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Florenc)
This bar is to beer what the Bodleian Library is to books - wall-to-wall
shelves lined with myriad varieties of bottled beer from all over the world, and six
guest beers on tap. Perch on a bar stool or head downstairs to the snug cellar and or-
der some of the pub's excellent grub (such as authentic
guláš
with bacon dumplings
for 235Kč) to soak up the beer.
PUUB
U SLOVANSKÉ LÍPY
( 222 780 563; Tachovské náměstí 6, Žižkov; 4-11pm Mon-Sat; 133, 207)
A classic
Žižkov pub, plain and unassuming outside and in, 'At the Linden Trees' (the linden is
a Czech and Slovak national emblem) has become something of a place of pilgrimage
for beer lovers. The reason is its range of beers from the Kout na Šumavě brewery, in-
cluding a superb
světlý ležák
, and the dark and powerful
tmavý speciál
, which
PUUB
U VYSTŘELENÉHO OKA
133, 207)
You've got to love a pub that has vinyl pads on the wall above the gents'
urinals to rest your forehead on. 'The Shot-Out Eye' - the name pays homage to the
one-eyed Hussite hero atop the hill behind the pub - is a bohemian (with a small 'b')
hostelry with a raucous Friday-night atmosphere where the cheap Pilsner Urquell
pulls in a typically heterogeneous Žižkov crowd.
BUNKR PARUKÁŘKA
free-50Kč; 5, 9, 26)
Only in Prague… A graffiti-covered steel door in the hillside at
the west end of Parukářka park leads to a vast circular staircase that descends into a
1950s nuclear bunker where a makeshift bar serves cheap beer in plastic glasses. This
is the unlikely setting for one of Prague's most unusual clubs, a claustrophobic shrine
to all the weird and wonderful avant-garde electronic music genres you can think of.
The opening hours vary - check listings on the website.
CCLUUB
CCLUUB
SEDM VLKŮ
