Cocktail Bar entertainment in Prague
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Bukowski’s
Like most of the drinking dens that are popular among Prague expats, Bukowski’s – the city’s latest barfly magnet – is more a cocktail dive than a cocktail bar. Named after hard-drinking American writer Charles Bukowski, it cultivates a dark and slightly debauched atmosphere – the décor is self-consciously ‘interesting’ (when you can see it through the smoke-befogged candlelight) – but it peddles quality cocktails and cigars, and has friendly bartenders and cool tunes.
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Čili Bar
Hidden in the crook of a narrow Old Town alley but only a few paces from Old Town Square, this tiny cocktail bar could not be further removed in atmosphere from your typical Old Town drinking place. Cramped and smoky – there are Cuban cigars for sale – with a couple of battered leather armchairs competing for space with a handful of tables and the crowd at the bar, it’s friendly, relaxed and lively. Don’t miss the speciality of the house – a shot of rum mixed with finely chopped red chillis.
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Andaluský Pes
‘Le Chien Andalou’ is an after-hours cocktail bar with retro flair. The inviting front room, sporting red-velvet bar stools and purple glitter walls, attracts a kind of Edward Hopper ‘Nighthawks’ crowd after Fraktal closes and the night-time crowd moves in. The back rooms have a more risqué feel, dark and crowded some nights, with faces recognisable only by the glow of their cigarettes. It tends to close early on quiet nights, so take the official opening hours with a grain of salt.
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Corner Bar and Bistro
This upmarket New York–style cocktail and cigar bar occupies a former rugby pub and couldn’t be more different in terms of atmosphere. It’s been given a bad rap for its cocktail prices, but the truth is they’re not much higher here than elsewhere; an Apple Martini (Skyy vodka, apple pucker and lime juice) runs to 125Kč, about the same as in the city centre. There are some lighter food options like sandwiches, cheese platters and fondues. On Monday nights, women get a free cigar.
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Jet Set
Smíchov’s trendiest cocktail bar is a strictly black-and-white affair, with a big bar area and a large dance floor for later in the evenings when it morphs from workaday restaurant to an after-work drink place to a late-night hotspot. It’s worth it if you happen to be catching a movie at a nearby multiplex, but don’t make a special trip. The food, including fresh salads and sandwiches with a Mediterranean touch, is very good.
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Blue Light
The Blue Light is an appropriately dark and atmospheric jazz cavern, as popular with locals as with tourists, where you can sip a caipirinha or cranberry colada as you cast an eye over the vintage jazz posters, records, old photographs and decades-worth of scratched graffiti that adorn the walls. The background jazz is recorded rather than live, but on a quality sound system that never overpowers your conversation.
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Bar & Books
The walls are indeed lined with books at this branch of the famous Manhattan cocktail bar, but the well-heeled clients are more likely to be reading the labels on the vast range of single malts, bourbons, brandies and vintage ports on offer, along with Cuban and Dominican cigars. The black-waistcoated staff are unerringly polite and efficient, and mix a mean martini, margarita or champagne cocktail.
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Bodeguita del Medio
The Prague incarnation of the Havana cocktail-bar and restaurant chain brings a whiff of Hemingway to the Old Town streets, with chunky wooden tables, ceiling fans and cigars. And, of course, classic mojito cocktails. The food is excellent, the cappuccinos are froth-topped caffeine bombs, and the pavement tables catch the sun at lunchtime…perfecto.
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Postel
The name means ‘bed’, and that’s obviously the goal at this flash meat-market–cocktail bar not far from Strossmayerovo náměstí. Fans of the film Cocktail will delight at the bartenders’ juggling skills. Others will marvel at the attractive clientele. All in all, not a bad place to while away a couple of hours before, well, bed.
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