Secret Prague Spots Tourists Won't Find

[@Jotkah26]

Scammers will sell membership to hidden cafe in Prague

[@samteks125]

Just pay em with outdated belarusian bills

[@mariosmichailidis7123]

Was at Prague in August 2023 and after one day there were so many tourists traps it was concerning. With your videos you saved us our valuable time and money and we(me and my wife) cannot thank you enough for that. Keep up the excellent work sir.

[@aselliofacchio]

Kozlovna apropos is sooooo good.

[@mcdonciii]

Hopefully all the TikTok influencers are busy with their fantastic videos and won't ruin these places so they keep remain hidden gems

[@Schalalai]

Sadly it happens everywere nowadays.

[@luigigaminglp]

Those places aren't flashy enough so i think they could be safe...?

[@keiiko]

and i hope they get fair share of customers so they wont go bankrupt next summer

[@mcdonciii]

@@keiiko well, the internet is not the only source of recommendation, people can talk about the places to the friends, like I'm pretty sure Janek tells about these places to a lot of people (in person I mean)

[@keiiko]

@@mcdonciii which is why businesses are advertising itself. Hidden gems are hidden for a reason that only few people knows about it. Thats nice but it won't pay the bills...

[@BichaelStevens]

Gem #2: Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies "It's not obvious, but they have a restaurant / canteen inside, which serves breakfasts, lunches and drinks for amazing prices, with a view to Charles Bridge. Located on 1st floor, open Monday - Friday 8am-5pm" - a Google reviewer

[@ansonfan6404]

Can I know the food name that the video showing? Thanks

[@irenelye5706]

What is the address? Thank you very much..I will try to Google it.thamks

[@TechzSpecz]

Screw the gatekeepers, local businesses are suffering all around the world, why not let a local business get the business it deserves! Here is the cafe: Imbus cafe Mikulandská 134/5, 110 00 Nové Město, Czechia

[@xukeepax1286]

i thought its called Ikea

[@tomas.stesti]

@xukeepax1286 I thought the same thing 😀But its true that, you got an Imbus almost with every piece of furniture sold in Ikea

[@Fragenzeichenplatte]

There were two cafes in the video. Imbus is the first one.

[@AlexanderVlasov]

Second one is Klub Techniků

[@ameriscm7351]

@@AlexanderVlasov Located on 1st floor, open Monday - Friday 8am-5pm

[@gears0114]

1:23 scan the qr code for the name

[@britt-sen]

a-ha!

[@jamespppyacek342]

Did that. It worked! lol.

[@ilor114]

At 1:28 you can see almost the full name of the cafe as well.

[@dindin4072]

Good catch

[@mpcdejong]

Is saw 'bus' in another shot and then got the Ikea reference.....

[@peetee7327]

Wow. That grandma´s coffee place is such a gerat idea ! Thanks for the tip !

[@Andrea-ou5sy]

We have such a Coffee Shop in Vienna too, where Grandmothers are baking the cakes 🤗😋

[@e3np]

1. Imbus Cafe Scanning QR Code at 1:23 brings you to their registration. 2. Klub Lávka There's a cafe and canteen, latter is the one shown in the video.

[@nirpendranathmishra1902]

exactly

[@KironKabir]

genius

[@pakan357]

2 spots ruined. ✅

[@e3np]

couldn't care. @@pakan357

[@MalteNielson]

Also at 1:28 the name is shown on the left side.

[@digitalnomad5864]

You made Old School so famous that when I walked my wife through the rain to visit, they were closed for a multi camera shoot with C Stands, Light Panels, and a grip van.

[@TheTachograf]

I have to admit, there is some truth to this. Before my trip to Prague, I watched almost all the episodes on the channel. I created a list of 40 places to visit, from monuments to restaurants and bars. We visited Prague in November, off-season, from Wednesday to Sunday. While some locations were accessible between 9 am and 3 pm, in the evening there was no chance. Bars were full, and restaurants had a 30-minute wait for a table. Even in the Městská knihovna v Praze, there was a queue of 20 people waiting to enter. At first, I was disappointed that I didn't show my friends the best places in Prague, but then I decided that it would always be an opportunity to return to this beautiful city :)

[@Lodinn]

There was that great place tucked behind Kostelu Matky Boží před Týnem, a touch pricey, but not extraordinarily so. Great food, great service... A decade ago. Now it's plastered in Tripadvisor ads, crawling with tourists at any time of the day, and basically everything about it got worse. They deserved a reward for what they were doing then, but the form in which it came essentially killed the place it once was. It feels like it got way worse downtown in just a few short years, but you still get beautiful human interactions just a couple steps away. And the city is still amazing, I guess I just wish for it to not be consumed by big corporations and soulless businesses :(

[@glenhoskins3030]

We were recently in Prague and had lunch at the restaurant with the view of Charles Bridge 3 days in a row. The food was excellent and the lady so so lovely. On our last day when we explained tomorrow we leave Prague and when posing for photos with us she genuinely had a tear in her eye. Such a friendly lady. Thanks for the tip.

