Folkklubs ALA

Latvian restaurant and folk club in Vecrīga (Old Town)

Address: Peldu iela 19, Rīga, LV-1050
Phone: +371 27796914

Menu prices: 14–8500 · £££ · Median main: 1450 · 30/30 with a published price

Latvian restaurant and folk club

Beer snacks

• Traditional Latvian garlic bread — 5,00 EUR
• Fried potatoes with dipping sauce — 5,00 EUR
• Beer platter — 8,50 EUR

  with traditional garlic bread, local cheese, vegetables and smoked meat
• Wine platter for 2 — 14 EUR

  with three types of local artisan cheese, cured pork, beetroot bread, fresh berries, local cornichon pickles, olives, fried cheese bread and toasted hazelnuts
• Big Folk Club beer platter for 5-6 persons — 49,00 EUR

  smoked pork, smoked chicken, smoked mackerel, pickled herring, fried sausage, pickled vegetables, three types of traditional garlic bread, fresh vegetable crudités, homemade cheese, smoked hunters che

Entree

• Salad of the week — 7,80 EUR

  please ask your server for this weeks special
• Folk Club traditional beer salad — 8,50 EUR

  layered fresh greens, house marinated mushrooms, pickled cucumber, traditional homemade cheese, farmhouse smoked pork, ryebread croutons and garlic sauce, pickled onion
• Mushroom and local goats cheese filo pastry tartlet — 7,80 EUR

  filo pastry filled with pan fried local mushrooms and goats cheese, served with wild arugula salad and dark beer malt vinegar reduction
• Grilled pork ribs in beer marinade — 8,50 EUR

  served with pickled cucumber salad and Folkklubs Ala grill sauce and pickled onion
• Bacon wrapped chicken livers — 7,50 EUR

  pan fried and served with grain mustard - cream sauce and sourdough bread croutons
• Soup of the day — 4,50 EUR

  served with sour cream and sourdough bread

Mains

• Chicken roullade — 15,50 EUR

  wrapped in smoked bacon and filled with traditional smoked cheese, baby spinach, dill and hazelnuts, served with potato and green pea mash and traditional savoury cukini jam and horsraddish and dill b
• Dundagas royal stroganoff — 14,50 EUR

  with mushrooms and 3 meats served with grain mustard-potato mash, vegetable chips
• Catch of the day — 17,50 EUR

  whole baked local fish - fresh from the market and seasonal. Served with baked root vegetables and smoked cheese souce. Please ask staff for what type of fish is available today
• Slow cooked beef shank — 15,80 EUR

  sauteed 6 hours in Valmiermuižas dark beer, served with celeriac-cauliflower puree, rainbow salad and roasted bone marrow on the side
• Honey-glazed pork fillet medallions wrapped in smoked bacon — 14,90 EUR

  served with arugula, beet and goats cheese salad, beetroot purée, sweet potato mash and vegetable chips
• 1kg pork hock — 17,80 EUR

  Oven roasted with a honey-mustard glaze, served with sauteed sauerkraut and baked potatoes (Preparation of this dish takes at least 30 minutes!)
• Traditional battered chicken fillet Folk Club style — 14,50 EUR

  with mushroom, caramelized onion, pickled cucumber and goats cheese topping, served with potato mash and brown onion cream sauce
• Fillet of salmon — 17,20 EUR

  served with seasonal vegetable mash, rainbow garden salad and veg crisps, basil pesto
• Traditional Latvian meat balls — 14,50 EUR

  made according to grandmas recipe, served with baked potatoes and sautéed sauerkraut, with a rich onion-tomato cream glaze and sour cream
• Traditional grey peas — 11,50 EUR

  served in a hollowed rye bread loaf with traditional pan fried smoked bacon, onion cream sauce and fresh vegetable salad, or vegetarian option with traditional smoked local cheese sauce and caramelize
• Sautéed pearl barley “risotto” (Ancient Latvian recipe) (Mains) — 10,50 EUR

  prepared according to a medieval recipe with onions, carrots and smoked meat in a rich cream sauce, or vegetarian option with traditional smoked local cheese sauce and caramelized onion
• Oven-roasted local farm pumpkin — 12,50 EUR

  with pan fried traditional cheese, tomato, kale and grey pea sautee, and spiced sour cream
• Traditional feast for the whole table! — 85,00 EUR

  A big platter of our best traditional meats and sides — meatballs, roasted pork hock, traditional Latvian style battered chicken fillet, beer braised ribs, braised sauerkraut, gray peas with smoked ba

Dessert

• Beer fritters — 6,50 EUR

  traditional countryside fritters, made with beer dough, glazed in local linden flower honey, seasonal berries and fruits
• Ala’s “Cielaviņa” — 7,80 EUR

  home made meringue with nuts, layered with double chocolate ganache, fresh berry sauce and whipped cream
• Traditional thick rye bread pudding — 6,90 EUR

  prepared according to an ancient recipe with wood oven rye bread, dried fruit, honey and spices and a little dark beer, served with fresh whipped cream and berry sauce
• Dessert of the month — 6,50 EUR

  please ask your waiter

Weekend specials

• Foot-long Latvian style pork schnitzel — 15,50 EUR

  topped with caramelized onion, pickles, garlic sauce and grilled cheese, served with salad, fried potatoes and mushroom sauce
• The best classic Soļanka soup in Riga — 5,50 EUR

  A traditional hangover soup, made over 2 days — rich and full of different meats (roast, sausage, fried, boiled) and vegetables, served with sour cream, olives and a wedge of lemon + sourdough bread