Pivovarský klub

great beers, nice atmosphere, fantastic beers not too expensive! love it!
Furthermore their food is good, if you like czech food and I came to notice thats not for everybody s taste…
Last but not least I liked the service of the pub… They laugh a lot!

They had me at beer & sauerkraut soup, and then there’s the bacon dumplings! This fantastic quiet beer bar & restaurant is a bit off the beaten path in Praha but totally worth seeking out for the 6 Czech drafts and hundreds of additional bottled beers, plus fine traditional food. No wifi but accepts credit.
No, you won’t get Pilsner Urquell on tap at Pivovarsky klub. Much better, you will find a friendly English-​speaking staff, a totally smoke-​free room, and fresh 0.3l drafts of local beers for about 40 Korunas (about us$ 1.75). Yes all you students, you’re drunk for less than ten bucks. But instead of getting sloppy, treat yourself to a full meal of that wonderful soup plus something traditional like goulash over those dumplings, all for about $ 12. Same menu at lunch at about half the price!
If you choose one of the high tables upstairs in the bottle room, admire the hundreds of glasses and matching beer bottles arranged around the walls. Sure I’ve collected a few beer glasses in my time, but this place exposed me for the rank amateur that I am lol.

This place is awesome! Good beers, great food, great service. Also, this is one of the only smoke-​free restaurants/​pubs we ran across in Prague which was really, really nice. The staff spoke English very well and they joked around with us foreigners quite a bit.
Don’t miss this place — it’s great!

This place clearly focuses on the point of having a variety of beer. Thats its strength and it definitely has plenty of the variety.
We were a group and had to wait 1.5 hours for our next bus and needed some food and drinks. Saw this place as a suggestion and just dove in. Staff was very friendly and immediately provided us with their beer on tap. And took our orders for food.
Food was good, can’t complain as we didnt go with the highest of expectations. As I have only been there once I felt the food hit the spot as we were thirsty and slightly hungover from the day before. Nothing tasted bad. However, I can imagine you can find a place that can probably prepare the dishes better.
Beer on tap was delicious and tasted good. However, for so much beer in the house, I was surprised that they only had a few beers on tap. And the beers on tap were not a variety of pils/​lager but ales and specific tastes. If we were back in Prague and near the bus station again, I’d definitely give this place another try to see if its good.
What I would recommend is if you are in the area with a group, this place will do you just fine. They have good beer and food poses no threat or problem. However, this would not be the place where you remain all night long. Its a great start off point!

A much nicer version of the Pivovarsky Dum out in Prague 2. A great assortment of unusual beers on tap, often very small breweries (I once had a corn-​based beer that I still think about to this day), as well as a huge collection of bottled beers from all around the country (I have never seen Litovel anywhere else in Prague.) The food is standard classic Czech fare, with mixed success — sometimes top rate (the pork knee is so good that Anthony Bourdain came back here a second time when he was shooting his Prague «No Reservations» episode), sometimes harkening back to the old days of Czech restaurants (like a svickova na smetane that was like eating boot leather, but in a lovely root vegetable, allspice, cream sauce). The service is friendly enough without being too attentive — which is fine for this place. For me, it’s about the beer, and the possibility of discovery each time I come in here. This is the perfect place to pop into on some afternoon, with a fellow beer fan, to try out three or four things you may never have heard of. The food — well, there are better places not far from here, but if I had to eat here I could and it would probably be fine. Probably. Basically, one and a half stars for the food, two and a half stars for the beer, half a star for the knowledgeable and not in-​your-​face staff, and minus half a star for being non-​smoking.

I had made a reservation here for dinner specifically in the upstairs room. We arrived on time, but were ignored by the lone waiter manning the busy room as he chatted idly with a customer, never once caring that other customers were waiting. When we did finally get his attention and told him we had a reservation, he told us, «Downstairs.»
Downstairs I hadn’t even managed to tell the waitress that we had a reservation when she shook her head at us. When I did tell her that we had a reservation, she know of it and said, «Upstairs.»
Back upstairs we told the apathetic waiter, but he literally shrugged, said, «There’s no space» and turned his back on us.
We walked out. This was the worst service I’ve experienced in a long time. The service was so bad in fact, it was almost funny. But there’s no way I would ever give this place my business.

