Kibinai is a culinary specialty of the Karaimai (Karaïtes in French), the smallest ethnic group in Lithuania: “ce mouvement dissident du judaïsme qui s’oppose à la validité du Talmud et à [...]
A restaurant that’s always full, and that succeeds in being modern and trendy without being in your face. At Vilnius, a lot of new places look too showy. The menu is serious, we can even find their re[...]
The lakefront restaurant as we’ve always imagined it: very few people, a bucolic atmosphere , the possibility of renting paddle boats, a bar/restaurant right on the “beach” with a large choice o[...]
A nice coffee shop for breakfast or to get a baked good on the fly. You feel like a king on their sunny patio , it’s that nice on that quiet Vilniaus street. Careful, it’s not exactly the cheapest, bu[...]
Car renting company of the 4th type The cheapest company in Vilnius is located beside a round-about, not easy to find. We got a 1997 Audi A4 for 50 euros, for the three days, a record!
c It happens every day except Sundays in the historical center. All the useful information about can be found on Ljubljana’s tourism office website. Here’s a video the tourism office made [...]
Even though Ljubljana gives off a certain Austrian vibe ( the Austro-Hungarian were here) we find here a tolerance that is nice to see. I smelled cannabis several times while walking in the street, I&[...]
At the time, in 1933, it was the highest sky-scraper (“Nebotičnik”) in the world, being 70.35 meters high, it is today the shortest. There is a restaurant, a bar, a coffee shop, I’d [...]
What’s this?, 716 is giving you an Asian restaurant in Ljubljana! Not even that crazy a restaurant, so why? Because what I took was good, they were very nice, I thought it was “surréaliste[...]
Druga Violina ( the second violin) is a restaurant run by the Draga Center, an organization that takes care of people struggling with mental illness. Therefore, the staff is comprised of patients and [...]
This is a classy restaurant actually, not the kind I would have been attracted to usually, had it not been for the restaurants’ week, but you never know…things are different in Ljubljana. [...]
Zvezda is known first for its bakery/ salon de thé at the corner. They opened this restaurant a few years back in front of the park. I stumbled on a blog that described it as the best lunch deal in Lj[...]
A family tavern ( gostilna= pub/tavern) that saves us from all the tourist traps along the sea coast, and that I’m happy to share with you. Here, the cooking is home style and cheap, we feel lik[...]
It’s a local curiosity that everyone (travel books or locals) will tell you about at least once, and even those that didn’t go there, for one reason or another, will tell you that theyR[...]
A classy and refined restaurant (not necessarily a pleonasm) offering quality Asian fusion food: perfect service and subdued lighting atmosphere, we want more. Oh yeah, and it’s good 🙂
Svetlana Riškova Svetlana is not only fascinating because she's a talented chef, ambitious, and because she's concerned with bring Latvian cuisine to the top, but also because her story is a condensed[...]
A fascinating museum that shouldn’t be missed out on: it is entirely dedicated to the Nazi and Soviet occupations. Latvia suffered an ordeal like no other: first occupied by the Soviets, at thei[...]
Un véritable coup de coeur ! Ce restaurant ouvert depuis décembre 2008 ne ressemble à aucun autre et n’est majoritairement connu que des gens du quartier : cuisine maison dont la moitié des plat[...]