The 100 Best Places in the Czech Republic

Three historic buildings, one modern addition, and somehow it all coheres on the Vltava riverbank a short walk from Charles Bridge. This Forbes Five Star hotel holds a Michelin Key and earns both by doing exactly what a great luxury hotel should, just a degree better than expected. Pierre-Yves Rochon handled the interiors, Prague Castle fills the better room windows, and the Old Town is essentially at the front door.

The groin-vaulted ceiling and all-white interior were once a château's stables, which tells you something about what a long way the space has come. This is a two-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant outside Prague, where the chef's set menu runs six, ten, or somewhere in between, drawing on regional ingredients and childhood memory. The kitchen team serves most dishes themselves and explains the thinking, so dinner moves more like a conversation than a performance.

The gilded rotunda and stained-glass windows of the old Grand Hotel Europa are still standing, which gives the whole operation an air of respectability it then immediately undermines with DJ sets and cocktail bars in the basement. W Prague is a design hotel on Wenceslas Square where the Art Nouveau bones of a landmark building meet a bold modern wing. A Forbes Four Star, it holds 161 rooms and a rooftop bar, but the real pull is the labyrinthine bar scene below.

A former Dominican monastery in Malá Strana, steps from Prague Castle, converted into a Forbes Four Star hotel where the old chapel is now the spa. Gothic arches and medieval stonework share space with Asian-inflected furnishings, and some rooms look out over the monastery courtyard, which is the kind of view that makes you feel like you accidentally booked somewhere better than you intended.

A walk-in wine fridge you can see from your seat sets the tone at this one-Michelin-star Italian restaurant tucked into the Old Town. The cooking leans North Italian, with breads, pastas, and ice creams made in-house. Turbot is a recurring reason to check the daily specials, or you can hand the wheel to the chef and take a five-to-seven-course tasting menu. There's a private chef's table for eight in the basement, and cobblestones out front when the weather cooperates.

The open kitchen runs the length of the room, so you watch every plate come together whether you planned to or not. This Michelin-starred fine dining restaurant inside Olomouc's Theatre Hotel builds its menus in tiers, each adding courses, with a non-alcoholic pairing that holds its own against the wine list. The cooking is modern with light international touches, the kind of place where "duck, chestnut, mandarin" reads as a full sentence and somehow is.

Set inside a stately chateau whose vaulted ceilings and arched windows look out onto formal gardens, ESSENS is a Michelin-starred fine dining destination running a set menu of precise modern cooking rooted in the Moravian region. The kitchen grows its own vegetables, and the wine list leans into local Moravian producers before opening into international names. The kind of place where the room and the plate are equally serious about making an impression.

Half-charred tables and fieldwork tools on the walls set the tone at this sleek, tasting-menu restaurant in Prague's Old Town. The kitchen leans hard into Czech ingredients and seasonal produce, sending out courses that occasionally arrive tableside with a flambé or a curl of smoke from a box, because why not. A Michelin-starred spot where the sommelier actually seems to enjoy the pairing conversation rather than enduring it.

A Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in a handsome old building in central Prague, where the kitchen is fully open and the L-shaped room means half the tables get a front-row seat. The vaulted ceiling and chandelier situation is doing a lot of work, but the menu stays grounded: seasonal Czech ingredients, modern technique, nothing trying too hard to impress. Tiles in the kitchen, echoed on the floor and the menu cover, which is either charming or obsessive, depending on your mood.

Perched slightly above the city, this Michelin-starred French restaurant carries its elegance without making a fuss about it, inside or on the plate. Classic French technique gets quietly steered toward the region, which shows up most clearly in the game dishes. The tasting menu called Le Pin is where the kitchen makes its case, though a vegetarian version is offered too. At lunch, things shift down to a simple two-or-three-course affair.

The bar in the cellar comes first: aperitifs and nibbles among exposed old brick before the team walks you upstairs for the tasting menu proper. Nordic technique, Czech ingredients, and Asian spice from the chef's own background make for a combination that doesn't really exist anywhere else. Twelve or eighteen courses, a long communal table or smaller rounds, and a Michelin star keeping the room quietly self-satisfied. Prague's Vinohrady neighborhood hides it well.