Great vibe and very laid back. Service was excellent and bartender kept beers coming. We had smoked ostrich and cheese plate and both were outstanding. This place has a great local vibe and not touristy. Only 3 blocks from Hilton and bus station makes it a great meeting place.

Worst service ever. The rudest wait staff I’ve ever encountered in my life. Asked for a table and the wait staff told us no with extreme frustration, sighed loudly and blamed us for standing in the way because were waiting to be served.

Recommended by our friends at Taste of Prague, Pivovarsky Klub has the widest selection of beers that we saw in Prague. There are always five local beers on tap and we tried three of them: a dark lager, an India pale lager and a pilsner. All were great. But as we sat at the bar thinking about what to drink next, we decided we were a bit peckish and consulted their menu. They have a category called Yummies with Beer which is meant to cover bar snacks or appies. In North America, one would expect that category to include thing like onion rings, calamari, nachos, etc. But here, true to their Czech traditions we chose from a selection that included sausage in a spicy sauce and duck breast with pickles. The duck was very good, but the sausage was mouth wateringly outstanding. In fact, I’m salivating as I write this review. A bit of a walk from the more touristy areas, but right next to a metro stop.

I was lucky enough to live directly above the Pivovarský klub this past semester. In fact, this was the very first place I ate after arriving in the Czech Republic!
As others have said, the beer (and the beer selection) here is bar none. I espescially love the rotating beers on tap — the draft beers are labelled 1 — 6 and change every once in a while.
The food is good, but not the best. And, being so close to a major bus station, hotel, and only one stop up from Hlavni on the metro, you can definitely find better Czech fare for cheaper if you’re willing to look for it.
PRO TIP: Eat downstairs if you can — my one consistent experience here is that the staff downstairs are far, far friendly than the staff on the ground level.

Awesome selection of beers and very friendly staff to direct you to the right beer for you! I really liked the interior, beer bottles and glasses lining the wall and tables inside an downstairs for groups or for a couple to sit.

5 stars for their beers that I didn’t drink.
3 stars for the food.
Everyone liked their beers, especially the ones on draft.
Food wise, the only thing that was really good was the schnitzel.
My goulash was just okay. Their dumplings were not that good. Just blobs of bland dough.
However, it is conveniently located to the Hilton New City, so we came here twice.

I know it’s terrible to admit, but I was getting a bit restless with the pilsner urquell everywhere and not much else. This place was a sight for sore eyes and haven for beer lovers. They have the largest selection of the country (or so they say), with a ton of beers and liquers from the Czech Republic, as well as imports from Germany, the UK, and Belgium. Prices for drafts or «domestics» are fair (35 to 45 crowns), while the imports were understandably higher around 155 crowns.
We meant to just get drinks, but the food that kept passing by us looked too tempting. We started with fried broccoli, which was simple but hit the spot. Everyone around us kept ordering the pork in dark beer sauce with spinach crepes, and when the server told us it’s his favorite dish, we had to try it. The meat was tender, and the sauce thankfully not too bitter. My friend ordered the «fried» (aka slightly heated up) cheese, which was a bit too stinky and overpowered with minced garlic for my taste.
It would have been a great experience if not for the server yelling at us on our way out for not tipping. I told him that I was going to leave it in cash, and while I was in the restroom, he berated my friends and told them it was «very bad» behavior. It really bummed us out to realize that he was being fake the whole time when we thought he was a genuinely friendly guy.

My wife and I came here in 2010 after seeing it on Anthony Bourdain’s show. The beers were fantastic, and after 4 years, I still long for the venison goulash and the Grandpa’s franks and beans. I sometimes wonder if it’s worth it to fly from the US, have dinner here, and go home.

Gepfletes Pub mit gutem (wie es wirkte einheimischen) Publikum. Grandiose Bierauswahl. Wir mochten auch den Wein. Alles in allem eine klare Empfehlung für einen enstpannten Abend.

