my paternal side is Czech..and I grew up with roast pork,dumplings,saurkraut,cerny kuba(a barley dish) and, of course Kolachy.Those are MY comfort foods.
Was just in prague, and I definitely agree with this list! I would suggest though for everyone to stay away from old Town square when trying to eat out because the restaurants are overpriced and the food isn't as good
Pork knee was unbelievable. There is a pub by right by the opera House on the east side of the most legii bridge that I ate that at. Wiener snitzal was good to. Progue is simply amazing and 1 of my favorite cities of all time.
Haha. Mark always mentions the Czech duck...wish I would have tried it when I visited. I really enjoyed the koleno (pork knuckle) and guláš with bread dumplings (shown @3:03) as well as carp but I visited at Christmas when it's everywhere. Don't recall many vegetables but I really wasn't looking. 😀👍
Wolters World spinach is quite popular. I ate buttered spinach with roast rabbit at Klášterní šenk - utterly transcendent. One of the best meals I ate and I spent two and a half weeks in Czechia.
That's it! I'm going to put Prague on my list of places to visit in the near future. Mark, I've seen your previous videos about Prague and those videos created an interest for me but this food video just put it over the top.
The duck, chicken, dumplings, potatoes and soups that I had in Prague 2 years ago in August were fantastically filling when my family and I went there. Of course, the pivo (beer) there was certainly a fantastic edition to the meals as well. I even ate some Vietnamese food one night there that was fantastic and the first night the train pulled into Prague, I ate stellar Argentinian barbecued cuisine while a band played South American folk songs...was totally fantastic, and the service is totally improving since we were in the tourist areas! We recreated the duck and dumplings at home during the Christmas holidays and I still enjoyed it tremendously. Great video, Mark!
I loved it. One of my favorite cities of all time. The apple grove on the west side of the most legii bridge has nice views of the city. The castle and church on the bluff are really pretty. The food is very good. The beer is good. The Czechs are more outgoing as far as talking to tourist then other places in some other Europe counties. Bring walking shoes. They have day trips to some really pretty castles which is what Czech is know for besides spires. Hope you like spires.
It's good, but it's ridiculous that it's sold as "traditional Czech dessert" when it was brought here only in 1990's. (It's from Hungary.) Some of the more traditional desserts, like strudel or crepes or profiteroles (served under the name větrník), also aren't from Czechia, but they've been eaten here at least since 19th century.
Cerny Pivo!! A must try, smaller towns like Brno or even villages are much cheaper than Prague, but Prague is beautiful. The fried cheese is good, but heavy, dumplings are amazing, as is the beef and pork. Desert, the crepes with ice cream are amazing. I loved the coffee with Viennese cream, kava videnska??
As an non-alcoholic alternative to beer you should try the traditional soda, Kofola. It’s like a herby cola invented in the late 1950s by Zdeněk Blažek, a scientist who had been commissioned by the state to create an alternative to Us colas, using ingredients available in Czechoslovakia.
if you talk czech deserts you have to mention palatschinken :) Its the czech version of a crepe but with vanilla creme and a little bit thicker and its so delicious! In the meat category you wanna try Gulas. That's a sauce wth meat pork and paprica served with potatoes. Thanks for the good Content as always :)
Hi Mark, enjoy your stay in Czech republic :), hope you will visit other places too, we have plenty other beautiful towns. As you said you didn't like the wine, I can reccomend you visiting us here in Spring or Summer for bike trip around Morava(Pálava region), nice nature, every few kms village with nice and coozy wine cellar to sit down or lake to swim in.
Did you come up with a solution? I'm trying to figure out that exact route too, in terms of interrailing. It seems like krakow is hard to get to, the other locations I've looked at for my route has been no problem at all
I have also a little recommendation for a ver unique restaurant: Vytopna. It is quite funny, because the drinks are delivered by a little train to each table. I've been with my family a few times to Prague and eating out there is just a must-do for us because we always have such a great time there. The food is also quite good, however if you want some nice and fine Czech food, I wouldn't go there. It's more of a lunch place, if you know what I mean.
Trdelník is actually slovak food. It is originally from Skalica. Czechs kind of appropriated it, but it is not as good as the original slovak one ^_^ (and also originally it is not sold with cream or even ice-cream (why Czechs?!), as they do some places in CR)
This is one reason, why I like to live in eastern europe because here in every country we have some foods, what are almost exactly the same everywhere, and everyone claims that that food originated in their country. For example in hungary trdelnik is called kürtőskalács (and of course many say that this is an original hungarian food), but I could list many other foods (gulas-gulyás, nokedli-halusky) :)
Hungarians claim its their food and both Czechs and Slovaks took it. For tourists, I would not recommend getting into this argument unless you know martial arts.
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What to eat in Prague? The fried cheese is very touristy. lol If you're in old town square... Go to Restaurant White Horse. They'll give you a better meal.
