Category: Prague Food & Drink

Hungry? Got the travel bug? Combine the two this summer and check out some of Europe’s hottest food festivals, from Bordeaux to Budapest and beyond. Here are some of our favorites. Amsterdam, the Netherlands If you missed the excitingly eclectic Rolling Kitchens festival that took place in Amsterdam in May,...

We think that Prague, with its playgrounds and puppet theaters, castles and museums, is a pretty great place to take your kids. It also just happens to be a great place for dining out with them, too. This post focuses on dining establishments with a children’s play area (dětský koutek)...

Whether it’s the consonants-to-vowel ratio or the seemingly innocent little accents (which change the entire meaning of words) or the pronunciation of such letters as the “ř” (typically the last to be mastered by Czech and foreign learners alike), the Czech language has a reputation for exceeding the comforts of...

Czech-Mex is nothing like Tex-Mex – it’s actually expat slang for the unappetizing Czech take on Mexican food that could be found on Prague menus throughout much of the nineties when kidney beans stood in for black beans and rubbery cheese took the place of queso blanco. That’s to say...

Sometimes traveling to a new city can be quite challenging and planning your visit can be overwhelming. There’s so much to see and do and you often don’t know where to go first without getting lost or creating an efficient itinerary. At other times, you’re visiting a place you’ve been...

It may sound strange, but you know you’re in Prague when you overhear a debate about the best place in town to get a bowl of the Vietnamese noodle soup pho (pronounced “fuh”). The Vietnamese population in the Czech Republic numbers close to 60,000 making it the third-largest ethnic minority...

At every Christmas market in Prague you’ll find multiple stands selling svařák (also known as svařené víno or “hot wine”), but they won’t all taste the same. Why? Because recipes vary from region to region and household to household. Eva Jasná has been making svařák at home for years, but...

This post was originally published in November, 2014 and was updated in November, 2017. When the weather turns cold and Christmas markets start to spring up on every corner of Prague, an aroma of grilled meats and sweet treats fills the crisp winter air. Thanks to the complicated history of...