Eating and Shopping in New Town
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Ben and Jerry's
The famous and oh so tasty American chain Ben and Jerry’s has proudly opened its doors in Prague (on July 30th)! The popular ice cream chain is located on the main shopping artery of Na Příkopě in the pretty Palac Koruna on the corner of Wenceslas Square. What a perfect place for a sweet treat after a long workout from shopping! All of the favorite and unusual super-rich flavors are there including Cherry Garcia, Chunky Monkey, Phish Food, and...
BOriSS Restaurant
Located in New Town in the wine cellar of the Autoclub Praha is the Russian restaurant BOriSS. The intimate wine cellar houses a cozy and warm establishment that will transport you to the heart of St. Petersburg. The wine cellar’s comfortable interior features a while marble floor covered with dark red rugs and dark wooden furniture, a perfect place to visit on a cold winter’s night. The walls are adorned with hanging wrought iron candleholders...
Buffalo Bill's
This authentic Tex-Mex restaurant, located in the city center, was founded in 1993 and has been making zesty Texan treats ever since. The zesty interior resembles an old time saloon in the Wild Wild West, in the days of William Cody, otherwise known as Buffalo Bill. The atmosphere is complete with American Indian and cowboy memorabilia, as well as Western film lore. The menu features American barbeque, fajitas, burritos, and salads with homemade dressing...
Cafe 35 at the French Institute
Located in New Town and active with the Czech Republic for over 120 years the French Institute is indeed an institute in its own right with a library, a cinema, a gallery, a café, school and more. The perfect place for a Francophile or a French expat, the French institute feels French, especially the café which features a true Parisian atmosphere and offers coffees, hot chocolate, tea, wine, beer, hot and cold sandwiches and much more including pains...
Cafe Evropa
Located in the grand Evropa Hotel, the Evropa Cafe is a hauntingly beautiful example of the past grandeur of Wenceslas Square and the Art Nouveau gems located throughout Prague. Sip on a coffee surrounded by the rich wooden and etched glass decor while enjoying the popular pastime of people watching. You may recognize the interior from the blockbuster Titanic. The movie based the dining room of the ship on the Evropa restaurant and cafe. Keep a lookout...
Cafe Imperial
One of the grandest cafes in Prague, Cafe Imperial brings back the grandeur of the turn of the century in Prague. With millions of ceramic tiles covering the walls and the pillars of the cafe in floral and animal designs depicting oriental or Moorish scenes, the cafe has long been one of the most sought after establishments in Prague. The cafe offers a fine Sunday brunch with fancy coffees, omelets, and a varied buffet. Although the cafe has been...
Cafe Louvre
This grand Art Nouveau establishment has greeted many distinguished figures, Kafka and Einstein among a few. The grand staircase will lead you to the first floor where you will be stunned by the impressive interior with its dominant red color, abundance of open space, large windows and classic setting. Cafe Louvre was closed during the Communist regime as it was perceived as too decadent and free spirited. It reopened after the Velvet Revolution with...
Celeste Restaurant & Bar
Located in the famous Dancing House-also known as the Fred and Ginger House, on the top two floors is the Celeste Restaurant & Bar. Celeste Restaurant & Bar, sister restaurant of Celeste Bistro, offers fine French cuisine on the top two floors of an unrivalled modern building; the restaurant features luxury modern décor, a summer terrace and wonderful views of Prague Castle, the Vltava River and the red rooftops of the Littler Quarter. The...
Coffee and Cigars
Coffee and Cigars is a coffeehouse combined with a restaurant boasting a contemporary design and a wide and colorful selection of light meals and drinks located just steps from Wenceslas Square in the Svetozor arcade. Bring your laptop and enjoy the free Wi-Fi Internet connection while sipping a delicious cappuccino or a glass of fresh orange juice. If you happen to be hungry, you will appreciate the variety of salads, steak and pasta dishes; thanks...
Country Life
Founded in 1991, Country Life is a health haven for organic food and other products such as natural cosmetics. Besides running 4 health food stores, Country Life also runs their own 400 acre organic farm, a bakery, 3 vegetarian restaurants, and a few cosmetics shops. And if that does not sound good enough, they also present lectures, organize health weeks, and operate health clubs. The health food stores offer organic barley, buckwheat, spelt, oats...
