AUTENTISTA wine & champagne bar

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"Natural wine meets Champagne at newly minted Autentista. The lounge comes from two of Prague’s biggest players in fermented grape juice, Champagne importer Antonín Suchánek and Bogdan Trojak, co-founder of Prague’s first natural wine bar, Veltlin. Tucked down quiet Řetězová Street in Old Town, Autentisa claims the ground floor of a 14th-century townhouse. The 1,700-square-foot space is clad with elegant vaulted ceilings that lend it an old-fashioned, cavernous feel. At one of the 42 seats, guests will find around 600 natural wines by the bottle in a list focused on European producers (mainly culled from Italy, France, the Czech Republic, and Austria), plus 12 rotating by-the-glass selects (80 korunas, or $3.50 and up). There are also 100 Champagnes by the bottle, and four by the glass (240 korunas, or $10 and up). Continuing the theme of fermentation, chef Tereza Havlíková oversees a menu of “fermentation bowls,” which combine local vegetables and meat with at least one fermented component." - Kat Odell