Many restaurants in Prague offer a "continental breakfast", i.e. a set consisting of tea/coffee, pastries, cheese, sausage, ham.
Judging by the fact that in the morning many locals are rushing to work and at the same time holding a glass of tea or coffee from Starbucks in one hand, we can conclude that most of them simply do not have time for breakfast, or they just eat breakfast.
A large number of restaurants in the capital offer a “continental breakfast”, i.e. a set consisting of tea/coffee, pastries, cheese, sausage, ham. But if you are not an early bird, and your breakfast starts after 10:00, then in the Czech Republic you can easily miss it, since in many establishments, including hotels, it ends at 10:00. But don’t let this upset you too much - start straight away for lunch.
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The Czech Republic is considered a delicious country, and Prague, as a tourist megabrand, is generally a gastronomic paradise. The portions are huge, the beer is delicious, there are restaurants for every taste and budget at every turn.
They argue about tastes, oh, how they argue! Therefore, I’m taking a risk and still offering my subjective selection of “Oh yes, food!” first approach.
I look forward to your comments and feedback on where you have been, what you have tried, or what you would like to try.
Czech cuisine itself is simple and satisfying, I would say unhealthy. Beer and fatty sausages, flour dumplings and sauces. But!
Czechs are great adapters. Possessing such a superpower as the ability to take the best from their neighbors, they wonderfully use this skill in their national cuisine.
So, let's study the menu
Top list of Czech cuisine
What to drink?
TOP drinks
Beer What is your first association with the Czech Republic? Of course, BEER. To be honest, I don’t drink beer, so all the information on beer is collected hereNot drinking beer doesn't exempt you from searching for information, so check out my local friends' recommendations: it's worth a visit pubs with telling titles Hard Times and Ball Lightning
Mattoni mineral water, which the Czechs are very proud of. I especially recommend it with delicate notes of aromatic grapefruit. You can buy it at any supermarket. Kofola Mega-popular fizzy drink(a la the Baikal drink), positioned as a herbal drink. For me – Coca-Cola in Czech.
Absinthe is a popular tourist trap.
What to drink in Prague?
What to eat?“Little bread” – chlebicek (bread)
, or the story of the presidential sandwich.
While walking in the center, don’t be lazy to stop by the Jan Paukert grocery store, which has been operating on Narodni trida street 17 since 1916.
The owner invented a new one! the formula for the “Czech sandwich” recipe, which was especially favored by the first President of the Republic, Garrick Mazarik. Khlebichki instantly became a symbol of the quality of Czechoslovakia.
The recipe for a “Czech sandwich” is originally a piece of bread spread with homemade mayonnaise with Swiss cheese and Hungarian salami, today offered in a variety of variations.
My Czech friend says that real bread is sandwiches with potato and egg salad, salami and cheese. Khlebichiki
We tried our first bread in an inexpensive culinary chain with a stunning, self-explanatory name: Libeřské lahůdky (lahudki are translated simply as delicacies).
Czechs love this place very much, and in addition to bread, you can try typical Czech salads, pies, and pastries. These shops also accept payment. Advice:
Next time you're feeding the whole family a breakfast sandwich, don't forget to get them excited about the fact that they're getting some bread today! 🙂 Traditional beer snacks are also sausages and other drownings
(drowned) are huge sausages with lard, drenched in marinade, drowned in a huge amount of onions, spices and simmered in all this for several days. Grilled cheese
- another traditional snack. Unlike utopenets, I tried fried cheese, but didn’t understand the taste. But I wholeheartedly recommend the crispy koloboki – cheese croquettes.
What to eat? If you decide to enjoy the beauty of Christmas Prague, then it’s ideal to warm up while walking
soups.
TOP soupsGarlic soup – Cesnecka (garlic).
Prepared with the addition of smoked meats, very tasty and aromatic, served with bread croutons.
Potato soup – Bramboracka.
The name speaks for itself. Tasty.
If you manage to get to Prague during the “soup days” on the embankment, then you are guaranteed a belly feast.
TOP main dishes
Svickova - Svickova na smetane (Svickova with sour cream).This is beef tenderloin, very soft meat, it just melts in your mouth, served with flour dumplings (pieces of bread, in my opinion), which need to be dipped in rich gravy (sauce - omachka). The love for sauces is clearly hello from Italy. I would call this dish: “Goodbye waist!” By the way, dumplings are a typical Czech dish, they come in flour, potato and even dessert - fruit.
Veprovo's knee – Pecene veprove koleno(liver boar's knee).
