Spending Valentine’s Day in Prague? Excellent choice - the city offers some truly nice romantic spots, and the vibe of the city is easy. But where do you eat on Valentine’s Day in Prague? Well, we got you covered. Here’s our favorite romantic spots in Prague to impress your loved one.
Stangl
What makes this beautiful restaurant in the Karlín district St Valentine’s dinner-worthy is how generous the space is - when it was the top floor of Eska, it used to sit 90. Now it sits one third of that. So privacy is pretty much guaranteed. It also houses a beautiful kitchen with three big counters, some fermentation stations, a hydroponic herbs garden, and a lovely, slightly subdued wooden decor. The tasting menus are great, will not full you up (but you will not leave hungry, either) and are very elegant and playful at the same time. Finish your evening in the Liquid Office cocktail bar nearby for best results.
Alma
Alma is arguably the coolest spot in Prague right now, and you can score bonus points for booking a table for two in this dimly lit restaurant because it will create the (correct) impression that you know what’s up. Not sure if they’re planning a Valentine’s Day menu (nothing on their website right now), but their regular menu offers something to everyone, if that something is within the bounds of modern Czech cuisine. Add the fact that they have their own natural wine distribution business and they could rank high as one of Prague’s best cocktail bars (with a line of mocktails for „sober February“) and you got yourselves a winner.
Marie B
Marie B is a great place for a first date perhaps: with bar-only seating around an open kitchen, you don’t get the privacy you may (not) want, but still get to spend a nice dinner and experience together. The place is a great compromise between elegant and cool - the dining room is adorned with modern art reminiscent of Berlin, but the communal table in Vin de Marie, the wine shop that becomes a part of Marie B once the dinner service starts, is dimly lit and more elegant. And you can guess together what you’re eating, which can be a fun, bonding game. („Carte Blanche“, a blank menu with notes and a pencil, is central to the whole concept.)
Zilvar
Okay, this might be stretching it a bit, but if you don’t mind being a bit adventurous, if you don’t mind a bit of prep, and if you don’t mind a bit of day drinking (if you mind the latter, we’re afraid we can’t be friends), we recommend you check out the Zilvar winery. The best winery in Prague is super easy to get into: just a 15-min ride on the 17 tram from the Old Town, which stops literally in front of the winery.
Then I suggest getting a bottle and two glasses, and climb up the hill to the vineyards with oversee the beautiful Troja district on the West… and a bit left beautiful Holešovice district on the South. Maybe get a picnic basket/backback full of food going ahead of time for added points? Or make it into a walk - the calm Stromovka park through the Císařský ostrov island into the Troja chateau, have a bite at the cool Bistro Karel next door, and then walk for 15-ish minutes through the Troja villas to the winery. A great escape on a sunny day.
Bockem
Who says breakfast can’t be romantic? Bockem is arguably one of the most beautiful dining rooms in the city, and the three-course French-inspired breakfast is paced just right for good times. Add prosecco at will for early day success. Alternatives include the nearby Café Savoy, a beautiful Belle Epoque grand café with great coffee, food and cakes and an impressive wine list. Just make sure you have a reservation because the odds of you getting in without one are fairly slim unless you want to wait outside. (That is not romantic.)
PS: Bockem now also offers dinners.
La Degustation
Now that the Michelin-starred restaurant serves breakfast (it only had dinner service before Covid), we recommend it for a Valentine’s day lunch. While the food in Prague’s other Michelin star, Field, is excellent, we still give the slight edge to La Degustation because its beautiful, dimly lit dining room seems more private and confidential than the lightly-lit Field. And you can now choose your protein for the main dish, and the wine pairing, which focuses on the best wines this country can offer, is worth the price of admission alone. Have a quick cup of coffee at onesip coffee nearby, and then combine with a visit to the beautiful St Agnes Convent around the corner.
El Camino Tapas Restaurant
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: El Camino offers the best hospitality in town. David Böhm, the chef/owner, and his team have created a place where you’ll be pampered and wined and dined throughout the evening, and you’ll feel like you entirely deserve it. Kinda like White Lotus, but without the drugs and crime and so on. It also make no sense: why would one of the best restaurants in town be a Spanish restaurant? But here we are. The food is top notch, the knowledgeable service is impeccable, and the wines are great, too. This is the kinda restaurant where you’ll have the time to stare in each others’ eyes forever, and you won’t want to leave.
Terasa u zlaté studnE
Confession: we have never been too fond of Terasa, the quintessential „restaurant with a view“ at the end of a narrow street just under the Prague Castle. It felt too conservative, too stuffy, and a bit too touristy. But they now have a new chef, Mr Lukáš Hlaváček, one of the most promising chefs around with experience from some of the best restaurants out there, taking over the kitchen, and that’s great news - his fine dining experience seems to fit the space like a glove. So it anything, we believe the food will be delicious, and the view of Prague won’t hurt either. They have an 8-course Valentine’s Day set menu that will set you back CZK 3400 per person, but it does look delicious. If you want to splash, this is the place to splash.
