Cafe Imperial brings Zdenek Pohlreich's modern Czech cooking to a 1914 Art Deco room with ceramic-tiled walls and pillars, a Grand Cafe restored to working order.
Signature dishes: Roast duck, Beef cheek goulash
Must order: The roast duck with red cabbage and three kinds of dumpling.
Address: Na Porici 1072/15, 110 00 Praha 1, Prague
Casa de Carli holds a Michelin star in the 2026 Czech guide. Matteo de Carli and Lenka Hermanova run an Old Town room cooking Northern Italian with house-made pasta.
Signature: House tortellini, House gelato
Order: The handmade tortellini in broth, then the secondi.
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 Bridge.
Signature: Roast duck, Venison goulash
Order: The roast duck with bread dumplings and red cabbage.
U Mateje sits in residential Dejvice and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Chef Jan Puncochar cooks modern and traditional Czech, with a focus on sauces and high-quality meat.
Signature: Wiener schnitzel, Beef cheeks
Order: The Wiener schnitzel with potato salad.
Pot-au-feu cooks honest French classics off Namesti Republiky. Chef Jan Kracik works sauces and offal in a way that is rare in Prague; the Michelin guide includes it.
Signature: Sweetbreads with morels, Calf's head Gribiche
Order: Whatever offal is on; the sauce will be the point.
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.
Signature: Wallachian halusky, Tank Pilsner Urquell
Order: The halusky with bryndza; pour from tank.
Na Kopci has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand since 2015. The Smichov hillside kitchen serves French-Czech bistro plates: tight four-course tasting or an a la carte.
Signature: Chef's four-course tasting, Game in season
Order: The four-course chef's tasting with the wine flight.
