Snacks / appetisers etc

-          Bread knedliky – bread dumplings perfect for soaking up soups and sauces

-          Bramboráky: potato pancakes, traditionally served with sour cabbage

-          Tatarák –(like beer tartar) raw minced beef mixed with diced onion, egg yolk, paprika, pepper, salt, mustard, diced cucumber, and tomato sauce. The dish can be made with either beef or pork. Served with fried toast and garlic – spread the garlic on the toast, then the tartar on the toast.

Soup Varieties

-          Beef broth with noodles and liver dumplings

-          Potato soup

-          Česnečka 0 Garlic soup – often with sausage, pork or cheese added – with croutons (known as a hangover soup)

-          Goulash soup

-          Tripe soup

-          Zelňačka – sauerkraut soup – sometimes with with potatoes, sausage, sour cream or mushrooms

-          Kulajda is a beautiful cream soup of mushrooms and potatoes – often served with a quail egg

-          Spring vegetable soup

-          Krkonose soup

Popular Main dishes

-          Vepřo knedlo zelo: roast pork, bread dumplings and stewed cabbage

-          Svíčková na smetaně: roast beef with vegetable puree sauce

-          Rajská (omáčka): beef in tomato sauce, with dumplings

-          Koprová: beef in dill sauce, with dumplings

-          Pečená kachna: roast duck with dumplings and red cabbage

-          Kuřecí kapsa is delicious Czech dish of stuffed chicken breasts.

-          Guláš: a variety of beef and pork goulash stews, served with dumplings or bread

-          Smažený sýr: fried cheese

-          Sekaná pečeně (baked mincemeat) – half pork and beef meatloaf with bacon, onion & Garlic

-          Vepřové Koleno – pork knee marinated in beer

-          Smažený vepřový rízek - essentially the Czech version of a pork schnitzel.

Desserts

-          Crepes – filled with jam, fruit, chocolate, whipped cream or sometimes nuts

-          Honey cake – ‘Medovnik’

-          Ovocné Knedlíky – boiled Fruit filled dumplings

-          Apple strudel

-          Koláče – stewed fruits in a ring of puffy sweet dough

-          Trdelník - The name comes from the word trdlo, which translates to ‘wooden stool’, referencing the shape of the dessert.