Lidia T., Author at Prague Morning

Severka is a pub located in Metodějova, street near the final metro station Háje (line C) and owned by David Salomon. Its building is one of the oldest in the Southern Town and is the place where workers ate or drank while working to build the surrounding apartment blocks. After 40 years, the second generation continues with this business.

This pub will make you feel the atmosphere of the 70s and 80s, and the idea is to enjoy and get to know each other. Experience a real pub as we remember it.

Severka offers its guests many surprises. The film Národní třída, now on cinemas, was shot in this pub and the scenery is still the same, according to the design of the architect Honza Novotný, and remaining as faithful and functional as possible. You will also find an exhibition of photographs by Jaromír Čejka or the original film posters from Czechoslovak movies from the 70s and 80s, among other “attractions” worth seeing like a beautiful living room.

Unlike regular pubs, there are ashtrays on the tables, and that is because this local is a smoker´s club (with its rules that allow it) where you pay a monthly membership fee of 10 crowns. For this reason, smoking is possible if you have your member card with you.

Guests can enjoy Kozel 11 °, Pilsner Urquell, True Czech mixers, Hermelín or Utopenci. It is open every day from 4 pm to 2 pm, and entry is allowed for people over 18 years old. There is a ban on the admission of children and teenagers under 18 without exception and even in the presence of parents.

Visit this pub, where everything comes together in order to bring you the spirit of the suburbs. Discover yourself how it was like to have a beer in the ’80s.

Source: Facebook Severka – Kuřácká hospoda

Source: Facebook Severka – Kuřácká hospoda

Source: Facebook Severka – Kuřácká hospoda

Levain Bistro is the perfect destination for food lovers, just between Havlíčkovy sady and Krymská, on Kozácká 6. With a quiet and cosy atmosphere, this restaurant is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11 am to 11 pm, with brunch on Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 3 pm.

The menu of this bistro, located in a trendy neighbourhood, uses fresh and locally-sourced ingredients for their dishes, that change depending on the season. They offer seasonal menus, cocktails, natural wines and local beers. A wide variety of plates and tapas await you, as well as unique pizzas.

This relaxed but fun place serves amazing artisan pizzas with home-milled flour and unique flavours like the duck pizza with homemade duck sausage, aubergine, tomato and chilli relish. On the menu, you can also find starters, salads or mouth-watering mains such as the Mexican brisket, with roast onion, black garlic, corn puree and pickled onion.

For brunch (served every Saturday and Sunday between 11.00 and 3.00 pm) Irish scones and ploughman’s bread are among the selection of treats you can have. Try their breakfast pizza with ham, cheese and eggs or even their hangover hog: sausages, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, fried potatoes, tomato and toast.

Source: Levain Facebook

Source: Levain Facebook

The restaurant has a cosy ambience and friendly staff. The chef and owner, Jason Legear, has been all over the world for the last 20 years (that’s how he gets his inspiration from.) Ireland, Australia, New Zeland, Korea, Toronto, San Francisco, Belgium, Scotland and London are just some of the places he has visited or worked. Now, installed in the Czech Republic, he gives his personal touch to every dish with an exotic flavour and different texture combinations.

Written on the boards, you will find a great variety of tapas, along with the specials of the month, the fish of the day, wine of the week and last but not least, desserts.

The wines are all organic and excellent quality. They also offer beer (Hendrych) and Cider. Plus, don’t forget to ask about their homemade lemonades, made by the chef himself, or order one of their excellent cocktails. They have a considerable variety like ‘Poquito Picante’, with gin, Grand Marnier, coriander, jalapeño and lime, or ‘Ginger Step-Child’ with vodka, falernum, carrot shrub, ginger and egg white.

Also, keep an eye for the second edition of their successful Wine tasting and Food pairing. The 5th of November, for 1190 CZK per person, you get a welcome drink and six delicious seasonal dishes paired with six natural wines carefully selected by Fajnšmekr. The degustation menu includes plates such as cauliflower and apple salad with coconut and ginger dressing or goats cheese, hazelnut crust, pine poached and Jerusalem artichoke. For events like this one check the Levain Facebook page, where they upload all the exciting things to come.

Try creative food with friendly and knowledgeable staff. Levain is a comfortable place to sit and share a meal that looks familiar but has a unique twist. Be ready to expand your flavours and tastes.

Source: Levain Facebook

Source: Levain Facebook

Source: Levain Facebook

An event with motorcycles, adrenaline, extreme performances and a spectacle for the whole family.

On November 2nd, 2019, the 19th edition of the oldest FMX event in Europe will take place at Prague’s O2 Arena. Freestyle motocross is back, performed by the biggest stars from the FMX scene.

FMX Gladiator Games starts on Saturday at 18:30. Doors open from 17:00 and tickets can be purchased in Ticketportal.cz from 990 CZK. A 50% discount applies for all children up to 140 cm height for the 2nd and 3rd price category. Also, this year, from 4 pm, ticket holder fans will be able to meet their favourite riders in the backstage, get photos and see their motorcycles.

Czech drivers like Libor Podmol, Filip Podmol, Petr Pilát or Martin Koreň, as well as international drivers such as Luc Ackermann, Daniel Bodin, Pat Bowden, David Rossi, David Rinaldo, and Ryan Brown among many others, will show us their tricks.

