Café restaurants in Czech Republic
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Káva Káva Káva
The Smíchov branch of the popular internet café in Staré Město is bigger and brighter than the original, with Etruscan orange walls, terracotta floor tiles and modern art. There’s a more extensive menu too – you can snack on salads, sandwiches, quiche or nachos, or tuck into more substantial chicken gyros, Mexican chilli or home-made soup of the day.
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Literární Kavárna Řetězová
This is the kind of place where you can imagine yourself tapping out the Great Prague Novel on your laptop with a half-finished coffee on the table beside you. It’s a plain, vaulted room with battered wooden furniture, a scatter of rugs on the floor, old black-and-white photos on the wall, and the sort of quiet, relaxed atmosphere where you can read a book without feeling self-conscious. If you fancy something stronger than coffee, try the fruity, full-flavoured Bernard kvasnicové (yeast beer).
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Kavárna Zanzibar
Zanzibar started out years ago as a trafika, a place to buy newspapers and tobacco products. Over the years it’s evolved into a homey space that defies easy description. It’s not quite a café (though coffee is probably the most popular beverage), not quite a bar (though there’s beer on tap and a place to sit up front) and not quite a restaurant (though the food they serve is pretty good). Treat it as a great place to meet up for whatever mood you’re in. The terrace out front is pleasant in nice weather.
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Blatouch
When the legendary student café Blatouch shut down a couple of years ago in the Old Town, it was viewed as just another casualty of progress. The good news is that Blatouch has reopened here in Vinohrady, with the same old sign out the front and the same mix of laid-back service and good-natured student clientele. Excellent coffee is served with light eats like salads and sandwiches to go along with the ultra-relaxed vibe. Just what the neighbourhood needed.
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Kabinet
A retro 1920s-style coffee house, slightly reminiscent of a cabaret, Kabinet is situated in a cool rondocubist building in a pleasantly residential part of Dejvice. Old cameras, posters and photographs emphasise the throwback feel. The name of the café, for Czechs, recalls early school days – a kabinet being a teacher’s office – to add to the nostalgic feel. A perfect spot for a quiet conversation or for relaxing over a coffee and a good book.
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Antonie
This bright, cheerful café is a relatively new addition to this rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood between Letenské náměstí and Stromovka Park. The café is owned by an interior design company, and the polish shows, especially in the lovely open kitchen at the back. The menu includes a delicious selection of home-made cakes and light food items like soups and sandwiches. It’s popular with mothers with babies making the trek to and from the park.
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Kafíčko
This smoke-free, family-friendly little café, with its cream walls, bentwood chairs, fresh flowers and arty photographs, is an unexpected setting for some of Prague’s finest tea and coffee. Choose from a wide range of quality roasted beans from all over the world, and have them freshly ground and made into espresso, cappuccino or latte (40Kč to 55Kč); the espresso is served, as it should be, with a glass of water.
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Kumbal
Another stylish coffee bar in a 1930s Functionalist building that manages to be both hip and comfortable at the same time. There’s good coffee and tea drinks, though not much on the menu aside from a few simple sandwiches and a daily soup (usually vegetarian). It’s nonsmoking throughout, which attracts the stroller crowd in the afternoon and makes a pleasant place to linger (maybe that’s why there’s rarely a free table). Free wi-fi.
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Ouky Douky
This was the original home of the Globe Bookstore & Café (née Coffeehouse) in the 1990s, and a kind of eclectic, San Francisco funkiness lingers. Today it houses a used bookstore with a worn-out selection of Czech-language books and an inviting café filled with students, housewives from the neighbourhood, a few bohemian types and a wandering expat or two. The light menu features mostly toasts, sandwiches and salads. Free wi-fi.
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Kávovarna
One of the few decent cafés in the region of Wenceslas Square, this retro-styled place has bentwood chairs and curved wooden benches in the smoky, dimly lit front room (there’s a nonsmoking room beyond the bar), with exhibitions of arty black-and-white photography on the walls. The coffee is good and reasonably priced, and there’s an extensive menu of flavoured and iced coffees, hot chocolates, soda and granitas.
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Dobrá Trafika
From the outside, you’d never know there was a cute little coffee shop tucked behind this tobacconist on busy Korunní. The tobacco shop is interesting in its own right –not just pipes, loose tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, but also excellent teas, sweets and gifts. It feels a bit like a step back in time. At the back there’s a small room for drinking coffee and a larger garden for just hanging out. Popular with students.
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U Zeleného Čaje
U zeleného čaje ‘At the Green Tea’ is a charming little olde-worlde tea house on the way up to the castle. The menu offers around a hundred different kinds of tea (45Kč to 80Kč a pot) from all over the world, ranging from classic green and black teas from China and India to fruit-flavoured teas and herbal infusions, as well as tempting cakes and tasty sandwiches.
