Eating and Shopping in New Town

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, established in 1993, and famous as the first English bookstore in Prague, features some of the best home cooking in the city of Prague and offers juicy burgers, crisp salads, colorful pastas, a full American-style brunch on the weekends, and more, alongside delicious coffee, tea, cocktails, wine and beer. The stunning restaurant is located in the back of a

Miyabi

Miyabi is a truly authentic Japanese restaurant close to Karlovo Namesti in Prague 1 with an attractive, simple and clean interior decorated with natural elements such as bamboo and stone. The menu is varied and includes a good selection of maki and nigiri rolls, sashimi, tempura and teriyaki dishes, soba noodles, fresh salads, and interesting tasty desserts including tiramisu with green tea, green tea sorbet and wagashi. A wide variety of take-out lunch options are available in the traditional Obento style, offering a fresh, convenient, and healthy option for lunch. The tea menu is large and

Modry Zub Restaurant

Located on bustling Spálená Street is the exciting and refreshingly authentic Modry Zub Restaurant. This fine dining authentic Thai establishment is a sister restaurant to Modry Zub Noodle Bar, which is also located in New Town on Jindrisska Street. This elegant restaurant uses only the freshest ingredients imported from Germany and Austria whenever certain ingredients are needed that the Czech Republic does not import, such as Thai Zucchini and Thai spices. Modry Zub Restaurant, a 100% perfect authentic Thai establishment in the center of Prague also has the honor of wining and dining the

Bageterie Boulevard

Bageterie Boulevard is a chain restaurant located throughout Prague that serves a healthier version of fast food that is tasty and affordable. One of the best features of Bageterie Boulevard is that the establishment serves breakfast until 11:00 a.m. including such delights as yogurt with fruit, croissants, English muffins, fresh coffee drinks and more for hungry passersby on their way to work or sightseeing. For lunch or a light snack, Bageterie Boulevard offers a variety of salads including a Caesar’s Salad and a Caprese Salad alongside twelve signature baguettes, such as the Caprese

Farah Oriental Market

Farah Oriental Market is a wonderful food shop carrying Middle Eastern, Turkish, and Indian delicacies and spices. The shop offers a variety of certified halal meat neatly arranged in a case displaying fresh, thick and tender-looking lamb perfect for lamb chops, as well as Merguez sausage and chicken. This is the perfect place in Prague 1 to meet your certified halal meat needs. 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 Farah Oriental Market are the

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 jelly candies, licorices, and caramels. You can also find a limited selection of organic and international foods such as brown sugar, Tamari and Indian marinades. Diana World of Nuts is a chain store and has several locations across Prague; see

Terry Posters

Located inside of the hip Svetozor art house cinema complex is Terryho Ponozky or Terry Posters. The store specializes in everything dealing with movies including vintage Czechoslovak movie posters from the 1930s-1989 (The extensive vintage collection boasts 8,000 original graphic posters of genres such as animation, sci-fi, westerns, spy films, war films and more). The perfect store for film buffs, Terrys Posters also features fiction on movies, international, Czech and Slovakian DVDS, clothes and poster exhibitions as well. Poster exhibitions are held in the main lobby of the Svetozor

Lucerna Passage

An intricate system of passages runs under the Art Nouveau Lucerna Palace from 1920 connecting Vodickova and Stepanska streets; this is the Lantern passage. New Town is full of passages leading you to winding streets, small shops and interesting secret cafes. The Lantern passage, or Lucerna Passage, seems to be one of the largest and the most interesting. It is connected in a maze of passages to the Novak Arcade as well. Underneath the Palace you will find the entrance to the Lucerna Theater, the Lucerna cinema, a rock club, unique boutiques, a wine shop, new age crystal stores, Lucerna cafe,