Prague Christmas Dining Guide: Eating Out on Christmas and NYE - a podcast by Taste of Prague Food Tours

If we got a penny for every email we get in November and December asking
“Where should we eat on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?”… we’d have lots
of pennies. Yes. Dining out in Prague is hard over Christmas, especially if
you don’t like hotel restaurants. (And yes, we don’t particularly like them
either.)

It’s funny: while the Czechs may form statistically one of the most atheist
societies in the world, they do like and celebrate Christmas. Heck, kids
write letters to Baby Jesus, because he brings Christmas presents! (Sorry,
no imagery behind that.) And Czech Christmas could also be easily called
the National Day of Overeating at Home, which means that nearly all
eateries will shut down to some extent, especially for Christmas Eve. So if
you are hungry on Christmas Eve, you will probably stay hungry until
Christmas Day. Mark our words.

Of course, you don’t have to be a foreign visitor to have a keen interest
in Christmas dining options. We mean, have you ever hosted a Christmas Eve
dinner for the family? Exactly. Everybody’s late, you’re stressed (honey,
have you bought the sweet wine your mom likes?), the potato salad tastes
funny and the carp has bones. And then bitter disappointments and fake
smiles under the Christmas tree. Yeah. Thank you but no, thank you. Why not
just skip it all and have a great dinner somewhere nice, like the solid and
self-respecting humans we all are?

So we have rung a few numbers, talked to a few friends, browsed a few
websites, and set up this Prague Christmas Dining Guide. Sure, you may now
think you will not need it at all. But trust us: you’ll wish you’d paid
attention to it when the morning of December 24 arrives. Bookmark this
post. Act on it now. Or weep later. Merry Christmas!

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