Visiting Prague

Eating in Prague - the heart of Bohemia - should be a nice experience for everyone and it should normally be able to satisfy any taste. Growing tourism led to increase in the number of restaurants, together with a great improvement in hygiene standards. A lot of people of other nationalities coming to live in Prague made impact on the nature of the cuisine, which has become much more cosmopolitan.
Tourists and locals can find dishes from all countries, everything from sushi and pasta to innovative, fine Czech cuisine in restaurants. Besides Czech restaurants in Prague you can find other major cuisines represented in Prague, with good quality French, Italian, Japanese, Indian and Mexican restaurants. Menus in Prague are printed in German and English, often with photos to show how the dish will look, while credit cards are now widely accepted. In Prague all restaurant include 19% VAT in price. If a service charge (usually 10-12.5%) has been added to the bill, we advise you to round the bill up to the nearest 10 CZK. However, if a service charge is not included, guests should pay 10% of the bill as a tip.
In Prague hotels you can find restaurants offering beautiful views of the city and its main attractions like the TV Tower restaurant. Or there are several restaurants on Vltava river banks with views of the castle and cathedral, which are especially wonderful during the evenings.
Prague can be an affordable place to eat and drink as long as you avoid the tourist traps around the main sights. Prices usually decrease if you leave the city centre and go to the suburbs and residential neighborhoods where tourists are rare.
In Prague and everywhere in Czech Republic there are three main types of establishment where you can eat: a restaurant ( restaurace ), a wine restaurant ( vinárna ) and pub (pivnice ). In restaurant you eating is the main activity. Wine restaurant tends to think of itself as a touch more exclusive; and, that most typical of Czech institutions. Pub are largely concerned with serious drinking, not only beer. In practice, these definitions are not rules, you can find some vinárna offering food, some only wine, and so on.
Visiting Prague you should try Czech cuisine. Go to a traditional style restaurant and you’ll enter a world of waist-enhancing bread dumplings, cream, rich butter sauces, eggs and animal fats. Czech cuisine consists of lot of fried or roasted meat - pork or beef, and sometimes fish is served with dumplings, potatoes or rice, in a sauce.
If you are in Prague, the Czech Republic capital, you should definitely taste Czech beer. In the Czech Republic you can buy beer everywhere, it is very cheap, cheaper then a glass of mineral water or juice! The most famous brands are Pilsner (Plzeſ), Staropramen, Gambrinus, Budweiser.
Although Czech beer is the most famous around the world, it is not the only typical alcoholic drink in Prague. Other very popular drinks are Becherovka and Slivovice. Tourists often buy Becherovka as “a typical present from Czech Republic“; it is liquor made of forty types of herbs since 19th century. Slivovice is a plum brandy and there is also other one similar as Slivovice but made from different kinds of fruits – as meruſkovice (apricot brandy) or hruškovice (peer brandy). And you can drink absinthe in Prague as it is legal.

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