[@alexufba]

From all your videos, this one is the one that makes me to be in Prague rights now. Quiet cozy places with good food and nice people is the best!

[@DashCamSheffield]

unless I'm mistaken, the metal bar going down the tower is for lightning strikes, so the electricity goes into the ground causing no damage

[@prokux2529]

No need to be so tick and visible .

[@swampthing20]

​@@prokux2529I presume you meant thick, not tick. And you'd rather it was encased somehow? Well I'm guessing you have no idea just how powerful a lightning strike is. So for me, and every other intelligent person in the world, I'm bloody well glad it is so thick and visible.

[@gl1tcheddatabase270]

Yes, this was my exact thought. It looks like an earthing line for lightning strikes

[@gl1tcheddatabase270]

@@prokux2529This is typically the size that these straps are on buildings. And as he described, they are viewing the tower from a different view where you see extra bits that aren't normally seen. So basically it has been hidden to some degree, because it can't be seen from the other side where you likely get more people walking. They have done the best they can to make it hidden where possible

[@matejpanik2112]

you are mistaken, that is a cable tray (which includes grounding yes)

[@lkrnpk]

''something that built the entire country of Sweden'' Me: Ice age :D

[@hallkaften3052]

Vikings

[@rdthrthth]

Ikea

[@Andrea-ou5sy]

Ikea

[@phileascurtil5605]

I'm in Prague for 3 more months. I have all my time to find it...

[@10jpmorgan]

I envy you!

[@martinconnelly1473]

My son and Czech daughter-in-law used to live in Prague 7, now just outside the Prague city limit not far from one of the "poles" so I never ate in a tourist trap. Walk for 15 minutes to get out of the tourist area and then look for somewhere to eat, never been disappointed but did avoid some of the "Chinese" takeaways with the picture menu on the outside wall.

[@phileascurtil5605]

@@martinconnelly1473 I'm not that far from there. I'm in Prague 6.

[@martinconnelly1473]

@@phileascurtil5605 Usual route from the airport is the 119 bus, then the 26 tram through Prague 6 then change at Sparta for the final leg in Prague 7. Now that apartment in Prague 7 is rented out and I need to take a bus for the last leg. Hopefully the tram will reach them soon.

[@gruncletim]

I kind of like the idea of going on the scavenger hunt to find the restaurants and cafes from the clues provided.

[@Ziperino]

For those who are too lazy to figure it out, the first place is called Imbus Café in building of Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design and the second one is Lavka 5 in building of Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies

[@Nonume]

THANK YOU!

[@Ουρανία-ψ7σ]

One day you'll be on the other end of what you did here. You did no favour

[@owenaylward]

Booooo

[@FlameEmber]

What a fun idea to make us follow clues to guess the place. Love your creativity 🎉

[@AgentM124]

I went to a place Janek recommended. And this one was not packed to the brim with tourists, it was end of September, but there were quite some more customers getting food there. Talked with the owner, he's a great guy, he didn't seem overwhelmed but rather humble and maybe a tad of appreciation towards a larger customer base. Either way. If you keep recommending more places, the crowd will even out over all those places and I don't see an overpopulation happening. Not many people will also just randomly go to Prague so it's just the people who happen to go there.

[@milanmatejic2954]

1:23 prices in €- divide stated price by 22-25. espresso-2.5€ double eapresso-3.18€ flat white-3,6€… hot chocolate-3,8€ prices are ok if your exchange rate is fine.

[@cgr4817]

Just realized that HG can stand for Honest Guide or Hidden Gem. Well played...

[@m0rp4euz]

Hidden gem - Janek's sister name sounds like a Star Wars villain!

[@juliobastosjb]

Not much as her name doesn't mean anything dirty in Portuguese (yes, that's a thing)

[@misanthropewolf]

Hey Janek! I'm finally travelling to Prague on May, after years of watching your videos. I'm so eager to get to know your city and the lovely places you always show us. Thanks! :)

[@outlawthesecond7597]

The second one is "Klub Techniků" I found the window he was sitting at, but the entrance is all the way on the other side of the building which tripped me up. There is also a restaurant on the floor below it which you might get confused with the actual one shown

[@diegodinaglio1823]

Any medium/big city has hidden canteen, coffee places, restaurants with local cheap food in goubernamental buildings, public offices, big hospitals, etc. It's always interesting just to escape from touristic points

[@MrHorsePony]

I love the places you are showing us, thank you from Australia.

