Discover a dozen foods that you must eat when you travel to Prague. This food list includes savory dishes, sweet treats and some surprises. The city’s most popular drink is here too. You won’t want to miss a tasty bite!
1. Grilled Sausage

Be prepared to encounter a lot of pork in Prague. The ‘other white meat’ represents more than half of the meat consumption in the Czech Republic and a lot of it is sausage. It’s also delicious – especially when eaten with mustard and a pint of beer.
2. Schnitzel

Unlike schnitzel in Austrian cities like Graz and Vienna, Prague’s schnitzel is typically made with pork cutlets instead of veal. To make this dish, cooks bread and pound pork cutlets before pan-frying them until they’re crispy on the outside. Locals typically eat shnitzel with potato salad and you should do the same.
3. Dumplings

Czech bread dumplings have a drier texture than Austrian and German knoedel. Plus, they have a different name – knedlíky. Some Prague dumpling are savory while others are sweet enough to eat for dessert.
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4. Mushroom, Dill & Potato Soup

Kulajda isn’t the only soup in Prague but it’s the city’s most unique soup. Originally eaten in Southern Bavaria and made with dill, mushrooms, sour cream and potatoes, the creamy soup gets its finishing touch from a quail egg.
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5. Chlebíčky

You may do a double take when you see chlebíčky in Prague. The colorful open-faced sandwiches look like open-faced sandwiches in cities like Copenhagen and Venice. Prague’s version starts with small slices of white bread and continues with layers of various spreads, meats, eggs, and veggies on each slice.
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6. Potato Pancakes

Potato pancakes aren’t unique to Prague but Prague’s potato pancakes are unique. These potato pancakes are traditionally cooked with carraway, marjoram and other spices.
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7. Burgers

The people in Prague get hamburgers. They get how to cook them and they get how to serve them. Perhaps they learned the ropes at American fast food chains like McDonalds and Burger King. Either way, they’re worth checking out.
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8. Hot Dogs

It only makes sense that Prague would have great hot dogs. After all, Prague chefs are masters when it comes to grilling sausage. And, at the end of the day, it’s a slippery slope between sausages and hot dogs.
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9. Pho

Considering that more than 60,000 Vietnamese people currently live in the Czech Republic, with most residing in Prague, it’s no surprise that the city has great Vietnamese food. It’s also no surprise that delicious bowls of pho are easy to find around the city.
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10. Věneček

Like the Paris brest, the věneček, which translates to wreath in Czech, starts with two wheels of choux pastry. But, unlike the famous French pastry, the wheels of a věneček are filled with pure vanilla cream and finished with an opaque white sugar glaze.
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11. Větrník

The větrník looks a lot like a věneček. Both pastries are round in shape, are made of choux pastry and have cream fillings. But that’s where the similarities end. Unlike the věneček, the větrník doesn’t have a hole in the middle. It’s also topped with a caramel glaze and its filling includes both vanilla cream and caramel cream.
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12. Beer

Pilsner beer is available around the world but there’s nowhere better to drink it than its home city of Pilsen. And, since Prague is less than 100 kilometers (approximately 60 miles) from Pilsen, Prague is the second best place. You can drink beer pretty much anywhere in Prague including bars, restaurants and spas. Yes, spas.
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