

Transport mode

Public Transport

Available languages

English, Latviešu

Included

• Private guide
• Meals

What you can expect

This is the plan

Check out the plan below to see what you'll get up to with your local host. Feel free to personalize this offer with Margita.

1. Meeting point

   Meet at Latvian Riflemen Monument - Riga to start your journey

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2. Itinerary

   This is what our experience could look like, but it’s not set in stone! Once you book, you can chat directly with your host to make small tweaks to suit your preferences.

3. Meeting your guide

   Our meeting point will be in Old Riga near the Latvian Rifleman Monument

4. Latvian National Library

   Across the river Daugava is our Latvian National Library , we will visit (within working hours) - see how Latvians celebrate the Freedome and culture in one monumental building - The Castle of light or Mountain of Ice. We can walk ore drive with public transport of Riga

5. Victory park

   Walk or use public transport through Uzvaras park (Victory park) - place of uneasy history.

6. Agenskalns market

   Visit Agenskalns market - place recently rediscovered by Latvian crafty architects Agenskalns market with 6 local tastes including the Latvian Rye bread, tasty coffee made by Latvian rosters, soft drink kvass as Latvians like it, the best ice cream in Latvia and something seasonal.

7. Make it yours

   Want to tweak the itinerary? Book directly & chat afterwards with your host to adjust highlights, skip stops, or make small changes to fit your preferences.

   Book risk-free: Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund.

   Need something special? Personalize your experience for more time, alternative locations or a completely tailored plan.

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Flexible cancellation policy

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Reviews from guests

Jamie

21 February 2025

We had a lovely time walking to the market and devouring some unique Latvian food. A great addition to the tour was stopping at the National Library too. A great time. Great food tour and history

Carolyn🇸🇪 Sweden

19 January 2025

We had an amazing afternoon with Margita! The food she selected was varied and delicious. On top of learning about the food culture of Riga and Latvia she gave us many insights into the history, architecture and culture of the country. She also gave us many recommendations of restaurants to try and places to visit which made our trip so much more special!An amazing afternoon

Del

7 January 2025

Margita was very personable - we enjoyed our time together. The information she shared with us gave us a great overview for our short stay in Riga. We loved the wide boulevards and the Christmas Market still in operation during our stay. We were able to wander around looking at some of the museums she suggested. The art nouveau recommendation was perfect. A great "taste" of Riga

louise🇬🇧 United Kingdom

27 December 2024

We had a lovely time walking with Margita. It was cold but Margita kept us moving and we enjoyed all the facts about Riga she gave us.Great Tour

Ingibjörg🇮🇸 Iceland

10 December 2024

We spent 3 hours with Margita, tasting various foods and hearing about history of Riga and Latvia. It was a lovely time and always gives you a different insight into the place you are visiting.Very knowledgeable and lovely

Gabriele

7 December 2024

Margita is an excellent guide with a great knowledge of her home city Riga, historically as well as contemporary. She has a good feeling of which areas, buildings, shops, spotlights are of interest for her guests. We achieved a very good impression of a wonderful city in a 3 hour walk. Thank you, Margita for this exceptional experience!Best of Riga

Corinne🇨🇭 Switzerland

27 November 2024

Margita is such a good guide. She really loves Riga and is eager to show the hidden gems of this beautiful city. It was the second time I booked her and it felt like coming back to a friend.What a wonderful tour in the rain

Diane🇨🇦 Canada

25 November 2024

We did two tours with Margita in Riga—The 10 Tastings of Riga and Highlights & Hidden Gems of Riga—on consecutive days, and both were excellent! Margita has incredible knowledge of Riga, showing us all the highlights of Old Town and the Art Nouveau neighborhoods while sharing fascinating insights. Her English is excellent, and her passion for her city really shines through. The tasting tour was a highlight—stopping at spots like Lido in Old Town and exploring the market, where Margita picked out local foods to create a delightful picnic for us. It was a fun and unique way to experience Riga’s food culture. Margita has lived in Riga her entire life, and her deep connection to the city makes her tours truly special. I highly recommend booking with her for an engaging and memorable experience!Fantastic Tours with Margita

