A mini food tour of Prague
Pork tenderloin marinated in garlic and rosemary, stewed cabbage with apple, and rice
I had a wonderful time in Prague over Easter weekend. The architecture there is magical. As a friend aptly described part of the city, “it’s a bit like Disneyland, except I have to remind myself that it’s real.” It was really fun getting to try Czech food for the first time – though, to be honest, it’s not something I could get used to eating daily.
Since they use flour generously in Czech cuisine, my travel buddy had thoughtfully printed out an explanation in Czech of gluten-intolerance, which he found here. If you don’t eat gluten and are going to Prague, I highly recommend that you bring a copy with you because I ended up having to pull out this Czech explanation at every restaurant I visited.
The first restaurant we went to was Café Louvre. I ordered the pork tenderloin marinated in garlic and rosemary, potato dumplings filled with ham, and stewed cabbage with apple, and was able to replace the potato dumplings with rice. The pork was tender, and went well with the sauerkraut, but as a whole, the dish was a bit bland.
Roast beef on cream, cranberry target, roll dumplings
My friend ordered the roast beef with cream, cranberry sauce, and roll dumplings (which were apparently more like bread than dumplings).
Roasting ham
Later, we walked by this ham and could not resist making it our dinner.
Slice of the ham
The ham was super juicy and satisfying.
Cheese stand
We had also walked past this cheese stand and noticed some interesting cheeses, so we bought a box of various samples of the cheeses.
Box of cheese samples
Have you ever had green cheese? We were surprised to find that it was pesto-flavoured and pretty delicious. The box also contained super spicy cheese (the orange one), herbed cheese, and two other kinds of relatively normal cheese.
Potatoes stand
Potatoes with ham and sauerkraut, basted in dark beer
The next day, we tried some potatoes with ham and sauerkraut, which had been basted in dark beer. It was pretty good, and the tangy sauerkraut made the potatoes and ham less heavy.
Garlic soup
In the evening, after going to a beautiful classical music concert at the Prague castle, we found the Restaurace Nad Uvozem nearby, which we had found in a guide book. I ordered a garlic soup to start, and it was way too salty and probably had three cloves of garlic per bowl. There were tons of garlic bits floating around. Nevertheless, it was warming, and it was freezing outside, so I drank it all. (If you are in the mood for garlic soup, check out this New York times recipe)
Grilled chicken with asparagus and camembert
For my main course, I ordered the grilled chicken with asparagus and camembert, and a side of rice. It wasn’t particularly good, so I would not recommend this restaurant. It has a good view and mediocre food.
And that ends my mini food tour of Prague! Here are a few other snapshots from my trip:
At the Charles Bridge
At the Prague castle
They had white peacocks at the Wallenstein Gardens!
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Café Louvre
Národní 22, Praha 1, 110 00
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Restaurace Nad Uvozem
Loretanska 15 Praha 1
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