[@cruisingfromtheozarks]

I may never go to Prague, but I still love your videos!

[@popszczelony]

Janek, you doing a great job. Keep going! Greetings from Poland :)

[@timbyrne914]

Additional hint for the first stop : the Černý sculpture is called H-A-V-E-L. I wonder, does one get a discount if one helps assemble the furniture? The Canteen/Jidelna on stop two is now on the list of menza/jidelna/atd to check out on the next trip, and the kavarna u babiček is now on the kolače list.

[@scottduncanphotography1671]

I'll be in Prague in October and have been enjoying your videos. Appreciate the work you do

[@nickleback9097]

Love your work. You guys are great at this!

[@Sparkbomber]

TBH, the tourist allergy is strong with the haters... I don't know if I'll ever visit Prague myself, but your channel's phenomenal to me.

[@Kristyna_Portugal666]

Po přestěhování do Portugalska se ráda vracím do Prahy aspoň jednou za rok, jako turista 😅 díky!!! Určitě navštívím poslední kavárnu a nacpu Portugalce koláči 😂❤

[@exit-the-simulation]

The first one is "Imbus cafe" located in Mikulandská 134/5, 110 00 Nové Město, Czechia, nearby the Puppet Museum.

[@johncameron4194]

Love the second and the third one! Nice to see you mom and sister

[@GabrielStein]

Děkuji ! You are amazing! Pozdrav z Mnichova!

[@pedrostormrage]

0:57 "You can even play a game of pétanque" Pétanque (apparently there's not a specific Czech word for it)! I was introduced to it by Disco Elysium, but I'd never seen anyone play it in real life (it's just not a thing in my country).

[@Moonboyisflying]

Stará Skola on the other hand is a place I would travel to Prague to visit. What a great consept and it looks really cosy.

[@Jo-yp8wy]

I had some of the surprising nice food at a rest stop in Turkey on a bus trip, and a random cheap csardas on the Austrian/ /Hungarian border. You just never know.

[@krakulandia]

Cover Vinohrady and Zizkov cafes and restaurants! Best areas in Prague which tourists never end up visiting for some really weird reason.

[@aicirtkciub9167]

That looks like a pie my Auntie would make. An artform lost to us Canadianized children ❤ so good

[@BirdbrainEngineer]

Been living in Prague for half a year now and it's crazy that I straight out just know some of these places already haha

[@DiluteAtom]

Love the videos. We're visiting Prague in May, and we'll definitely try and hunt down some of these places. As a side note, how easy is it to find places to baby changing in Prague? I've visited some places where it is really difficult to find somewhere suitable for changing, so its always a bit of a worry when on holiday.

[@philbranagan3137]

Here we are, my wife and I, in November 2024, at the Czech Scientific and Technical Association cafeteria, AT THE SAME TABLE, overlooking the Charles bridge, having a fine lunch for pocket money. Thanks to you for your wonderful advice, from two grateful Australians

[@georgemohr7532]

Will be in your city in early October. Your videos have me really excited about spending time Prague.

[@teeKeri]

This is fun ! I enjoy to find obscure places and gems ! ♥

[@kushagrahkalia4490]

Thanks for all the info you've been sharing through you're channel, appreciate it! Just wanted to ask about the Honest Blog, none of the pages open, when I try opening a page it brings me back to the home page. It'd be great to get some help to access the blog, thanks!

[@martinjilek8490]

Will you boys start doing videos outside Prahy?? Mozna ve Zline??

[@3rdalbum]

The chef in Place #2 is almost the spitting image of my friend's late mother. That's pretty eerie but I'm glad she can cook some tasty food for you.

[@Vivi-qy9fm]

Thank you Honest Guide for the hints, we tried few of them last weekend while in Prague and we can only say AMAZING🙏👌...Gem no 2 unfortunately was closed on Saturday when we went there but we were happy with the rest !

[@laptop5126]

nothing can survive/last forever without guests/people visiting. no business can survive without income, no one will pay the maintenance of a place no one visits. so please show the places as pure and honest as you did the last years. 🥰

[@ferretyluv]

There is a hidden gem in Iceland. I don’t even remember where it is or what it’s called. It’s a secluded little free hot spring. We were recommended by locals. Apparently some influencers have mentioned it. It’s also a nude hot spring! I don’t think you understand how amazing it is to bathe topless (or nude, if you’re a guy) in the dead of winter. It’s so refreshing. People get very friendly in hot springs.