CzecHouse Grill & Rotisserie
"Tradition today" is the motto of CzecHouse Grill & Rotisserie, a dynamic non-smoking eatery set in the Prague Hilton Hotel but open to any one keen on exceptional food. To keep tradition alive it is necessary to find the right balance between innovative approaches and traditional recipes and cooking methods, the Chef of CzecHouse Peter De Smedt seems to be fully aware of this uneasy task and manages to deliver with elegance and success....
Dahab
Located in the New Town quarter of Prague, Dahab is a popular restaurant and cafe serving everything from honey sweets, couscous and green mint tea to hookahs with flavored tobacco. The word itself, Dahab, translates from Arabic to English to mean oasis or gold. An oasis it sure is, a pure oasis for all your five senses. Let yourself be transformed miles from Prague and bask in the sweetness of the cultural surroundings, savoir the exotic tastes and...
Diana World of Nuts
The extensive nut case in this shop will make your mouth water. You can purchase in bulk pine nuts, cashews, walnuts, Brazil nuts, pecans, peanuts; the list goes on. Diana World of Nuts also offers dried fruits, zesty wasabi peas; trail mixes, teas, herbs, seeds, hard candies, and sweet treats such as chocolate covered peanuts and raisins, sugarcoated jellies, licorices, and caramels. You can also find a limited selection of organic and international...
Farah Oriental Market
Farah Oriental Market is a wonderful food shop carrying Middle Eastern, Turkish, and Indian delicacies and spices. The shop offers a small halal meat case displaying fresh, thick and tender looking lamb perfect for lamb chops, as well as Merguez sausage and chicken. The sweets case is perfectly delectable looking and offers different phyllo and honey treats perfect for that sweet tooth craving. The most impressive and exciting thing to be found at...
Fruits de France
This charming store specializing in gorgeous fresh groceries imported weekly right from French ecofarms via the shop's own transportation, is located in the pretty, sought after Prague neighborhood of Vinohrady. This wonderful intimate gourmet store features a wonderful variety of fruits and exotic fruits, vegetables (including fresh cherries all year long), imported French wine and Champagne (including Bouchard table wines), mustard, honey, fresh...
Gourmet Club at Palace Hotel
The beautiful Art Nouveau Palace Hotel, one of the first 5 star hotels in Prague, is located just a few steps from Wenceslas square. The hotel has been offering high quality services to customers like Josephine Baker, Ema Destinova, Enrico Caruso, Louis Armstrong and Bob Dylan for more than a hundred years. Gourmet Club, an award-winning restaurant located in this hotel has certainly been responsible for at least part of the reputation of the Palace...
Govinda
Located in New Town, just outside of what once were the city walls, is the Vegetarian Restaurant and Club Govinda. Govinda is part of The Center for Vedic Studies which belongs to The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna Movement). This peaceful group of followers make tasty vegetarian delights daily, which are low priced and taste fresh, exotic and very good. What's more, you can also order all of the offered meals to...
Greenwave Bio Cosmetics
Located close to the Narodni Trida metro station is the Greenwave Bio Cosmetics store. Inspired by the ‘going green’ trend all around the world, the store promotes a healthy lifestyle by providing natural products that support ecological issues and decent production throughout the world. As soon as you enter the peaceful store your senses are greeted by the harmony of the fresh and natural scents of the essential oils and you are immediately...
Hard-De-Core
Located on the whimsical Senovazne Namesti, or Hay Square, is the equally whimsical Hard-De-Core design shop. Not only is this modern shop full of cool unique gifts, it is an art workshop, design studio and boutique all in one. Founded by Josefina Bakosova, an illustrator, costume and puppet designer, and Petra Krckova, a costume and fashion designer, Hard-de-core has become a favorite among young hip locals and discerning tourists alike. The shop...
Kartell
Headquartered in Milan, Kartell is an Italian design company founded in 1949 that produces plastic contemporary furniture and accessories. The company first produced and sold plastic accessories for automobiles. In 1963 the company started exploring home furnishings and the rest, as they say, is history. Known world round, Kartell is an elegant mixture of contemporary materials and classic design; the result is an extraordinarily unique product that...
KOGO
KOGO has long been considered one of the best restaurants in Prague offering legendary service and delicious food, for these very reasons KOGO has expanded over the years and now features many restaurants including KOGO in Slovansky Dum, complete with a lovely outdoor garden, the KOGO restaurant at Albatross Golf Club and KOGO on Havelska Street, the original restaurant. The interiors of all of the KOGO restaurants are pretty and inviting complete...
