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Location: Křižovnická 60/10, 110 00 Josefov, Czechia
Venue Type: Beer Hall / Czech Pivnice / Traditional
Year of Inscription: 2017 (Founder Member)
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| EBG Rating: | 7.5/10 |
| Choice/ Quality of Drinks | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ |
| Style/ Décor | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ |
| Atmosphere/ Character | ❤️❤️❤️❤️ |
| Amenities/ Events | ❤️❤️❤️ |
| Value For Money | ❤️❤️❤️ |
| Description | If you were to draw a Czech Pivnice from a blank piece of paper (and had the requisite knowledge and talent), it would in nearly every way look like U Rudolfina. The layout, the fixtures, the fittings, the beer, the style of service, all correspond to an archetype of traditional Czech pub going. I think U Rudolfina knows this quite well, and fortunately for all concerned, has no intentions of changing. Walking through the door brings you to the pub area, designed purely for stop-off drinking, a kind of glass and be-on-your-way kind of thing. This smallish area attracts a host of locals and tends to put off tourists who prefer to dive straight down to the cellar. True, the bar part of the pub gives you only a sliver of the experience but it’s a really good one. This is another of the Pilsner Urquell tankovna pubs and they take a real care and pride at keeping it at pristine quality. There’s something you can sense just from observing the glacial smoothness of the foam on a head of a jar of Pilsner Urquell that sends off all the right signals that you’re about to enjoy a very good pint. By the limited parameters of central Prague customer service, it’s actually fairly friendly in here. Eye contact, a mutual acknowledgement of each other’s humanity, and on occasion I’ve found almost a sense of satisfaction at delivering the good stuff to the table, in that stodgy matter of fact manner, yes, but you take every victory you can get. Prices are just a little inflated but that extra 20 pence a jar won’t hurt British wallets. As for the Pivnice, you couldn’t say fairer than the fare offered here. Straight down the line Czech dishes, a roll call of the 6-8 dishes you could probably find at every Czech restaurant in the country, made to a very enjoyable – if not absolutely distinctive standard – something underlined by the reviews online, once filtering out the hardened idiots. If you’re alone, stick to the bar area and hang out with the locals. If you’re in a group dive downstairs and get drinking and dining post-haste in a cellar area brimming with the history and good cheer you would expect from a Czech Pivnice. This is core Czech pub territory. |