[@riversiderocks]

Don't let the geoguesser guy see this

[@TomT557]

Visiting in a couple of months, hope to visit at least two of these establishments!

[@RetroBoxRoom]

I do like good hearty meal. Walking around would surely give one the appetite? A simple question though, why was the napkin under the pie? That's not something I've seen here in the UK. Is it to stop it from slipping about?

[@Manuelfdpereira]

An honest guide that is actually honest!

[@ThomisBastelstube]

:) Have litteraly been just arround the corner of the first place last week and programmed the "European Experience Center" in Narodni Street :) Funny to see it here in your tips now.

[@SreypichTVShow]

Looking so beautiful restaurant, they really preparing so nice, friend. Thanks for your sharing ❤️💖😘😍👍

[@petrmilota6398]

i MUST have the drobenkovy pie

[@mariapanagiotakokolaki9385]

Hi all where is this roof shown at 0:35 in this video? Looks awesome

[@CX103]

Národní 12, Nové Město

[@shenzimari]

Hi Janek! Just wanted to recommend a cafe I stumbled across on today, called Cafe Clemantina. It's located on Vlašská street (which was absolutely empty of people on Monday noon, and is actually quite close to Prague castle) and it's gorgeous! Perfect sandwiches, great coffee, great personnel! Truly a gem. Highly recommended.

[@well_i_liked_it]

How self absorbed are people who don't want a business to succeed because only they are allowed to enjoy it.

[@mickys8705]

Tourism from richer countries increases prices. They may as well not afford to enjoy it...

[@relo999]

Speaking from expirience in my own country these business' are doing fine, but having spots overrun by tourists ruins the spot more often than not. To use a local (to me) example, Giethoorn. When I was a kid up till I was around 18-ish it was a small village you could drive boats in and relax, great for a day out without things being expensive. Fast forward to day it's become a major tourist attraction, it's hard to walk around (as the village was build on low foot and bicycle traffic), most places have become rather expensive and for the people living there they have tourists regularly breaking into their homes as tourists just ignore "so not enter" and "private property" signs and treat the village as an open air museum. And in turn also destroy the local culture. Same with Tulips in my area, used to be great for both locals and farmers as it just looks good. Now you have road blockages because tourists stop to take pictures and for farmers it's a nightmare as tourists love to trample the flowers to make a good picture standing in the fields. Most hidden spots if they don't market to tourists are perfectly successful without tourists.

[@HelloOnepiece]

While I do not like gatekeeping, overtourism is a real danger, just look at Venice

[@well_i_liked_it]

@@relo999 That's incredibly patronising "Most hidden spots if they don't market to tourists are perfectly successful without tourists." You mean they are as successful as you allow them to be? What about the people working for 30 years in those businesses that would love to retire or open up a second store? No, that is just not acceptable for you.

[@well_i_liked_it]

​@@mickys8705 So another business will open for locals.

[@alexmm.9445]

Visiting Prague (again) in April. Gonna try to find them with my family😊

[@staticnoice5477]

Respect for keeping the voicecrack in

[@charlotteg6842]

3:02 any other TARPers vibing to the “you love to see it” music!? I love to see it!

[@darklajid]

Seeing the Club Mate crates already sold me on the place

[@marcelz585]

Please do a video about vegan shops in Prague! :)

[@notohkae]

Gem 1: Imbus Cafe Gem 2: Czech Association of Scientific and Technical Societies Gem 3: Stará škola (obviously)

[@ExM2g]

❤❤ Love the ideas for not telling straight 😂

[@yelowpunk]

You keep doing interesting stuff, bringing something unique.

[@gongchunwu9191]

i love the idea!! so much fun to try to find it.

[@SGilles919]

That pie looked amazing.

[@colewhite4184]

Sassy Janek is my favourite Janek

[@bdek4492]

Thanks for that OSINT challenge :D

[@bchpls24]

Is this why my local cafe have been increasing their prices? I've seen an influx of tourist and they're really obnoxiously loud 😢

[@skyblockpro1]

Thanks for the great hunt, haven’t visited yet online, the Jan Kraus episode was a great clue and still took me about 15min of searching after that. Good luck to all to find it :) and agin thx for the puzzle

[@simvag]

This is such a cool idea, these places seem so lovely! Makes me want to go to Prague again! :DD

[@MartinBaltuhin]

Amazing idea and execution! Now i will eat there for sure. Thanks to your lessons i will be able to order some "maso" :D

[@sjonnies6768]

You can play petanque on the sandpit in front of the dancing house😂😂

[@levsblinnikovs6209]

The amount (size) of salad in the canteen in Prague blew my mind

[@deadadam666]

i like that this is now geoguesser

[@danielacampelo118]

I love this video! Thank you guys

[@ShadowManceri]

If I would own a hidden gem then I would love people not telling about it to anyone. The less customers is AMAZING for the business. In fact if there are no customers at all that would be ideal. Just avoid the place like plague. That will make it even more amazing and it will be there for decades to come.