A film projected on the wall introduces the farmers before you've touched your fork, which tells you where this modern Czech restaurant's head is at. Upstairs in a light-filled loft space, the kitchen is fully open and the seasonal menu runs three or five courses, built on local produce with a quiet precision that never tips into fuss. A Michelin star. The bakery downstairs sells the house bread if you'd like to take some home.

A former post office with soaring ceilings and oversized windows, BoHo is a boutique hotel sitting right on the edge of Old Town, which means Gothic spires outside and sleek blonde hardwood inside. The lobby bar and library lean into understated minimalism, the spa adds a mosaic-tiled sauna, and the restaurant's beam-and-panel ceiling gives design-minded guests something to study between courses. Holds a Michelin Key.

The giant golden Buddha presiding over the lobby signals exactly what you're in for: mod-Orientalism transplanted into a cobblestone Old Town alleyway, with dramatic red interiors and 39 rooms that lean hard into the fantasy. Rain showers, deep soaking tubs, and chocolate on the pillow at turndown give the boutique hotel some real substance beneath the scene. The crowd skews globe-trotting and late to bed, which the all-hours café is happy to accommodate.

Alma Prague landed at number 25 on Europe's 50 Best Bars list, which feels about right for a place that refuses to be just one thing. It's a contemporary restaurant and bar in Nové Město with an open kitchen, a courtyard terrace, and a cocktail list serious enough to carry the evening long after dinner. A Michelin Bib Gourmand keeps the food honest, and the sourdough alone, sourced from a local Libeň bakery, sets the tone.

Seafood cooked with the kind of restraint that takes confidence, no heavy sauces, no theatrical plating, just clean product made to taste like itself. Aromi is a sleek Italian restaurant on a handsome Vinohrady square, split across two rooms that both feel considered rather than corporate. The wine list is long and sensibly priced by Prague standards. It ranked 30th on 50 Top Italy's global list, which is a strange thing to find two hours from the sea.

A velvet curtain separates this cocktail bar from the historic Café Slavia next door, which says a lot about Forbína's sense of theatre. Sitting across from the National Theatre, it draws on ballet, opera, and drama as actual cocktail briefs, not mood boards. The hand-melted glass lighting and wood-inlaid stage-like room do most of the heavy lifting before the drinks arrive. It landed on Europe's 50 Best Bars list, so the conceit is clearly working.

The neo-Renaissance façade here was built as a mortgage bank in 1890, which explains why it looks like it could foreclose on the entire city block. This luxury hotel in Nové Město keeps the marble floors, heraldic crests, and chandelier-heavy Presidential Suite, while the spa and the 1890 Restaurant & Bar lean into clean, contemporary lines. The result is the kind of place that feels genuinely palatial without making you feel underdressed for breakfast.

Casanova's ghost would feel right at home here, which either sells you or doesn't. This lavish Baroque hotel in Malá Strana tucks 26 rooms and 19 suites between Prague Castle and Petřín Hill, each dressed in gilded filigree, crystal chandeliers, antique furnishings, and hand-painted wallpaper that suggests an Italian princess briefly stepped out. The Gothic cellars beneath it all house an Indonesian-inspired spa, which is exactly the kind of left turn a hotel like this earns.

Housed in the century-old Sugar Palace on Senovážné Square, this Andaz hotel layers Art Nouveau bones with forward-looking modernism across its rooms and public spaces. The flagship restaurant, Zem, pays homage to 1920s Czech coffee houses while weaving in Japanese influences, and the bar Mez keeps things lively. A Michelin Key hotel, it sits in the Hyatt orbit, which means serious comfort without the stuffiness of a traditional grand hotel.

Julius Meinl, the Viennese coffee-and-grocery institution, decided hotels were a logical next chapter, and The Julius Prague is what that looks like when you hire Milanese architects and mean it. A boutique-leaning luxury hotel in a heritage building near the center, it has 168 rooms done in a calm, contemporary style that makes extended stays feel intentional rather than resigned. An Italian-inspired bistro and bar keeps things in-house. It holds a Michelin Key.

The Art Deco bones of this hotel just off Wenceslas Square still show, all curved lines and period grandeur, though the rooms have been updated into something that reads more like a sharp city hotel than a museum piece. The cocktail bar and coffee shop have quietly become neighborhood fixtures, which takes some doing in a tourist corridor. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

Augustinian monks still live in one wing of this thirteen-century monastery hotel, which means the guests on the other side are sleeping inside living history. Olga Polizzi oversaw the conversion, keeping the frescoes and baroque detailing intact while threading in early Czech modernism. The monks' original beer recipe still appears in the garden. The former observatory is now a panoramic suite. Michelin awarded it one Key.

