EBG Rating: 7.7/10

Choice/Quality of Drinks:
❤️❤️❤️
A very traditional selection, Pilsner Urquell, Kozel and Gambrinus, but the beer was in good condition on our visit. The back bar is similarly predictable.

Style/Décor:
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
A majestic building with baroque gables and classicist facade. On arrival, you will notice the “Saal” rooms, Austrian era signage which refers to the various beer halls. The bar, a large wooden construction is at the entrance, with a Schwemme style taproom that in all honesty doesn’t appear to be somewhere you’d congregate. Head to one of the beer halls where you’ll find impressive high vaulted ceilings and hunting trophies, candelabras all placing together an ensemble that feels familiar and in keeping with the history of the venue.

Atmosphere/Character:
❤️❤️❤️❤️
An every day feel due to its location outside the tourist trail, though elevated by the grand surroundings.

Amenities/Events:
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Food, snacks, outdoor seating, TV

Value For Money:
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Fair value for money, with some good lunch deals.

Description:

The name “At the old Pub” isn’t only for show – there has been an Inn here since Medieval times, the original lost only during the Thirty Years war. The current building is still impressively old, nonetheless, stood for over two hundred years, with records of its construction in 1711.

They claim to have put up Maria Therese and the Emperor Charles VI in the past.

In 1961 the pub was expropriated by the state, only returned to private ownership after the velvet revolution.

It is the sort of venue you’d expect to be in the old town rather than by a motorway, opposite a suburban metro station and a shopping centre, but these things happen.

In the past this Inn would have represented a way point from Podebrady to Prague, but these days it is consumed into Prague’s urban sprawl. But there are positives. Being so close to the metro station there is really no excuse not to give it a try. While distant looking on the map, the door to door from Mustek to Hloubetin is 16 minutes only. The wonders of Prague’s public transport.

On arrival, you will notice the “Saal” rooms, Austrian era signage which refers to the various large beer halls. The bar, a large wooden construction is at the entrance, with a Schwemme style taproom that in all honesty doesn’t appear to be somewhere you’d congregate. Head to one of the beer halls where you’ll find impressive high vaulted ceilings and hunting trophies, candelabras all placing together an ensemble that feels familiar and in keeping with the history of the venue. The hunting theme extends to the menu’s offerings which veers into game meat.

Service is pretty sullen, sadly, but hardly unfamiliar to anyone who has visited these places. On our visit this attitude was not directed solely at us, but to virtually all arrivals including locals.

As for the beer – a very traditional selection, Pilsner Urquell, Kozel and Gambrinus, but the beer was in good condition on our visit and fairly priced.

This will prove a curiosity for anyone seeking out unspoilt, historic and characterful old Inns around Prague, as well as an opportunity to experience one with few, if any tourists at all.