The counters in Prague worth queuing for: bread, pastry, and the morning ritual.
Bakery counters in Prague worth queuing for: levain breads, laminated pastry, regional bakes and the morning ritual.
Eska's Karlin bakery counter sells bread 33, the city's most cited sourdough, plus kolache and laminated pastries. At Pernerova 49. Booking recommended.
Worth the queueBread 33, three-stage rye on beech wood
TipBread 33 sells out by lunch on Saturday; sweet kolache last longer.
Eska Letna opened in February 2025 on the Letna grid as the second Ambiente bakery, baking the same bread 33 sourdough plus laminated pastries and breakfast.
Worth the queueBread 33
TipSweet and savoury breakfasts are made to-go; the morning crowd is the Letna runners.
Antoninovo Pekarstvi opened the first of its six city-wide bakeries in Karlin in 2014. Wheat-rye and potato sourdough loaves, all baked on-site.
Worth the queuePotato sourdough loaf
TipThe decorated chlebicky are made up at the counter; ask for a flight to-go.
Pekarna Praktika is Tomas Solak's serious sourdough bakery on the Vinohrady-Vrsovice border. Open tue-sat 07:30-18:00. At Belehradska 990/66.
Worth the queueStone-milled wheat sourdough
TipThe pain de campagne goes fast; freezer-ready loaves stay good a week.
Petite France on Myslikova is the city's most committed French bakery, behind a mint-green shopfront in Nove Mesto. Baguettes, pain au chocolat.
Worth the queuePain au chocolat
TipThe croissant is the city benchmark; aim to be there by 11:00 weekends.
Bakeshop is the long-running Old Town bakery between Parizska and the Spanish synagogue, baking sourdough loaves, quiches and savoury pies daily from scratch.
Worth the queueSourdough loaf
TipGet there before noon for the full bread range; quiches turn over fastest at the weekend brunch shift.
Antoninovo Pekarstvi's Namesti Miru flagship opened in a restored First Republic cafe space. Located in Vinohrady. Booking recommended. Reservations advised.
Worth the queueWheat-rye sourdough loaf
TipThe big window seats are the prize; show up before 10:00 on weekends.
Sisters Bistro is Hana Michopulu's chlebicky counter in the Dlouha gourmet arcade. Located in Stare Mesto. Open mon-fri 08:00-19:00, sat 09:00-18:00.
Worth the queueEgg-and-ham chlebicek
TipOrder four; one beetroot, one egg, one beef, one fish Best in the morning before noon.
Antoninovo Pekarstvi Letna is the chain's Letna branch, with bread off the oven, the full chlebicky array, breakfast plates and the same six-bakery system.
Worth the queueDecorated chlebicek
TipPark yourself in the corner with a coffee and watch the morning queue work.
Boulangerie Paul on Narodni is the central Prague outpost of the French bakery chain. The cheaper way to a proper French croissant in central Prague.
Worth the queuePain au chocolat
TipThe cheaper way to a proper French croissant in central Prague.
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