5 Best Czech Pastries to Try in Prague 

Sadly, Sykora's changed hands several years ago and it is not the same. They still sell kolaches but aren't the great ones I remember from my childhood growing up down the street!

I'm definitely going to try it on my next visit to Czech. Very soon

I've been to that museum! From the QC area and it was a nice experience.

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A this is good to know. Going to Prague coming weekend and looking forward to tasting bobovka. I am indonesian myself so very curious to the taste as after reading your comment.

iam czech and i dont think theyr imitation, theyr just americanized its like that with lots of food in lot of countries

In the Czech part of Texas we call them klobasnek and it pisses us off to no end when people continue to call them kolaches. The real kolaches are fruit, nut, cheese, or cabbage. The klobasnek (pig in a blanket) was invented in West TX. So it is a Texas original not be confused with kolache.

@@slickwillie97 You are 100% right. It drives me nuts too. Bohemians settled other places than Texas and we stayed true to what a kolache is. Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and Chicago all had large amounts of Czech immigrants.

@@MrMajsterixx You just don't know the Americans, they srew up every meal, spoil the name or give it another one and even brazenly claim that it is theirs tradition. One Yankee even sells "Texas koláče" in Prague. It's like a Czech selling Czech sushi in Tokyo. Usually they screw up the recipes, bcs they don't know how to combine food properly, and pretend they invented something new.

Yes, she comes across that way in a number of her videos. The girl enjoys her Pilsner a bit too much.

Trdelník is a Hungarian cake from Transylvania, called 'horn cake' (kürtőskalács).

ok, yes, fresh they are not bad, but is it traditional? Is it overpriced? Are they made in the countryside villages, or only in Prague?

@@rogerflorida1498 Who cares? They are tasty and a great snack before a night out...

@@rogerflorida1498 Maybe not original czech or with old tradition, but for me It is christmas tradition. I had tham for the first time 20 years ago in Lysa nad Labem (Central Bohemia), when we sold gingerbreads on christmas market, and afther that on some castle i dont remember its name i was a little girl. But it is true that at this time Trdelniks werent in Prague yet, its started about 10 or 5 years and i was very surprised that i can see this "market snack" on every corner there. But the best Trdelník what I ever had, I had last summer when I was in Babiččino údolí (Grandmas Valley). So yes the Trdelníks you can see almost everywhere, but for me it stays still such as market thing for special occasions. Something like our Chlebíčky (open sandwiches) are for special celebrations or schnitzel in bread is for travelling.

​@@rogerflorida1498 they are for sure made outside of Prague, they appear on every Christmas market even in my village and there is a trdelnik bakery in a small town near us.. might not be traditional but that doesn't make it nonexistent or eaten only by tourists

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Where the Americans come, there they fuck everything. Experience confirmed a million times over.

I love them but they don't come from Czechia - however větrník at least has some tradition here, unlike trdelník.

@@chanterelle483 But you can get them everywhere... they do not have to come from Czechia to call it home, right?

I'm a fan of Honest Guide, too! Just by chance, I ran into Janek in the Karlova street a couple of months ago! I LOVE Real Prague Guides, of course, and I've learned a lot of Czech and Central European history from their informative videos. Keep up the good work, Vaclev, Valery and Nico! Here's the url to an amateur video I made with photos of my visits to Prague late last year (2021). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_K-aRZV1ySE.html

As a German I thought the same. Only thing missing here is the Golatsche. Although I have to admit that at least the Buchtel and Strudel definitely made there way to Germany from Austria.

Yes the Austrian names are derived from the Czech ones (except strudel, which came into Czech from the Austrian). Other Austrian terms, like Marille or Kren also derive from Czech. In General Austrian Cuisine and Czech cuisine is identical - mainly due to our shared history. In the 19th century bourgeois and upper class Austrian (especially Viennese) households required service staff, and Bohemia had many literate young women who quickly became popular as maids and cooks. They cooked the food they knew, and early Czech language cookbooks from the 1830s became standard and popular in Austria. On the other hand, Knödel, which is typical and emblematic for both Austria and Czechia as well, is etymologically of German origin (tranformed in Czech into knedlík). cultural exchange in Central Europe was/is of course very intense. I'd argue that Czechia and Austria are actually culturally closest to each other, even more so than Czechia and Slovakia or Austria and Germany. Aside from language, the norms of these societies are very similar.

@@ChicaTiquita "Buchtel and Strudel" indeed go come by way of Austrian influence, though ultimately Czech. The 'proper' term in German, at least in Bavaria and the Palatinate were the dishes had already historically spread to is Rohrnudeln.

Krapfen are koblihy and the closed "Golatsche" are šátečky, there are several types of them.

@@tigroussibirak8006 "Golatsche" are the Austrian-German calque (German-Germans call it Kolatsche) of the original Czech pastry Koláč (derived from the radical kol-, meaning wheel or circle). Šátečky indeed use the same dough and fillings as koláče and are called as such because they are "tied" in a similar way one would tie a 'small scarf' - which in Czech is a 'šáteček'. A variant of the šáteček in Vienna like the Topfenkolatsche, was spread to Denmark in the 18th century, where it was called Wienerbröd (Viennese Bread). It then was spread internationally and became known as "Danish Pastry", which I find hilarious, as many bakeries in Prague now sell what they call "Danishes". Krapfen is a specific type of Berliner, that is made by Viennese methods. It is called that way in Czech as well, but most people do not recognize the difference and call all donuts koblihy, except for perhaps the "bavorské vdolky" variant. Kobliha most likely originates from a calque of the Russian word "kovriga", which means "fried bread", which became popular in Czechoslovakia from the Ukrainian-Russian children's story "O Koblížkovi".

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Dobře, omlouváme se. Videa jsou kolektivní práce dvou lidí, z toho Václav je Čech, ale Valerie není. Jenže před kamerou je Valerie a kdo je za kamerou to nikoho nezajímá 😅Pokusíme si na to dát pozor, Valerie se do toho prostě vždycky strašně zažere a zapomene, že má říkat “Czech” místo “our” a já na to pozor nedávám, protože se soustředím na kameru. A pak si to vyžereme v komentářích.

Kamila: I fail to see what is wrong with our lovely presenters use of the word "our". Can you or anyone enlighten me?

Yes, it is sexist but noone gives a sh*t. Political correctivity is gereally seen as insincerity and it's better for you to be seen as sexist/raceist/whatever-ist than politicaly correct. Wellcome to the Czech Republic. ;)

@@Geker3 OK. We here in Hungary also avoid side-talk and political correctness.

We meant to say, that you should not say the Czech version to a Czech girl, because it can come across as rude 😅

​@@RealPragueGuides I am 75 years old, but I still really like Czech girls. Most of them are in good shape, they have humor, Valery has extra humor.

@@RealPragueGuides Lol, I get it! A hot chick is a hot chick. Haha

@@sandor7594 I’m moving to Poznań this September and will check Czech ladies out. Haha

@@sandor7594 Maybe that extra humour was imported from Russia...no, couldn't be...must have been learnt in Prague.

Valery is not claiming she is Czech :). Vaclav the camera guy is Czech, Valery isn't. Have a great day!