Cafe Dakota

Not far outside Riga is a town named Ciemupe, there is the coolest little cafe I have ever come across.

My friends brought me here on one of my visits this summer. The owner, Jurij, is a friendly guy full of stories. He runs the cafe and has collected militaria most of his life. In his young days he built miniature airplanes and have a big cabinet where he displays them all.

In front of the cafe is two airplanes, a submarine deck gun, military cars and a sea mine. Inside the seatings by the tables are seats from Antonov passenger planes. The walls of the cafe are covered with interesting photos and objects. Airplane models, cameras, guns, helmets and lots more.

He even has the whole nose section of an Antonov integrated to the cafe!

The menu has some nice things listed and the coffee is great! The backyard of the cafe is an open air museum. I couldn`t believe it. Cannons, machine guns, aircraft cannons and rocket launchers, several working war time jeeps and of course more airplanes. This is the cafe you`ll want to visit again and again:)