Food

“Banning Farmers’ Markets is Discrimination,” Organizers Write to the Government

The Association of Farmers Markets has sent an appeal to the Government, which included detailed plans of how open-air markets could be run. However, its plea to reopen under strict hygienic conditions has been met with stony silence, while bankruptcy looms for small, family-run businesses. “Small farmers are already under pressure due to the closure of the HoReCa [hotels, restaurants and catering] which makes up the majority of direct sales. Closing farmers’ markets will have a further dramatic impact on small producers,” says the chairman of the Association of Farmers Markets Jiří Sedláček, who manages the Náplavka, Kubáň and Heřmaňák farmers markets in Prague. Market operators argue that markets should be treated as essential services, on par with grocery stores and pharmacies. “From the very beginning of the announcement of measures to combat the spread of coronavirus, we feel discriminated. While all food retailers – whether small stores or hypermarkets – are open without restrictions, farmers’ markets had to stay closed,” Sedláček told Lidovky.cz “Producers who supply goods to the markets are harmed. The main focus of the markets is selling food, moreover outside, where, according to experts, shopping is safer than in air-conditioned stores,” he added. Farmers who sell...

by Prague Morning Mar 08, 2021

Rustic Jerky – an Expat Success Story Made in Prague

Rustic Jerky is a Czech/Irish success story which is thriving despite the ups and downs of the last twelve months. Mark Daly, founder, and head honcho at Rustic Jerky founded the company after trying and failing to get good quality jerky that also tasted good. He experimented by making his homemade beef jerky, which became so popular with his colleagues that he decided to go full time making jerky, starting Rustic Jerky in 2015. Beef jerky was a relatively foreign concept in the Czech Republic, so Rustic Jerky had a great opportunity to introduce the product into the Czech market, and they have been pioneers in this field ever since. The foundation for their success is simply that Rustic Jerky combines quality, locally sourced meat with unique flavors, ranging from succulently sweet to outrageously spicy. In addition, jerky itself is a protein-rich, lean superfood, so the Rustic Jerky team found themselves with a healthy product which tastes great too. Rustic Jerky has seen gradual but constant growth, establishing themselves as a premium niche superfood on the Czech market, before slowly expanding across Europe, with a presence now in eleven different countries. As well as selling directly to hungry individuals, Rustic...

by Prague Morning Mar 02, 2021

Gastronomy on the Verge of Collapse: How These Restaurants Are Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19

Prague’s restaurant businesses have been innovating and coming up with new ways to keep attracting customers and catch up with their sales. Some sell two portions for the price of one, and some offer weekly home menus, for example. As E15.cz reports, According to a study conducted by Dotykačka, sales for many restaurants fell by 63 billion CZK in 2020, a sharp decline from a sale of 195 billion CZK in 2019. Conditions have become significantly worse, as one in four businesses is on the verge of complete extinction. At the moment, many employees in gastronomy have had to be laid off. On the other hand, cafés and bistros have remained intact during the continuing lockdown, since many of them were already created to adapt and use the concept of ‘take-away’ food even before the lockdown started. Sales for these types of places have apparently fallen by only 15%. Yet there are still restaurateurs who, even after almost a year of pandemic, do not lose hope and have decided to offer their customers an alternative to visiting the hospitality industry. Take a look at our report on Prague companies that have thrown themselves into inventing news for customers. Eat Perfect...

by Marielle F. Feb 16, 2021

Czech Catering Group Offers a Lovely Valentine’s-Themed Menu

Customisable catering delivery right to your home, make each weekend special, and enjoy a meal with your family, significant other, or small group of friends. Following a great demand for their home catering delivery at Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, Culinaria catering as created a weekly residential catering service available from Friday to Sunday. Culinaria Catering offers a wide selection of starters, soups, salads, main dishes, sharing platters, desserts and baked goods. Weekends are the time to spend with your loved ones, and what better way to maybe your weekend better than ordering delicious homemade food from a customisable menu. Order tasty and unique dishes that will be delivered to your home or office every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Look out for their ever-changing menu based on seasonal ingredients and themes based on universally and mainly American holidays. Their eShop offers you one-stop shopping when it comes to planning your weekend meals or small gatherings. Each order and all items are cooked fresh, made to order, and packed for reheating in family-sized amounts of 500 gr. or 1 pound, 1 kilo or 2 pounds. Start your meal with Alaskan Salmon Chowder or maybe a Bacon Corn Chowder, a hearty type...

