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Holiday tips
Written by: Anita Lišková
Photo: Archiv
The holidays are coming, and the
season demands a feast. We've selected a few of the numerous restaurants
in the city that are offering special menus for Christmas, or those
providing especially festive catering and carry-out.
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Traiteur
The catering company Le Traiteur's Christmas menu
offers traditional French specialties such as foie
gras, Christmas cookies, and stuffed turkey, and
between Christmas and New Year's Eve various types
of appetizers, quiche, and light salads. The complete
menu will be available in mid-December, and the
restaurant recommends placing your orders as soon
as possible. Free delivery of orders over CZK 1,000
throughout the holiday season.
tel.: 724 077 274 · fax: 222 523 577 · traiteur@sendme.cz |
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Bakeshop Praha
Dress up your Christmas table with sweets from the oven
- gingerbread men or snow-women. If you want a taste of
something new over the holidays, order a French Christmas
roll with snow mushrooms, or a real, imported Italian Christmas
fruitcake with candied fruits. Christmas cookies for eight
crowns apiece, and cakes for CZK 425 and up.
Kozí 1, Praha 1 · tel.: 222 316 823 · www.bakeshop.cz
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Francouzská restaurace
v Obecním domě
On Christmas Eve a caviar and snail brunch (CZK
995) starts at 11:30 am, and in the evening there
will be a five-course menu starting at CZK 1,650.
On New Year's Eve you can enjoy a creamy soufflé
with spruce mushrooms or smoked Alaskan salmon.
The holiday menu also features a traditional "Take
Away" offer of Christmas cookies. Orders can
be placed until 20 December.
Nám. Republiky 5, Praha 1 · tel.: 222 002 784
· www.frenchrest.obecnidum.cz
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Nostress Café Gallery
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Photo: Dorothea Bylica
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Want to enjoy something unusual at Christmas, but you
don't want to do any baking? If you're planning on organizing
a Christmas party for your friends or colleagues at the
Nostress Café, you can create your own menu at a price
of your choice - let your imagination run wild. Until 6
December you can order Christmas cakes for 4 to 12 people
made by the Belgian firm Debailleul. The folks at Nostress
are also looking forward to your visit on New Year's Eve,
when a special menu created just for this occasion will
be offered.
Dušní 10, Praha 1 · tel.: 222 317 004 · www.nostress.cz
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Pálffy Palác
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If you still haven't decided where to ring in the new
year, consider Pálffy Palác. For CZK 2,600 you can enjoy
roasted quails or mousse from young roaster, and sweeten
the arrival of 2004 with home-made chocolate bon-bons.
Vegetarians can look forward to a special offer at the
same price, including such treats as endives filled with
mushroom risotto. Make a reservation for the special menu
promptly.
Valdštejnská 14, Praha 1 · tel.: 257 530 522 · www.palffy.cz
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Paneria
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Photo: Tomáš Kubeš
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For yuletide, the Paneria bakery has prepared cookies
following the classic recipes of our grandmothers. 300
grams of mixed cookies, which you can buy for CZK 160,
includes walnut hearts, vanilla crescents, and almond stars.
You can have them delivered to your home for a delivery
charge of CZK 99 in Prague 1, while residents of Brno,
Cheb, Kladno, Znojmo, and other Prague districts will pay
CZK 159.
tel.: 235 366 428 · www.paneria.cz
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La Perle de Prague
This restaurant will be closed for Christmas (on 24, 25,
and 26 December), but you can celebrate the New Year there.
The tasting menu that has been prepared, with eight courses,
includes a welcome drink and a midnight taste of Champagne
on the eighth floor terrace of the Fred and Ginger building,
with a lovely view of night-time Prague. New Year's eve
prices start at CZK 4,900 per person.
Tančící dům, Rašínovo nábřeží 80, Praha 2 · tel.: 221
984 160 · www.laperle.cz
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