Glass-and-steel interiors by architect Eva Jiřičná give this Josefov design hotel a structural argument that the lobby bar refresh only sharpens. Rooms run light and clever with space, and the location puts Old Town Square and Pařížská within an easy walk without dropping you in the middle of all that noise. A rooftop gym, retro scooters for hire, and a bakery that pulls its weight round things out nicely.

Teal walls and Bauhaus-era prints set the tone at this boutique hotel tucked onto a quiet square in Prague's Jewish Quarter, a short walk from Old Town. Rooms run spacious, some with balconies looking out over St. Hastal Church, and terrazzo bathrooms with walk-in showers feel more considered than the price might suggest. A small spa and lounge keep things calm. Good design, a good address, and minibars restocked daily.

A top-floor spa channeling alpine-lodge energy while overlooking Prague's rooftops is a genuinely odd trick, and the Emblem pulls it off. This boutique hotel near Old Town, designed by Alison McNeil, leans into warm retro tones and clean lines without feeling like a mood board. Rooms are set up for people who stopped separating work from everything else a long time ago, which is most of us now.

A glass-roofed atrium courtyard leads you into this bistro and bar tucked inside a centuries-old building in central Brno. Vaulted ceilings and a small open kitchen set the tone: pared-back and unhurried, with a menu short enough to read in under a minute. The cooking leans seasonal and contemporary, pulling in Italian ideas alongside straightforward meat dishes. You can also just stop in for a cocktail, which the room, honestly, encourages. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand.

Bohém earns its Michelin Bib Gourmand in a chic dining room inside Hotel Aplaus, just off Litomyšl's market square, cooking regional Czech classics with the kind of care that makes braised duck leg and trout feel like a deliberate argument for staying put. The Carlsbad dumplings, fluffy and golden, are the thing regulars mention first. Lunch specials draw a crowd early, and the service keeps pace without fuss.

Copper brewery kettles dominate the long room of this converted farmhouse, sitting under a groin-vaulted ceiling alongside an open kitchen and service counter. It's a casual restaurant and microbrewery in the Czech countryside, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand for regional and seasonal cooking made with solid ingredients. A small shop corner sells jams and preserves, which is either charming or a trap, depending on your willpower.

A terrace spilling onto Žižkov Square is the summer argument for this sophisticated bistro inside a long-standing hotel in Tábor's medieval centre. The menu runs à la carte or four and six-course tasting menus, with a vegetarian route and a wallet-friendly lunch option keeping the format flexible. The kulajda mushroom soup has the kind of staying power that earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand. Old-world glamour, sensible prices.

A modern bistro tucked inside a former military bakery, where the vaulted ceilings do a lot of heavy lifting for the ambiance. The menu is seasonal and creative, the kind where oyster mushrooms, yuzu, and venison all feel at home together, and the sourdough arrives before you've figured out what to order. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the portions are friendly enough to share if you can't narrow it down, which you won't.

Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Beskydy hills from a sleek, high-ceilinged dining room inside a boldly modern hotel. MIURA is a contemporary regional restaurant where the kitchen leans into local flavors without turning the menu into a folk museum. The tasting menu is the move if you want the full argument. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which means the cooking punches well above what the bill suggests.

A traditional Czech restaurant in a residential neighborhood where the walls are papered with the owner's actual family photos, which either sounds charming or alarming depending on your threshold for intimacy. It's the kind of unhurried, personal place that makes Prague's tourist-center dining feel like another city entirely. The kitchen runs classic and regional, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand suggests the cooking earns the detour uphill.

Charred cabbage and short ribs are the kind of dishes that make you wonder why Czech cooking doesn't get more attention. This casual restaurant in central Pilsen puts a contemporary spin on local traditions without drifting into fussiness, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand suggests the kitchen earns it without charging for the privilege. The staff are the sort who seem to know everyone. Come summer, the covered terrace out front fills fast.

