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💡 The Short Version: The place named by the most independent sources is Lokál (18 sources), a Pilsner Urquell beer hall with seven branches in Prague, then Kantýna (14), a butcher’s counter where you load roast meat on a tray and pay by weight. U Fleků (8) is the brewery pub the guides call touristy and still list. For a cheap lunch, Lidová jídelna Těšnov serves a half-litre of Pilsner Urquell for 30 CZK, Monday to Friday only. For a table that needs booking, the Michelin Guide Czechia gives stars to Field, La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise, Casa De Carli, LEVITATE and Štangl. Lonely Planet advises avoiding the restaurants on Old Town Square. If you would rather have someone choose for you, Prague food tours compared sets the guided walks side by side, and Prague beer tours covers the breweries.
📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. This pass reads 40 sources, 29 in English and 11 in Czech, naming 144 places: editorial mastheads (Time Out, Eater, The Infatuation, Lonely Planet, Expats.cz, Apetit, Seznam Zprávy, Refresher and others), Prague food blogs in both languages, four YouTube channels and six Reddit threads. 74 places are named by two or more independent sources. The Michelin Guide Czechia and Gault&Millau are printed as a “recognised by” line and do not add to a place’s count. Within each group the places run from most to fewest sources, and each count, with its split by language, is in the line under the heading. Time Out’s two lists, The Infatuation’s two and Lonely Planet’s two count as one source each. How the guides are made
⚠️ Check the day before you go. Lidová jídelna Těšnov is closed on Saturday and Sunday and serves 10:30 to 14:30. Casa De Carli is closed on Saturday and Sunday, LEVITATE and Štangl on Sunday and Monday, and Taro on Sunday and Monday. Naše maso on Dlouhá is closed on Sunday. Kantýna and Dva kohouti take no reservations. Kitchens that close between lunch and dinner include Výčep (14:45 to 17:00), U Kalendů (14:30 to 17:00) and U Kroka (16:00 to 17:00).
The ten places named by the most sources
Ambiente, a restaurant group, runs seven of the twelve most-named places, and its own site lists Lokál, Kantýna, Naše maso, Kuchyň, Café Savoy, Eska, Myšák, U Kalendů, La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise and Štangl among its restaurants. Ranking by count alone would put one company in seven of those twelve places, so this table keeps its two most-named places, Lokál and Kantýna. The others, with the same counts, are in the sections below and marked “Ambiente group”.
| Place | Sources | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Lokál | 18 | A beer hall on Dlouhá with a bar 69.78 m long |
| Kantýna | 14 | A butcher’s counter and restaurant; no reservations |
| U Fleků | 8 | A brewery pub with eight halls and a garden |
| Café Louvre | 7 | A grand café on Národní with a billiard hall |
| Výčep | 7 | A Vinohrady pub with its own bread, cheese and salami; Michelin Bib Gourmand |
| Café Imperial | 6 | An Art Deco café in the Hotel Imperial, serving a breakfast buffet from 07:00 |
| Vinohradský parlament | 6 | A pub with an open dumpling kitchen |
| Field | 5 | A Michelin one-star tasting restaurant |
| Havelská Koruna | 5 | A self-service restaurant with at least 40 dishes a day |
| Manifesto Market Anděl | 5 | A food hall of 17 restaurants and bars; no Czech category |
Booking and queueing
- Book well ahead: Field (reservations held for 15 minutes, smart casual, not suitable for children under 6), La Degustation, Štangl, LEVITATE and Casa De Carli. Lonely Planet says to book Field well in advance and to book Výčep and Hostinec Na Výtoni too.
- Book, on the place’s own site: Lokál, Kuchyň, U Kalendů, Café Savoy, Café Imperial, U Matěje, Hostinec Na Výtoni, Červený jelen, U Modré kachničky, Alma and Taro. Mlýnec asks groups of six or more for a deposit of 500 CZK a person. U Zlatého tygra takes bookings by phone and U Medvídků by phone or email.