Thijs

29 October 2024

Andrew🇺🇸 United States

8 September 2024

We had a pleasant time with our guide in the market and seeing the sights of Riga. She was pleasant, seemed knowledgeable and experienced, and proud of her city. However, we felt that the value of the food purchased at the market was not worth the price paid for the tour (bread, cheese, berries, pastry, smoked meat, and one small beer).Pleasant but pricey

Susie🇬🇧 United Kingdom

5 September 2024

We enjoyed our food tour of the market and got to try lots of local specialities. Margot’s also gave us some great eating and shopping tips. Fun tasting tour around Riga

Andrew🇺🇸 United States

24 August 2024

This tour with Margita was one of the highlights of our stay in Riga. She brought real depth and history to it so the places we went were special, and not the same places that "everybody else" goes. Well done Margita you one of the best tour guides we have been with.Highly recommmended food tour by a local

Laura🇺🇸 United States

8 August 2024

We loved our tour with Margita! Her knowledge, enthusiasm and charm brought Latvian life and history into focus for us. She showed us and told us about so many special things in Riga. I would absolutely do it again. Excellent Tour!

Tracey🇬🇧 United Kingdom

7 August 2024

We spent a fascinating 3 hours with Margita learning about the architecture and history of Riga. She tailored our experience to our interests and was happy to answer any questions we had for her. We also received some great recommendations for the rest of our stay. She clearly loves Riga. Thank you, Margita! Passionate and knowledgeable

Erica🇺🇸 United States

11 July 2024

Margīta was amazing. By sharing some of her experiences, it allowed us to feel not only her connection to Riga but to her country as well. It allowed us to feel a sense of shared experience. She was very nice and very insightful it was truly a lovely tour. Highly recommend Margīta

laub630🇺🇸 United States

9 July 2024

Margita gave us a wonderful tour. She is knowledgeable, communicative, and very passionate about her country of Latvia. We very much enjoyed our tour. She gave us insightful, local perspective that elevated our experience. I would highly recommend booking her for a tour of Riga. Excellent Guide

Morten🇳🇴 Norway

7 July 2024

Margita is enthusiastic and knowledgeable. We really enjoyed her expert guiding through the art nouvou (jugendstil) buildings and museum. Kick off Riga visit with a guided tour

David🇬🇧 United Kingdom

2 July 2024

Margita took us on a varied tour around Riga. We started at the Freedom Monument and weaved our way around the hidden streets of old town before moving in to the new town. The highlights for us were the Art Nouveau area. Riga is a fascinating city and a personal tour, for us , allows us to really understand it's history, culture and people. Margita was a great guide and is clearly passionate about her city and county. Private tour of Riga

Sabrina🇦🇹 Austria

10 June 2024

Margita is a great guide and highly experienced. We had a two hour tour and I wished we had booked more time with her. She is not only a wonderful guide, she is also a proud citizien of Riga and a great artist. She gave us many details, answered all of our questions and had very good advice for further things to do and see. I would recommend her as a MUST HAVE if you want to get to know Riga and the life of the Latvian people off the beaten tourist track.Very special experience, wonderful time

nrtcyk6p59

21 May 2024

Margita was an amazing tour guide. She was passionate about her city and showed us an amazing sample of breathtaking Art Nouveau. She was engaging, friendly and knowledgeable and was able to answer all of our questions. Wonerful tour with Margita

Coert🇳🇱 Netherlands

15 May 2024

Margita was a very interactive guide for our 8 persons weekend trip to Riga. We spend one morning walking through Riga seeing all the beautiful architecture and hearing the stories behind it from Margita. Another half day we took the train to the beach Jurmala where we did a bike tour along beautiful houses and back over the sandy beach, finishing with a very cosy lunch together with Margita. It was all a lot of fun, largely because we could ask Margita many questions, she told background stories and we had great discussion with her, enriching our knowledge about Latvia. When you want to learn and have fun, Margita is the way to go :)Wonderful interactive guide to see Riga

