Pivovar U Medvídků

U Medvídků - Review - Old Town - Prague - The Infatuation

"Until about 2005 or so, there were old-school pubs like U Medvídků (translation:“At the Little Bear”)liberally sprinkled throughout the historical center. These days, those pubs have been renovated into soulless tourist traps. But, like the Dude, the Little Bear abides. What lures people out of hibernation and into this almost-600-year-old pub with roving mustached waiters is the opportunity to down a couple of pints of Budweiser, the original Czech Bud that hails from the southern Bohemian town of Česky Budějovice, or Budweis in German. Except for meat-hungry German tourists, most people don’t come here for the food, despite the long compendium of meat-centric Central European staples. But when you need to fill the stomach to prolong a night of beer drinking, you can’t go wrong with many of the grizzly-sized dishes, like the goulash with dumplings or bacon-spiked chicken liver pate." - David Farley