Maitrea sits a minute off Old Town Square and is Lehka Hlava's sister room, a calm tea-room-restaurant doing full vegetarian Czech classics plus a cheap daily lunch.
Signature dishes: Vegetable goulash, Daily lunch menu
Must order: The Czech-style vegetable goulash with dumplings.
Address: Tynska ulicka 6, 110 00 Praha 1, Prague
Lokal Dlouhaaa is the longest of Ambiente's Czech pubs, a 70-metre tile-and-wood room in Stare Mesto pouring Pilsner from tank and cooking honest Czech classics.
Signature: Tank Pilsner Urquell, Beef tartare
Order: The tartare with bread; tank Pilsner Urquell.
U Medvidku has poured beer since 1466 in the same Old Town building. The microbrewery upstairs makes X-Beer 33, the strongest beer ever brewed in the Czech Republic.
Signature: X-Beer 33, Goulash
Order: The X-Beer 33; the goulash with bread dumplings.
Dejvicka 34 holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Chef Tomas Cerny cooks Italian-Czech bistro plates in Prague 6, drawing on twenty years in Italian Michelin kitchens.
Signature: Pasta of the week, Saturday set lunch
Order: The pasta of the week; the Saturday set lunch.
Lokal Dlouhaaa is the longest of Ambiente's Czech pubs, a 70-metre tile-and-wood room in Stare Mesto pouring Pilsner from tank and cooking honest Czech classics.
Signature: Tank Pilsner Urquell, Beef tartare
Order: The tartare with bread; tank Pilsner Urquell.
Lokal U Bile Kuzelky is the Ambiente Lokal closest to Charles Bridge, a 1862 cellar pub pouring tank Pilsner and cooking the same Czech classics as the Dlouha branch.
Signature: Tank Pilsner, Smazeny syr
Order: Smazeny syr; tank Pilsner.
Lokal Hamburk is the Karlin outpost of the Ambiente pub chain, on the site of a 19th-century river-harbour inn. Pilsner from tank, honest Czech cooking, evening crowd.
Signature: Vepro-knedlo-zelo, Tank Pilsner
Order: Vepro-knedlo-zelo; pour from tank.
U Fleku has brewed beer on the same Nove Mesto block since 1499. The cavernous beer hall pours its own 13-degree dark lager, brewed exclusively on site, with Czech classics.
Signature: Flek Dark Lager 13, Pork knee
Order: The dark Flek 13; the pork knee.
U Medvidku has poured beer since 1466 in the same Old Town building. The microbrewery upstairs makes X-Beer 33, the strongest beer ever brewed in the Czech Republic.
Signature: X-Beer 33, Goulash
Order: The X-Beer 33; the goulash with bread dumplings.
