Prague Food Tour🌭: Traditional Czech Dishes & Where to Try Them + FRE Maps🗺️😮
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As Real Prague Guides YouTubers and licensed professionals at 100 Spires City Tours, we know how many travelers come to Prague for the city’s vibrant food scene. While guided tasting tours offer fantastic curated experiences, a self-guided food tour gives you the freedom to savor the flavors of Prague at your own pace, explore hidden culinary gems, and tailor your journey to your own tastes. If you’re a food lover eager to dive deep into authentic Czech cuisine and enjoy a personal adventure, this self-guided food tour is perfect for you.
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Zrno Zrnko
Koláče and other traditional Czech pastries🥐
For anyone who wants to taste typical Czech pastries, I recommend starting with koláč — round and puffy, filled with jam, fruit, cottage cheese, poppy seeds, nuts, or all of the above. My favourite is the Moravian blueberry koláč from Kus Koláče or Zrno Zrnko, and the Prague koláč with cream from Merhautovo pekárství or Kabát. At some bakeries, you can find bite-sized ones, which are great if you want to do a little tasting first.
Other traditional pastries you should savour are buchta, which is a bun that can be covered in cream or have poppy seeds or fruit inside, or a bábovka - bundt cake.
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We made a whole video about Czech pastries, you can check out on our YouTube channel!
Sisters Bistro
Chlebíčky🥪
Another staple you have to try is chlebíčky, an open sandwich that was once even sold in vending machines! There are as many types of these as there are stars in the Milky Way, so you can make your top ten or just pick whatever looks best. I personally prefer a white bread base with a classic cheese spread, but I don't mind a little truffle or salmon to excite my taste buds. A great thing about this snack is that you can eat quite a lot, which is why Czechs love to make them for parties, especially for New Year's Eve. There are many iconic chlebíčky spots in Prague, for example, Zlatý Kříž, Světozor, Liberecké Lahůdky, or Sisters Bistro, which we visited in our food tour video.
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Pilsner Restaurant at Municipal House
Beer snacks, and appetizers🥨
This list wouldn’t be complete without some pub classics that go perfectly with a glass of beer. Topping the list are slices of milky Prague ham with horseradish and bread, followed by pickled cheese with peppers and oil. These two can be found in many pubs, for example Lokal or the Pilsner Restaurant at the Municipal House. A little harder to come across is utopenec, aka the “drowned man,” which is a pickled sausage with sauerkraut and onions — definitely bold in flavor (very sour) but fun to try. For the most adventurous eaters, I also suggest tlačenka — head cheese or brawn.
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U Byka Bistro
More meat!🍖
The Czech Republic and neighboring Slovakia are famous for charcuterie, so finding a good butcher shop can be an interesting culinary experience on your Prague trip. The most popular one is Naše Maso, which often has a line and has become considerably more expensive recently, so we looked for a more budget-friendly option. We settled on U Byka Bistro for our food tour. There you can try a variety of traditional meat delicacies such as sausages, halušky with ham, lokše, sekaná, and more. Everything is fresh and ready to be devoured! We also tried the legendary Czech invention — párek v rohlíku, a local take on the hot dog. It was cheap and delicious. Other popular stands are located at Malostranská (Euro hotdog) and Náměstí Míru. We have done a video on Czech street food before, which you can see over here.
Stuffed dumpling
Lunch and dinner🥟
Czech traditional food has been the topic of a few of our videos already, most importantly 6 Must-Try Dishes, where we have covered the most famous ones. Just to recap, the number one dish we suggest starting with is svíčková, which is a beef sirloin with a creamy root-vegetable sauce and bread dumplings. A close second is guláš, a beef stew served with the same side dish of knedlíky or bramborák (the potato version).
You can also get stuffed dumplings, which is what we had at Red Stag (Červený Jelen). This is a pricier restaurant, but you can get a good deal on their lunch menus, which we took advantage of. Our dumpling was filled with turkey meat and a sauce similar to the svíčková one, but a typical version comes with bacon and sauerkraut. We tested the most popular Prague restaurants where you can try these dishes here.
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Czech retro desserts
Desserts - visiting a cukrářství🍰
Apart from a near-100% meat diet, Czechs have a sweet tooth. There are so many confectioneries to try that they deserve a whole other video, but that would be a health hazard for me. A classic is Ovocný Světozor, which carries every typical dessert and cake you can think of: Míša (cottage-cheese cake with chocolate glaze), Špička (chocolate cream topped with an egg-shaped marzipan heart), and medovník (a layered honey cake). This time we went to a fancier place — Skála cukrářství — where we had větrník (a profiterole with custard and cream) and indiánek (a meringue tower with chocolate glaze). You can also check out Myšák — an iconic spot on Vodíčkova.
Thank you for reading! I hope you have enjoyed our food recommendations and tips😋
WRITTEN BY VALERY
Licensed Prague guide and co-creator of Real Prague Guides (50K+ YouTube subscribers). My company, 100 Spires City Tours, leads some of the highest-rated tours in Prague.
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