Well I’m a little disappointed because after finding this off the beaten path place while stumbling around in the middle of the night (my first night here and still jet lagged) I Unilocaled it and it didn’t show up much to my surprise. I started to think I was breaking new ground for the Unilocal empire but after checking in here 5 reviews popped up.
So anyway wow what a great spot! Looks like a beer store upon first glance they boast some 240 beers on their website and claim the largest beer list in the country. Mostly bottled only 5 on draft all on display on main level as somebody previously posted. Excellent friendly service we sat in the cavernesque downstairs and had one of my most memorable dining/​drinking experiences ever had in Europe. And it was just lunch. I was sorry I had to limit myself to just 4 beers.
Food — remarkable. My nephew and I both had the beer and sauerkraut soup which had delicious hunks of ham, great flavor. He went for the venison goulash and dumplings which was quite good but what truly blew me away was the ostrich medallions that were cooked absolutely perfect. Served with apples, cranberries and even kiwi along with 3 kinds of potatoes I was beside myself that an unassuming place like this could nail a dish like ostrich. Pic of that will be attached along with the servers favorite Czech beer which like everything else served here was stellar. If and when I make it back to Prague I will make this my first stop.

This place was recommended to us by two American friends who love beer/​ales. It is ideally situated near the main bus station so as soon as we arrived in Prague (bus from Vienna-Prague…Google Student Agency for awesome, cheap bus tickets — no you don’t have to be a student) we came here. It is easy to find, on a main street, and is really cool inside with so many bottles of beer on show. They have IPAs on draft which my boyfriend was happy about. I even tried one as well and quite enjoyed it!
The food though was the best bit for me. Ohhhh. Lovely. It is very similar to what we are used to in Austria but perhaps tastier! I had smoked ham with dumplings and creamed spinach and my boyfriend had venison goulash with potato dumplings (this type of dumpling is amazzzzing and I have never tasted anything similar in Austria)…check out my photos!
The waiter was extremely friendly, trying to help us out with beers and food despite his little knowledge of English. This was our first impression of Czech people and I am happy to report that we had the same lovely experience with all Czech people.

Meine absolute Empfehlung für Prag, es liegt etwas außerhalb der Touristenzone in der Stadtmitte, ist aber noch gut zu Fuß erreichbar und hat IMHO deutlich mehr einheimische Gäste als Touristen. Das Ambiente ist sehr angenehm und wirkt stilecht. Alte Werbetafeln, Poster und viele andere Dekoobjekte unterstützen den positiven Eindruck. Oben hell und offen und unten im Keller sehr urig. War während meinem Pragbesuch auch gleich 2x dort und kann das meiste auf der Karte empfehlen, besonders die speziellen Biernachspeisen sind einen Versuch wert. Biermarmelade, Bierkuchen und Bierkäse, hab ich versuch und fand es gut bis sehr gut. Das einheimische Bier wird auch sehr billig ausgeschenkt, ca. 1,30Euro pro 0,5l, für Prag aber nicht der Schnäppchenpreis. Das ganze Lokal ist ein Nichtraucherzone, was sonst leider nicht selbstverständlich ist in Prag. Das Lokal war beide Male gut besucht, ein Platz ist also nicht immer sicher.

Im Januar war ich in Prag — es war extrem kalt, da fiel einem das Kneipenhopping noch mal leichter als eh schon in dieser wunderschönen Stadt. Der Pivovarský klub hat eine unglaubliche Auswahl an Bieren. Natürlich in erster Linie eine Menge tschechischer Biere, vom Fass und Flaschenbiere, aber auch eine große internationale Palette ist dort vertreten. Insgesamt zeigt die Getränkekarte rund 200 verschiedene Biersorten an.
Es gibt oben wo man reinkommt einen etwas ruhigeren und hellen Bereich, und unten im Keller, den noch gemütlicheren, verrauchten Bereich. Als wir dort waren, waren mehr Tschechen als Touristen dort, die Bedienungen waren schnell und freundlich, und die Stimmung feucht fröhlich.
Zu den Bieren kann man kleinere oder auch größere Appetithäppchen und einige tschechische Spezialitäten bestellen (z.B. Schweineohren zum Knabbern). Das Preis-​Leistungsverhältnis fand ich relativ hoch, dafür, dass Pivovarský klub in Praha 8, in Karlin, liegt und nicht mitten in der Tourizone. Nichtsdestotrotz einen (oder auch zwei oder drei) Besuche wert!

Pivovarský klub is the best place in Prague if you want to try some beers. Its not exactly a unique place, I’ve been to similar establishments in other countries, but given that Czech beer is so good and given the amount of different beers available to try here, this bar definately stands out as a must see for any Prague bound beer lover.
Venue is outside the city, near the main bus station. Because of its location, its unlikely to be found by the Stag groups and tourists.