- Walk in: Kantýna and Dva kohouti, which take no reservations, Havelská Koruna and Lidová jídelna Těšnov, which are self-service, and Manifesto Market Anděl.
Pubs and beer halls
Order by name: svíčková is braised beef in a cream sauce of root vegetables, served with cranberry jam and bread dumplings; guláš is a beef stew eaten with dumplings; smažený sýr is fried cheese; utopenec is a pickled sausage. A Prague pub, a hospoda or pivnice, serves a draught lager poured from a tank, plus a short menu: pickled sausage, beer cheese, goulash and a roast. Pilsner Urquell is the beer most of them pour; the beer halls below are the ones the sources name.
Svíčková: braised beef in cream sauce with bread dumplings, cranberry jam and whipped cream. Photo: Matyáš Havel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lokál
Staré Město · Dlouhá 33, and Míšeňská 12 in Malá Strana · Cited by 18 sources (14 English, 4 Czech) · Ambiente group · book a table
Its site calls it the first and the longest Lokál: the bar measures 69.78 m, the beer comes from 12 tanks, and up to 1,300 guests come through on a day. Order the Pilsner Urquell, which Lonely Planet sends readers to Dlouhá to try, and the svíčková, braised beef in a cream sauce of root vegetables with cranberry jam and bread dumplings. Refresher and Pivní deník name Lokál for it, and the daily menus on its site list that dish at 305 to 335 CZK, depending on the branch. Open Monday to Saturday 11:00 to 24:00 and Sunday 11:00 to 22:00. The Lokál in Malá Strana, U Bílé Kuželky, is the branch named by Lonely Planet’s winter guide, Spotted by Locals and the YouTube channel Gone Again. Booking is on its site.
U Fleků
Nové Město · Křemencova 11 · Cited by 8 sources (7 English, 1 Czech) · website
A brewery pub whose house, its own history page says, is first recorded in 1499. It has eight halls and a garden for 1,200 guests. Order the dark lager, 0.4 l for 99 CZK, with the “U Fleků” goulash and speck dumplings (309 CZK) or the roast pork knuckle (389 CZK). Lonely Planet calls it admittedly touristy. Open every day 10:00 to 23:00 and closed on 24 December. The drinks menu says the 4 cl aperitifs the staff offer are not free: each is added to the bill at 79 CZK.
One of the halls at U Fleků, Křemencova. Photo: Elekes Andor, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dva kohouti
Karlín · Sokolovská 55 · Cited by 4 sources (4 English) · Ambiente group · website
A brewery and tap house under one roof. Lonely Planet likes its “California” pale ale and the big yard for drinking outside. It takes no reservations, and a seat or a place to stand turns up. Open Monday to Friday 15:00 to 01:00, Saturday 12:00 to 01:00 and Sunday 12:00 to 22:00. A sister counter, Bufet, sells grilled, fried and smoked snacks in the courtyard (Ambiente’s site).
Pivnice U Sadu
Žižkov · Škroupovo náměstí 5 · Cited by 4 sources (3 English, 1 Czech) · website
A Žižkov pub with a long menu and a kitchen that runs to 04:00. Order the Plzeň goulash with sausage, onion, horseradish and a bacon dumpling (299 CZK), or pickled sausage, utopenec, at 149 CZK, with a beer. Pivní deník names it for svíčková, and a r/Prague commenter says the food was better than expected and the Matuška IPA the pick. Open Monday and Sunday 08:00 to 02:00 and Tuesday to Saturday 08:00 to 04:00.
U Medvídků
Nové Město · Na Perštýně 7 · Cited by 4 sources (3 English, 1 Czech) · website
A beer hall with a hotel in the same building, serving Budweiser Budvar; its site dates the restaurant to 1466. A microbrewery with a 250-litre brewhouse makes X-Beer 33 in the building. Open Monday to Wednesday 11:30 to 23:00, Thursday to Saturday 11:30 to 23:30 and Sunday 12:00 to 22:00. Reservations are by phone, +420 736 662 900, or by email.
