What's up everybody WE are Marko and Alex and YOU are watching Vagabrothers and THIS is Prague!
Like a local, lets go!
Prague is one the most gorgeous cities in the world
but also one of the most touristic
And why not, the beer is cheaper then water
the women are beautiful and the nightlife rivals any city in the world
but ironically the part of this city that seems the most cultured, the Old Town
is actually the least local, because high rents and tourism
have pushed many people out of the city centre
we wanted to discover the real Prague, but like most we started with the classics
Saint Charles Bridge, The Astronomical Clock
and a stroll through the Old Town
I love cities like this, cobblestone streets,
beautiful old buildings, colorful, rustic it's awesome! i'm digging it
yeah dude, Prague has one of the best preserved Old Towns in all of Europe
this is central Europe, Bohemia at its best. We're gonna check out another side of the city
which should be cool but like in a different way
let's do it, I'm ready
for us, the best way to discover culture
is through food so we met up with Leona from Prague Food Tour
who promised to give us a crash course in Czech culture starting with lunch
We met Leona in a restaurant called Lokal on Dlouha street
where some of Prague's best restaurants are clustered
Leona then ordered us some Lokal specialties, Prague ham with horseradish
Czech style steak tartare
fried cheese
and pickled camembert
hmmm... really tasty
its an awesome place to taste some modern dishes
twist on traditional Czech cousine
the owner serve original Czech drinks and dishes
that's why you can't really get any soda
any coke or sprite, only original Czech drinks
and the quality is always excellent
and the mixture of the tastes are original and [?]
the food is good
the food is local
and i am happy and i have beer, this is amazing
in California i would probably say that
you already have a drinking problem
it's quite normal here, just drinking fourteen beers is not a big deal
it's like every Friday night
on that note we're now finishing our lunch with well, a sample
here we have Schnops
and an herbal liqueur call Becherovka
[Sip]...aahh
that's a little bit more WHOO
[capturing a storie] ''after lunch'' [clink]
Na zdraví
awwh that one burns way more
alright so we just finished at Lokal and the food marathon continues
we're now going forty meters down the road
what's the name of the place we're heading
Naše Maso, our meat
okay well, i have a question, besides the meaning of that name
why are Czech people, we have a reservation at this place
and i want to know why are Czechs so crazy about having reservations
for every meal
it's true, i have noticed this
well we want to be sure that we are going to get our piece of meat you know
everybody wants their meat
at a place like this we are sure that we are going to get our piece of meat, lets go!
if you're vegan or vegetarian good luck
just got to 'our meat' [Naše Maso] and this is the veritable sausage fest
Naše Maso is a butchery that serves nothing but top quality meats
and cold Pilsner beer from a faucet in the wall, gotta love it
it's a formula that's drawn a standing-room-only crowd
since it opened three years ago
so we met with the owner of Naše Maso or 'Our Meat'
to ask him about the philosophy behind this restaurant
we use only some chopped pepper
only fresh garlic
and that's it, only good meat and only fat
and we make it like our grandmother
to show us what he meant, Frank brought us a feast
beef heart with pork rinds
a back to basics burger and the best meatloaf we've ever had
check out this meat loaf
look at that meat loaf!
if you eat this, you are very strong
[laughing] so eat this and be like you
can i just hug you
please
thank you, thank you!
look at this! I'm not gonna lie I am so happy i am not vegetarian right now
this is just meat heaven
i love this smell
can i? let me just smell the burger
get your own burger!
after that it was time to leave the whole town behind
and discover a part a Prague that most travelers miss
alright so we're about 20 minutes southeast of the center on Krymska street
this is a beautiful historic neighborhood that has somewhat a renaissance
thanks to a couple of cafes that have opened up in recent years, lets go check 'em out
we started with Cafe Sladkovsky, an anachronistic cafe
that felt like a place where Czech author Franz Kafka would write his novels
in a word, Bohemian
come on, you get the joke? we're in Bohemia, Bohemian
but despite the old-time feeling
it's only a few years old
founded by Prague natives, Michael and Katerina
they told us why they felt the need to create a community centered cafe
in a city that felt increasingly touristic
tell us about Prague seven years ago
it's a place for tourists
you know, not much happening outside
all the tourist industry pushed out the locals into nowhere and
then we somehow became the first who started
to create a local center
when we started in this area it was like i said: shabby, neglected
with only locals, no tourists, no people commuting for work or very little
so we were thinking how to attract these locals
so we came up with this concept of:
all day long entertainment over food and drink
and so in the morning we are like cafe-bar, you know, you can get a nice espresso
lunchtime we do menus
home-made proper cooking, then we also have this tapaz selection
in the evening you can come for a burger or for this kind of Mediterranean
selection of cousines
and late at night it's like a raving bar sometimes
after a lovely dinner of Moroccan tajine and a goat cheese burger
it was time for...
you guessed it!
more beer!
last week we were doing a Pilsner in Pilsen but in Prague we want to try beer
on a smaller scale so we met up with Sarah from praguebeergarden.com
who showed us one of her favorite microbreweries
U Bašta, so here at Bašta they've got this Světlý Ležák
so it's like a light lager, it's excellent I think it's one of the best light lagers in Prague
and a Polotmavý Ležák which is like an amber lager
it's kind of a Czech specialty
in the Czech Republic when you order a beer
your beer is suppose to have a nice, like an inch of foam
and if that were in America I would look at the bartender and be like
'come on, fill it up man!'
but actually here you can order a beer that is pretty much all foam
yeah and they say 'Oh it's tasty, it's sweeter'
i think it is, i just don't get your half litre you know, like every glass
a half liter of foam or a half liter of
[whistle sound] what was that noise?
Parakeet
it's a bird
there's a bird
it's a mining bird
there's a bird in the bar, 'there's a bird in the bar mate' [accent]
alright last stop for the night where we headed?
Zly Casy
what's there?
this is Prague's first big multi-tap pub [oh my goodness] so we're gonna have like
more beer?
more beer.
there's 40 beers to choose from
and a lot of good Czech craft beer
yes!
first you have to try
red flash... Black India Pale Ale
and then you can have also Red Flash Imperial Stout [okay]
both are black but they are very very nice
after today I've realized that I love this city, I just want to stick around here
and drink beer and eat goulash with dumplings
stare at cool old buildings
and read Kafka in cafés like Krymska Street
this is my city, i think i'm going to stay here at some point for a long time
so cheers to that
okay guys, thanks for watching and big thanks to everyone who showed us
around town and especially The Hotel Clement
which put us up for the whole week in awesome rooms
with incredible views
find everyone's info in the info-box
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ciaó
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feel like more Czech Republic? well click the video on the left
it's about Pilsen
home of Pilsner Beer and also European Capital
of Culture for 2015
and maybe you feel like going to France
check out the video we did with the French Guy Cooking
exploring all of Paris's amazing places to eat
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