Ylva🇸🇪 Sweden

15 May 2024

Margita is a fantastic guide. You can tell that she really enjoy showing "her" town Riga. Relevant and very interesting about the history of Riga in a friendly and very engaging way. You will have a great experience. Best, YlvaFantastic guide

Christopher🇲🇽 Mexico

9 May 2024

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8 May 2024

Margita was a wonderful guide. She was thoughtful, caring, and easy going. We needed some warmer clothes and Margita brilliantly helped us find some so we could continue the tour with a higher degree of comfort. She had good energy and we completed the tour with adequate time to make it back to the cruise ship.

Lars🇩🇰 Denmark

29 April 2024

Margida met us at the Freedom Monument. She was the perfect guide, and had a great knowledge. She took us to places We wouldn’t find our selves. 2 great days in Riga

Heather

22 April 2024

Our group had such a lovely time with Margita. She is so kind and willing to share all of her thoughts and opinions about Latvia. We never expected to enjoy a tour so much, but our whole group fell in love with her and we were thrilled to be able to meet her just a few days later in the Art Nouveau section of Riga. Margita took careful planning of our whole food adventure and we received a well-rounded view of so many things through her stories and tastings.Flavor, culture and fun!

Hugh

22 April 2024

We were a group of 4 old friends from Scotland, visiting Riga for the first time. Margita met us at our hotel and we spent the next three hours walking, talking and sharing a coffee. Margita is the perfect host city guide - very friendly, professional, knowledgeable, articulate and passionate about her city, its architecture, people and history. I would highly recommend a tour with Margita for your introduction to Riga and Latvia. Thank you. Impactful experience

Sebastian🇩🇪 Germany

9 April 2024

Margita is a very polite and lovely Guide! Since she is born in Riga, she knows the City very well and especially it's history as well as all those hidden gems you'll barely find on your own. It was a pleasure to listen to all those little stories Margita could tell about a lot of places... Before our Tour with Margita, we saw the beautiful City, with her, we understood the City... something you can't find in written Travelguides. Thank you very much for a comfortable and eye-opening Tour Margita, you've made our travel special! awesome Guide to discover Riga

Claire🇬🇧 United Kingdom

9 April 2024

We had a really lovely time on this food tasting tour. Our host, Margita, was incredibly knowledgeable, warm, friendly and welcoming (she gave us a little foodie birthday present!) and showed us the best food sites of Riga along the way, as well as general recommendations for our visit. It was great to discover the city with a local! Thanks Margita!Gorgeous tour of Riga

Konrad🇩🇪 Germany

23 March 2024

Margita is a true gem and very charming and funny! One thing that prevented the perfect score: we thought that we can taste more of the local bites - in the end it was mainly cake in one coffee place. According to the description we expected to go to different places and taste more than just sweets. For that, 50+ euro/ person is a bit price heavy. But Margita is a perfect guide!Good tour with charming guide

Birgit🇦🇹 Austria

25 February 2024

I booked the tour by myself, so I was a bit worried that it might be awkward with just me and the guide. But Margita was so friendly and open that I had nothing to worry about! She really knows her history and has lots of interesting tidbits about the city and the country and made sure it's presented in an engaging way while we enjoyed a walk through the city. Thank you for the wonderful two hours together, it was great getting to know you and I had a fantastic time.Margita is a wonderful guide

Mike🇺🇸 United States

22 December 2023

Margita was a great guide that gave our family an excellent introduction to Latvia. She was warm, knowledgeable and easy to talk to. It was great to get the perspective of a local to start out our time in the beautiful city of Riga!Great Introduction to Latvia

Michael🇺🇸 United States

13 December 2023

I had a lovely time walking around Riga with Margita. She’s friendly and knowledgeable and I learned a great deal from her about the city’s history and it’s people.A lovely tour!

