Akvamarinas

The busy port city of Klaipėda plays host to this cosy restaurant where, once you’ve located the discreet entrance – a very warm welcome awaits. As you step over the threshold, a feeling of calm engulfs you, and you can drift away from the world outside. Lunch is a simple affair and represents great value, while at dinner, honest flavours shine through in modern dishes where fish is a highlight, such as in the roasted cod with coco beans, chorizo and cauliflower. This will quickly become one of your favourite new places to eat.

You’ll find the Monist restaurant housed inside the boutique hotel of the same name, along with a comfortable bar for pre-dinner drinks, creating a cossetting retreat from the world outside. The room is decorated in warm, natural colours, and nature guides the cooking too, with dishes inspired by the seasons. The à la carte menu offers plenty of choice and while it's underpinned by traditional Lithuanian flavours, here they’re given a refreshingly restorative modern makeover. Highlights include the sea bass with parsnip purée and, for dessert, the sticky layered cake with quince and hazelnuts.

You’ll receive a truly warm welcome at this contemporary Italian bistro set in the corner of the Grand Theatre Square. Brightly decorated ceramics and colourful paintings pop against white walls, giving the place the feel of a seaside osteria on the Amalfi coast, and while the chef is Lithuanian, his cooking feels authentically Italian too. Dishes are carefully prepared, heartily proportioned and well-seasoned, from the Neapolitan-style pizzas to the likes of rolled snow crab raviolo with beurre blanc or osso bucco with risotto Milanese and gremolata.