U Zlatého tygra
Staré Město · Husova 17 · Cited by 3 sources (3 English) · website
A Pilsner pub where the writer Bohumil Hrabal drank, according to its own history page. The menu is cold snacks: beer cheese with butter, mustard and onion (110 CZK), pickled herring rolls (95 CZK) and Niva cheese with butter (90 CZK). Open every day 15:00 to 23:00, so it is an evening stop. Reservations are by phone only, on +420 222 221 111.
Canteens, butcher’s counters and quick lunches
Kantýna
Nové Město · Politických vězňů 5 · Cited by 14 sources (12 English, 2 Czech) · Ambiente group · no reservations · website
A butcher’s shop and restaurant in one. You load roast beef and pork from the fire on a tray and order beer at the tap. The roast meat is priced by weight: pulled beef from the shoulder is 144 CZK per 100 g and the Dutch schnitzel 102 CZK per 100 g, with sides at 95 CZK. The menu also lists aged-beef tartare (405 CZK for 200 g), a roast marrow bone (215 CZK) and a hamburger (278 CZK). Open Monday to Saturday 11:30 to 23:00 and Sunday 11:30 to 22:00, with food orders to 22:00 and 21:00 on Sunday. r/Prague is split on it: one commenter calls it overpriced, another a good cafeteria-style plate of meat with a beer.
Havelská Koruna
Staré Město · Havelská 23 · Cited by 5 sources (3 English, 2 Czech) · website
A self-service restaurant: you take a consumption slip at the door, choose from the counter and each dish and side is charged separately. Its site says there are at least 40 dishes a day, 25 of them on the daily menu, with Gambrinus 10° and Pilsner Urquell 12° on tap. The menu lists beef broth with noodles at 62 CZK and pork po selsku, with sauerkraut and a bread dumpling, at 196 CZK. Open every day 10:00 to 20:00. r/Prague commenters call it cheap and dependable, and one calls it mediocre; they say it queues at lunchtime and is quiet in the evening.
Lidová jídelna Těšnov
Nové Město · Těšnov 5 · Cited by 3 sources (3 English) · website
A canteen serving Czech food since 1990, says its site. Its drinks list is the reason to know it: a half-litre of Krušovice 12° is 25 CZK, Pilsner Urquell 30 CZK and a soft drink 12 CZK. Open Monday to Friday 10:30 to 14:30 and closed on Saturday and Sunday. Every source naming it is English.
Naše maso
Staré Město · Dlouhá 39 (Gurmet Pasáž), and Holešovice market hall 27 · Cited by 7 sources (4 English, 3 Czech) · Ambiente group · website
A butcher’s counter selling beef from Czech heifers and oxen and its own smoked meats. Apetit’s beef-tartare test names the Dlouhá shop, and a r/Prague commenter found burgers and sandwiches made to order, a little pricey. The Holešovice shop serves a burger, a meatloaf roll or tartare. Dlouhá is open Monday to Thursday 11:00 to 22:00, Friday and Saturday 10:00 to 22:00, and closed on Sunday.
Czech restaurants
Kuchyň
Hradčany · Hradčanské náměstí 1 · Cited by 7 sources (5 English, 2 Czech) · Ambiente group · book a table
Czech cooking in the Salm Palace on Hradčany Square, part of the National Gallery’s premises, with terraces overlooking the city. Lonely Planet’s choices are the pork-neck schnitzel and the beef shank with bread dumplings. Open every day 11:30 to 23:00. Tables can be booked inside or on the terrace.
Výčep
Vinohrady · Korunní 92 · Cited by 7 sources (5 English, 2 Czech) · Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand · book a table
Its site calls it a modern Wallachian pub. The kitchen makes its own bread, cheeses and salamis and pours Dalešice beer. Lonely Planet likes the pork schnitzel and the stuffed potato dumplings at lunchtime prices, and says to book. Gault&Millau named its chef, Jiří Hrachový, Chef of Traditional Cuisine for 2026. Open Monday to Friday 11:00 to 23:00, Saturday 12:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 12:00 to 22:00, with the kitchen closed from 14:45 to 17:00 (from 15:45 at weekends).
