AKA Latvian Cuisine — Restaurant in Riga

"Agressively awful"

Two weeks advanced reservation for 23 people. 5 days prior we followed up. The staff opened the restaurant an hour late and we're pretty hostile about it all.

In 3 hours they managed to not serve all of the meals, what was served was undercooked (hello trichinosis and potential for food poisoning).

Honestly this was the most disappointing meal I have had in decades. Surly staff, thrift store table ware, shortage of paper at the table, repeatedly forgotten orders culminating in half of our crew not eating, and the rest of us being served bland and undercooked slop.

If you are considering this place, save yourself the pain and go-to the KFC around the corner, even KFC is better than this, and you will actually get something to eat in less...

We chose AKA because we wanted to sample genuine Latvian cuisine, the restaurant was fairly quiet as it was midweek in early April but there was a nice atmosphere and the waitress was very polite and helpful. We had the potato pancakes and gray peas as our two appetizers and I had cod in a rhubarb wine sauce and my wife had grilled salmon and roast potatoes, all the food was well cooked and presented and the portions were generous. I only sampled the draught beer but the wine selection seemed quite extensive. The service wasn't very quick but there was only one server and one chef so the waiting time was reasonable, I would definitely recommend AKA to anyone who would like to sample quality Latvian food at a very...

As a visitor I was curious to try Latvian food but was very disappointed with the experience. I had cod in rhubarb wine sauce with vegetables, sorry to say it was bland and made me sad. It reminded me of hospital food or something you would give a small child. My partner had pork ribs with cabbage & potatoes and he said it was alright, meets expectations, although he had to add salt. Overall an underwhelming gastronomical experience for me, although the ambience was quite...