[@michaelz.7140]

is cappuccino in czechia something other than in the rest of the world? because a flat white coffee is usually cheaper than a cappuccino (because you need to foam the milk for cappuccino)

[@PavelBrabec]

Flat White is treated as basically doubled (two espresso shots instead of one) Cappucino - and both have foam.

[@TheEagle006]

1:26 you can scan the QR code for the coffee shop

[@gregthompson6595]

@HONEST GUIDE, we tried to go to the restaurant in the engineering/science association (!?) and they said it was closed until the 31/8, I wasn't sure if they were being honest or if there were too many tourists so they want to keep it for associates of their organisation? Thanks from South London

[@BainHAMMER]

co myslite na restaurace "Pet penez" na Delnicka? Creperie "U slepe kocicky"?

[@saifulazlin]

i love your videos despite not in position to afford my way to go to europe just yet. hopefully sometime after i retire.

[@anomonyous]

Yes. It's true that exposure of places tends to "ruin" or "'destroy" them in a sense. This is true not only for your channel, but for others as well, exposing hidden away gems in the world, and in doing so, not only ruining the point of exploring the world, but lessening the place as well. The only thing to remember here, is that restaurants are not exactly coral reefs. And you are not the only person on Earth. If you've figured it out, at least a thousand other people have figured it out before you. And restaurants need to sell things to stay alive. They need revenue. They won't wilt and die because of mass tourism. In fact, they may finally get the recognition they deserve, for having amazing food and drink at reasonable prices. And as to my second point. While I fully understand that some places in the world are best kept safe from masses of people, again, this is hardly the case for THE CAPITAL of Czechia. Thousands of people have figured it out before you, and it's fair and a nice thing to do, to share the good things in the world with your fellow man. Especially when the alternative might get them scammed, and in return give an otherwise wonderful place a terrible, undeserved reputation. I grew up in a small medieval city that is pretty much swarming with tourists every single day of the year. I know better than anyone, the pain and destruction of mass tourism. Only during lockdown was I able to enjoy my home properly, as I am very bad with crowds. But my city also lives primarily off of tourism. So, it's a balancing act. And, frankly, if you're respectful and friendly, and you've come halfway across the world to see my home... Well, that makes me kind of proud, and I'd be more than happy to make your time here a pleasant one and show you all the nooks and crannies. I think that's only fair.

[@L4wr3nc3810]

yeah but the first place primarily serves the people of that building - the backyard is a chillout zone for the people of that building. "feeling proud that someone came halfway across the world" to sit there doesnt really balance the fact the person occupies the place. neither does the fact the cafe suddenly makes big money

[@MaccSpeaksYouListen]

It’s definitely bittersweet.

[@Moonboyisflying]

Thank you for your videos. I have to say the first place has the most unatractive cafe/bistro. Wierd when there is such a lack of taste when designing a hang out for people.

[@seyniole1898]

Let's be honest, honest guide. You weren't really trying hard to hide these locations.

[@MihMuh]

One could play petank in Central Park Pankrac (for free). Though I have never tried myself and don't know whether you should bring your own game balls or there are balls provided

[@skelly7987]

6:10 is probably a lightning conductor.

[@arnonuhm5024]

Imbus Cafe: Mikulandská 134/5, 110 00 Nové Město Restaurant with view: Novotného lávka 200/5, 110 00 Staré Město Stara skola: Na Bělidle 34, 150 00 Praha 5-Anděl

[@tiniselles]

I wish I would’ve seen this video three months ago when I was in Prague. Btw I loved your city 😊

[@Hexapoda.Resident]

I live in Stockholm and there is always hidden gems, you can tell about them and folk go there, but then you can walk of and look for a new place, popularity comes and go, some place do the missatak to rise the price when they get popular anw when it go back to normal they are to expensive and folk look for new gems with good price. For some reason companies think they only can rice price and never lower them to survive a hype peak.

[@bobmetcalfe9640]

I sometimes wonder about sites like this even though I love this one. "Here's a hidden something that no one knows about" - except now of course they all do and you run the risk of spoiling it by telling everyone about it. Luckily I'm too old to travel to Europe again. 😁

[@biswaonly]

1:21 you can see the name IMBUS

[@Playtony99]

Hey guys, can you pls say or show, where are the best/tastiest sausages that i can find in prague?