Vinohradský parlament
Vinohrady · Praha 2 · Cited by 6 sources (3 English, 3 Czech) · website
A pub with an open dumpling kitchen, in service since September 2019: the dumplings are filled with traditional and unexpected Czech fillings, and there is an eat-what-you-can option. Each day’s lunch menu has eight dishes, served with a soup and a dessert. Refresher and Pivní deník name it for svíčková, and Apetit’s fruit-dumpling test names it.
U Kalendů
Nové Město · Rašínovo nábřeží 58 · Cited by 3 sources (3 English) · Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand · Ambiente group · book a table
A restaurant and bakery on the site of the old raftsmen’s settlement of Podskalí. The kitchen butchers, smokes and pickles, and the bakery bakes its own bread; the bakery is open daily 08:00 to 18:00. The restaurant is open daily 11:30 to 23:30, with a kitchen break from 14:30 to 17:00 and evening orders to 21:30.
Hostinec Na Výtoni
Nové Město · Rašínovo nábřeží 30 · Cited by 3 sources (2 English, 1 Czech) · book a table
A restaurant in the old Podskalí customs house that roasts duck over charcoal on a Josper rotisserie. Order half a duck, 489 CZK, or the pulled duck in a potato flatbread, lokše (499 CZK). Lonely Planet calls it an upscale pub and says to book. Open every day 11:30 to 23:00, with a 100-seat garden from April to October.
U Kroka
Vyšehrad · Vratislavova 28 · Cited by 4 sources (4 English) · book a table
A small family restaurant of Czech cooking. Lonely Planet calls it a classic mom-and-pop pub, with schnitzel, goulash and svíčková. Open every day 11:30 to 23:00, with the kitchen closed from 16:00 to 17:00.
U Matěje
Dejvice · U Matěje 1 · Cited by 4 sources (3 English, 1 Czech) · Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand · book a table
The first restaurant of the Czech chef Jan Punčochář, serving traditional Czech and Austro-Hungarian cooking in the atmosphere of a coaching inn, with a garden under tall chestnut trees. Open every day 11:30 to 23:00. A r/Prague commenter calls it upscale Czech cooking at higher prices and recommends the chocolate egg dessert.
Na Kopci
Smíchov · K Závěrce 20, five minutes from Anděl · Cited by 4 sources (3 English, 1 Czech) · Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand · website
A family restaurant of French and Czech cooking under the chef Titus Eliáš; its site says it has held a Bib Gourmand ten times in a row since 2015. The lunch menu on its site has soup from 35 CZK and beef tartare with fries at 320 CZK. Open Monday to Friday 11:30 to 14:30 and 17:30 to 23:00, and Saturday and Sunday 11:30 to 23:00.
Červený jelen
Nové Město · Hybernská 5 · Cited by 4 sources (3 English, 1 Czech) · book a table
A restaurant cooking over a two-tonne grill, with beef, fish and lamb on the fire. Apetit’s tartare test names its beef tartare, and the site lists the tartare, a venison svíčková, a sharing board and steaks as the most popular dishes. The full à la carte starts at 15:00; before that there is a shorter menu. Open Monday to Friday 11:30 to 23:00, Saturday 12:00 to 23:00 and Sunday 12:00 to 22:00.
U Modré kachničky
Malá Strana · Nebovidská 6, and Michalská 16 in the Old Town · Cited by 3 sources (3 English) · book a table
Czech cooking with game on the menu; Lonely Planet likens the Malá Strana room to a hunting lodge, with candlelight and white linen, and names venison, rabbit, pheasant and duck. The site says the first restaurant has been open since 1993 and the second, a few steps from Old Town Square, since 2000. Both open 12:00 to 23:00. The booking link is for the Malá Strana restaurant.
