We were looking for somewhere for a beer and dinner on our first night in Riga. Hubby found this place called Two More Beers from the internet. It was located in the tourist area Old Town, and being a Saturday, the place was choc a block filled with people. Even the bar area was full and we didn't fancy standing up for a meal after a four hour coach journey in the morning. We ended going some place else that evening but returned on Sunday night. Yes, hubby was determined!
What a difference overnight made! The place was pretty much deserted on Sunday with only a few customers and plenty of empty tables.
Back to the beer. Hubs ordered the house draft beer, it seemed like the natural choice. It was simply called Two More Beers and is 6% abv. Hub's verdict was ok but it didn't leave any lasting impression on him. Oh well! That's not a very good start to his Latvian beer journey 🙃
On his quest to find a good Latvian beer, Hub's turned to the waiter for recommendations for round two. The guy came back with this. It's called Sanslide . First impressions, we both agreed it looked good.
Sanslide is a 6.5% IPA brewed by a 10 year old local craft brewery called Malduguns. Neither the beer nor the brewery was familiar to us as it's the first time we've come across Latvian beer.
The beer had a nice pale golden colour and was served in a iced cold glass. Even though I'm not a big beer drinker, I do think beer is best drunk nice and cold. I took one sip of the beer, it was very refreshing and not too strong for my liking. It's been two weeks and I can't remember exactly what the flavour was like, I just remembered I liked it a lot.
Hubby was chatting to the waiter who told him that Two More Beers sells around 200 types of different beers. He said he's tried most of them, and those that he hasn't tried, he knows he won't like.
Two More Beers is a bar and a restaurant and they do some pretty nice food. We ordered a portion of ribs which was really nice, and some snacks to go with our beer. Here's some fried belly pork slices. I would have preferred them to be out of the fryer a few minutes earlier.
And here's some bonus snacks for you. To be honest, I was quite surprised to see them on the Latvian menu. It's not something commonly eaten in UK and I think most people would run a mile than eat it. I have eaten it before and enjoyed it, but not fried, so this was something new for me. Can you guess what it is?..... Tell you at the end of the post 🐖👂
Hope you enjoyed my Latvian beer review.
Did my emojis earlier on give you some clues on what the bonus snack is? Warning - vegans please stop reading...
Have you ever noticed your outer ears have some soft bones (now you're all touching your ears 😁）. Pigs have much bigger ears than us and imagine we slice the ear lengthways we will end up with strips that consists of pork skin and crunchy white cartilage. That's what the snack is, fried pig ears. Would you try them if they're on the menu?
