10 Best Local Restaurants in Prague

Krcma is an underground restaurant in the Old Town, near the Jewish Quarter, that will throw you back to the Middle Ages. You can feast on marinated sirloin steak, roasted pork knuckle, grilled rib eye, roasted duck, and more while seated on heavy wooden furniture amid dark brick walls.

Pilsner beer, dark Kozel, and low-alcohol Radegast birell beer are served here together with wine, soda, and coffee. For dessert, you can choose between honey cake and ice cream with hot fruits.

U Bulinu serves goulash in a bread bowl, beef cheeks in beer sauce, roasted duck with cabbage, and potato gnocchi. Their pickled camembert and goose liver pâté are some other must-tries. Don’t miss out on their pistachio crème brulée if your tummy has more room – the restaurant is known for its big portions. If you’re looking for a real challenge, try their enormous beef burgers.

Besides its 1940s-style interiors, its outdoor terrace is a great spot to eat during the summer. It even has a kids' play area. It’s located in the tree-lined neighbourhood of Vinohrady.

Check out Kuchyn and its open kitchen inside the National Gallery if you’re visiting Prague Castle. You can reach the place through the terrace of Salmovský Palace, one of the gallery's exhibition venues.

The restaurant’s spinach salad with smoked duck breast, duck leg, beef tartar, beef shanks in cream or tomato sauce, and pork cheeks are inspired by the former Czech nobility's cooking processes. You can try a little of all their specialities by ordering the 10-dish Castle Feast from 5 pm. Pick an outdoor seat for a sweeping view of the city while drinking Pilsner Urquell beer.

Mlýnec, near the Vltava River and Charles Bridge, offers a fine-dining experience at a reasonable rate. The a la carte menu contains recommended wine pairings for all dishes, from its 7-hour confited duck leg to its 40-day-old Irish beef rib-eye steak. It boasts of a tasting menu of veal tartar, posted cod, mignon veal fillet, foie gras, and fried chocolate fondant.

Mlýnec has an open-air balcony, but its non-smoking indoor area is just as impressive with its floor-to-ceiling windows. The interior has several sections, including the Vltava 2 room with vibrant foliage on the wall near the open kitchen.

The 3-storey U Pinkasů is the original tasting room of Pilsner Ulrquell, having been built as a pub in 1843. Among the crowd favourites are pork knee with horseradish sauce and mustard, goulash with bread dumplings, pickled cheese, and apple fritters in caramel sauce.

Just a few steps away from Wenceslas Square, you can choose to eat in the cosy dining hall or the garden patio where you have a view of the gothic Church of Our Lady of the Snows.

Stepping into Kolkovna V Kolkovne is like entering a museum where old photographs and printed ads, as well as a copper-plated tapping bar, welcome you. The building near the Old Town Square was turned into a pub in the 1920s after operating as a printer for stamp duty documents for some time.

Kolkovna offers a fresh menu of 3 main courses daily during weekdays. But it also has a set menu that includes venison leg, braised beef neck, roasted duck, and some unique items such as wild boar and spaghetti with rabbit ragout, among others.

U Parlamentu has a set menu featuring roasted pork knuckle, roasted pork ribs, roasted rabbit in spinach and garlic or creamy sauce. It also offers a “meat plate” that consists of roasted pork, smoked pork, and duck with dumplings and cabbage. If you're vegetarian, U Parlamentu has several vegetable salad options, mushroom risotto, and spinach crepes, the last 2 of which are served with Gran Moravia cheese.

Found near the Jewish Quarter, this restaurant with wood-panelled walls has a daily changing menu with 5 types of soup and a variety of beef, fish, chicken, and other meats. Its black beer has delighted many a customer. You can also order via their takeout window.

Ferdinanda has a traditional pub feel with low barrel ceilings, long wooden benches, and farm-carpentry accents. It has a menu that changes from day to day and a fixed menu featuring various pork, sirloin, and chicken dishes, as well as roasted and pickled sausages. Klaster Brewery's light lager, Cerna Hora's dark lager Granat, and Vysoky Chlumec's Demon lager are just a few of the microbreweries you'll see included in its drinks menu.

This Mala Strana (Lesser Town) restaurant is in the basement of a Baroque building with an arched entrance between the Mala Strana Namesti (Lesser Town Square) and Hellichova tram stops. To avoid missing it, look for the signage (its logo is the letter F in lower case) on the entryway with street number 18.

Join the locals at Havelska Koruna, if you don't mind self-service, where you can choose from an array of meals in a cafeteria-style setting. Photos of some of their specialities hang above the counter with English translations. After filling your tray, you receive a ticket for all your orders, which you pay before you exit.

Some of the top-selling dishes here include svícková, goulash, beef with dill sauce, smoked pork neck, Moravian Sparrow (roasted pork thigh), Spanish bird (rolled beef stuffed with boiled egg, bacon, sausage, and pickles), and ovocné knedlíky or fried fruit and cheese dumplings.

U Kroka is a family restaurant named after a certain Duke Krok who had the Vyšehrad Castle built in the 10th century. Despite having been founded in 1895, nothing looks ancient inside except for the wooden barrel at the bar. Everything else exudes a hipster vibe.

Visitors are usually impressed with the pečená kachna (roasted baked duck with red cabbage and potatoes), pork knuckle, and fallow deer leg with beetroot tartare. Top beer choices include Plzeň, Gambrinus, and Popovický Kozel.