Must-try places to eat in Vilnius
The places locals send visitors to — historic, traditional or simply part of the city’s story.
Reviewed November 2026
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Must-try places to eat in Vilnius
Chosen by Tasted from tourism boards, culinary-heritage lists, guides and the local press. In alphabetical order, never ranked and never paid for.
A tavern beside the Town Hall serving Lithuanian dishes until late at night. It revived a Soviet-era tavern of the same name in the 1990s.
HistoricTraditionalRecognised
A mill complex from 1838 in Pavilniai Regional Park, restored from 2001, where an inn serves Lithuanian dishes and an open-air café by the Vilnia rapids cooks folk food over an open fire.
HistoricTraditionalRecognised
A Lithuanian restaurant on Gediminas Avenue, run by a business that has cooked Lithuanian food since 1999. Dozens of dishes on its menu carry Lithuania's national heritage mark, given to food made by traditions over a century old.
TraditionalLocal favourite
A restaurant in a townhouse from the time of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, on Šv. Jono Street. Its tasting menus, devised with historians, recreate what Lithuanian nobility ate between the 13th and 19th centuries.
HistoricTraditionalRecognised
Lithuanian country cooking — cepelinai, kugelis, potato pancakes — on Pilies Street in the Old Town. Its dishes are certified by Lithuania's Culinary Heritage Fund, which asks for recipes over a century old made the traditional way.
TraditionalRecognised
Open since 1972 in the Gothic cellars of a 15th-century merchant's house in the Old Town. Lokys ('the bear') cooks game and Lithuanian forest food such as mushrooms and berries, and the same family has run it for two generations.
HistoricTraditionalRecognised
On Gediminas Avenue since 1959, designed by the brothers Algimantas and Vytautas Nasvytis. Its 1960 interior, with murals of the Neringa legend, is protected heritage; Vilnius artists and intellectuals gathered here.
HistoricRecognised
Named after 1918, the year Lithuania declared independence, and set in the restored 17th-century Vainiai Palace. Its tasting menus are built on Lithuanian produce, and it has held a Michelin star since 2024.
HistoricRecognised
A cottage-style restaurant in Naujamiestis cooking Lithuanian home food — cepelinai, game, potato dishes — served on clay plates, with bread baked every day to an old Lithuanian recipe.
TraditionalRecognised
A café on the Vilnelė riverbank at the entrance to Užupis, open since 1994 in an 18th-century building. It is known as the gathering place of the district's self-declared Republic of Užupis.
HistoricRecognised