RESTAURANT “HOSPITĀLIS”-PSEUDO HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL ADVENTURE WITH
OUTSTANDING CUISINE?
The restaurant has been developed with help of several hospitals
of Latvia and Museum of the History of Medicine, which have contributed
authentic (mostly Soviet-time), thoroughly restored medicine attributes of
various medicine institutions to it. Some thematic restaurants lack unified
style, but in “Hospitālis” balance between self-ironic black humour of doctors
and high-class restaurant is kept both in interior and menu, which is worked
out by an experienced chief cook. Both floors of “Hospitālis” really resemble a
hospital: sterile white walls and ceilings, floor tiled with shiny tiles, walls
decorated with polished and renewed surgical instruments, medical literature in
book-shelves. If the client wants to, he can become a patient and choose
between having meal in stylized operating room, gynecology or dental cabinet.
Screens located in all rooms of the restaurant demonstrate medicine-related
episodes from movies.
Phone +371 67313530, Stabu street 14, Riga, LV1011
The Naval Port prison or
guardhouse. The building was erected about 1900 and until 1997 it has served as
a place where military persons served their terms for breach of discipline.
Ever since the first years of its existence it has been a place to break
people’s lives and suppress their free will.
With powers changing, its prisoners changed as well – among them there were
revolutionaries, seamen and non-commissioned officers of the tsarist army,
deserters from the German Wehrmacht, enemies of the people in Stalin’s times,
soldiers of both the Soviet army and the Latvian army and other rebels.
Mysterious and inexplicable things are noticed in the guard house – rumbling
footsteps, self-unscrewing of electrical bulbs, unaccountable opening of closed
doors of the cells … but the appearance of impossible images has come as the
most unpleasant surprise to many a visitor.
Invalīdu Street 4, Karosta, Liepāja, LV-3402, Latvia, +371
26369470
