Prague Eats: Pub food part 3 - U Provaznice
On my last day in Prague, I went to the pub restaurant U Provaznice near the Mustek metro station. I only came across this place when I was reading the comments section of another review of Lokal. Among the three restaurants I went to in Prague, this was my favorite. I think it wasn't so much the food (I never became a big fan of Czech cuisine), but because the service was most American-like! A hostess showed me to a table, and the waitress served with a smile! Ironically, this was also the restaurant that seemed to have the most actual Czech people eating and drinking inside.
I started with the garlic soup; it's supposed to be a traditional Czech dish, and I was curious what it would be like. It turned out to be a thin broth with croutons floating in it. Not particularly flavorful.
Then I had Vepřo-knedlo-zelo, roast pork with sauerkraut and dumplings. Here the dumplings were the fluffy white bread dumplings and the dense potato dumplings which were more similar to the ones in Munich. The whole dish had a sweet and sour flavor, no doubt having to do with the sauerkraut.
Since this was my last day in Prague, I really wanted to try the bramboráky, or potato pancakes. I was pretty much full already when I ordered them, but I saw that they were only 35 CZK, or about US $1.80, so I was expecting a small side dish. Instead, two humongous potato pancakes came out, very hot from the fryer, covering the large dinner plate! They were probably the best dish I had in Prague, savory and comforting as fried potatoes can be. Unfortunately, I really only had enough stomach to fit one of these, and unlike the Hilton Garden Inn Krakow, there was no fridge or microwave in the Hilton here!
