Monolok

Wow, breakfast for two, with one Americano coffee, was $ 7! Surprisingly, even though this place is far removed from the tourist areas, everyone in the basement area in which we ate was foreign. The cheddar cheese omelettes were delicious. Also got the farmer’s sausage plate, which was two good kielbasa-​like sausages and some horseradish. The bread basket included one good seeded brown bread and one rather awful white roll-​ish bread.

Everything I look for in a café was met, and expectations were even surpassed at Monolok.
*Location: off the beaten tourist track, yet still walking distance to everything.
*Price: very affordable. My breakfast of scrambled eggs and croissants was 79 crowns, an espresso was 39.
*Service: the best part about my visit here! The 2 waiters working hard to serve the whole place were warm and friendly and spoke English well.
*Wifi: free and fast-​working, just ask them for the password.
*Atmosphere: more modern and all-​white than one would expect, but it was still nice and gave a clean vibe.
*Quality: My breakfast was delicious, and I think it always tastes better when the whole surrounding experience is positive too!

Great studying area during the afternoon. Not crowded, wifi, coffee & cake! Definitely will be back whenever I need a quiet corner to focus.

Delicious fresh squeezed juice, friendly staff, and fantastic egg breakfast (omelette and scramble) made with delicate care you can really taste. Comfortable, clean atmosphere. Definitely recommend!

Lovely place! The café has a very open and light ambience, full of sunshine and the quiet murmur of music. The staff was friendly and service was reasonably quick. I ordered a café latte and the English breakfast, both of which were delicious. At first I didn’t think the breakfast would be enough food, but I left feeling stuffed.
There’s an English menu, and the staff also speaks English. All in all, a perfect place for travellers to comfortably start to dip into the Czech scene.

The coffee and breakfast, here, is AMAZING. I tried both the espresso and drip– each were divine. I had the apple pancakes. One word: YUMMY. It was not overly sweet, which was a huge plus. The presentation is also fantastic. I was grateful to have a seltzer back– this is how one SERVES COFFEE– The real way.
It is a casual enough place to work. The top 40 American music was distracting at times– but that is just me. I can definitely see myself coming back here again.

Doing the digital nomad thing for three weeks. As in the USA good wifi, atmosphere and good coffee are hit and miss in Prague. Monolok is a hit for all three. And breakfast!

The kava and food are quality with good service. Menus available in English. Nice atmosphere. Lovely patio seating and a small room in the basement provides a nice quiet work area.

Nice place for breakfast and coffee, though the place did have a decent looking burger on the menu. Coffee was great.

a bit posh-​looking interior, not very pleasant. One rude waitress.
Menu is average, prices higher than average :(

Being a student from New York City, I was looking for a quiet place to get some quality coffee and studying done. There seem to be small cafes with tattoo-​laden baristas around every corner in Manhattan, but I was struggling to find a place with a similar ambience in Prague.
This, however, is the spot. Monolok has since made English menus, and the waiters are delightfully helpful. I ordered a café latte and a cheese omelette, and they let me hammer out an essay without bothering me at all. The prices are fair, the meal delicious, and the coffee just like home. I’ll be coming back here often.
It seems they’re going for an American vibe too; the first two songs playing in the background were Chuck Berry’s «Johnny B Goode» and Presley’s «Hound Dog.» Adorable.

Dieses Café ist absolut empfehlenswert! Das Personal ist super nett & der Kaffee eins A. Auch das Frühstück und die Snacks sind lecker. Das Monolok ist sehr modern eingerichtet und die Atmosphäre entspannt.

Awesome café for whatever the occasion is; breakfast or lunch or drinks or a coffee. The soft boiled eggs were delicious! A lot of space to get away for some studying or for bigger groups. They have an English menu and staff is super nice. Also very comfortable seating! It’s a great find!

Such a small English breakfast… Cappuccino was delicious! Interior bright and optimistic– loved the surface of wooden tables.

Another quality artisan café in Vinohrandy. This place also has some of the most comfortable chairs of the cafés I visited in Prague. The coffee is much better than most places. I had a good light roast filter coffee. Go for coffee, meeting friends, or getting some work done. I mean it is a freaking café.

Lovely café!

Awesome breakfast/​lunch café in Prague!!! As an American tourist, I loved coming here on a Saturday around 1pm and still being able to devour well-​made eggs and pancakes.
Espresso is high quality and excellent café-​style presentation for all dishes. Free wifi, good service, cozy but spacious atmosphere. Can’t ask more from a café!

I LOVE THIS PLACE! I live in the neighborhood and this place is my to-​go spot. It’s located on the one of the prettiest streets of Vinohrady, Praha 2. The décor is super trendy and beautiful.
Unlike other Prague coffee shops, someone will greet you right when you walk in. They have a huge couch downstairs and a little garden outside. The last time I was here, a blind man was playing the piano. It was so amazing!
Unfortunately, they don’t have an english menu but the waitress helped us translate. I ordered a Café Latte and a chicken sandwich. My Café latte was great! but I’m not a big fan of blue cheese and this sandwich had a ton of blue cheese. Only if they had an english menu, I would’ve known.
Overall, this place is wonderful! I love coming out here even for a glass of wine and love feeling fancy while listening the piano. ;)

Sunday morning. Hungry. Need a new place to meet. Monolok it is.
And what a surprise! A hint of Greek chic outside, Danish simplicity inside — wood, leather — a touch of New York post modernism carved with trails of silver meandering happily on the walls, with a splash of Parisian panache from fine young ladies, all combine to provide a novel, laid back, cultured and happy experience.
And the breakfast, prosecco and coffee? That’s the secret you better try for yourself!

I just needed to update my review to share this — yesterday when I was ordering, I THOUGHT i ordered the omelet. When the waitress came with scrambled eggs, I said it was wrong and without a hesitation the waitress said, okay I’ll bring this back and get you the omelet. As soon as she walked away everyone at my table looked at me and were like «you definitely ordered the scrambled eggs» — so I immediately ran and told her that I would take it.
Still, I’ve had so many bad experiences when waiters/​waitresses have messed up my order, that I was truly shocked at how nicely and easily they were going to change my order even though it was my fault. Rarely do I see this «customer is always right» mentality in Prague and it’s just one of the many reasons why Monolok customers are so loyal and keep returning — like me.
Actually I should stop writing about how great they are so they don’t get too crowded with new customers: P

Monolok won me over the minute I stepped in. What can I say, nice interiors are my weak spot. This one is bright and clean, with pretty bookcases that add some cosiness to it.
I tried the cheddar omelette for breakfast and it was fluffy, delicious and quite big — in other words everything you want your morning omelette to be. I also had their fresh mint tea with honey, served in a glass teapot, which was really nice as well.
I thought it would be a nice place to do some work and therefore I was pleased to see a lot of people sitting alone and typing on their laptops for hours without anyone asking them to order something else or leave. They will be seeing more of me in the future, I am sure of that.