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Prague is no café society. Certainly the latent potential is there, what with the city's literary reputation and arty bohemian image. However, you're never going to convince the majority to lounge around sipping an espresso when it costs less to drown in beer.


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Ambiente PastaCaffé

Ambiente PastaCaffé
Sterile minimalism and a small selection of tasty salads, sandwiches and pasta keep this chain of trendy cafés awash in coffee-sipping customers eager to read a newspaper in peace. Read_on (No Comments)

Angelato

Angelato
More than ice cream is the promise from this new cool spot slap bang in tourist town. Angelato, as the name implies serves up some truly angelic gelato plus sandwiches etc. Read_on (1 Comment)

Au Gourmand

Au Gourmand
Small cafe with superior pastries, savouries and tortes plus many more items to slimline your wallet and expand your waistline, but, as Kenny Everett said, it is done "in the best possible taste. Read_on (No Comments)

Bresto

Bresto
New teeny tiny cafe and wine bar. Early hours make it nice for a pastry and coffee, stop by at lunch for one of their freshly made sandwiches and in the evening choose from their extensive wine selection. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Amandine

Café Amandine
1920s glam and a sweet menu make Café Amandine a go-to spot for a rejuvenating coffee and French specialties, like genuine French crepes and homemade cakes. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Becher

Café Becher
A large-windowed spot with excellent breakfast choices and small but delicious menu of café staples… pasta, salmon, meat and a lovely wine list. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Café

Café Café
Slap bang in the middle of tourist central, but far cooler than many cafés in the area. Café Café is a well-known gay hangout, but it also attracts hetero hipsters who look the look, talk the talk and wear the ware. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Ebel

Café Ebel
The roasted scents that linger in this café can send you dizzy with their depth. Choose from a vast and constantly changing range of coffee beans from around the globe. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Imperial

Café Imperial
After a long facelift, the landmark Imperial has reopened with the Art Nouveau tiles and wood carvings still in situ within the high ceiling-ed rooms. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Kafíčko

Café Kafíčko
For good 100% Arabic coffee with friendly service, in the centre of town no less, pop into Café Kafíčko. Here you’ll find coffee from around the world, plus a nice retro atmosphere to enjoy a drink or two in the evenings. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Lounge

Café Lounge
Voted best cafe in the 2010 Czech Bar Awards, Cafe Lounge kept the love with a 2nd best cafe finish in 2011. This Malá Strana spot is the height of sophistication. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Louvre

Café Louvre
In true French style, this historic café is for anything but bourgeois tastes. Café Louvre is a true slice of Czech life where a great breakfast is served that one can enjoy with an international newspaper. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Pavlač

Café Pavlač
Healthy eating comes to Žižkov? Café Pavlač, named for the courtyard gallery out the back, which staff and artist are happy for you to explore, serves up good breakfast, snacks and meals, including pasta and salmon steak. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Revive

Café Revive
M&S food is famous for its decadence and while Prague’s food hall is actually more of a food corridor, the traditional M&S café exists in truly delectable fashion. Read_on (No Comments)

Cafe Rozmar

Cafe Rozmar
 A café with a conscience; enjoy a lovely coffee, lunch or evening drink at Café Rozmar. The café works as a training ground and fundraising tool to help young adults who have grown up in children’s homes. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Savoy

Café Savoy
A fabulously restored grand café dating back to 1893 with a particularly stunning neo-Renaissance ceiling. Sit under the chandeliers to order food from the café menu with traditional Czech dishes or from the more elaborate French gourmet menu. Read_on (No Comments)

Cafeterapie

Cafeterapie
If you are in need of some healthy, tasty vegetarian offerings after a heavy night or just for sustenance during a walk along the river, Cafeterapie is therapy enough to oust the winter dumplings. Read_on (No Comments)

Café Therapy

Café Therapy
Tasty food, cheap prices, kid friendly and with all profits going to the care, prevention and treatment of addicts, you do good for others and not just your appetite. Read_on (No Comments)

Café WOW

Café WOW
Chef Petr Bednář brings an interesting Mediterranean, Czech, Asian fusion menu to this now-standard café layout. Read_on (No Comments)