Tourist bomb: a huge baked pork knuckle. Servings for 2-3 hungry tourists. We haven't tried it. 
Baked duck with sauerkraut and dumplings – Pecena kachna (baked kachna).
Typically a portion is a quarter of a duck. Greetings from the Germans!
Czech cuisine. Svichkova and dumplingsTOP desserts
“Fool” – Trdlo (trdlo) is the main tourist trap. We read about it here Waffles – Oplatky (payments).
A great idea for a sweet gift from the Czech Republic if bought in supermarkets.
Apple strudel – Hello again from Austria-Hungary. Best strudel bakery Where can you have lunch for 100 CZK or less? On the website we select a restaurant depending on the area of Prague. What I really like are the places where “calorie bombs” accumulate. Czech confectionery is
Cukrárna
from the word Cukr (Tsukr) - sugar, and coffee shop - kavárna (kavarna)
from the word kavá (coffee). The most famous, historical and delicious Prague places
Confectionery in Prague 
3. Erhartova Cukrarna confectionery awaits lovers of the 30s, stylish design and the freshest mousse delicacies with the subtlest fruity notes. Address: Milady Horákové 56, Prague 7 With an excellent children's area inside and the largest Stromovka park next door.
What to try in Prague?
- 4. The oldest, most bohemian Prague cafe “Slavia” (Kavárna Slavia) Address: Národní 1012/1, Praha 1. You can still enjoy live music every day from 17-23. The main specialty drink here is coffee with absinthe. Portraits of famous visitors: Bedrich Smetana, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vaclav Havel decorate these historical walls.
- Coffee house “Slavia”
Restaurant for little Sheldons and their parents in Prague I hope this collection will be useful to you. The first part of the cheat sheet is here
It would seem that it would be a problem to find a place where you can have breakfast in Prague, but in reality it is a problem. Most cafes and restaurants in Prague open at 11:00 or 12:00. Don't wait until then for breakfast! Believe me, there are several places in Prague where you can have a delicious breakfast.
Simple and fast
Most fast food restaurants, which includes McDonald's, offer breakfast. They, of course, are not original, but they will help quell hunger. These establishments are located in different parts of Prague, including the center, and are inexpensive.
Another place where you can have breakfast is the hotel. You can even go from the street to a hotel restaurant and order breakfast for a fee, no one will judge you for this.
Early risers
Still, in Prague you can find several cafes and restaurants on the menu that offer breakfast – snídaně. They are usually offered from 8:00. We will tell you about some of them.
IN Cafe Savoy(Vítězná 5, Praha 5 Malá Strana) offer a choice of 5 set breakfasts. This is a popular place, so if you plan to go there, make a reservation in advance.
Pradelnacafe(Slavíkova 21, 120 00, Prague 2) is a very tiny establishment, with only 20 seats, but they serve incredibly delicious pastries and very hearty breakfasts. The prices are similar to the premises - just as low.
If you want to have breakfast among the locals and experience the real Prague, you will have to leave the center and visit Cafe Jen(Kodaňská 37, Prague 10 – Vršovice). They offer guests both cold and hot breakfasts.
Pastacaffe In a cafe bar Pastacaffe(Vězeňská 141/1, 110 00 Josefov) you can order a thoughtful set breakfast or choose from a menu.
At the restaurant COMO(Václavské náměstí 45/818, Prague 1) offer a choice of 7 set breakfasts, including a fitness breakfast. By the way, drinks are included in the price of breakfast.
Restaurant Home kitchen (Jungmannova 8, Prague 1 – NovéMěsto) It’s very reminiscent of home, it’s also warm and cozy here, and they serve the same delicious breakfasts.
In the cafe Můj šálek kávy (Křižíkova 105, Prague 8) It has its own bakery and is famous for its baked goods. Just imagine what sweet aromas are in there.
Do you want to have breakfast in a rather original way? Then head to the farmers market Náplavka (Náplavka, Prague 2). Life is in full swing here from the very morning, voices are heard everywhere, and the air is saturated with the aroma of coffee and fresh pastries. Buy warm buns with jam and coffee at the kiosk and have breakfast on the river bank in the company of ducks.
Looking for zest
Residents of Prague are not particularly picky about food. For breakfast they have a slice of grain bread with pork or chicken ham. They can diversify it with cheese, sausages, eggs or jam. Czechs also love sweet pastries, such as donuts.
Breakfast is usually washed down with tea with lemon or coffee. But fruit juices rarely appear on their table.
