Smazeny Syr appears as a signature dish in 1 Czech Republic cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Smazeny syr · Prague
Czech fried cheese: a thick slab of Edam or Hermelin breaded and deep-fried, served with tartar sauce, fries and a slice of lemon. Beer-hall food at its most direct.
Smazeny syr is a 20th-century Czech invention, popularised in the communist era when meat was scarce and cheese was not. Local Edam-style cheese took the schnitzel treatment: floured, egged, crumbed, deep-fried to a golden crust. It became late-night pub food, the dish you order at 23:00 with a Pilsner. Lokal serves the canonical version.
Where to eat in Prague:
- Lokal Dlouhaaa
- Lokal U Bile Kuzelky
- U Fleku
- U Medvidku