Restaurace 420
Staré Město · Staroměstské náměstí 24 · Cited by 3 sources (2 Czech, 1 English) · Michelin Guide: Selected · Gault&Millau: three toques · website
Czech cooking opposite the Astronomical Clock, by Radek Kašpárek, the chef of Field, with bread and sausages made in the Gothic cellar. The menu prints its prices: cabbage soup with a ham-hock croquette is 290 CZK, the Szegedin pork belly 520 CZK and the veal schnitzel 590 CZK. Open every day 11:30 to 22:30.
Grand cafés and breakfast
Café Savoy
Malá Strana · Vítězná 5 · Cited by 9 sources (8 English, 1 Czech) · Ambiente group · book a table
A Viennese-style café by day and a quiet restaurant in the evening, with French-inspired dinners and cakes baked with the Myšák patisserie. Open Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 and Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 09:00 to 22:00.
Café Louvre
Nové Město · Národní 20 · Cited by 7 sources (6 English, 1 Czech) · website
A grand café with a classic Viennese menu from breakfast to dinner, afternoon tea and a historic billiard hall, where mornings are discounted. Open Monday to Friday 08:00 to 23:30 and Saturday and Sunday 09:00 to 23:30.
A dining room at Café Louvre, Národní. Photo: Ymblanter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Café Imperial
Nové Město · Na Poříčí 15 · Cited by 6 sources (5 English, 1 Czech) · Michelin Guide: Selected · book a table
An Art Deco café in the Hotel Imperial; its site calls it a Czech restaurant of the chef Zdeněk Pohlreich. A breakfast buffet is served every day from 07:00, and the café is open from 07:00 to 23:00. Refresher names it for svíčková.
The tiled wall of Café Imperial, Na Poříčí. Photo: Dieter Zoubek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eska
Karlín · Pernerova 49 · Cited by 11 sources (11 English) · Ambiente group · website
A bakery with a kitchen, where the loaves, pastries and breakfast are made from local ingredients. Lonely Planet’s pick is the traditional Czech breakfast of locally sourced ham and soft-boiled eggs. Open Monday to Friday 08:00 to 18:00 and Saturday and Sunday 09:00 to 18:00. A second, bakery-only Eska is on Veletržní in Letná.
Cukrárna Myšák
Nové Město · Vodičkova 31 · Cited by 4 sources (4 English) · Ambiente group · website
A Czech patisserie on the street where the original Myšák opened in 1911. The ground floor is a café serving traditional desserts and breakfast: indiánky, filled chocolate-glazed choux buns, cream-horn kremrole and wreath-shaped věnečky. Lonely Planet recommends the buchty, sweet rolls in custard sauce, and a breakfast of poached eggs in a glass. Open Monday to Friday 08:00 to 19:00 and Saturday and Sunday 09:00 to 19:00.
A food market
Manifesto Market Anděl
Smíchov · Ostrovského 34 · Cited by 5 sources (4 English, 1 Czech) · website
A food hall of 17 restaurants and bars, grouped on its site as Latin American, Asian, North American, European and vegan: Famous Grill, Lá Bù Lá Street, Alebrijes Cocina Mexicana, Naan by Lal Qila, Taiko Ramen Bar, Holy Pasta and others, with its own beer bar. It is a place for variety, not for Czech food. Open Monday to Wednesday 11:00 to 22:00, Thursday to Saturday 11:00 to 24:00 and Sunday 11:00 to 22:00. Its site has a table-reservation page.
A special dinner
The Michelin Guide Czechia gives stars, a Bib Gourmand for good food at a fair price, or a listing as Selected. Gault&Millau gives toques. Both are printed under each place as recognition, and neither adds to its count.