Bokovka
Our favorite wine bar in town is a fantastic place to spend a Valentine’s Day at: the beautiful 15th Century brewery courtyard is a haven of calm, separated from the fairly busy Dlouhá street outside. The cellar that accommodates the wine bar is a dimly-lit boudoir where you sit in windows on animal fur and enjoy the candle light on the table. The selection of wines is fantastic with a great selection of local wines as well as some European favourites, and the bar does not pick sides: you can find both natural and conventional wines in the shelves. If you want to eat, there’s cheese and charcuterie plates and truffle popcorn, but you can also buy things (steaks, burgers and the like) in the wonderful Naše maso butcher shop next door and have them delivered to Bokovka. If you can’t sweep your loved one of their feet here, it’s probably your fault.
The Eatery
The Eatery is a beautiful, minimalist and modern restaurant in the Holešovice district. The dimly lit interior is dominated by the well-illuminated open kitchen, so you can either sit in a dark corner, or enjoy a bar seating to have a view of the action. The dishes are light, modern, well-executed, beautifully presented, and rooted in local tradition. The wine list is vast and taking full advantage of the fact that The Eatery also acts as a distributor of wines. This a great place for an elegant meal that is surprisingly affordable given the quality.
And they do offer not one, but two Valentine’s Day menus this year: one three-course menu for couples, and one 6-course menu for their communal table for singles, or parties of three, or just advanced diners who couldn’t care less about Valentine’s Day.
Myšák
If your loved one has a sweet tooth, there are only a few better places in the city to scratch that itch than the venerable Myšák, founded by Mr Myšák back in 1911. We recommend you get the Czech classic pastries tasting platter (there’s a smaller and a bigger one) and some bubbles - they have Czech sparkling wine and really good local cider, too. Myšák is also one of the few pastry shops in town that serve specialty coffee and do it well. But the real seller here is the classic Czech pastries and the really cute decor of the coffee shops that still feels as fancy as it must have in 1911.
Kristyjan Chocolatiers
Our favorite pralines and chocolates in town come from Kristyjan, a literal mom-and-pop shop (but the mom used to work in the mighty Ambiente group of restaurants, and the pop used be a concierge at Prague’s Four Seasons hotels) in the beautiful Bubeneč district, which happens to be our hood. The pralines are beautifully finished and come in a plethora of flavours, including a few vegan pralines. All of their boxes have a luxurious feel to them, so even if you buy just four, it will still look nice. They also make chocolates and other stuff, but this Valentine’s Day, we’d go with the pralines.
Hemingway bar
If you like to imbibe with your loved one, there’s a few cocktail bars in town you should know about, and Hemingway Bar in the Old Town is definitely in the top three of any cocktail aficionado in Prague. The OG of cocktail bars in town, Hemingway still leads the way in many ways, making cocktails that are at the same time modern and inventive and steeped in Czech tradition. The lighting is subtle, the bar occupies two floors, with the upper floor providing more privacy, and the walk to and from the bar along the narrow streets of Old Town will be a treat in itself.
Parlour
Another great bar we love and recommend is Parlour. Sure, the Krakovska street is not exactly what you’d call romantic, but the bar is small and cosy and as dark as they come. There is no drinks menu: the single bartender - usually the only member of staff on duty in Parlour, will ask you what you’d like to taste, and craft a drink based on that preference. The drinks are as good as they come, the jazz soundtrack from the turntable adds atmosphere, and the little quirks will make it fun. Great time guaranteed.
Rudolfinum
Now, this one is for those who came prepared (meaning brought their best apparel), but a concert of the Czech Philharmonic at the Rudolfinum as a feast for the senses: the musicians are top notch, as are the acoustics, and the building - a concert hall turned parliament and then back to concert hall - is absolutely gorgeous. Put on your tux and/or your dress, and prepare to be dazzled.
Spa at the Four Seasons Prague
If you want to treat yourself to a spa treatment, head over to the Four Seasons hotel in the Old Town. Sure, the sauna and the steam room - separate for men and women - are tiny, but they are well built and equipped, the pool is more a dip pool than an Olympic affair, but the luxury surrounding it all is undeniable, and the view of the Prague Castle still beats any other hotel in Prague. Plus you can just chill, have a tea and nibble on the little snacks provided.
And if you don’t want to spend a fortune on anything, we have tips for two walks in town that are absolutely free. First is Vyšehrad, „the other“ Prague castle a few bridges south of the Old Town. It is an old fortress with a Roman Rotonda, one of the oldest places in Prague, a park, a cemetery of famous Czechs, and a beautiful church. (Other notables: one of the most bizarrely located tennis courts you have ever seen, and a cute beer garden in the summer.) You can walk along the walls of the fortress, and then walk down to the river, which offers some amazing views of the more known Prague Castle. This is one of the few Prague monuments that is frequented more by locals than foreign visitors.
The other destination is the Petřín hill, which gets a lot of action on May 1 as the „most romantic place in Prague“: celebrating a well-known Romantic poem, couples traditionally hit the Petřín hill en masse to kiss under the blossoming cherry tree (and now taking Instagram pictures of themselves doing so). But you don’t need to wait for May to enjoy Petřín for romantic purposes. The climb isn’t that bad (and you can use the funicular to go all or half way up), the views are stunning, and the mini Eiffel Tower at the top of the hill is kinda fun actually. And you can extend your walk to the Prague Castle for more stunning views and romantic hideaways. Great stuff.