Coffee and Cigars

Coffee and Cigars
Orange theme, white leather, Očko on TVs, cinematic images of the eponymous objects (and others beginning with a C) line this ubercool café near Cinema Světozor. Read_on (No Comments)

Coffee Fellows

Coffee Fellows
Famous for their pastries, tea, coffee and syrups. Sandwiches, bagels, cookies etc. all vie for your attention but try the caramel slice for a taste of heaven with some toffee mixed in. Read_on (No Comments)

Cream & Dream

Cream & Dream
The flagship venue for premium Italian ice cream. Highly decadent but oh so delicious. Read_on (No Comments)

Cukrkávalimonáda

Cukrkávalimonáda
A small café which adopts an evening menu at 18:00 and produces delicious meals such as chicken breast with prosciutto and mozzarella on balsamic vinegar and fresh baby spinach to go with some superb (but spendy) new world wines. Read_on (No Comments)

DISK Café

DISK Café
A superior café on the Royal Way belies its sleek design by actually being the café for the DISK Theatre, the place of study for the Czech Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU). Read_on (No Comments)

Ebel

Ebel
Some of the best coffee in town, sandwiches and salads, plus excellent smoothies and cheesecake to die for. Wooden warmth inside beckons you in the winter months, and in the evenings you'll be serenaded by some good jazz from Ungelt in the basement. Read_on (2 Comments)

Emporio Café

Emporio Café
Befitting the newly renovated city palace on the corner of Václavské náměstí and Jindrišská, Read_on (No Comments)

Érra

Érra
Small, funky and perfectly formed, this semi-sunken treasure trove is full to brimming with the hip and hungry. Salads, pasta and palačinky (crepes) jostle with the temptations of the desserts for your favours. Read_on (No Comments)

Espressamente Illy

Espressamente Illy
Open for breakfast or lunch; the new Espressamente Illy promises authentic Italian Espresso and cappuccino. Located in the Prague Marriott Hotel, it has a street entrance on V Celnici. Read_on (No Comments)

Face Cafe

Face Cafe
The place to show your face. Quite an upscale café for a mall, but with a coffee, wine and cocktail list as long as theirs, it’s a worthwhile trip. Read_on (No Comments)

Fra

Fra
New mellow space for the intellectual in you. Read, write and improve your Czech with one of their bilingual classics (e.g. Alice in Wonderland) in this laid back bookshop/café. Read_on (No Comments)

Friends Coffee House

Friends Coffee House
Their website says it all: www.ilovecoffee.cz. A real city centre treat; Friends Coffee House is so nice and welcoming, you may find yourself stopping by for a cappuccino, staying on a bit for a BLT baguette, and then look at the time; ordering a glass of wine. Read_on (No Comments)

Gaspar Kasper

Gaspar Kasper
Gaspar Kasper, the place you can quaff coffee and beer, and nibble snacks in a smoke free atmosphere, surrounded of course by all sorts of theatre related bumph. Read_on (No Comments)

Globe

Globe
The Globe provides a sophisticated atmosphere to meet other enlightened souls. Darker walls indicate an edgier characterisation to this bastion of expat life which had become a tad stuffy in its middle age. Read_on (No Comments)

Grand Café Orient

Grand Café Orient
The first floor of the Cubist House of the Black Madonna is home to a truly unique Cubist-style café that was reconstructed from photographs to match the one that was here from 1911 until the 1920s. Read_on (No Comments)

Grand Café Praha

Grand Café Praha
The Grand Café produces cakes, tortes and other sweet delicacies for clock-watchers on Old Town Square and for visiting dignitaries at the castle. Read_on (1 Comment)

Kaaba

Kaaba
This über-funky café and attached tabak on eclectic Mánesova is the perfect spot for their sinfully thick hot chocolate, varied selection of premium teas and coffees, plus breakfast, cakes and alcohol, of course. Read_on (No Comments)

Káva Káva Káva

Káva Káva Káva
The future of the café for Prague with internet in the back (free 15 minutes with purchase), Wi-Fi all over and superlative staff. Read_on (No Comments)

Kavárna Obecní Dům

Kavárna Obecní Dům
Come for the atmosphere as well as the treats. This Art Nouveau café on the ground floor of Obecní Dům is one of the most elegant in town. Read_on (No Comments)

