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Food & Drink

The hospoda, the beer hall and what a Czech pub actually expects of you. Practice rather than recommendations — we have not eaten there.

Havelské tržiště, a market in central Prague
Photograph by Jirka23, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

We do not review restaurants. We have not eaten in them, and a guide that invents a favourite hospoda is worth nothing. What this section covers is how eating and drinking here actually works.

The hospoda is the institution: a pub that serves food, where sharing a table is normal and the waiter keeps a paper tab on your table that everything is marked against. Do not lose it, and do not try to pay at a bar — you pay the waiter, at the table, when you ask.

Tipping is modest: round up, or add roughly 10% in a sit-down place, and say the total you want to pay as you hand the money over rather than leaving coins behind.

The one thing worth knowing before you sit down: bread, olives or anything else brought unasked is usually charged for. Declining it is completely normal.

The facade of the Municipal House
The Municipal House café is open to anyone. Photograph by Uoaei1, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
The gilded altar of Tyn Church
The lanes behind Týn are the quietest streets in the Old Town. Photograph by Uoaei1, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Old Town Square at night
The square's restaurants are the most expensive in the city. Photograph by Diliff, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

This section is being written. The guide above is the section for now. New articles are published across the site about twice a week rather than a section being filled in a day, so this page grows steadily — it is worth looking in again. In the meantime the sixteen sight pages and the plans by trip length are finished, and they are the best place to start.

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