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Café Café
Exposed brick and aluminium ducting meet burgundy drapes, sparkly chandeliers and hot pink woodwork in this deeply trendy café, host to many a fashion launch and designer event – Fashion TV plays on the plasma screens, and half the staff look like supermodels. They must be avoiding the big fat chocolate cakes and ice cream sundaes that plump out the menu, and sticking to the excellent espressos.
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Out
It’s good to know about this swanky café and chocolatier in the upscale Korunní dvůr housing estate in case you’re staying in the area and need to scrounge a decent breakfast early in the morning, or just passing by and have a sudden chocolate craving. They take their cocoa seriously here – it’s imported all the way from Venezuela and Trinidad. There are also decent lunches, with good homemade soups.
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Caffé Kaaba
Caffé Kaaba is a stylish little architect-designed café-bar with retro furniture and pastel-coloured décor that comes straight out of the 1959 Ideal Homes Exhibition. It serves up excellent coffee (made with freshly ground imported beans), offers an extensive list of Czech and imported wines (the house wine is only 30Kč a glass), and also has an in-house news and tobacco counter.
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Lobkowicz Palace Café
This new café housed in the 16th-century Lobkowicz Palace is the best cafe in the castle complex by an imperial mile. Try to grab one of the tables on the balconies at the back – the view over Malá Strana is superb, as are the café’s chocolate brownies, served with a splash of mango sauce and fresh strawberries. The coffee is good too, and service is fast and friendly.
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Kavárna Medúza
The perfect Prague coffee house, Medúza is an oasis of old, worn furniture, dark wood and local artworks, with an antique sugar bowl on every table and an atmosphere that invites you to sink into a novel or indulge in a conversation on the nature of self. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate, beer, wine and even non-alcoholic cocktails are all on the menu, along with pancakes, nachos and banana splits.
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Dobrá Čajovna
This tearoom, tucked up a passage off Wenceslas Square, is a little haven of incense burners, oriental rugs and comfy cushions hidden away from the heaving crowds on the nearby street. They take their tea seriously here, and you can choose from a wide range of Chinese, Indian, Sri Lankan, Japanese and Turkish leaves. There are also cakes and vegetarian snacks such as hummus and pitta bread.
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Artesa
Retro is big these days, and this little coffee joint, just off Vítězné náměstí, easily evokes the futuristic 1950s and ‘60s with its modular chairs, pinkish walls and groovy, hanging cylinder lamps. Customers run the gamut from old ladies to supermodels – all there for the very good coffee as well as cakes, sweets and rolls. The front room is nonsmoking; the back, smoking.
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Nanocafé
This tiny café on a leafy street in Vršovice is recommendable chiefly for its early opening hours (great if you’re staying nearby and don’t have access to morning coffee) and the fact that it serves hard-to-find Primátor weizenbier, a rare Czech wheat beer. It has a friendly, informal vibe and a couple of pavement tables for spending a warm summer evening.
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Ryba Na Ruby
Ryba na Ruby is something different for upscale Vinohrady: an ecofriendly tea and gift shop on the ground floor with a laid-back bar–club downstairs. This is a great place to stock up on things like fair-trade teas and coffees, plus organic foodstuffs like nuts, spices, cocoa, jams and oils. The below-ground club is a relaxed space for a beer or a coffee.
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Erhartova Cukrárna
This stylish 1930s-era café and sweet shop in a refurbished functionalist building is adjacent to the local branch of the public library. It draws a mix of mothers with strollers, students and old folks, attracted mainly by the local varieties of biscuits, doughnuts and cinnamon rolls in the glass case, and ice cream in hot weather. Nonsmoking throughout.
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Café Savoy
Established in 1893 and restored in 2004, the Savoy fairly glows with belle époque splendour, its colourful, ornately decorated ceiling decked with crystal chandeliers (grab a table on the mezzanine for a closer view) and its waiting staff dressed in matching red waistcoats and ties. Great coffee and hot chocolate, and a decent wine list too.
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Cafe Slavia
Once-famous literary cafe, where performers and patrons of the National Theatre would gather to chat over coffee. It's a classy place with great views over the river, though the salads and chicken and chips-style dishes are uninspiring. Sit back with a seksint (the house cocktail of Bohemian champagne and absinthe) and enjoy the atmosphere.
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Alchymista
This old-fashioned coffee house with an adjacent art gallery is an oasis in the culturally barren neighbourhood behind Sparta stadium. Freshly ground coffees, a serious selection of teas (no Lipton in a bag here), and freshly made cakes and strudels draw a mostly neighbourhood crowd. In nice weather ask to take your coffee in the back garden.
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