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Mlýnec Restaurant, Prague (2): Lunch Menu
Mlýnec Restaurant is my favorite place in Prague, with an incredible view of the Charles Bridge. This time I tried their lunch menu again. The starter was a generous portion of foie gras with figs and a port wine emulsion. The main course was juicy veal tenderloin with polenta and mushroom sauce. And to finish, an excellent carrot cake with sea buckthorn sorbet.
Takumi Restaurant, Prague
A note from a February visit to the famous ramen restaurant Takumi on Senovážné Square in Prague. Alongside great Japanese gyoza dumplings came the special ramen shoyu, which wasn't worth what it cost, and an excellent karaage tan tan ramen with crispy fried chicken worth coming back for.
Mlýnec Restaurant, Prague: Lunch Menu
Mlýnec Restaurant is my favorite establishment in the center of Prague. As part of their lunch menu, I chose a strong beef broth, which reliably warms you up in winter. A juicy quail roulade with delicate pearl barley risotto was served as the main course. A sweet dessert at the end pleasantly concluded the whole visit.
Doce Uvas de la Suerte: Twelve Grapes for a Spanish New Year's Eve
Doce uvas de la suerte, the twelve grapes of luck, is a Spanish New Year's custom: with each of the twelve strokes of the midnight bell you eat one grape for one month of the coming year. Dan explains why an uva isn't a whole bunch, where the custom actually came from (and why the legend of the Alicante glut doesn't hold up), how the clock at Puerta del Sol strikes midnight, and what it was like on a roof terrace in Malaga.
Entrée Restaurant, Olomouc: A Tasting Menu with Pivní Pes, a Spread of Olomoucké Tvarůžky
A nine-course tasting menu at Entrée in Olomouc, the restaurant of chef and MasterChef judge Přemek Forejt: Czech classics disguised beyond recognition, from vepřo, černo, zelo to a katův šleh made of sturgeon, and pivní pes of olomoucké tvarůžky as the regional signature. An evening that ranks among my strongest food experiences.
Na Kopci Restaurant, Prague: Czech-French Cooking with a Bib Gourmand
A small family restaurant in a villa district above Prague's Smíchov pairs French technique with Czech cooking, and it has held on to the Michelin Bib Gourmand every year since 2015. The beef tartare with fries is legendary among the regulars. One of the first good restaurants I found in Prague - and it's still going strong.
Guinness Storehouse: A Tour of the Dublin Brewery
The Guinness Storehouse is a seven-floor interactive exhibition about Ireland's most famous beer, set in a former fermentation house by St. James's Gate in Dublin. You dig your hands into roasted barley, walk through a whole floor of the famous toucan ads, and right at the top there's a drink with a view over the whole city. A corporate museum that can win over even a skeptic.
The Long Hall Pub, Dublin
These days an Irish pub comes as a kit you can put up anywhere in the world. The Long Hall in Dublin is the original all those copies are trying to imitate: a Victorian interior from 1881, a licence going back to 1766 and a name that probably comes from the corridor behind the bar. Plus two lessons: how Guinness is poured and why whiskey takes a drop of water.
The Cobblestone Pub, Dublin
Ask the guidebooks where to go for a pint in Dublin and they all say the same thing: Temple Bar. After two evenings of long lines and drunk tourists I gave it a miss and, on a tip I got over breakfast, ended up in The Cobblestone - a pub in Smithfield where they play Irish music around a table and the regulars borrow the band's instruments after closing time. The pub Dublin defended against a hotel.
Jameson Distillery: Tour and Tasting
The Jameson Distillery on Bow Street in Dublin is the birthplace of the best-selling Irish whiskey - except that the whiskey has been distilled in Midleton for half a century now, and Bow Street is a museum with a tour and a tasting. Plus the founder's Scottish roots, the difference between whiskey and whisky, and the angels' share you can smell in the air of the barrel warehouse.