Prague is the Czech Republic's main concentration of Spanish restaurants, with five of our nine Czech listings. They are spread across five districts, all a tram or metro ride apart, which makes a two-day route workable. Hours below are the ones listed in each restaurant's record; two of the five list none, and we say so.
Saturday lunch: La Perla de Karlín
La Perla de Karlín is on Šaldova in Karlín, Prague 8, a district of converted industrial buildings east of the old town. Its record describes it as a Spanish restaurant and tapas bar specialising in traditional paellas and tapas. It lists hours of 11:30 to 22:00 seven days a week, and it is the only one of the five whose record lists Sunday lunch hours. El Camino Tapas also lists a Saturday lunch service, below. Paella is the obvious order here.
Saturday afternoon: Tapárna in Letná
Across the river in Letná, Tapárna on Korunovační opens daily from 16:00 according to its record. The menu it lists reads like a bar in Spain: boquerones with tomato, croquetas, seafood, jamón, chorizo and Spanish cheeses, with a selected Spanish wine list. Letná is also home to the park with the city view over the Vltava, so the bar fits a late-afternoon stop after a walk.
Saturday dinner: El Camino Tapas, Praha 3
El Camino Tapas on Jagellonská in Praha 3 lists Saturday hours of 12:00 to 15:00 and 17:00 to midnight, and 17:00 to midnight Monday to Friday. Its record describes it as fine dining with a gourmet approach to traditional Spanish cooking and tapas; it is the only one of the five Prague records with a price tier filled in, the third of four. The name is explained in the record: El Camino, the way, as in a route through Spanish food and customs.
Sunday: vermouth in the New Town, cava in Bubeneč
Two more listings have no hours in our records, so these are suggestions to confirm before you set out.
Lola Vermut y Tapas on Myslíkova, in the New Town near the river, is a vermouth and tapas bar serving tapas from across Spain. The Spanish Sunday ritual of la hora del vermut, an aperitivo of vermouth around midday, is the natural way to use it.
CAVA on Uralská in Bubeneč, Praha 6, is a wine and tapas bistro built around Spanish cava and wines with, in its own words, a carefully selected menu of tapas. If it is open on Sunday evening, it closes the weekend; if not, La Perla de Karlín's Sunday hours run until 22:00.
Getting around
- Karlín (Šaldova) is on metro line B at Křižíkova; Letná (Korunovační) is a tram ride across the river.
- Jagellonská in Praha 3 is near the Jiřího z Poděbrad metro on line A.
- Myslíkova is in the New Town, a short walk from Karlovo náměstí; Uralská is in Bubeneč on the north side.
Beyond Prague
The other four Czech listings are in Brno, Hradec Králové and Karlovy Vary. Our Czech Republic page has them all, and the Prague page lists the five above.
