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than two dozen varieties of pizza, from margherita to marinara, cooked in a genuine
wood-fired pizza oven. Sit beside the bar upstairs, or head down to the basement
where you can watch the chef slinging pizza dough in the open kitchen.
MEDITERR
MEDITERRANE
ANEAAN
OLIVA €€
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( 222 520 288; www.olivarestaurant.cz ; Plavecká 4; mains 235-465Kč;
11.30am-3pm & 6pm-midnight Mon-Fri, 6pm-midnight Sat; 3, 7, 16, 17, 21) A small, friendly,
family-run restaurant focusing on fresh Mediterranean cuisine, Oliva offers a menu of
carefully prepared dishes that include linguine with mussels, white wine and herbs;
and confit lamb with with cous-cous and pomegranate salad. It's also famous for its
all-you-can-eat tiger prawn buffet, served with a choice of accompaniments including
garlic and herbs, and coconut and coriander sauce (690Kč per person).
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AFE
GLOBE BOOKSTORE & CAFÉ €
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( 224 934 203; www.globebookstore.cz ; Pštrossova 6; mains 110-225Kč; 9.30am-
midnight; ; Karlovo Náměstí) This appealing bookshop-cafe serves nachos, burgers,
chicken wings and salads till 11pm nightly, and also offers an excellent brunch menu
(9.30am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday) that includes an American classic (bacon, egg
and hash browns), blueberry pancakes, full English fry, and freshly squeezed juices.
Lighter breakfasts are served 9.30am to 11.30am weekdays.
THE HEYDRICH ASSASSINATION
In 1941, in response to a series of crippling strikes and sabotage operations by
the Czech resistance movement, the German government appointed SS general
Reinhard Heydrich, an antisubversion specialist, as Reichsprotektor of Bohemia
and Moravia. Heydrich immediately cracked down on resistance activities with a
vengeance.
In a move designed to support the resistance and boost Czech morale, Britain
secretly trained a team of Czechoslovak paratroopers to assassinate Heydrich.
It was code-named Operation Anthropoid and, astonishingly, it succeeded. On
27 May 1942, two paratroopers, Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, attacked Heydrich
as he rode in his official car through the city's Libeň district - he died from the
wounds. The assassins and five co-conspirators fled but were betrayed in their
 
 
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