Prague Travel Forum

Where will we find the best bars in Prague with a Czech vibe?

I've been to Prague before and because of that have been promotd as tour guide on a male bonding trip next week. Unfortunately, last visit was with family and bars were not on the agenda :( any help appreciated.

Oh Dear, not another one of these ghastly staggers' do descending into Prague I hope. You won't be surprised to hear that none of the bars in Central Prague has a "Czech feel". The whole of Stare Mesto and the Mala Strana (central Prague) has been either colonised by the hords of staggers, of all nationalities (but mainly British and German) -not very Czech anymore I'm afraid.

10-15 yrs ago, it would have been possible to find some real lively mainly Czech places within the City Centre south of Mala Strana for instance (eg on Ujezd avenue and nearby streets, there used to be some great allnighters 100% Czech), now it is almost impossible. Plenty of Czech bars on the fringe of the city centre but not terribly exciting. For the excitement, you need to go further away. Thankfully it needn't be too far.

Your best bet if you want to experience Prague with a more local flavour is to pub crawl south of Narodny, into Nove Mesto, you could base yourselves there for instance.

Pivovarksy Dum (micro-brewery -try to pronounce that after a pint or two of Branik!), corner of Lipova/Jecna, is fun, fairly Czech,

U Bubenicku, on Myslikova, is good as well, laidback.

AVOID places like U Fleku like the plague -in Nove Mesto- (the area is OK but still infested with staggers in places)

But really if you want to experience the real thing (as opposed to find yourself in the equivalent of Manchester on a Friday night), you have to hit suburbs like Vysehrad (south of Nove Mesto), plenty of indigenous discos and authentic pubs there. Whether you will like them or not is another matter, but they are the real Mc Coy.

thanks for that - too old for ghastly stag do these days, looking for something more sedate and classt lol, if that is posible in the city of prague with a zillion brits all looking for cheap booze these days
more ideas elcome

this website is excellent, made by locals

http://www.inyourpocket.com/country/cr.html

When in Prague you can also buy the guidebook version, €1 or €2.

In fairness, there are some quiet bars on the Mala Strana side of Prague (the quieter, more "mature" area), whether it is your scene or not, well, maybe not if you're there to have a bit of a do, and whether they are authentic or not is a different matter (they are expensive for locals).

The most beautiful places on the other side of Prague (other side of the bridge), called Stare Mesto (meaning Old Town), have pretty much all been infested and destroyed by the barbarians. Tyn Courtyard is one of them, an impossibly charming area behind the Tyn cathedral but now thoroughly out of bounds. I made the mistake of staying in a lovely hotel in that very courtyard about 7 yrs ago when the uncivilised hords were starting to pounce (the Metamorphis Hotel it was called, not cheap!), well, unbeknown to me when I booked there were a couple of "bars" within 30 yards, well, let's say that between the 30-strong hens' dos and the continuous trickle of drunks -100s of them- let loose on the square until 5 AM I did not sleep much for the 3 day I was there.

Now I stay at the Lundborg residence hotel in the Mala Strana side, wonderfully quiet and it does not remind me of the days I lived in Blackburn...

A local is probably better placed than I am to help you out but I would reckon that the areas I mentioned in my 1st post may not be too bad, combining a bit of Czech feel and practicality -let's see what the cognoscenti say.