Very recommended restaurants and cafes in Prague

Recommended restaurants and cafes in Prague

Hello everyone! Today, I am bringing you the second part of my blog about Prague. The first one, you can read by clicking here, which is about the places that I recommend visiting in the Czech capital. It is a very extensive post where I have been very specific, so I recommend it as a kind of guide. Today we will change the topic: I want to tell you about four restaurants and cafes which we went to when we were in the city. I hope that you enjoy them, and let's go!

Den Noc

This cafe was the first one that we went to straight after coming out of the train station. We were hungry since we had woken up at 4 am to get the first train and we had only eaten a piece of fruit. So, we looked up some restaurants on TripAdvisor, filtering by breakfast and brunch and we found this one. To be honest, this is quite a small local place and we had to wait outside for people to leave so we could get a table. Finally, we could go in and have our breakfast. The menu was quite varied. They had as many sweet as savoury breakfast options, as well as a big range of coffees. Normally, in the morning I fancy something sweet, but when I saw the salmon and scrambled egg pancakes I couldn't help myself. I also had a yoghurt with oats, which was good but it wasn't amazing. Of course, you have to have a cappuccino too. They let you pay by card, if you find yourself there without any Czech Koruna. In the end, we were there for a good amount of time, chatting and getting some energy to visit the city of Prague. In conclusion, Den Noc which means "day" and "night", is a really good place to have some breakfast and spend some time. Also, it is a couple of steps away from the Town Hall Square. Here is a photo of the breakfast.

Pepe Nero Pizza & Pasta

It is an Italian restaurant which is in the centre, really nearby to the river, so I am sure that you wont have to go far to try their pizza and pasta. Honestly, it is a very complete and varied menu. As always, I ordered my favourite pizza with Serrano ham and also a mushroom risotto to share. I was really hungry! It was because we had been walking for the whole day. It was all really good and the service was very quick. For pudding, pistachio pannacotta. The restaurant is welcoming, really nice. In terms of the price, it was not too high, what we were used to for Italian restaurants in an average range. I'd recommend. The menu looked really delicious and we were so hungry that no one thought about taking a photo of our food.

Vzorkovna

This place definitely has a different atmosphere. I dare say that it is a bit similar to the same ruin pubs in Budapest, just to give you an idea. To be honest, the entrance is really hard to see, it isn't showy or anything. It was a bit difficult for us to find it since the door is small and it goes completely unnoticed because there is no sign or anything that indicates that the bar is there. This bar is situated in a really wide and modern street, where all the clothes shops and several supermarkets are located.

When entering, we had to put money on a kind of card which you pay for the drinks on. We had to put on a minimum of 100 Czech Korunas so if you don't spend it all, they will keep the left over money. Saying that, 100 Korunas is enough for two drinks like a coffee, a beer, a tea or a cocktail, quite generous.

Vzorkovna in itself is unique. It is really big and has different areas, all of them dark. Depending on where you are, the music is also different and there are several places to order drinks. In one of the rooms there is a projector screen where they show several photos of the owners of the locals with their family, very strange. They were photos of holidays, with the two daughters with their dogs, which were enormous, who happened to walk through this bar as well.

It is full of passages, some rooms have swings, spiral staircases and are painted with different phrases, graffiti, etc. These sentences surprised me that, without a doubt, referenced the really political case of the La Manada rape case, since in the multiple protests the phrase "sister, I believe you" is repeated constantly.

When we went, it was a little early so it wasn't too full, but legend has it that in the night it is super busy and they hold giant parties. What really surprised us is that there was a lot of Spanish people there. In different rooms we heard people talking Spanish... It made us feel like we were in Spain. This took away a certain authenticity from the local, since we found out that it was very touristy. I honestly didn't have any idea that it existed, since a friend from Bratislava had recommended for us to go and as we had time, we decided to give it a chance. Here are some photos of the place.

You can't see too well because there wasn't very much light and in a lot of areas it was almost completely black. If you like these kind of bars in ruin pub style (although this is definitely nothing compared to some of the ones in Budapest) I think that this could be a good place to visit if you are in Prague. Honestly it is like you are in a different world, an oasis. When you leave the place, you return to reality, in streets full of people where nothing is arbitrary and everything has a certain order.

Cathedral Café

It is really close by to Den Noc, even nearer to the Town Hall Square in Prague. We also found this place by filtering by breakfast places on TripAdvisor and we decided to go there. The first time that we went there, it was a Saturday morning and the waiter told us that they were full and that we needed a reservation to be able to have breakfast or eat there. So then the following morning we decided to ring them to reserve a table for our group of four. Strangely, we were alone.

This place in itself is really cute, far from the last bar I talked to you about. It has an outside terrace full of elegant tables and chairs, all really well decorated with plants, artwork and small details.

We sat down inside to eat since we went there at around 12.30 pm (European eating time). What we ordered was really good, the only negative was that it took quite a long time to come. At least we went with a lot of time to spare! I had a beef stew with mashed potatoes, it was really delicious. Also, Angel and I ordered quesadillas with tempeh which were really good. It was the first time that I had tried tempeh and honestly, it is the perfect food to reduce meat consumption since the texture and flavour is almost identical. I was really surprised. If you go, you have to try it. After, we fancied having a coffee and a chat so we decided to go to the outside terrace. Here are some photos of the menu and the place.

As for the price, it wasn't as cheap as other restaurants that you can find, but this is obviously due to its location since it is located in the most popular area in the Czech capital.

And these have been my recommendations for restaurants and cafes. I hope that you have enjoyed it, and I will see you for the next post. Thank you for reading. Best wishes.

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