Kavárna Pavilon

Kavárna Pavilon
The Ambiente group are trying to make a go of the café space in Vinohrady’s beautiful though hardly successful old market space. Read_on (No Comments)

Maluj Creative Café

Maluj Creative Café
Do it yourself chic at this new café that serves up unglazed pottery (plates, bowls, ashtrays, objects) in addition to the usual café food and beverage items. Read_on (No Comments)

NoD

NoD
Fabulous experimental space with funky furniture, an art gallery, music, film and four terminals of free internet. This backs up our theory of Roxy (downstairs) being one of Prague's coolest spots. Read_on (No Comments)

Ouky Douky

Ouky Douky
Holesovice’s happiest corner is somewhat like an expat hangout minus the expats – it’s up to you to decide if that’s a good or bad thing. Read_on (No Comments)

Patio

Patio
We can't help but be wary of (and of course more than a little offended by) anywhere that offers to sort out our lifestyle for us. Read_on (No Comments)

Pink Floyd Café

Pink Floyd Café
Pink Floyd are definitely in residence in this small bar/café, although not musically. Photos chart the band’s rise in stardom and wrinkles, although the Stones were flavour of the night for the ears. Read_on (No Comments)

Rendez-Vous

Rendez-Vous
Despite being in the cold mall environs of the Millenium Plaza, Rendez-Vous is an interesting spot for coffee, delicious croissant or tasty salad, sandwich or burger. Read_on (No Comments)

Rosenthal Café

Rosenthal Café
Buy precision cutlery, crockery, a fondue set, without which no home is complete, or simply sip an aperitif, sparkling wine or freshly squeezed OJ in the back of the shop. Read_on (No Comments)

Rybanaruby

Rybanaruby
Part café, part live music venue, part shop it goes into the café section because of its opening hours. Underground Read_on (No Comments)

Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven
Sprawling café in a space not unlike your mad uncle’s apartment with armchairs you might never get out of in various rooms. Read_on (2 Comments)

Slavia

Slavia
Slavia is a throwback to days gone by with a beautiful art deco interior and photos of celebrity patrons. Its location can’t be beaten, with large windows open to Národní Divadlo and the Vltava. Read_on (No Comments)

Starbucks

Starbucks
Perhaps the last place on the planet without one, Prague is now the happy home to a Starbucks. Wipe the tear from your eye and order your grande skinny latte, no whip. Read_on (No Comments)

Týnská literární kavárna

Týnská literární kavárna
This mellow café (attached to a bookstore), is fairly unremarkable except that it has 0.5 Bernard beer for just 18Kč. Read_on (No Comments)

U Budovce

U Budovce
A tiny, jumble-filled cellar, secluded down a passage. Mellow jazzy tunes caress the random selection of antique bric-a-brac whilst you play with the froth in your latte and meditate on the good life. Read_on (No Comments)

U Prstenu

U Prstenu
A decidedly modernist establishment; crackly 1930s jazz crooning and funky old wooden chairs combine nicely and contrast with the post-modernity of the gallerie itself next door. Read_on (No Comments)

U Zavěšenýho kafe

U Zavěšenýho kafe
The name refers to a time when richer clients paid for two coffees, leaving one for the next impoverished artist to arrive. Read_on (No Comments)

Velryba

Velryba
Packed and popular, The Whale has delicious aromas wafting from the kitchen into the main seating and eating area out front. Vegetarians Read_on (No Comments)

Vesmírna

Vesmírna
Not the fastest food in the city as it’s all fresh made, but you are doing a good deed as this café is part of a training programme for the mentally disabled. Read_on (No Comments)

Villa Incognito

Villa Incognito
Has closed down but the space remains a cafe - more info coming soon. Read_on (No Comments)

Yessi Café

Yessi Café
From the makers of Pravda, Hot and Bellevue comes a casual café for the masses. Purple and green dominate the upholstered sofas and stools. Read_on (No Comments)

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Zanzibar

Zanzibar
Being small and often packed doesn’t stop Prague’s lovers of public displays of tongue-lashings of affection doing their thing. Read_on (No Comments)

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