by Prague Morning Feb 09, 2021

Dame Jidlo Launches “Dame Market”, New Fast Delivery of Online Purchases

A new service for fast delivery of purchases is currently being created on the Dame Jidlo platform. With Dame Market, people will have their goods at home within 30 minutes. Dame Market can deliver goods to the door within only 30 minutes. Thanks to the minimum order amount set at CZK 99, even very small purchases can be delivered to customers’ homes. Online shopping in the Czech Republic will accelerate significantly. While with standard food delivery services, people wait at least two hours for their order, even in the case of express deliveries, the new Dame Market service on the Dame Jidlo platform will offer customers deliveries up to 30 minutes. With the Dame Market service, it will now enter the market itself thanks to using its own warehouses. “Experience from abroad clearly shows that the future of online shopping lies in very fast delivery of orders. Dame Jidlo has the best prerequisites to be a leader in the quick commerce segment in the Czech Republic, and the launch of the Dame Market service represents another step on our way to fulfilling this ambition,” says Filip Fingl, CEO of Dame Jidlo. The Dame Market service will first be available to...

by Prague Morning Feb 04, 2021

Iconic Bohemia Bagel Coming Back in Prague

Way back in 1995, American expats Glenn Spicker and Scott Kelly introduced Prague to the addictive delicacy that is the authentic American bagel. Now, some twenty-five years later, Glenn, Scott, and their new partner Isaac Starobin are re-launching the iconic Bohemia Bagel brand featuring a totally updated bagel based on traditional New York recipes passed down through the generations. The menu is rounded out with flavored cream cheeses, breakfast specials, and deli sandwiches with meat sliced paper-thin. For now, the company operates online-only, so locals and expats going through bagel withdrawal can get their fix by delivery via Wolt, Bolt, and DameJidlo or pickup at Cali Brothers Restaurant in Holesovice, and they even offer a 10% discount for pickup. However, the trio of native New Yorkers aren’t stopping there. Rumor has it that they’re working on opening a few delis and schmear shops that would be right at home in the Big Apple. Bohemia Bagel has a truly mind-boggling array of delivery options to get fresh bagels to their customers as quickly and painlessly as possible, which is great because who wants to wait 3 days when bagel fever strikes? Besides their presence on all major delivery apps, they can...

by Marielle F. Feb 03, 2021

MyFoodPlace: The First Cloud Kitchen in Prague

If you are looking for a quick delivery to your door, or if you’re running a company or business and want a practical and quick way to have your meals every day, MyFoodPlace can help. This company offers their service as the very first Cloud Kitchen in Prague, Czech Republic. What makes the concept behind a Cloud Kitchen interesting, is that a company usually takes multiple chains of restaurants and food services under their wing, and in general, lets them work from the same location. This concept is both pragmatic, efficient, and also innovative. MyFoodPlace, as an example, collaborates with many different restaurants, to give their customers a plethora of options, such as Corleone, Smíchovna, Namaste India, Žebírkov, and their very own pizza brand Raketou, to deliver a variety of different dishes to your door or place of work. All these food brands work under one roof and are at their customers’ service. MyFoodPlace deliveries have an eclectic range of different foods, from pasta to burgers, salad bowls to Asian cuisine, to even Indian and Czech Food. If you want to expand your taste palette with the different delicacies this company has to offer, then taking advantage of this multicultural...

by Marielle F. Jan 22, 2021

Parliament Approved Mandatory Quotas for Czech Food in Stores

The lower house of the Czech Parliament approved on Wednesday a requirement that supermarkets carry a minimum share of local food, a move to be less dependent on imports. MEPs have approved mandatory quotas for Czech food in shops. From 2022, more than 50 percent of Czech products should be sold in stores. Some EU countries warn Czechia against quotas that the adoption of the law is very likely to make food more expensive. The share of Czech food in stores that are bigger than 400 sq. meters should be at least 55% in 2022 and increase to at least 73% in 2028, according to the bill. It was drafted by the opposition populist Freedom and Direct Democracy party that pushed it through the house with the help from the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Andrej Babis. The controversial move still needs to be approved by the upper house, the Senate, which is controlled by the opposition, and then by the president. The lower house can override a possible Senate or presidential veto by a simple majority. Those who voted in favor of the bill argued that the coronavirus pandemic showed that it is important for the country to be...