La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise
Staré Město · Haštalská 18 · Cited by 6 sources (5 English, 1 Czech) · Michelin Guide: one star · Gault&Millau: four toques · Ambiente group · book a table
A tasting menu of Czech cooking in which each course has a model in the chef’s childhood, in history or in the landscape. The menu on its site runs from a straw soup to trout with dill, rabbit, duck with mushrooms and a blackcurrant dessert, at 3,500 CZK, with a wine pairing at 2,000 or 3,700 CZK and a non-alcoholic pairing at 1,300 CZK. Gault&Millau named its chef, Oldřich Sahajdák, Chef of the Year for 2026.
Field
Staré Město · U Milosrdných 12 · Cited by 5 sources (4 English, 1 Czech) · Michelin Guide: one star · Gault&Millau: three toques · website
A tasting-menu restaurant under the chef Radek Kašpárek, with six- and ten-course menus according to Lonely Planet, which says to book well in advance. Open Monday to Friday 11:00 to 14:30 and 18:00 to 22:30, Saturday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 22:30, and Sunday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 22:00. It holds a reservation for 15 minutes, the dress code is smart casual, and it is not suitable for children under 6.
Štangl
Karlín · Pernerova 49 · Cited by 1 source (1 English) · Michelin Guide: one star · Gault&Millau: three toques · Ambiente group · book a table
A tasting restaurant on the first floor above Eska, with a three-course or five-course evening menu built on local ingredients, with wild plants, moulds and fermentation. On Saturday mornings it serves a three-course breakfast menu. Open Tuesday to Friday 18:00 to 23:00 and Saturday 09:00 to 11:30 and 18:00 to 23:00; closed on Sunday and Monday.
LEVITATE
Vinohrady · Vinohradská 47 · Named by none of the counted sources · Michelin Guide: one star · Gault&Millau: four toques · book a table
A dinner-only restaurant, where the chef describes a dialogue between Asia and Scandinavia. Open Tuesday to Saturday 18:00 to 22:30, with the last reservation at 19:30; closed on Sunday and Monday.
Casa De Carli
Staré Město · Vězeňská 5 · Cited by 1 source (1 English) · Michelin Guide: one star · website
A family-run Italian restaurant that its site places in the Michelin Guide since 2012 and which the 2025 guide gave a star. The menu starts with veal tongue with salsa verde (625 CZK), amberjack carpaccio (625 CZK) and beef tartare with caviar (595 CZK), and there is a degustation menu. Open Monday to Friday 12:00 to 15:00 and 18:00 to 23:00; closed on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.
Taro
Nové Město · Národní 10 · Cited by 3 sources (3 English) · Michelin Guide: Selected · Gault&Millau: three toques · book a table
A bar around an open kitchen, where the chef Khanh Ta puts Vietnamese roots together with Czech farm produce in a tasting menu; Gault&Millau named him its Chef of Tomorrow for 2026. Open Tuesday to Saturday 17:30 to 23:00.
Alma
Staré Město · V Jirchářích 8 · Cited by 3 sources (2 English, 1 Czech) · Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand · book a table
A restaurant and cocktail bar with an open kitchen under the chef Petr Židek, on the site of an interwar cinema of the same name, with a café on the corner and a wine bar in the garden. Open Monday to Saturday for lunch 11:30 to 15:00 and dinner 17:30 to 23:00.
Mlýnec
Staré Město · Novotného lávka 5 · Cited by 3 sources (2 English, 1 Czech) · Michelin Guide: Selected · Gault&Millau: three toques · website
A restaurant over the Vltava with a view of Charles Bridge, in the Zátiší Group. The chef Vladimír Vaníček cooks Czech and international menus; there is brunch at weekends. Open Monday to Friday 11:30 to 15:00 and 17:00 to 22:00, and Saturday and Sunday 11:30 to 15:00 and 17:30 to 22:00. Groups of six or more pay a deposit of 500 CZK a person.
Terasa U Zlaté studně
Malá Strana · U Zlaté studně 4 · Cited by 3 sources (3 English) · Gault&Millau: three toques · website
The top-floor restaurant of the Golden Well Hotel under the castle, with a seasonal tasting menu with matching wines. The executive chef is Lukáš Hlaváček. Road Is Calling includes it among the Prague restaurants with a view.