As you can see, the traditional Czech breakfast is very simple, without any zest, so when ordering dishes in restaurants and cafes, be guided by your taste.
One of the main attractions of Prague is Czech national cuisine. To be honest, the Czech Republic does not have its own original dishes as such - “boar’s knee”, also known as “knuckle”, is also popular in Bavaria, goulash, beloved by the Czechs, came from Hungary, sausages, which are sold in Prague on every corner, are a purely Austrian theme . But here they cook it somehow especially tasty. I’ll say right away that during all 3 days in the Czech capital we did not encounter a single frankly tasteless restaurant.
Old Town Square – the most delicious restaurants in Prague are concentrated around it
This article will be about where to eat in Prague. Naturally, a separate part of it will be devoted to where to drink here, because the famous Czech beer and the old beer halls of Prague are almost legendary.
Beer restaurants in Prague
Yes, yes, in every Prague establishment they will pour you a glass of beer and it is possible that everywhere it will be, if not outstanding, then at least pleasant. But in this chapter we will talk about places where the beer seemed especially tasty to us, but at the same time the food was also decent (that’s why the chapter was called “Restaurants”, and not purely “Beer Prague”)
U Zlaty K onvice
This restaurant is very conveniently located - almost on Old Town Square, but at the same time, it is not a walk-through. We noticed that guests came here not “on the way”, but mainly with a preliminary reservation, and this, verified, is a sign of a good establishment.
Also, the interior - of all the cafes and restaurants in Prague that we visited, the style of U Zlaty Konvice was the one I remember most - this is a classic establishment of Czech cuisine in the “hunting style”, with stuffed animals, antlers, bear skins covering half the walls, heavy wooden furniture. In general, atmospheric and authentic.
Restaurant U Zlaty Konvice
Menu: in U Zlaty Konvice it is varied and convenient - translated into several languages of the world and all positions in it are numbered. That is, you choose a dish that you like in your language and simply tell the waiter its number.
There is a very tender and tasty knuckle (“Boar’s Knee”). True, the side dish for it is weak - a couple of pickled hot peppers. If you want that most delicious stewed cabbage, you need to order it separately. I also recommend trying the Old Bohemian style garlic soup; rumor has it that it is very tasty.
As for the beer at U Zlaty Konvice, we tried Krušovice. It is soft and not bitter at all. It doesn’t have any distinct aftertaste, but this lightness and the absolute absence of bitterness are captivating. And yes, liter beer mugs are certainly strong :)
Restaurant address: Melantrichova 477/22
Prices, as in many restaurants in Prague, are not very high (compared to other European capitals), given that the portions are very large. For dinner for two we left approximately 800 CZK (30 euros)
U tri ruzi
Another national beer restaurant in the center of Prague, where you can eat deliciously and inexpensively. By the way, it was recommended to us by locals, and this already has a certain level of trust in the establishment.
I’ll immediately emphasize that in U tri ruzi (literally “At three roses”) there are 3 floors, remember, THREE. Simply, there is an assumption that the waiters of each floor receive a percentage of the profit of their particular floor, so the “ground floor” staff does not particularly talk about the availability of more rooms, which is very strange - there is a line at the entrance, the waiters ask you to wait for free seats, tables are on the 2nd and The 3rd floor is empty. We knew about this fact, so we sat almost alone on the 2nd floor.
Restaurant U Tri Ruzi
“Three Roses” has very good cuisine - meaty, large knuckle, served with stewed sauerkraut, goulash in bread is very tender and satisfying, and in addition to meat dishes there are delicious Russian-style pickles.
The beer is also good, but not as memorable as in U Zlaty Konvice.
Address: Husova 232/10
U Fleku (U Fleku)
Legendary Prague restaurant-brewery with almost 500 years of history. There are always a lot of people here, there are almost no seats, despite the very large area and several halls. And there is only one reason for this excitement - beer. I am not a connoisseur or a fan of this drink, but I now recognize the taste of beer from the U Fleku brewery from 1000. It is absolutely not bitter and has some unusual taste, very similar to coffee. It is precisely these notes of coffee that make U Fleku beer unusual and memorable.
