AnonymouS Bar in the Old Town runs a V for Vendetta theme with a menu revealed under UV light. The cocktails behind the gimmick are some of the city's best-spec'd.
Food program: Bar snacks
Tip: Order the spec called Memory; the back room is quieter.
Address: Michalska 432/12, 110 00 Praha 1, Prague
L'Fleur is AnonymouS Bar's small sister room, a tight cocktail bar with a Rorschach inkblot menu. Cocktails are designed around a single psychological theme each.
Signature drink: Rorschach-themed cocktail
Food: Bar snacks
Tip: Smaller and tighter than Anonymous; the bartender's choice is the smart order.
Lokal Dlouhaaa pours Pilsner from tank in a 70-metre 1970s-style hall. The bar runs on the pace of a beer-tap-only Czech pub, with the same Pilsner you cannot find this fresh elsewhere.
Signature drink: Tank Pilsner Urquell
Food: Full Czech pub menu
Tip: Stand at the bar if no booth is available; the second tap pour is the smarter order.
Sad Man's Tongue is the Old Town's rockabilly bar-bistro, cash-only, taking no reservations, doing American-style burgers and beer in a 1950s-styled room near Karoliny Svetle.
Signature drink: Cash-only American beer pour
Food: American burgers
Tip: Cash only; the burger plate is the kitchen's main reason to exist.
L'Fleur is AnonymouS Bar's small sister room, a tight cocktail bar with a Rorschach inkblot menu. Cocktails are designed around a single psychological theme each.
Signature drink: Rorschach-themed cocktail
Food: Bar snacks
Tip: Smaller and tighter than Anonymous; the bartender's choice is the smart order.
BeerGeek Bar in Vinohrady runs 32 changing taps of Czech and international craft beer. The owners brew Sibeeria themselves and curate a serious bottle and whisky list.
Signature drink: 32 changing taps of craft beer
Food: Snacks, sausages
Tip: The Sibeeria stout is the house pour; trip across to Slavikova for the shop.
Lokal Dlouhaaa pours Pilsner from tank in a 70-metre 1970s-style hall. The bar runs on the pace of a beer-tap-only Czech pub, with the same Pilsner you cannot find this fresh elsewhere.
Signature drink: Tank Pilsner Urquell
Food: Full Czech pub menu
Tip: Stand at the bar if no booth is available; the second tap pour is the smarter order.
Sad Man's Tongue is the Old Town's rockabilly bar-bistro, cash-only, taking no reservations, doing American-style burgers and beer in a 1950s-styled room near Karoliny Svetle.
Signature drink: Cash-only American beer pour
Food: American burgers
Tip: Cash only; the burger plate is the kitchen's main reason to exist.
U Fleku has poured beer since 1499 on the same Nove Mesto block. The dark 13-degree Flek lager and the eight beer halls inside the brewery make this Prague's beer cathedral.
Signature drink: Flek Dark Lager 13
Food: Czech pub menu
Tip: Wave off the Becherovka shots; pay for the beer only.
Vinohradsky Pivovar's house lager pours from tank in a glassed-in tap-room above the brewery. Outdoor beer garden in summer, classic Czech kitchen, neighbourhood book-ahead crowd.
Signature drink: House lager from tank
Food: Full Czech pub menu
Tip: The desitka is the smarter pour than the dvanactka with food.