La Rotonde in Hotel Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel
The Alcron hotel is considered to be a synonym for excellent food by many Czechs. This is clearly no coincidence. Located in the near vicinity of Wenceslas Square right in the center of Prague, this legendary hotel hosts a few restaurants, one of them being an Art Deco gem, La Rotonde. Its unique circular design (yes, resembling a rotunda), stylish interior as well as a varied menu, might be the reasons why this restaurant has repeatedly been graded...
Le Grill Restaurant at Kempinski Hybernska Prague Hotel
One reason to think that Prague is gaining back its reputation as the European capital of culture, the reputation that was unfortunately lost during the five decades of totalitarian governments, is that a new luxurious hotel of the legendary Kempinski hotel chain was opened in Prague in October 2008. The other reason to think that those dark ages are finally over and forgotten is that part of this hotel is a brand new restaurant led by Marek Fichtner,...
Millhouse Sushi Kaitan
Millhouse Sushi Kaitan is a sushi bar located in the lively garden of the Slovansky Dum shopping center and cinema complex, a perfect green spot to enjoy mouthwatering sushi before or after a shopping outing or a film viewing. Millhouse Sushi Kaitan also boasts one of the only conveyor belts in Prague, full of tasty sashimi, maki rolls and nigiri rolls and much more made fresh by the Japanese sushi Chef. The standard menu also features a variety of...
Mysak Sweet Shop
Located steps from Wenceslas Square on lively Vodičkova Street, is the famous Mýsák sweet shop, well, a reconstructed version of the legendary sweet shop, as the Rondo-Cubist building that housed the famous confectionary from 1910 collapsed in 2006. In the true spirit of renovation and nostalgia, the structure was rebuilt and the sweet shop reopened its famous doors in 2008. Mýsák sweet shop was one of the most popular establishments of the First...
Paneria
Paneria is a popular chain located throughout Prague. Inexpensive, tasty and fast, Paneria is Prague’s answer to fast food. And it is yummy fast food at that, especially the pastries and bread. It is nice also to know that there is a place in the tourist ridden center of Prague where you can have lunch for under 100kc. Paneria offers Panini sandwiches, baked goods such as rolls, baguettes and croissants, desserts including fruit tarts, cherry...
Radost FX
Located in Vinohrady, Radost FX, a restaurant and cafe boasts a large vegetarian menu and a cool interior. The cafe is an eclectic place offering a very tasty brunch menu from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in a very attractive and romantic golden setting decorated with mirrors. From 11:00 a.m. on, the main menu is offered, featuring fresh and delicious international vegetarian cuisine, recipes from Thailand, Mexico, Greece and India. The health conscious...
Ristorante Pagana
One of the things that might strike you about Prague is how popular Italian food is; there is quite literally, a pizzeria on almost every corner. Unfortunately, the quality is often quite poor and in nine out of ten cases the food offered should really be called Czech-Italian instead of traditional Italian. It is therefore always a pleasant surprise to discover a true original in a deep sea of bad replicas, a real Italian restaurant among so many...
Starbucks
Prague recently saw the opening of its first Starbucks, the global coffee phenomenon. Starbucks features a wide variety of coffee and treats, standard around the world, ideal for visitors not wanting to experiment and who long for their accustomed taste of Starbucks Coffee. The first Starbucks opened in a beautifully restored building, situated on Lesser Town Square under the Prague Castle. Service is efficient, professional and friendly. With several...
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Taj Mahal
India, the fabled land where exotic spices, delicious food, tigers, elephants and the famed Taj Mahal mix together to create an atmospheric fairy tale. You can visit India in Prague if you wish, with a trip to the Taj Mahal restaurant located behind the National Museum. Taj Mahal restaurant features zesty tandoor oven grilled chicken, northern lamb kormas and spicy southern dishes among other delicious creations on the comprehensive menu that includes...
The Globe
The Globe, hailed as a Prague institution-a title it surely deserves, is a lovely restaurant, café and bookstore with over 10,000 new and used titles ranging in diversity, located in the New Town section of Prague. The Globe, famous as the first English bookstore in Prague, is now offering delicious and eclectic Mediterranean cuisine, with a varied menu offering fresh homemade pastas and much more. The stunning red restaurant located in the back of...
Vegetarian Restaurant Country Life
Founded in 1991, Country Life is a health haven for organic food and other products such as natural cosmetics. Besides running 4 health food stores, Country Life also runs their own 400 acre organic farm, a bakery, 3 vegetarian restaurants, and a few cosmetics shops. And if that does not sound good enough, they also present lectures, organize health weeks, and operate health clubs. This review focuses on the Old Town restaurant located in a cool quiet...
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