A fish restaurant inside the grounds of Třeboň's castle, where some of what ends up on the plate was recently swimming in the lake you can see from the terrace. The Michelin Bib Gourmand-listed menu leans heavily into carp, the regional staple, alongside lamb and game for anyone who needs convincing. Two linked rooms trade off by season: the elegant indoor Šupinka in winter, the simpler open-air Šupina when the weather allows.

A short walk from the Vltava, this snug Czech restaurant shares its space with a working bakery you can see from your table, which tells you most of what you need to know about the bread. The short menu runs to braised hare, pork cheeks, and duck gizzards, the kind of cooking that takes unfashionable cuts seriously. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, and the room stays simple and rustic, the way a place that confident usually does.

A terrace shaded by old trees sits outside, and inside, the walls are thick with vintage photographs and pendant lamps in a neighborhood restaurant near the zoo. The kitchen takes traditional Czech cooking and quietly strips away anything fussy, turning out things like pulled goose with sauerkraut and potato pancakes. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the prices match that spirit.

A covered terrace in summer and a Moravian wine list that quietly steals the show set the tone at this contemporary restaurant a short drive south of the city center. The kitchen swings comfortably between French, Mediterranean, and Far Eastern influences, with a seven-course tasting menu alongside à la carte. The Bib Gourmand reflects how seriously the team takes the cooking without taking themselves too seriously. A dedicated rum menu confirms they have strong opinions about fun.

Langoš topped with sheep's bryndza cheese and smoked cracklings from the house smokehouse is a pretty good argument for sitting down at one of the long wooden benches here. This is a loud, unpretentious Czech pub that takes traditional inn cooking seriously, and the Bib Gourmand crowd fills it accordingly. The větrník, a choux pastry with caramel and vanilla cream, is the dessert to order. Beer or wine both fit.

An aparthotel in the old town where each floor runs its own design brief, from floral wallpaper and vintage furniture to a Japanese-minimalist room anchored by an 80-year-old tree trunk coffee table. You get a kitchen, your own front door, and the general fiction of living locally, but a concierge is still one WhatsApp message away if you need a dinner booking or a car. Six concepts in total, so there's some actual choosing involved.

Suited mannequins line the staircase, which is either an art statement or a very polite security system. Either way, it sets the tone for this boutique hotel behind a Baroque façade, where vaulted ceilings and oversized chandeliers share space with deep, almost aggressive color choices. Rooms are large by Prague standards, with rain showers and espresso machines; the ones facing the private garden are quieter. Old Town Square is a short walk away.

The Monkey Bar downstairs pulls in locals on a weeknight, which tells you something about the hotel above it. A boutique stay between the main train station and Wenceslas Square, the Falkensteiner skips old-world Prague entirely for moody lighting, sculptural furniture, and an international feel that reads closer to downtown Berlin. Rooms are quiet and comfortable, with blackout curtains and solid soundproofing for anyone who plans to sleep in.

A Neo-Renaissance building on a quiet stretch between the river and the old city, The Manes is a boutique hotel where the bones are grand and the rooms feel considered rather than corporate. Underfloor-heated bathrooms and warm finishes suggest someone thought past the Instagram shot. You're close enough to the major sights to feel oriented, far enough from the tourist scrum to feel sane. The Michelin Guide includes it among its selected hotels.

Across the street from Frank Gehry's famously wobbly Dancing House on the Vltava, this boutique hotel takes its cues from Gothic Prague and the Czech Cubist tradition rather than the cold minimalism that defined the design-hotel wave. The rooms lean warm and layered, the common areas are softly lit and a little sumptuous, and enough original architecture survived to give the whole place genuine visual texture. The hotel restaurant, Seven North, serves Mediterranean food in the central courtyard.

Each floor of this boutique hotel in Malá Strana is dedicated to a musical genre, and each soundproofed room to a specific composer or performer, complete with a curated CD library. A staff musicologist is on hand if you'd like a guided tour of your artist's back catalogue, which is either delightful or deeply unnecessary depending on your personality. The rooftop terrace looks out over Prague Castle and the Charles Bridge, so there's plenty to do if Mozart isn't your thing.

A converted fourteenth-century convent just down the hill from Prague Castle, named for the poet Jan Neruda, who grew up on these same crooked Malá Strana streets. The 42 rooms inside are crisply modern, calm, and functional, which turns out to be exactly the right call given the tourist noise you leave at the door. No pampering, no grand lobby theater, just a quiet and well-placed hotel with a few centuries of good bones.

