Industrial loop in the Vltava bend, north of the centre. The Holesovice market hall and Chefparade school live in old slaughterhouse buildings.
The Eatery is the Holesovice Bib Gourmand from chef Pavel Bycek (formerly of Alcron), an industrial-style room with an open kitchen turning out contemporary.
Signature: Roast duck with cabbage, Beef tartare with house bread
Order: The duck if it is on the daily card; the house-baked bread.
The Eatery is the Holesovice Bib Gourmand from chef Pavel Bycek (formerly of Alcron), an industrial-style room with an open kitchen turning out contemporary.
Signature: Roast duck with cabbage, Beef tartare with house bread
Order: The duck if it is on the daily card; the house-baked bread.
Doubleshot is the original Czech specialty roaster, founded 2010. Located in Holesovice. Open mon-fri 09:00-18:00, sat 09:00-16:00. Booking recommended.
Tip: Their Holesovice market hall espresso bar is the cheapest way to taste the current bag.
Sources from: Ethiopia, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya
How they serve: Espresso, Filter, Whole bean retail, Subscription
Holesovice Market is Prague's largest year-round market, inside an old slaughterhouse complex on the Vltava bend. Open mon-fri 07:30-17:00, sat 07:30-14:00.
Tip: The Doubleshot espresso bar is in Hall 8; eat there before shopping.
The St Claire Vineyard wine harvest at the Prague Botanical Garden in Troja is the city's longest-running annual wine festival: live music, burcak.
Tip: Book online; the festival lasts a single weekend in mid-September.
Chefparade's Traditional Czech cooking class runs from their kitchen in Hall 36 of the Holesovice market. Three Czech dishes hands-on, market tour beforehand.
Tip: Walk through the market hall before class; the tour version costs the same.
Chefparade's market tour class walks the Holesovice market hall first, then returns to the school kitchen to cook three Czech dishes from what was bought.
Tip: Book in advance; group caps at eight, the small group is the point.
Cross Club fills a labyrinth of rooms in a Holešovice industrial building near Nádraží Holešovice, with sculpted scrap-metal interiors and a programme of drum and bass, dubstep, techno and live alternative acts across two stages. The cafe upstairs runs all day; the underground club opens nightly from 20:00.
Tip: The smaller second stage opens earlier than the main floor. Tram or metro C to Nádraží Holešovice is two minutes away; cash bar.
Mecca opened in 1998 in a former Holešovice factory and runs three floors with two music stages and five bars, programming house and techno on the main floor and broader hip-hop and pop on the smaller stages. Open on event weekends rather than nightly.
Tip: Tram to Dělnická is the easy way in. Programming is event-driven so check mecca.cz before turning up.
Cult runs the Czech Republic's reference Japanese-style listening bar from the basement of Café Tvaroh on Šmeralova in Holešovice, with Klipsch La Scala and Heresy speakers, an Isonoe rotary mixer and a Reloop turntable rig. Programming runs vinyl-only across jazz, ambient and electronic selectors.
Tip: Red neon outside indicates the door is open; conversation is kept low between sides. Only Thursday through Saturday.