One of the international stars of FMX Gladiator Games, Edgar Torronteras, will return after two years. The Spaniard became one of the main stars of 2017, and his Spanish temperament pumped the audience at the O2 Arena. He was one of the “pioneers” of FMX, the freestyle heroes who were the first in this discipline to earn international recognition and introduced a new extreme sport to a broad public.

Last year, FMX Gladiator Games celebrated 18 years and experienced the most successful year in its history. According to the organizers, this year, therefore, visitors can expect several innovations. The first and most obvious will be a brand-new scene (Mad Max style) with a larger area of LED screens and brand-new graphics.

Spectators can look forward to air cycles, the latest FMX tricks, flips, and a breathtaking atmosphere. This event is created for all fans of powerful machines and lovers of adrenaline, tension, and emotions.

FMX Gladiator Games 2019 Prague

An excellent trip for a pleasant walk in Prague is to go to Obora Hvězda (Hvězda Game Reserve) and Letohrádek Hvězda (The Hvězda Summer Palace,) in Prague 6.

The area has maintained its atmosphere, mainly because of the summer palace with its atypical six-pointed star (hvězda) shape – from which both the park and the palace get their names.

Even though it is located in the city of Prague, it guarantees a quiet and peaceful atmosphere surrounded by nature. The Hvězda Game Preserve is an ideal place for a stroll and a visit to the Hvězda Summer Palace, that holds exhibitions, concerts, and other cultural and social events throughout the year. An exhibition regarding the Battle of White Mountain, which took place nearby in 1620, is on permanent display inside the publicly accessible villa.

It was built according to the plans of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria, in the shape of a six-pointed star, symbolizing the principles of harmony, proportions, symmetry and numeric. Both, the summer house and the Hvězda game preserve were registered in the list of National Cultural Monuments in 1962.

You can get there by bus, tram or car. We would recommend taking the tram to stop “Sidliste Petriny” or “Vypich”.

The park, enclosed by a huge wall, has three main gates (Libocká, Pražská and Bělohorská,) plus several smaller ones.

With three majestic tree-lined avenues that served as entertainment and hunting for Renaissance aristocracy, now is a place where you can go for a walk, a run or a bicycle ride. The main road crosses the whole park and leads us to the summer house. From the main road, we can also take other variant routes.

The game preserve is accessible for the public throughout the year, and the palace is opened from April to October, every day except Monday, between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Just released, World of Airports is a new modern airport management game created by Czech developers together with Prague Airport.

It all started as a small fun project, with their first game AirportPRG, but after thousands of downloads, they have created a new one with more options. World of Airports adds new features such as airport expansion, story mode, multiplayer as well as featuring stunning visuals.

It offers an authentic virtual environment in which each player controls the airport and the airline. Directly at Václav Havel Airport, the game was officially presented by the game journalist, Alžběta Trojanová, and aerobatic aviator Petr Kopfstein.

Players can build their airline, expand available connection networks with a new destination and customize livery of their fleet. You get to upgrade the airport facilities and boost up the efficiency of handling other players and generic traffic airplanes.

Besides Václav Havel Airport Prague, the main airport in the game, players have a choice of airports in Innsbruck, Austria and Bari, Italy (more playable airports to come upon release). You get to expand your fleet from the smallest propeller passenger aircraft to large wide-body jetliners. Play online with your friends across platforms (Android and IOS players will share the same online game server), and even download the game using a QR code, which you can find, for example, at observation points near the airport.

Players can also look forward to building the airport of the future in the advanced stage of gaming, as the development of Václav Havel Airport in the game will be in line with how it should look.

According to Martin Kučera, Executive Director of Air Operations at Prague Airport, World of Airports is an exciting combination of entertainment and simulation of real traffic. Through the game, the public can understand what airport traffic involves and how demanding it is.

World of Airports builds on the success of 2017 AirportPRG, which brought players to the Ruzyne airport in the 1930s and 1940s, with thousands of downloads. With World of Airports, creators have listened to the wishes of the community and built a game from the modern era.

Aviation fans will be pleased that the creators took much attention to the details. Everyone else will be thrilled by the pleasant gameplay or the ability to play online with friends across platforms. World of Airports can be downloaded for free from the App Store or Google Play and played by users of mobile devices running iOS or Android.

Download it, take control of the skies and dispatch your fleet in the World of Airports.

What will be behind the round windows on the Prague riverside? Twenty wall cubicles will contain galleries, studios, and cafés.

The Open Day shows visitors the repaired areas, in a provisional regime though, as the renewed dungeons opened to the public yesterday and today (October 24th).

They should start regular service in November, as the full procedure is not possible yet due to an unfinished occupancy permit process. After completing the occupancy permit process and moving to regular services, these new facilities will quickly host their visitors and survive the flood in the upcoming winter.

The organizers have also prepared guided tours or a boat ride between the two riverbanks. On both embankments, there should now be three galleries, three studios, three toilets, two workshops or a branch of the Municipal Library. The rest will be filled with cafes.

Tenants and operators of individual cubicles will show their future functioning. They are modernly equipped for the flood season the whole year. Their most distinctive element is the circular glass, which acts as a revolving door. The movement is controlled by the sensors and motor so that it opens and closes quickly and prevents collisions with visitors.