Restaurant-brewery U Fleku
At U Fleku, guests are not given the right to choose a drink; when you sit down at the table, they immediately bring you a mug of beer and only then a menu. There are a lot of people, there are a lot of waiters (at the same time they manage to devote time to all the guests and even joke), there is a lot of noise, there is still a feeling of a conveyor belt, but I suggest you not pay attention to this, but make noise and have fun with everyone. Here the atmosphere of a real Czech beer hall is more, and if you prefer restaurants where you can roll a ball, then definitely not here - sit in some lounge bar in Moscow City, on a Tuesday afternoon :)
The food at U Fleku is not as outstanding as beer, but decent - sausages, fried loin, Czech potato pancakes (I wonder if Belarusians know that there are also Czech potato pancakes?), very hearty soups (potato and garlic).
In U Fleku, by appointment, you can book a tour of the brewery itself. They only take groups of 10 people or more and only at certain times – from 10:00 to 16:00. The cost of the excursion is 200 CZK per person.
Address: Kremencova 1651/11
In general, we had limited time, so we managed to visit these establishments from the pubs. We were also highly recommended the Peklo restaurant, which is located in the Strahov Monastery. The beer there is rumored to be one of the best in the Czech Republic. Forums and thematic sites spoke well of the beer bars U Medvidku and Vytopna (the beer and food here are ordinary, but they are not served by waiters, but rather are delivered by toy trains on a railway that runs through the entire restaurant).
Romantic restaurants in Prague
It would seem that Prague is purely about “filling your belly with inhuman portions, filling it all with beer, making noise and falling off,” but no, in this city there are many quiet, cozy places where you can easily spend an evening date or just have a nice sit.
Casserol
A restaurant in the very center of the city with sophisticated cuisine, by Czech standards. The portions here are served in an intricate manner, beautifully decorated, the waiters are very friendly, they will tell you in detail about the entire menu and give you some advice.
Preparing dishes for serving at the Casserol restaurant
Here you can drink good wine (even order a tasting), eat dishes with a touch of national cuisine, but ones that you won’t find anywhere else in the city - ribs with honey-onion sauce, duck with potato-garlic sauce, tender lamb meat.
In general, there is no recklessness of Czech pubs here, everything is cozy, quiet, elegant and each guest has his own approach. As is clear from everything written above, we liked it and recommend it.
Address: Karlova 147/44
Velkoprevorsky Mlin
A small restaurant very close to Charles Bridge on the Prague Castle side.
I don't really recommend the local cuisine - it's good, but nothing outstanding, and the prices are not the cheapest. But! It’s definitely worth sitting here and drinking a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, because the place is very atmospheric – both the interior, the veranda, and the main highlight of the place is the wheel of the old mill, which slowly spins in the river. The sound of water, a view of the Charles Bridge, a beautiful interior - a great combination.
Restaurant – mill at the entrance and veranda in the shade of trees
I have friends who celebrated their wedding anniversary here. So yes, this is exactly the kind of event that this place is suitable for.
Address: Hroznova 489/3
U Zlate Studne
Well, according to tradition, a little about panoramic restaurants. We have already talked briefly about Prague restaurant views, in particular about U Prince in the article , Here we will focus on U Zlate Studne. The restaurant is located near Prague Castle and has a beautiful viewing terrace. But at the same time, it’s also delicious. Not cheap, of course, as in all similar restaurants, but the combination of cuisine, level of service and panorama of the most beautiful city in Europe is definitely worth it.
Restaurant U Zlate Studne
The menu is, so to speak, “luxury”: Foie gras, Canadian lobster, black sturgeon caviar. There is a tasting set, but you can also order a la carte.
It is better to book a table in such a place in advance.
Address: Prague 1 - Lesser Town. 4th floor of the Golden Well Hotel
Street food of Prague
The Czech capital has very tasty food in small street stalls and eateries. These include classic caramel apples with gingerbread and national trdelniki, which can be found at every step.
Trdelnik (or Trdlo) is a traditional Czech pastry, similar to an incompletely rolled Sinabon bun. A delicious thing, especially if you take it with some additives - ice cream, vanilla cream or Nutella. The average cost of one trdelnik is 60-65 CZK.
This is what trdeltiki look like - the most popular street food in Prague
Also, all the central streets of Prague smell of pork, because in small open-air eateries they make shanks (only they don’t serve them whole, as in restaurants, but cut them into pieces) and fry sausages. You can often find fried cheese and potato pancakes.
Fair on Old Town Square
Conclusion
As you understand from the text above, we fell in love with Czech cuisine, in my opinion, even more than with Italian cuisine. Everything here is simple, but tasty and very satisfying. In Prague, inexpensive beer bars, small cafes, and fashionable restaurants are homely, cozy and hospitable.
When thinking through your plan, dedicate at least 40% of your time to getting to know the local cuisine, it’s really worth it.
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