Czech beef goulash with bread dumplings: slow-braised chunks of beef in a paprika gravy thickened with onions, sliced dumplings on the side to soak it all up.
Czech goulash diverged from the Hungarian original in the 19th century, becoming a stew rather than a soup. Bohemian and Moravian pubs thickened the gravy with onions, served it with bread dumplings rather than pasta, and added marjoram. Every pivnice cooks its own version; U Fleku's has poured beside the dark Flek lager for a century.
4 editor picks for Gulas s knedliky in Prague, ranked by editorial score. All Prague signature dishes · Gulas s knedliky across every city.
Lokal Dlouhaaa ★ 4.4
stare-mesto · Dlouha 731/33, 110 00 Praha 1
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.
Lokal Hamburk ★ 4.3
karlin · Sokolovska 55, 186 00 Praha 8
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.
U Fleku ★ 4.2
nove-mesto · Kremencova 183/11, 110 00 Praha 1
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.
U Medvidku ★ 4.0
stare-mesto · Na Perstyne 345/7, 110 00 Praha 1
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.