Viral, Yet Still a Hidden Gem: An Interview with Ugruzina Founder Lukrecijus Dūda

Agnė Dovydaitytė, 14.07.2026

By noon, a queue snakes down a Vilnius street once nicknamed "Las Vegas." Pensioners fresh from the market stand beside suited office workers, schoolchildren and one of Lithuania's legendary basketball players. Inside Ugruzina, its owner is sharing a table with a former mafia boss while simultaneously dealing with a burst pipe in the Muay Thai gym upstairs.

There is nothing quite like Ugruzina in Vilnius. Despite becoming one of Lithuania's biggest restaurant success stories on social media, it somehow still feels like a local secret. That secret won't last much longer: the team is already preparing to open a second, more sophisticated Ugruzina in the city later this year.

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Viral, Yet Still a Hidden Gem: An Interview with Ugruzina Founder Lukrecijus Dūda