An Art Nouveau building on the Vltava embankment, sitting directly across from the Dancing House with Charles Bridge a short walk in one direction and the National Theatre in the other. This 81-room hotel kept the Belle Époque bones intact, so the rooms come with bay windows, warm striped fabrics, and furnishings that don't match because they were never meant to. Corner suites catch both the river and the castle at once.

Foosball in the lobby sets the tone: Mama Shelter is not here to be precious about hospitality. The hotel sits in an up-and-coming neighborhood north of the Vltava, a deliberate step away from Prague's postcard center. Rooms mix boutique minimalism with local visual history, and the bar draws enough locals to make it feel less like a hotel amenity and more like somewhere you'd actually end up on a Tuesday night.

About an hour northeast of Prague, this five-star chateau hotel sits at the edge of a forest known for wild mushrooms, which sets the tone nicely. The 23 rooms run to chandeliers, wrought iron beds, and writing desks that once hosted Rilke. Downstairs, the Alchemist Club pairs a vintage jukebox with high-tech wine preservation, because why not. The spa blends its own natural cosmetics on-site. Michelin awarded it one Key.

The terrace tables put the astronomical clock directly in your sightline, which is either a feature or a tourist trap depending on your mood, though the interior makes a strong case for itself either way. Soaring nave-like ceilings, a glass roof, and stone walls set the scene for a contemporary restaurant with classical roots, where the open kitchen turns out dishes like pike-perch with semolina porridge. The vaulted cellar sells house-made baked goods if you're stocking up.

The open grill runs right through the room, and what comes off it changes daily, which keeps regulars guessing. This contemporary Italian restaurant sits just outside the old town, its exposed brick and concrete walls dressed with vintage furniture and wine racks stacked floor to ceiling. Pasta and risotto hold their own alongside the grilled dishes, and truffle turns up on the menu regardless of the season, a policy nobody seems to argue with.

A wine rack that doubles as a design statement anchors the minimalist dining room at this contemporary Czech restaurant on a quiet residential street. The kitchen works with carefully sourced ingredients, turning them into dishes that feel rooted in local tradition without being nostalgic about it. Lunch draws a crowd, the à la carte runs alongside multi-course menus, and the wine list hides a few rarities. The terrace is a bonus when the weather cooperates.

A country restaurant in a quiet Prague suburb where the name translates to "grandma's garden," and the kitchen makes good on the promise. The terrace spills into an actual garden, the dining room leans into the country-house look without apology, and beef broth with liver dumplings arrives in a pot you serve yourself. The steak tartare is finished tableside. Traditional and regional Czech cooking, friendly service, and zero pretension about any of it.

Ten seats around a horseshoe counter, and the chefs are close enough that you'll learn their names by the third course. Benjamin is a chef's-counter tasting restaurant built around Czech regional cooking, with eight courses that follow the season's local produce from whatever corner of Bohemia is worth paying attention to that week. Wine pairings are available, the room is warm without trying too hard, and booking ahead is non-negotiable.

A townhouse near the Vltava and Kinský Garden, Bockem runs breakfast in the mornings and a five-course set menu come evening, with Czech cooking that nods to tradition before quietly doing something unexpected with it. The room is cosy in a pleasantly worn-in way, and the front-of-house team seems to take genuine pleasure in the job, which is rarer than it sounds.

A section of excavated medieval church wall sits behind glass in the dining room, which sets the tone for a place that takes its surroundings seriously. Borgo Agnese is a contemporary Mediterranean restaurant where the menu swings between Italian coastal and something wilder, and a serious European wine list backs it up. Tasting menus are available, though à la carte works just as well.

The hand-laid ceramic mosaic covering nearly every surface, ceiling included, is the reason people stop mid-sentence when they walk in. This is a full-service restaurant inside a grand Art Deco hotel, open from breakfast through dinner, and the room does most of the work before the food arrives. The menu leans Czech and French, classic and unfussy. Book ahead: the room is genuinely a spectacle and Prague has figured that out.

Georgian khinkali, the soup dumplings that will scald you if you don't treat them with respect, are the reason to pull up a chair at this cheerful restaurant near the Vltava. The room is warm and colourful, hung with pendant lamps and patterned fabric, and live Georgian music turns up often enough to feel like part of the deal. Barbecued dishes come with the traditional sauces that make them worth ordering.

