Lokal Dlouhaaa ★ 4.4
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.
OrderThe tartare with bread; tank Pilsner Urquell.
Marinated beef sirloin in a thick root-vegetable cream sauce, served with bread dumplings, cranberry jam and a swirl of whipped cream on top. Czech home cooking at its richest.
Svickova evolved in Bohemian bourgeois kitchens through the 19th century. Marinating tough cuts in vegetable brine softened them; the cream sauce thickened from root vegetables pureed after braising. By 1900 it was the canonical Sunday lunch across Czech households, often paired with the family's Pilsner. Now it anchors the Lokal pub menu and turns up in modernised tasting-menu form at Field and La Degustation. The garnish remains a fixed Czech form: thin slices of meat, a pool of cream sauce, a tablespoon of brusinky (cranberry jam) on the meat, lemon slice and a piped rosette of whipped cream beside it.
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Lokal Hamburk ★ 4.3
Lokal Hamburk is the Karlin outpost of the Ambiente pub chain, on the site of a 19th-century river-harbour inn. Order the vepro-knedlo-zelo; pour from tank.
OrderVepro-knedlo-zelo; pour from tank.
Vycep ★ 4.3
Vycep is a modern Czech pub in Vinohrady with a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Chef Jiri Hrachovy brings a Wallachian sheep-cheese touch to the Czech repertoire.
OrderThe halusky with bryndza; pour from tank.
U Modre Kachnicky ★ 4.2
U Modre Kachnicky in Mala Strana cooks the old Czech repertoire, roast duck and venison, in two Baroque-era dining rooms a five-minute walk from Charles.
OrderThe roast duck with bread dumplings and red cabbage.
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