Also, I found if you need really fast food, go to the beer halls. They generally have sausages and kraut ready to eat with beer. I also found many fancy absentheries. There is a cool absynthe culture there with making of the cocktails almost like show performance.
that's hungary more. i honestly liked the dill soup the best. I tried to make it kind of a short list as if i listed 20 things there would be no way a tourist would be able to get them all. so might as well hit my favorites :)
hey JOhnny. i usually dont' putthe exact price down as that is somehting that changes so quickly and so often and with exchange rates, that i try to focus on the general feel and needs.
Duck and Dumplings! Streudel! Fried Cheese! Mushrooms! Ice Cream! Cakes! The Prague! This sounds like the closest thing to the New Jerusalem on earth! *I need to honour my username, and czech this out sometime! Many Thanks Wolters World! Great videos!*
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I love Prague but there are few vegetarian options in Czech restaurants. Try Country Life in the city centre which is a cheap vegetarian restaurant otherwise stick to Italian and Indian cuisine.
As native Prague citizen I must say that - Trdelník is total bullshit, it has nothing to do with Czech history unlike Skalický Trdelnik, that is made in Slovakia and is related to their history and is much more cheaper / tastier
trdlo or tdelnik is not Czech. Check out chlebicky (open sandwiches), kremrolle, etc. Go to a pekárna or a cukrarna, a real street market, for the real czech stuff. And all those with poppy seeds on top, medovnik (honey cake, filling and good), cakes with fruits on top... Garlic soup :) svicková na smetane, fried cheese, duck, pork knee, trout, ribs.... and get out of the city centre to eat or you will be robbed :)
Janek and Honza would protest the recommendation of trdelnik.
But only in Prague :) Everywhere else it has a decent price , and doesn't come with ice cream, which is a crazy combination created only recently..
They would even revolt 😅
I instantly thought that too haha
Not That Guy They would rush off to shut down that tridelnik stand right away lol
They would definitely disapprove of trdelnik....it’s not Czech!
I reccomend you Honest Guide about anything in Prague
Prague was the first foreign city I has flown too, so it will always have a special place in my heart.
I'm surprised you didn't mention svíčková, which is one of the most famous signature dishes of the Czech cuisine.
my paternal side is Czech..and I grew up with roast pork,dumplings,saurkraut,cerny kuba(a barley dish) and, of course Kolachy.Those are MY comfort foods.
Wolters World is always great place to start when you are going some place
Beautiful children! And great tips, thank you!
Was just in prague, and I definitely agree with this list! I would suggest though for everyone to stay away from old Town square when trying to eat out because the restaurants are overpriced and the food isn't as good
Pilsner Urquell is delicious in Prague but also try other beers too.
@@valice4712 Yes? Pilsner Urquell is beer.
@@pentrus2747 hahaha bro you broke UA-cam with your username, I love it :DDDD
Czech Republic is basically the Mecca of beer.
Martin Pekár that's a particularly oxymoronic phrase 😂
Pork knee was unbelievable. There is a pub by right by the opera
House on the east side of the most legii bridge that I ate that at. Wiener snitzal was good to. Progue is simply amazing and 1 of my favorite cities of all time.
You can't get wiener schnitzel in Prague :-D
The fried cheese and dill soup look amazing! Looks like I'm going to need to czech my diet at the door. ;)
Haha. Mark always mentions the Czech duck...wish I would have tried it when I visited. I really enjoyed the koleno (pork knuckle) and guláš with bread dumplings (shown @3:03) as well as carp but I visited at Christmas when it's everywhere. Don't recall many vegetables but I really wasn't looking. 😀👍
yeah. aside from the cabbage varieties sometimes veggies can be a bit less prominent on the plate :)
Tosh T the duckling is worth a second trip
Wolters World spinach is quite popular. I ate buttered spinach with roast rabbit at Klášterní šenk - utterly transcendent. One of the best meals I ate and I spent two and a half weeks in Czechia.
That's it! I'm going to put Prague on my list of places to visit in the near future. Mark, I've seen your previous videos about Prague and those videos created an interest for me but this food video just put it over the top.
Reactionary Hermit Thanks for the input. I love to get out of the city every where I travel.
The duck, chicken, dumplings, potatoes and soups that I had in Prague 2 years ago in August were fantastically filling when my family and I went there. Of course, the pivo (beer) there was certainly a fantastic edition to the meals as well. I even ate some Vietnamese food one night there that was fantastic and the first night the train pulled into Prague, I ate stellar Argentinian barbecued cuisine while a band played South American folk songs...was totally fantastic, and the service is totally improving since we were in the tourist areas! We recreated the duck and dumplings at home during the Christmas holidays and I still enjoyed it tremendously. Great video, Mark!