Mismatched chairs, old floorboards, figurines on shelves, and enough books to suggest the owner couldn't quite decide between restaurant and antique shop: Divinis is an Italian restaurant tucked into the Old Town, spread across several levels in a way that feels accumulated rather than designed. The open kitchen turns out refined Italian cooking, and the staff will happily walk you through a wine list that leans heavily Italian, which at a place like this feels right.

Chandeliers, heavy drapes, gilded mouldings, and the faint suggestion that someone nearby is taking a spa cure: the dining room inside the Grand Hotel Pupp is the kind of room that makes you sit up straighter without being asked. It's a formal Czech restaurant serving classically rooted cooking with the occasional international detour, all delivered by a front-of-house team that reads the room as carefully as the room reads you.

A floor-to-ceiling wine store runs along one wall, and the names of artist-donors are written across the ceiling, so there's always something to read if conversation lulls. This cosy modern restaurant inside Brno's House of Arts leans hard into Czech, Slovenian, and Hungarian bottles, with a Coravin system for the serious pours. Tasting menus and a vegetarian set menu share the card with à la carte. Book ahead, particularly on weekends.

The riverside terrace hangs right over the Teplá, which makes a summer dinner here feel a bit like eating on a raft, in the best sense. This hotel restaurant serves seasonal Mediterranean cooking, with a tasting menu in the evenings and a tidier set lunch for those not committing to the full production. The team is notably warm without being performative about it, which in a spa town full of formal dining rooms is quietly refreshing.

A raised bed of cress and herbs grows right into the counter, which tells you something about how seriously the kitchen takes its vegetarian concept. LEAF is a contemporary restaurant in a quiet residential neighborhood near the university, running a four-course menu or a longer chef's tasting, both with wine or non-alcoholic pairings. The room is sleek and modern, the sourcing is regional and seasonal, and the service is the kind that doesn't need to announce itself.

A graffiti-covered door in an old townhouse courtyard opens into a minimalist dining room where the vaulted medieval ceiling and a counter wrapping around the open kitchen do most of the talking. This is a modern Czech tasting-menu restaurant, named for a 19th-century cookbook author whose volume sits in a display case on the wall. Four courses, a Moravian-leaning wine list, and a Berlin artist's light installations rounding out the decor.

The floor-to-ceiling windows here frame Charles Bridge so perfectly it feels almost unfair to the restaurants that don't have it. This is a contemporary dining room on the Vltava's edge, with a terrace that puts you close enough to the stone arch to count the tourists. The kitchen leans on Czech tradition but keeps the menu modern and international, with à la carte and set menus running the range from tartare to vegetarian.

A steakhouse in the Old Town that takes dry-aged Black Angus seriously, with USDA-certified cuts alongside Czech beef for anyone who wants to eat local. The team will walk you through the selection without making you feel like a tourist, which in Prague is its own small miracle. Fish, pasta, and risotto cover the table if someone in your group recoils at red meat, and the wine list holds its own too.

Sitting inside the Pilsner Urquell brewery, this Czech restaurant occupies a vaulted cellar where the decor splits the difference between rustic and modern, with a sculptural service station anchoring the room. The menu runs from traditional beer-hall plates to more considered regional cooking, all of it built around local ingredients. The beer pairing, naturally, requires no deliberation whatsoever.

The open kitchen at the back frames chefs working on Czech classics, braised beef with dumplings and rabbit kidneys in mustard sauce, which sets the tone for the rest of the room. This all-day contemporary Czech restaurant sits directly across from the storied Café Imperial, mixing modern lines with something warmer underneath. The team runs a tight, attentive floor without making it feel stiff, which is harder than it looks.

A converted historical townhouse split across two floors, Portfolio is the kind of international restaurant where clean lines and warm materials make the room feel considered without feeling stiff. The menu moves between duck breast with ginger-spiked pumpkin and US prime beef, and the service team is the sort that reads the table without being asked. A solid wine list rounds things out.

A snug French bistro tucked into Prague's old town, where wine racks and art line the walls and the menu moves between classic à la carte and a rotating seasonal set. The chef's years of travelling show up in cooking that stays faithful to French technique without feeling museum-piece stiff. The front-of-house team knows the food and pours accordingly, which in a room this small makes a real difference.