Beer: Pilsner Urquell 4.4%
Pop back into U Pinkasů after stodging out at the wonderful fast food vendors in Wenceslas Square. They’ve ripped us off before – but them huge red sausages (and sweaty bread rolls) are magnificent.
U Pinkasů is pretty good too. Like it here – it’s quite packed, but not so bad as there’s no tables available. Can’t hear any English spoken in here, which is nice but odd. This is right in the tourist centre of Prague – if anything, nearer the seedier stag party end – but they don’t appear to be falling so ingloriously to grab the tourist dollar as other places. It does have a small range of “merch”, and is clearly not the little back street boozer, but it retains a character of a traditional – better than basic – town centre pub (without resorting to Disney-ing it up with oompah and costume).
Anyway, we’ve only just discovered U Pinkasů this year. We’ve seem U Medvídků and U Fleků change (mostly, but not entirely, for the worse) over the past decade; one hopes the management of many Prague pubs will have looked at these and similar examples and decided on “reigning it in” a bit. I’ll be interested in coming back to U Pinkasů in the future.
As it is, it’s late… it’s 08:50pm. We’re going home tomorrow – and we’re back to the apartment now.
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