Samantha🇬🇧 United Kingdom

6 December 2023

We booked a foodie tour of Riga with Margita and so pleased we did. She was very informative about Riga, its history and its culture. The food tastings were fantastic and well organised. I would highly recommend Margita as a tour guide for anyone visiting Riga.Amazing foodie tour

ingrida🇱🇹 Lithuania

3 November 2023

Together with the friend from US we were keen to explore Riga's old town with the help of a local. Margita was our best experience ever. She was very knowledgable , very passionate and we fell in love with Riga because of her. We highly and absolutely recommend her. A beautiful woman and a professional tour guide. Ingrid and BjarkiComplete satisfaction

Carlos

28 October 2023

Thnx Margita for the lovely afternoon and all of the valuable info. We will advise all of our friends to visit beautiful Riga with you. Overall next to the nice food, the main takeaway for us was that spending a few hours with you gave us a clear Latvian perspective. Regards Carlos and AbThe Latvian perspective

gzf6sd6qyk🇨🇦 Canada

11 October 2023

Excellent tour with Margita. The food was fabulous and she is extremely knowledgeable about the history of Latvia and the city of Riga. We really enjoyed our afternoon and would strongly recommend.P-dog (Piragi) in Paradise

Stacy🇺🇸 United States

8 October 2023

My teenage son and I traveled to Finland, Estonia and Latvia. We enjoyed all our tour guides but Margita was the best! She may be one of the best tour guides we have ever had on our travels and we have been on quite a few! She has a great way with people- making us feel welcome and at ease. She is incredibly knowledgeable about the history and culture of Riga. And it is clear that she is so proud of her country. We fell in love with Riga after our tour with her!Best tour guide on our Baltics trip!

Neşe🇹🇷 Turkey

3 September 2023

It was very nice to do the walking tour with Margita, getting to know the lovely details of history, architecture, culture and art of Riga, with some tastes of local small cafes. Very cautios about our requirements, wants and needs. Also thanks for the tips for the rest of the day. A compact and furiful experience

Rutger🇳🇱 Netherlands

29 August 2023

We had a wonderful tour with Margita. She is a warm and energetic person. Very knowlegable Margita guided us through the Centrs district and briefly the Old Town. Her personal experiences made our tour more memorable. Margita opens your eyes to highlights that otherwise be obscured. See more of Riga

Hans Ulrich🇩🇪 Germany

18 August 2023

Enjoyed our 2 hours with Margita. Very informative and entertaining. thanks Perf.ect guide

Ryan🇩🇰 Denmark

11 June 2023

Margita was such a tremendously knowledgable guide for our one day tour of Riga. She was patient with us and explained things clearly, and we loved how she led us to each knew spot taking time to educate us, then, pause, and asked us to turn around to breathtaking scenery. She also took the time to add in a short trip for coffee to the beach side town of Jurmala which was amazing. We thoroughly enjoyed our tour and our only challenge now is trying to find another guide like Margita!We Loved Our Riga Tour with Margita!

Alexis🇨🇭 Switzerland

23 May 2023

inbal🇮🇱 Israel

30 April 2023

Margita is so impressively knowledgeable, she loves her town and has a great passion to transfer this knowledge and to let other people have a glimpse of Riga through her eyes. She's a pleasant person to walk around in the city. I feel that I truly gain a lot and got a pick to the complex beautiful history and culinary landscape of Riga. Highly recommended. Interesting full with content tour

jack🇺🇸 United States

14 April 2023

Having lived through the Soviet occupation, and growing up in the area, Margita has unique knowledge of how things have changed. She was very thoughtful in selecting local foods and personally interesting. I can definitely recommend her without hesitation.Great host

Unknown

11 April 2023

We spent an afternoon with Margita walking around the Riga central area as well as the central market. She had prepared some snacks before the tour and we bought more during the tour according to our preference. We really enjoyed the tour and tasted great local treats. Margita is very friendly and welcoming. We definitely recommend this tour if you are coming to Riga. Great food tour of Riga