Dining

Czech cuisine

You want your new Prague apartment to be located in the area with many fine Prague restaurants, Prague pubs and bars. Not neccesserily in touristic area, but you want to go out once in a while. Part with the highest density of finest restaurants would be Stare Mesto and Mala Strana. So if your new Prague apartment is located there, prepare yourself for fine mostly international cuisine.

Prague has a wealth of places to eat, the majority offering traditional cuisine and dishes with meat and dumplings. In the last few years, Prague’s tourism industry has been growing rapidly and with that, many new restaurants have opened. Tourists can now experience more exotic cuisine than the Czech capital would have been used to in the past. Before looking at Prague apartments we will help you with answers on dining in Prague.

There are many hundreds of restaurants, cafes and bars catering to many different tastes, styles, and finances.

The influence of people of other nationalities coming to live in Prague has had an impact on the nature of the cuisine which has become much more cosmopolitan. While restaurants up to the early 1990's were predominantly Czech - both in terms of food and decor - new restaurants have been refurbished and the standard of service has improved. There are restaurants in the city centre which only a limited number of Czechs can afford to visit, so the cuisine tends to be mainly either French or international, catering predominantly to European or American tourists and business people. Planning on moving to Prague ? You will need these information before looking at Prague apartments.

Czech cuisine has both influenced and been influenced by the cuisines of surrounding countries. Many of the fine cakes and pastries that are popular in Central Europe originated in the Czech lands.
Czech cuisine is marked by a strong emphasis on meat dishes. Pork is quite common, and beef and chicken are also popular. Goose, duck, rabbit and wild game are served. Fish is rare, with the occasional exception of fresh trout, and carp, which is served at Christmas. Find more information about Prague apartments in Prague real estate section.

Many of traditional Prague Czech cuisine restaurants are located in Prague 1. If your are looking at Prague apartments in Vinohrady area, that´s a paradise for good restaurants, bars and cafes. It´s quiet, not touristy, offers many options to enjoy your evening out. If you have any question regarding Prague apartments don´t hesitate to contact Prague real estate agents listed in our bussiness directory.

Side Dishes

Knedlíky (boiled sliced dumplings) are one of the mainstays of Czech cuisine and are quite often served with meals. They can be wheat or potato based, and are sometimes made from a combination of wheat flour and stale bread or rolls. They are typically large and served cut into slices, in contrast with the smaller dumplings found in Austrian cuisine.

Meat Dishes

Roast pork with dumplings and cabbage (vepřová pečeně s knedlíky a se zelím, colloquially vepřo-knedlo-zelo) is considered the most popular Czech dish. There are two variants of preparing the cabbage, Bohemian and Moravian. Bohemians prefer the cabbage to be sour, so they prepare the dish from sauerkraut. In Moravia it is preferred sweeter and so is prepare from fresh cabbage, or by adding some sugar, if the fresh variety is not accessible. But these variants aren't strict, and either may be available in each region. Browse our Prague apartments situated in the city center.
Marinated beef sirloin (svíčková na smetaně or simply svíčková). Roast beef, usually larded, with a thick sauce made of carrot, parsley and cream, served with dumplings. Often served with a cream topping, a teaspoon of cranberry compote and slice of lemon.

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Snacks

Since beer culture is a big part of Czech life, many important Czech dishes and cheeses are usually eaten as pub fare.
Bramboráky (regionally called cmunda or vošouch in Pilsen) are fried pancakes made of rough-grated raw potatoes (brambory in Czech), flour, milk and sliced sausages, spiced with marjoram, salt, pepper and garlic. Usually sized to fit the cooking dish. Sometimes prepared without meat; this variant can be made smaller and eaten as side dish. There is a similar dish from the Slovakian-Ruthenian borderland called harula, prepared with less milk and fat, addition of onion, baked on tin in oven, instead of frying. When looking at Prague apartments you will need this information.

Cheese

Smažený Sýr (colloquially, smažák) is maybe the less noble, but the most contemporary of Czech national dishes. A slice of cheese (usually Edam) about 1 cm thick is coated in bread-crumbs like Wiener schnitzel (which is very popular, also) and fried either on a pan or in deep fryer, and often topped with tartar sauce. Looking for listings of Prague apartments ?
Nakládaný hermelín is a soft cheese, similar to Camembert marinated with peppers in oil. Hermelin can also be deep fried as above.
Utopenci (literally "drowned men") are pickled bratwursts.
Pivní Sýr (beer cheese) is a soft cheese, usually mixed with raw onions and mustard, and spread on bread.
Niva is a a blue cheese, originally made in the town of Niva in the Prostějov district.
Olomoucké syrečky maturing cheese with strong odour, invented by Josef Wesselss 131 yrs. ago. It's made in Loštice, small town in Moravia. Tradition of making this cheese dates since 15th century. Tvarůžky can be fried, marinated or added to bramborák i.e.

Desserts

Fruit dumplings (ovocné knedlíky) are mostly made using plums (švestkové knedlíky). Whole plums (including the stones) are coated with potato dough and boiled., then served with a lot of butter, sugar and milled poppy or tvaroh. Different varieties of fruit dumplings include strawberry or peach. They can be also eaten as a main dish, not simply dessert. We can help you to discover the perfect Prague apartments by using precise search criteria such as: price, number of bedrooms, type of housing, type of listing, as well as apartment and community features.
Kolache (Koláče) is a type of pastry consisting of fillings ranging from fruits to cheeses inside a bread roll.
Vánočka is prepared for Christmas, along with many kinds of biscuits and sweets (vánoční cukroví).