Where to Eat Traditional & Cheap Czech Food in Prague? (Honest Guide)

The most common question I get from travelers here in Prague, Czech Republic, is where to get Czech traditional food, ideally for a good price. Well, you got the right video. We're going to show you budget options, we're going to show you great Czech food, quick bites, everything. And we're starting off here, downtown Prague, Wenceslas Square. Follow the tram tracks into the Passage, first spot. This is Cafeteria Světozor, the workers class cafeteria, where you'll even meet some white collars and guys like us, we got pork with spinach and dumplings. It looks amazing, but the choices here are endless and the meal will cost you around 4.7, maximum 5 euros. They do only take cash, so watch out for that, but they do have English menu available also. To our frequent viewers, you already know this place, but stick around, we're going to show you some new hidden gems, where to eat in downtown Prague. So, let's taste it. I missed filming these kind of episodes. This is really good. Of course, we're going to rate the food and not only the food, but the atmosphere, the location and the price. On a scale 0 to 10, 10 being the best. Well, this is a 10 out of 10. Otherwise, we wouldn't show it to you. No wonder people were having beer at 11 30 a.m., when it's 29 crowns for half a liter. So, this place was close to Wenceslas Square and the next one we're going to show you is near Old Town Square. Don't worry, map will be in the description, you will not get lost. City center of Prague, Old Town Square, that means overpriced beer, overpriced meals, restaurants only for foreign tourists. Well, no, if you know where to go and thanks to our video, you will very shortly. How about there? Restaurant Mincovna, right here on Old Town Square. While we wait for our food, it's fair to explain what's the name of this restaurant, Mincovna. It would translate to mint, because it was minting coin office in this building that is from the late 17th century and you can see a lot of coins hanging around on the walls. Also, if you get lucky, throughout the lunchtime, you may be able to sit outside on the square, but even inside, it's pretty good. And here is our dish, sekana, meatloaf and it's fair to explain how the menu works in this restaurant or pretty much in any restaurant in Czech Republic or Prague. During the day, the restaurants on working days will have something called a daily menu, and there will be meals, usually four to five meals from 11 to 2 p.m. that you can order at lower prices. In the case of this restaurant, the daily menu is only in Czech, but they will gladly translate it for you to English. Later in the day, they still have food, obviously, but it just comes at a slightly higher price and you order it from the regular menu that you get on the table. Want to try it? Our second lunch today, buddy. So even though the meal is called sekana, we nicknamed it sekačka, which would translate to English to a lawnmower. Also, the pickled, uh, pickle, also the pickle has a nickname of nakládačka, which is a beating. So if you beat someone up, that's nakládačka, which is also that pickle. So a lawnmower and a beat-up. Traditional Czech We should eat meatloaf more often. It's really good. And I would do anything for love. We just exited the restaurant over there, and here is actually a place where I eat the most, but it's not really for a meal, but it's just for a quick bite. And it's a bakery here in downtown Prague, one of the very few that is left. So let me show you what they got. I must say, I do come here for this chlebíček quite a lot. It has a horrible name in English, open-faced sandwich. But chlebíček is the true name of it, and it also proves that it is the only Czech food, because it has Czech in it. Chlebíček. We also got something sweet, this is větrník and a pink indian. You can pay with your card here, and all of this that we got was less than four euros. 3.78 euros to be exact. Dancing with the wasp. Honza, I'm so full. I think it's made out of sugar too, just a guess. We had a lot of food today. I'm really trying hard to finish this. It's so good. It's also very, very sweet. You can have the indianík, Honza. You may be wondering why Honza got the pink indianík. Well, he also has a pink respirator. It was the only one available. We forgot to rate, but I'm rating this place 100 out of 10. Yeah, maybe even more. This is so good. This was amazing. We wanted to show you more places where to eat in downtown Prague, but we are full. So, let us know in the comments if you like this kind of episode, which place was your favorite, or if you've already maybe visited one of these places. We will be happy to read your stories. All the people working for the places we showed you today were super kind to us, and I bet they will be kind to you as well. We wanted to show you a range from a very budget cafeteria through hidden gem restaurant to a fancier one right here on the square. All that being said, they were all reasonably priced together, so we can highly recommend them. Try the Czech food while you're here. It's your only chance to try Czech food when you're in Czech Republic, and I hope to see you next week on another episode of The Honest Guide, or even better, see you here in Prague. Ahoj. And a Czech word at the end is how we say tip or tipping. In Czech, it's spropytné, but I'm also going to give you a tip on the spropytné, and that is how we tip in Czech Republic. Normally, we tip around 10%. Obviously, you can tip more if you're satisfied, but mainly we try to round up, so it's easier for the person to give us back change. So, let's say you're paying 365 crowns for the bill, and you have a 500 crown note. You'll give it to the person, and you can say 400, and they will know that it's super easy for them just to give you back 100 crown note, and they don't have to hassle with the coins. I hope it's understandable.