Serendipity led us to the restaurant "U Vltavy" ("At the Vltav"; the Vltav is the river in Prague that may be better known as the Moldau). It's on the corner of Brehova and 17. listopadu, not far from the Rudolfinum and just off the Parizska street. (There are accents that I'm not including here because I just don't know how to get them or how they'd work on this site.) GREAT Czech food -- I had a wonderful half roast duck with dumplings and red and white cabbage, and Judy had a venison stew in a really cool bread bowl. But the restaurant isn't listed in any of the guides we saw. (It also has a Greek menu, but we'll stick with Czech food in Prague, thank you.)
The guidebooks, on the other hand, all include the "Hostinec U Kalicha" on Na Bojisti near the Pavlova metro stop. The main claim to fame there seems to be its link to "The Good Soldier Schweik" described in the pages linked above, and the restaurant walls are covered with drawings that were (I believe) done by the artist who illustrated the book. Look for the navigable images on the Web pages! More on the book and on Schweik later, but the bar at the restaurant is supposed to be the place where Schweik planned to meet a friend "at 6 o'clock after the war." We had roast piglet there, and again we found this Czech specialty to be really wonderful.
So -- the next time you're in Prague, these are two personal recommedations. I hope you'll enjoy them as much as we did!
1 comment:
i would have tried the greek menu, just to see how greek greek food would be in prague.
but that's just me, i guess!
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