The 72 Best Places to Eat and Stay in Prague

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The two chef-owners behind this casual Asian restaurant came up cooking street food and soul food, and it shows in a menu that's hard to narrow down to just a few dishes, which is why the table usually ends up sharing. The room has a stylish, relaxed energy, the front-of-house team matches it, and the cocktails are worth adding to the order. A lively spot in Prague that doesn't overthink itself.

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A working vineyard on the edge of Prague, with roots going back to medieval winemaking, houses this modern tasting menu restaurant. Old beams and quarry stone meet clean contemporary furniture, and the first-floor gallery under the open gable roof has the best view of the vines. The chef runs three to six courses, with a vegetarian option and wine pairing. Book a cellar tour while you're at it.

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A casual Asian-leaning restaurant in Petrská where the menu shifts with the seasons and leans on regional, organic ingredients as much as possible. The kitchen does à la carte or set menus, with a classic and a vegetarian route, and the lunch set is priced for a weekday habit. Beef finds its way into smoked red curry alongside homemade sausage and braised shin, which is either very ambitious or exactly the point.

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A small restaurant tucked into greenery on the edge of the city, right beside its sibling spot, U Matěje. A handful of tables look directly into the open kitchen, where a young team runs an ambitious ten-course surprise menu in the evenings and a tighter four-course lunch. The wine list runs to around 800 bottles, which is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a room this size. Book weeks ahead online; turning up on a whim is not an option here.

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A small photo album at every seat tells the story of the two brothers behind this counter-restaurant, which sets the tone nicely. Diners sit at a U-shaped bar watching the kitchen work through a seasonal five-course Vietnamese menu built on family recipes and a life split between Hanoi and Prague. The sommelier takes the wine pairing seriously, though cocktails and non-alcoholic pairings are both on offer.

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Tucked into a quiet side street in Prague's New Town, Vallmo is a cozy contemporary Czech restaurant where the dining room runs to pale wood and understated wall art, and the kitchen leans on local producers to reinterpret seasonal Czech cooking. Evenings bring a five or eight course tasting menu, with a sommelier who clearly takes the wine list seriously. Lunch keeps things shorter and less ceremonial.

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The wood-fired oven turns out Neapolitan pies with that soft, slightly puffy crust, and the tomatoes and mozzarella come straight from Campania. This is a roomy, lively pizza restaurant, family-friendly enough that there's a play corner for kids. The all-you-can-eat format, where small portions of every pizza keep arriving until you wave the white flag, has made it one of the more talked-about spots in Prague. It ranked 30th on 50 Top Pizza Europe.

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The wood-fired oven came over from Naples, and the dough gets more than 50 hours of slow fermentation before it sees the flame. This Vinohrady pizzeria is the Prague outpost of a much-loved Pilsen original, turning out soft, airy-crusted pies with buffalo mozzarella and house-made salami. The wine list leans toward small producers, though the tables mostly seem to be ordering spritz, which feels right. Italian beers, too.

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A silver oven shaped like a disco ball anchors the room at this Neapolitan-style pizza spot in Dejvice, which doubles as a DJ venue on certain nights and leans heavily on takeout. The two Italian pizza makers behind it work sourdough in both classic and creative directions. The wine and beer list is short, the tiramisù is not. Listed among 50 Top Pizza Europe's Excellent Pizzerias.

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Sitting above the main pedestrian drag in the old town, this Neapolitan pizza spot imports nearly all its ingredients from Italy and seats around eighty people in an easy, unpretentious room. The Margherita is a reliable anchor, and the calzone draws a loyal following. On a street that cycles through pizza-kebab-noodles with dizzying efficiency, the focused menu and quick, capable staff make the choice pretty simple.

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