Food in Prague

Finally I'm getting the last Prague blog! Czech food is meat, wild meat, game meat, and organ meat. Did I mention there was meat? It is extremely heavy food usually cooked in beer and served with something pickled. To our surprise though, everywhere offered at least three vegetarian dishes, and they were more than a salad too.

First things first, breakfast. Our hotel the first two nights had an amazing breakfast buffet. Breakfast in Europe is very different from breakfast in the US. It is typical to eat cold cuts and cheese or yogurt and granola here, hot breakfast is almost unheard of. This buffet had both. The hot parts weren't great, but the cold parts were plentiful and varied. We loved this breakfast.

The first night we went mid range. The food was really good and we were happy with our choice. We even had a sommelier.

Chris had snitzel, sweetbread, and granitated potatoes

Lunch on the second day warranted warm food. It was cold out and we had been walking for hours. We popped into a Czech pub and tried our luck with some traditional Czech food, pork knee and pickled veggies.

That bowl of white shredded something is horseradish

It was really good. The meat was so tender and the sauce super tasty. The next meal needed to have some veggies and not have meat for me. So pizza it was! It was awesome pizza too.

 

The downside to eating in Prague is the smoke. They still have smoking sections in their restaurants with the mentality that somehow smoke doesn't flow between the two sections. There were a lot of restaurants we walked out of because the smoke was so heavy. We were lucky in the pizza place that no one started smoking till we were putting our coats on to leave. The next night we ate sushi. They were completely nonsmoking!

 

The last night we were in town I googled nonsmoking restaurants in Prague. Three places came up. One of them was an American burger joint with really good reviews. Everyone said the place was tiny and they didn't take reservations, so we went around 8:00. There was one table open. It was an easy metro ride away. It was a super cute little hole in the wall type place that was a few steps down from street level.

The bartender was rocking a pretty cool handlebar mustache.

 

The menu was so American, with burgers, fries, pulled pork, and ranch dressing. They even had Kentucky bourbon pecan pie! The food was absolutely amazing! We both loved our burgers soooo much! It was a good find.

 

We had really good food in Prague. It was cheap and tasty.

 

 

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