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Location: Dubečská 74, 100 00, Prague, Strašnice
Venue Type: Czech Hospoda / Pub Restaurant
Year of Inscription: 2024
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| EBG Rating: | 7.6/10 |
| Choice/ Quality of Drinks | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Pilsner Urquell delivered in typically slavish religious fashion, a tank operation here. Not too many other beers to mention, but a broad range of alternatives. |
| Style/ Décor | ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ A truly beautiful bar area you will approach from an entrance hall. Distinctive tiling and nautical ephemera make this, by Czech standards highly unusual. A warren of rooms follows and there is a fair bit to explore. |
| Atmosphere/ Character | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ This far outside Prague you can be assured that there are no tourist crowds, so there’s a local feel. A versatile venue that has a big food menu, so during the day the atmosphere does unfortunately centre around that at the expense of drinking, something not helped by overly officious service. They will simply refuse to let you sit in the bar even if it is completely empty of their regulars, which is a big downside. However, the venue itself and the prospect of evening graduation from dining to socialising makes this worth returning to. |
| Amenities/ Events | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ TV, food, snacks, jukebox, outdoor seating |
| Value For Money | ❤️❤️❤️ Reasonably mid/high priced given the location |
| Description | U Kašpárka’s décor is striking, something you don’t often see around in a country more used to either minimalism or convention. They’ve gone for a nautical theme – the location doesn’t give too many clues as to why, but the district Rybnicky, or ‘Ponds’ is at least one straw to clutch. Opened in 1993 it began as a basement operation before expanding to become more of a pub restaurant. It’s a big operation these days and pretty forward thinking for an outer Prague pub, the English menus and English speaking more akin to what you’d expect to find in the centre. A very distinctive bar begs you to sit down and enjoy it, but unfortunately the server doesn’t, and unless you have the ability to plead with them (we didn’t), you’ll be placed in one of the side rooms, which are not quite as exciting. The key to maximising the experience is to get a drink at the bar, or on the terrace surrounded by mature conker trees. While the stickler service was a real downside, it would be churlish not to acknowledge this is an impressive venue and perhaps one day we will have enough political capital to be honoured by a place at the bar itself. We have given them this feedback since, whether they’ll listen is anyone’s guess. |
