48 Hours of Drinking in Prague

Aloha Wikiwiki Room draws a steady local crowd in Stare Mesto. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. Drop bags. Find a hotel-adjacent bar within a five-minute walk. Order something simple to anchor yourself to the city.

Cloud 9 Sky Bar at Hilton draws a steady local crowd in Karlin. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. The polished room you'd take a first date to. Sit at the bar. Talk to the bartender. Stay one drink — you're scouting, not committing.

Caffrey's draws a steady local crowd in Stare Mesto. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. Walk into the city's drinking quarter (the heart of the night, not the tourist version). Two drinks, two rooms. Pace yourself — Saturday is the long day.

Anonymous Bar earns its name twice over. There is no sign outside on Michalska Street, which runs through one of the denser tourist passages of the Old Town, an Sunset. Find a rooftop. Order whatever the house specials around sundown. Take photos but don't lose 90 minutes to your phone.

As Time Goes By draws a steady local crowd in Stare Mesto. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. Eat somewhere with serious bartending built in. The right room is one you order both your dinner and your nightcap from.

Banka draws a steady local crowd in Stare Mesto. Booking is recommended on weekends. Walk-ins are usually possible early in the evening. The bar that made you book the trip. The pre-research one. Reservation-only ideally. Stay until last call.

Bar and Books operates on a premise that has worked in New York, London, and several other cities: take the aesthetic of a private members library, add a seriou Mary, Mimosa, or whatever low-ABV house play the room runs. Eat. Pay. Walk.

Beer Geek occupies a position in Prague's craft beer landscape that no other bar has managed to replicate: it is the bar that most completely represents what Cz Find the hotel bar at your departure airport equivalent — somewhere quiet, low-volume, well-staffed. End the trip on a martini and a clean conversation.