Where to avoid, and what to eat instead near the sights
- Old Town Square. Lonely Planet says to avoid restaurants on or around the square, with some exceptions, for overpriced, mediocre food aimed at tourists. View from Prague says dinner on the square costs more and that a few streets towards Náměstí Republiky halves the bill. On the square itself, Restaurace 420 prints its prices.
- Added charges. View from Prague says some restaurants in the centre add a 10 or 15 per cent service charge, although it says Czech law requires the menu price to include service. Read the bill for “service charge” or “gratuity”. It also says to push away bread and other extras you did not order, because they are charged.
- Prague ham from a stall. View from Prague says the price on the board, 125 CZK, is for 100 g, and the slice carved may weigh much more. Ask for the weight first.
- Menus. The same writer says the main dish price usually excludes the side, and that drinks are priced per volume, so 0.5 l is the beer price on the line.
Plan the rest
For the sights that need booking, what to book before you go to Prague lists them. The guided options are in Prague food tours compared and Prague beer tours. For dinner with something on, ghost tours and the medieval dinner and classical concerts in Prague, which lists a Mozart dinner concert, have the bookings. By the sights, Kuchyň is on Hradčany Square beside Prague Castle, U Kroka is at Vyšehrad, and Old Town Square, home of the Astronomical Clock and a walk from Charles Bridge, is where to avoid eating. The season shapes what is open: best time to visit Prague gives the weather by month and Prague Christmas markets the market dates and the Christmas Eve fish soup. Where to stay in Prague compares the areas, hotels near Old Town Square lists the hotels near the square, Prague public transport has the fares, 3 days in Prague and Prague in one day build days round the sights, and day trips from Prague covers eating out of town.
Common questions
Do I need to book restaurants in Prague?
For the Michelin-starred tables, yes: Field holds a reservation for only 15 minutes, and Lonely Planet says to book Field, Výčep and Hostinec Na Výtoni in advance. Kantýna and Dva kohouti take no reservations at all, and Havelská Koruna, Lidová jídelna Těšnov and the Manifesto Market food hall are walk-in. Lokál, Kuchyň, U Kalendů and Café Savoy take bookings on their own sites.
Where can I eat svíčková in Prague?
Svíčková is braised beef in a cream sauce of root vegetables, with cranberry jam and bread dumplings. Refresher and Pivní deník, two Czech food sites, name Lokál and Vinohradský parlament for it, and Lonely Planet names U Kroka. Lokál's daily menus list braised beef in cream sauce with cranberry jam and bread dumplings at 305 to 335 CZK.
How do I avoid tourist-trap restaurants in Prague?
Lonely Planet says to avoid restaurants on or around Old Town Square, with some exceptions. View from Prague says dinner there costs more and that a few streets towards Náměstí Republiky halves the bill, warns of a 10 or 15 per cent service charge added to some bills, and says Prague ham sold from stalls is priced per 100 g. Restaurace 420 is one place on the square that prints its prices: the Szegedin pork belly is 520 CZK.
Which Prague restaurants have a Michelin star?
Five, in the Michelin Guide Czechia selection of December 2025: Field, La Degustation Bohême Bourgeoise, Casa De Carli, LEVITATE and Štangl. Seven more hold a Bib Gourmand, for good food at a fair price: Alma, Dejvická 34 by Tomáš Černý, The Eatery, Na Kopci, U Kalendů, U Matěje and Výčep. The one two-star restaurant in the country, Papilio, is outside Prague.
How much does a beer cost in a Prague pub?
A half-litre of Pilsner Urquell is 30 CZK in the canteen Lidová jídelna Těšnov and 99 CZK for 0.4 l of the dark lager at U Fleků, and Havelská Koruna pours Gambrinus and Pilsner Urquell with its self-service meals. At U Fleků, the 4 cl aperitifs that staff offer are charged at 79 CZK each.
