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

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

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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

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