by Prague Morning Jan 20, 2021

New Flavour Hit Coming to Holešovice With Opening of Asian Restaurant

Asian cuisine is becoming more and more popular in the heart of Europe. It is easy to see the trend of Asian cuisine in Prague growing as the number of fine dining establishments, noodle bars, sushi bars, and eateries keep popping up one after another in the many neighborhoods of Prague. The new restaurant PRU58 coming to Holešovice, promises to deliver a menu packed full of Asian cuisine with a modern twist. The founder of Café Buddha and Benjamin Štěpán Návrat is the mind behind the new restaurant. Customers can expect an unforgettable dining experience with a focus on fresh, locally sourced ingredients, seasonal menu changes, and food that smacks of flavour without compromising on health. No classic pho bo or bum bo nam bo then, only special Asian-style dishes. An example? Quail cooked on a special barbecue with fried bananas and cauliflower or beef with Bangkok curry. According to Návrat, post-covid gastronomy will offer better quality for several reasons. “I think the market will clean it up in a way. There will be fewer companies, so we will be able to teach customers humility and more organization. In addition to catering, companies will provide other services such as cooking...

by Prague Morning Jan 20, 2021

Marks & Spencer Temporarily Closing Food Stores in Prague

The Czech branches of Marks & Spencer are temporarily closing due to Brexit and pandemic. Marks & Spencer food store in Wenceslas Square is much beloved by British residents of the city for supplying homely delicacies like Breakfast tea, crumpets, sandwiches, and ready meals. But post-Brexit supply problems are taking their toll, and food stores will close from January 15. Since the Brexit transition period ended on January 1st businesses transporting goods into EU countries such as France face a raft of new regulations, especially around animal products. Shelves in the outlet in Wenceslas Square were partially empty on Tuesday with signs attributing missing items to new rules following Britain’s official exit from the European Union at the end of last month. “With footfall to our five open city centre food halls significantly reduced and customers shopping online with us instead, we have taken the decision to also close these remaining stores during this time from Friday,” a company spokesman said. The company stated that its “stores in Ireland, France, and the Czech Republic would be the most vulnerable.” “We are sorry that some of your favorite foods are not available. This situation occurred due to the new UK /...

by Prague Morning Jan 12, 2021

New All-Vegan Bistro to Open in Prague City Center

Mooi is an all-vegan restaurant in Brno offering kebabs, gyros, wraps, salads, and fries with vegan dips. Despite the unfavorable current situation, the two owners will open a second branch in Prague. This might surprise some, since Czech cuisine is all about stewed meats, dumplings, and heavy sauces, but happycow.net placed Prague among the 10 most vegan-friendly cities in the world for the second year in a row. The ranking was created taking into account the ratio between population and number of restaurants that offer menus for non-meat eaters. There’s an ever-growing need in large metropolitan cities for foods available for those suffering from coeliac disease to other food intolerances, vegetarians, and allergies. Czechs have started to change their thinking about food and health, while growth in tourism in recent times means people of all shades and tastes have been descending on the Czech Republic capital in greater numbers, and with a correlating rise in veganism, menus are changing to accommodate them. “The time is definitely not suitable. But the decision to open a branch in Prague came in February 2020, just before the whole crisis began. In addition, we were firmly determined from the first moment we learned about...

by Prague Morning Jan 12, 2021

KOFEIN Prague – Creative Tapas and More

Kofein is a family operated establishment in the beautiful and peaceful residential area of Vinohrady. Jaro and Vera – the two owners – are both from Prague and have been in gastro since their teenage years. Being the adventurous travelers they are, they made the decision to move to Australia and work in Sydney. In Sydney, they developed their knowledge of international cuisine while working at some of the best restaurants Sydney had to offer. After a year of living and working in Australia, they decided to embark on a different kind of adventure, taking the long way back to Prague. They traveled through South East Asia making stops in Bali, Thailand then through Japan where they, using made their way onto a Russian merchant ship to go to Russia. They then traveled across Russia with the Trans Siberian Express and eventually back to Prague. After some time in Prague, they started their next adventure by living in a few Swiss ski towns, gaining experience in working in French and Spanish restaurants inspiring them to open Kofein. Kofein’s speciality is international tapas and wine. This is an emerging culinary trend that is spreading across Prague. Tapas are a great way...

by Prague Morning Jan 07, 2021

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“Banning Farmers’ Markets is Discrimination,” Organizers Write to the Government

Rustic Jerky – an Expat Success Story Made in Prague

Gastronomy on the Verge of Collapse: How These Restaurants Are Minimizing the Impact of COVID-19

Czech Catering Group Offers a Lovely Valentine’s-Themed Menu

Dame Jidlo Launches “Dame Market”, New Fast Delivery of Online Purchases

Iconic Bohemia Bagel Coming Back in Prague

MyFoodPlace: The First Cloud Kitchen in Prague

Parliament Approved Mandatory Quotas for Czech Food in Stores

New Flavour Hit Coming to Holešovice With Opening of Asian Restaurant

Marks & Spencer Temporarily Closing Food Stores in Prague

New All-Vegan Bistro to Open in Prague City Center

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