Thank you so much for this video! I’m going to Prague in a few weeks and I had no idea what to try over there. Now I know
Great timing because our trip is this summer!
I’m going to Prague in December, and I anticipate living on duck and dumplings!
I loved it. One of my favorite cities of all time. The apple grove on the west side of the most legii bridge has nice views of the city. The castle and church on the bluff are really pretty. The food is very good. The beer is good. The Czechs are more outgoing as far as talking to tourist then other places in some other Europe counties. Bring walking shoes. They have day trips to some really pretty castles which is what Czech is know for besides spires.
Hope you like spires.
The people from the Czech Republic do not like the trdelnik (sp?) stands as they are not from the Czech Republic.
It's good, but it's ridiculous that it's sold as "traditional Czech dessert" when it was brought here only in 1990's. (It's from Hungary.) Some of the more traditional desserts, like strudel or crepes or profiteroles (served under the name větrník), also aren't from Czechia, but they've been eaten here at least since 19th century.
Cerny Pivo!! A must try, smaller towns like Brno or even villages are much cheaper than Prague, but Prague is beautiful. The fried cheese is good, but heavy, dumplings are amazing, as is the beef and pork. Desert, the crepes with ice cream are amazing. I loved the coffee with Viennese cream, kava videnska??
As an non-alcoholic alternative to beer you should try the traditional soda, Kofola. It’s like a herby cola invented in the late 1950s by Zdeněk Blažek, a scientist who had been commissioned by the state to create an alternative to Us colas, using ingredients available in Czechoslovakia.
You are great.
I've been twice to Prague. You did it a good service! Yummy food! Get the chimney pastries! But just wig sugar and cinnamon. Soooooo good!
if you talk czech deserts you have to mention palatschinken :)
Its the czech version of a crepe but with vanilla creme and a little bit thicker and its so delicious!
In the meat category you wanna try Gulas. That's a sauce wth meat pork and paprica served with potatoes.
Thanks for the good Content as always :)
Gulas is better with dumplings. :)
Isn't Palatschinken Austrian/Bavarian and Gulags Hungarian ?! 🤔
Palatschinken is Austrian
@@blub4108 The original guláš is Hungarian and comes with white bread. The Czech version is different and comes with dumplings.
Hi Mark, enjoy your stay in Czech republic :), hope you will visit other places too, we have plenty other beautiful towns. As you said you didn't like the wine, I can reccomend you visiting us here in Spring or Summer for bike trip around Morava(Pálava region), nice nature, every few kms village with nice and coozy wine cellar to sit down or lake to swim in.
I’m going go there next month! Thanks for the video!
You are very welcome
You’re going to love it. Check out all his videos on Prague, they helped me tremendously
Also check Honest Guide on youtube. Its a guy from Prague making videos about Prague for tourist.
Michael C thank you very much! Will do!
Petr Šebík I will check it :) Thanks!
Thanks for another great review video
Any recommendations on the train system in central europe? Going from Krakow to Prague to Berlin.
Did you come up with a solution? I'm trying to figure out that exact route too, in terms of interrailing. It seems like krakow is hard to get to, the other locations I've looked at for my route has been no problem at all
I'm going to Prague for the first time in few days it's like you knew Wolter!
I have also a little recommendation for a ver unique restaurant: Vytopna.
It is quite funny, because the drinks are delivered by a little train to each table. I've been with my family a few times to Prague and eating out there is just a must-do for us because we always have such a great time there.
The food is also quite good, however if you want some nice and fine Czech food, I wouldn't go there. It's more of a lunch place, if you know what I mean.
Trdelník is actually slovak food. It is originally from Skalica. Czechs kind of appropriated it, but it is not as good as the original slovak one ^_^ (and also originally it is not sold with cream or even ice-cream (why Czechs?!), as they do some places in CR)
It is being sold with ice cream even in Bratislava.. weird!
I thought, they were actually from Romania.
This is one reason, why I like to live in eastern europe because here in every country we have some foods, what are almost exactly the same everywhere, and everyone claims that that food originated in their country. For example in hungary trdelnik is called kürtőskalács (and of course many say that this is an original hungarian food), but I could list many other foods (gulas-gulyás, nokedli-halusky) :)
Hungarians claim its their food and both Czechs and Slovaks took it. For tourists, I would not recommend getting into this argument unless you know martial arts.
Don't worry Niky, we tell everyone it's Slovak, only street vendors sell it as Czech. -.-
Can yuo suggest some places where to eat for a rasonable price?
Baron Trenck...my favourite beer!
You should’ve met up with The Honest Guide (Janek and Honza)! Great video though :)
fsruiz64 no
Looks amazing!
I love your videos! You’ve inspired me to go on so many trips, thanks for the insightful and entertaining content, much love!
that is awesome to hear. thank you.
