LITHUANIAN FOOD TASTING

LITHUANIAN FOOD TASTING - CULINARY HERITAGE OF LITHUANIA

Have you ever wondered what products Lithuanians tasted since ancient times and in the Middle Ages? What kind of food Lithuanian nobility served for their guests?
Our restaurant invites you to discover the culinary heritage of Lithuania with our historic Lithuanian food tasting menu.

This menu is prepared for a minimum of 4 guests and must be booked at least one day in advance.


Pricing
 is composed of 2 parts:
1. Tasting menu (price per guest)
2. Event hosting fee* – €149
* If you choose tasting menu with our host, she will introduce you to traditional olden Lithuanian cuisine, present its history, local traditions and the stories of olden days.

Languages: English, Russian, French, and Lithuanian.
Presentation length: 45 minutes (approx.)

Historic Lithuanian tasting menu

Prepared for 4 or more guests; appetizers served for sharing

€49 per guest

Welcome drink

Bitter Trejos Devynerios (2 cl)

 

Appetizers

Lithuanian meat snack (4 types of local smoked meat or sausages)

Lithuanian cheese selection (4 types of local cheese from small Lithuanian farms)

Traditionally prepared pickled vegetables or mushrooms (1 type)

Salad with blueberry vinaigrette

Lithuanian beer snack (cheese doughnuts, dried meat, smoked pig ears, fried rye bread)

Baby potatoes with hemp salt

Rye bread mini sandwich with with venison, boletus and pea puree

 

Main course choice options:

Boar meat roast, served with cowberry-wine sauce, sweet pear and potato croquets with cheese

Locally farmed catfish with nut and mustard crust, served with oven-roasted tomatoes and spinach-flavoured potatoe puree

Home-made vegan boletus dumplings, enjoyed by Lithuanians for traditional Christmas Eve, served with onion jam

 

Sweets

Creamy rye bread delicacy with cranberry jam and burnt meringue

Natural dried quince and rhubarb slices

 

Digestif

Traditional Honey Liqueur Krupnikas (2 cl)

Extensive Lithuanian tasting menu

Prepared for 4 or more guests; appetizers served for sharing

€79 per guest

Welcome drink

Horseradish Schnapps from Pakruojis Manor Distillery (2 cl)

 

Cold appetizers

Lithuanian meat snack (4 types of local smoked meat or sausages)

Lithuanian cheese selection (4 types of local cheese from small Lithuanian farms)

Traditionally prepared pickled vegetables or mushrooms (1 type)

Salad with smoked fish, confit cherry tomatoes, fresh cherry tomatoes, walnuts, radishes and blueberry vinaigrette

Rye bran crisps with 3 types of vegetarian spreads

Fried rye bread with garlic

 

Hot appetizers

Crayfish with herbs

Hemp seed spread with baby potatoes

Beaver meat stew with champignons, tomatoes and potatoe puree flavoured with spinach

 

Main course choice options:

Boar meat roast, served with cowberry-wine sauce, sweet pear and potato croquets with cheese

Locally farmed catfish with nut and mustard crust, served with oven-roasted tomatoes and spinach-flavoured potatoe puree

Home-made vegan boletus dumplings, enjoyed by Lithuanians for traditional Christmas Eve, served with onion jam

 

Sweets

Creamy rye bread delicacy with cranberry jam and burnt meringue

Traditional Lithuanian apple cheese delicacy with ricotta

Candied pine cones

 

Traditional local drinks

Caraway kvass

Traditional mead (5 cl)

A choice of: local wine (glass) /

Lithuanian brewed beer (0.5 l) / cider / kombucha

Coffee / tea