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The design shop within the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague 7 stocks stunning glassware, porcelain, jewelry, lighting, furniture and other work by a number of leading contemporary Czech designers. This bright white, airy, almost clinical space is a refreshing change to some of the more traditional...  

Is it a restaurant? Is it a club? Is it a record shop? No one is quite sure but either way Radost FX near Namesti Miru is very cool.Street level houses a quirky veggie café and a music/video/wine shop. Downstairs is a lounge/restaurant area with the same menu, and a club. During the daytime enjoy the Radost...  

I just stumbled upon a website that announces the opening of a new and design hotel that looks amazing!Just wanted to share my find with you!  

A guesthouse and restaurant housed in an 18th century farmhouse, this is the most impressive restaurant I've been to in the Czech countryside. A stone's throw from Prague (less than a 30 minute drive from the centre), Penzion V Polich is set in the pretty village of Malé Čičovice, a mile from historical...  

Part café, part shop, part postcard museum. Choco Café is definitely one for all chocoholics. Set in the Old Town, Choco Café offers the widest variety of chocolate and chocolate drinks I have ever seen. Its offerings include chocolate with quinoa or pineapple and hot chocolate served with ginger or...  

For a break from the more obvious tourist souvenirs, or if you have underestimated the brutality of the Prague winter, pay a trip to Model Praha Klobouky off Wenceslas Square and buy yourself a hat. This delightful shop, tucked away on an arcade leading off Wenceslas Square, seems to hark back to a time...  

Don't let the fact that Dobrá Čajovna is located on tourist-heavy Wenceslas Square dissuade you. Credited with being the lynchpin of the 1990s revival of Czech tea houses, Dobrá Čajovna is a refreshing change from some of the other international or tourist-priced options in the area. Tucked away off...  

The name Čajovna Ve Věži (the tearoom in the tower) gives you a fairly big clue as to what to expect. A tea room right at the top of the remarkable tower at the edge of Letna park. The whole way up, you will be wondering if you have come to the right place. Don’t worry, you have. Just keep going right...  

MamaCoffee is a great example of the growing interest in Fair Trade in the Czech Republic. With five branches in Prague, MamaCoffee was the first Fair Trade coffee roaster in Central Europe and it is fair to say, remains one of the most popular.Its largest café on Vodičkova off Wenceslas Square is always...  

For national Czech history don't go to the National Museum at the top of Wenceslas Square. The building is beautiful but the collection has just been shut for at least four years for extensive and long-overdue updating. Instead, go to the National Museum site at the Vitkov Memorial in Zizkov. This site is...  

One of my favourite restaurants in Prague and multiple gastronomic prize winner, Aromi will not disappoint. Although it boasts an impressive all round Italian menu, Aromi’s main draw is the outstanding selection of fresh fish available daily (no mean feat in a country that is landlocked). Their utterly...  

This cute café in Prague 2 has a range of attractions: newsagents (“trafika”), shop and tobacconists up front, with café behind, piano in the corner, occasional music events and small vinoteka. Like a much-loved teddy bear, local favourite Dobra Trafika is a little worn around the edges, which makes...  

Upon entering Sudička, a subterranean restaurant in Prague 2, you’ll be glad you knew to come in and didn’t pass straight by. This warmly glowing, inviting gem of a place is almost entirely hidden from pavement level – some small windows around ankle level are all that give it away. Sudička offers an...  

The exhibition summarizes information regarding the most serious infections in history, a world of diverse agents of bacterial infection, a time when we know more antibiotics, focusing on the era of antibiotics, its origins, the discovery of penicillin, expansion of their production, their use but also a new...  

Wenceslas was born around 907 in the castle of Stochov near Prague. At first Wenceslas was raised by his grandmother, Ludmila. Then, when he was about 13 years old, his father died. Wenceslas succeeded him as duke. But because he was too young to rule, his mother, Drahomira, became regent. Drahomira was...  

The official currency of the Czech Republic is the Czech crown (koruna), abbreviated as Kč, with the international abbreviation CZK. 1 crown consists of 100 hellers (haléř), abbreviated as hal. Heller coins have not been in use as of September 1, 2008, but hellers are still incorporated into merchandise...  

Czech tea houses are a relatively recent development. Local legend claims that a good cuppa was unheard of in the Czech capital until 1848 when Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin requested tea in a Prague café and was met with blank faces.Fast forward 150 years and the tea drinking, which took off at the end...  

We stayed in Prague for three nights which gave us about 2.5 days of touring. We felt like we covered everything we wanted to with a little extra time to relax at some cafes and wander around getting lost. I think that two full days should be enough if you want to see all the highlights.  

This modern, cheerful café in Vinohrady is very close to the National Museum. Bright, airy and colourful, when you walk inside you will feel like you’ve stepped back in time. A very fresh interior with blocks of pastel colours on the walls is complemented by genuine Art Deco tables, chairs and light...  

Prague Pickpockets and TheftYou have to be careful both in a hotel in Prague and while sight seeing. Theft is higher here than in other European cities like Madrid, Barcelona or even Paris. The pickpocket hot spots are the tram stops in Klarovo namesti close to the Wenceslas Square, Strossmayerorov Namesti...  

Prague City Apartments is running several serviced residences with apartments in the Prague center in Old Town. Most of its apartments are top rated among similar properties in Prague. Great tip for solo or business travelers as well as for short term family break.  

Prague City Apartments is running several serviced residences with apartments in the Prague center in Old Town. Most of its apartments are top rated among similar properties in Prague. Great tip for solo or business travelers as well as for short term family break.  

Fans of Vietnamese food may want to try Pho Vietnam in Prague 2. Located a stone’s throw from Jiriho z Podebrad metro station, this tiny restaurant offers a small outside seating area but mainly offers takeaway meals. Their menu includes some delicious pho (Vietnamese noodle soup, usually served with beef...  

Fans of Vietnamese food may want to try Pho Vietnam in Prague 2. Located a stone’s throw from Jiriho z Podebrad metro station, this tiny restaurant offers a small outside seating area but mainly offers takeaway meals. Their menu includes some delicious pho (Vietnamese noodle soup, usually served with beef...  

Apartment rentals in Prague city centre, in the Old Town and the Wenceslas Square. A selection of 177 apartments for rent in Prague historical centre, all furnished and serviced 24/7.  

When you step into Café Louvre on Národní, it is as if you step back in time. Opened in 1902, Louvre has always ranked highly in Czech kavarna culture. For a time it was the meeting ground of philosophy groups whose members included Franz Kafka and Max Brod. Many key players in the European literary scene...  

Riegrovy Sady in Prague 2, is an excellent place to while away a sunny afternoon. Its gentle grassy slopes offer excellent views northwards over the city towards Petrin Hill. It definitely has a touch of Primrose Hill cool about it and is popular among Czech and expat couples and friends. The park is well...  

Prague is full of places claiming to have been frequented by Kafka, Max Brod and the like,but in Café Montmartre you really believe it.Walking through the door is like stepping back in time (aside from the laptops set out by themodern crowd who now sit where Kafka used to) to the beginning of the twentieth...  

It sometimes seems that there is not a bar in the world that Hemingway did not frequent. However, Hemingway Bar in central Prague takes inspiration from the watering holes of Hemingway’s era rather than staking an actualclaim on the author’s custom.The bar, which occupies two cosy rooms, has a classic...  

Beas-Dhaba at Vladislavova offers great quality, freshly cooked vegetarian curry daily. Offering a north Indian menu, this brightly coloured restaurant is a weekday favourite for locals working nearby. The self-service style and metal trays give it a definite school cafeteria feel - if only school dinners...