A medical-themed restaurant, where the staff dress in doctor and nurse uniforms, and food is served on stainless steel dishes. 05 March 2009 • 12:38am At the Hospitalis Restaurant in Riga, Latvia, ...

Riga, the Latvian capital, wakes up at night and stays breathless until morning. At 9 pm, Riga stretches out of a slumber – men daub after-shave, mousse-tidy bed hair; women hook their tiny black ...

A pasta order comes in and the robotic arm springs into action at the Roboeatz eatery in Riga. After five minutes of gyrations, a piping hot plate is ready. The Riga cafe, located under a crumbling ...

Riga has the look of somewhere that really, really wants people to visit it on a city break. It knows it’ll never have the art collections, international icons and global player dynamism of Paris, New ...

As the evenings get brighter, Riga is settling in to enjoy its role as joint European Capital of Culture – along with the northern Swedish city of Umea. This is an excellent time to take a stroll ...

Can small countries, as part of the EU, regenerate in the face of economic pressures and a younger population in flight? Author and curator Lucy Bullivant recently visited Latvia’s capital city Riga, ...

Latvia defines itself on its own terms, apart from its history of being subjugated by Imperial Poland, Sweden, Lithuania, Germany, and Russia. Latvian is now the language taught in schools, Latvia ...