You should also try the wild boar
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I think the most beer , San mig, is in the Philippines
Ahahah just 10 sec for vegetables , definitely cute and honest !!!! :):))
Restaurant Deminka - eat delicious food + amazing beer for reasonable prices and it's quite near old city (near Namestri Miru station)❤❤🍛🍻
I love Trdlo. I don't care what anyone says about it...
dumplings dumplings and more dumplings
:D you missed all of the best Czech desserts
What to eat in Prague? The fried cheese is very touristy. lol If you're in old town square... Go to Restaurant White Horse. They'll give you a better meal.
Also, I found if you need really fast food, go to the beer halls. They generally have sausages and kraut ready to eat with beer.
I also found many fancy absentheries. There is a cool absynthe culture there with making of the cocktails almost like show performance.
this is true with something quick. i thought about the absynthe on the list, but felt the other digestive was a better drink for all the heavy foods.
No gulasch?
That's Hungarian
that's hungary more. i honestly liked the dill soup the best. I tried to make it kind of a short list as if i listed 20 things there would be no way a tourist would be able to get them all. so might as well hit my favorites :)
Trdelnik too is not czech
Gulash is Hungarian food, but Czech gulash is diferent.
Alessandro Mattioli I was thinking the same! I understand that goulash is Hungarian. It’s still pretty popular and delicious in Slovakia and Czechia.
Despite this video, Prague does have quite a few really good veggie/vegan restaurants.
Watch out for restaurants using store bought dumplings, usually not a great sign. You deserve those in house made dumplings yo!
I remember going when i was 15, and hated everything (including Pilsner) except the best thing ever: fried cheese!
2:06 knedliky ;-)
If you visit Prague try the small restaurant "U Magistra Kelly"! Fantastic location!
thanks for the heads up
Pilsner Urquell is the best beer in the world
Prague is a great place for digital nomads, and affordable, interesting to know how much you are paying for these items.
hey JOhnny. i usually dont' putthe exact price down as that is somehting that changes so quickly and so often and with exchange rates, that i try to focus on the general feel and needs.
@@woltersworld Understood, just wanting an anchor so to speak, such as the duck for example, which I know can vary a lot.
Duck and Dumplings! Streudel! Fried Cheese! Mushrooms! Ice Cream! Cakes! The Prague!
This sounds like the closest thing to the New Jerusalem on earth!
*I need to honour my username, and czech this out sometime! Many Thanks Wolters World! Great videos!*
YOu are very welcome. you will eat very well in prague... and drink :)
@@woltersworld Oh Wow! Thanks for taking your time to respond.
I wished I subbed earlier, you go over a lot of relevant content quickly. I watched some of your videos on Japan, and I visited for just over a month. 100% accurate.
Also, I learned somethings about what not to do in the U.S. from your video about what not to do in the U.S. and I've lived in the U.S. almost my whole life! XD
I'll stop fan-girling, you are busy with other fans, family, more videos and family. I'm surprised you actually responded. :D See ya!
If you shot this video 2 weeks before, we would have met right there.
Do not buy fried cheese in the street buffets.. Chances it will be good are slim. Buy it in a restaurant.
Kolaches
I love Prague but there are few vegetarian options in Czech restaurants. Try Country Life in the city centre which is a cheap vegetarian restaurant otherwise stick to Italian and Indian cuisine.
Trdelnik is a tourist trap and not traditional. Big Mac is more traditional Czech food than touristtrapnik
As native Prague citizen I must say that - Trdelník is total bullshit, it has nothing to do with Czech history unlike Skalický Trdelnik, that is made in Slovakia and is related to their history and is much more cheaper / tastier
I finally know how to pronounce Prague
glad i can help :)
trdlo or tdelnik is not Czech. Check out chlebicky (open sandwiches), kremrolle, etc. Go to a pekárna or a cukrarna, a real street market, for the real czech stuff. And all those with poppy seeds on top, medovnik (honey cake, filling and good), cakes with fruits on top...
Garlic soup :) svicková na smetane, fried cheese, duck, pork knee, trout, ribs....
and get out of the city centre to eat or you will be robbed :)
Beer super, but food 😔😔😔 not my taste
I love dill. I think I may have a secret Slav ancestor.
I just don’t like those bread dumplings.
No, no, no, no, no Mark, say no to trdelnik!
Bud is the abbreviation of Budweiser. However the beer is uncomparable.
true. totally different.
As much as Prague is amazingly beautifull the food is just disgusting. Sorry
Sorry Mark...I prefer the German and Scandinavian Beers...
be aware czech taxi drivers rip you off
Drinking in the street is illegal!
Where are you in a hurry?) speak slower
The Czech's do not drink more beer than anyone in the world. YOU EVER HEARD OF WISCONSIN?
Well, we do.. Czechs have the highest per capita consumption of beer in the world by far