Casual vegan food restaurant behind the Country Life health food shop, alley off Old Square, just south of Astronomical Clock. Restaurant is buffet style and offers fast food items including greens, salads, juices, hot main dishes, veggie burgers, and desserts. Choose what you want and pay for food by weight. Large space inside with many natural wooden tables for seating, or sit outside in the courtyard. June 2016 reported vegan. Open Mon-Thu 10:30-18:00, Fri 10:30-17:00.
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Melantrichova 15, Praha 1, Prague, Czech Republic
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261 Reviews
First Review by kamikazekid
kiwiknitter
Points +40
Not vegan! - Edit
This restaurant is not all vegan. Some things are and the rest are vegetarian. Unfortunately there is no clear labelling and the staff find it a bother to tell you which is which. We have been there three times now (and their stores many times) and probably won't return. On one trip a food will be vegan and on the next it isn't. It depends on the staff person you talk to. The customer service is consistently horrible. The food is bland but ok. It fills you up. The location is terrific and the restaurant is very attractive with a nice outdoor seating area.
Read morePros: Good location, Right next to their store
Cons: Terrible service , NOT VEGAN, No labelling
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Jnious
Points +30
Not the best but good enough - Edit
We've been staying here for 2 days now in Praha for a trip. Visited twice. You put some foods as much as you want in your plate and then pay for it by its total weight.
Read moreThe food tastes good and the price is moderate. The staff wasn't very friendly though. There's a vegetarian grocery store right next to it.
Pros: moderate price, tasty food, location
Cons: not friendly staff, seems not all vegan
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Georgina
Points +353
Glad we found it! - Edit
I love buffet places and this had a really great selection. The salad bar was extensive and the two hot food buffets were all good and varied too. We ate here twice as it was the best vegan-friendly place we found and the flexibility/quality/value was great. Having vegan desserts as well was a treat! We don't know what they were, though, as the labelling was minimal.
Read moreThe staff were friendly, and told us both days that everything they serve is vegan, and I think explained what some of the items were (but in German and I didn't quite understand). It was a very pleasant place in terms of decor too, with plenty of seating and nice loos.
Pros: Great selection, Good food, Helpful staff
Cons: Not always clear what the food was
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Bunuelos
Points +61
generally good - Edit
Food is decent, not great but pretty good in general, depending what you get. Some of them are just warm, not a place for hot steamy meal. Price is pretty cheap, We got 4 plates of food plus dessert and soup and one non- alcoholic beer, paid just a little bit over 400 czk.
Read more*i am a vegetarian not vegan
Pros: cheap, fast, good food
Cons: no or poor English staff, some foods are not hot
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vegan_ryan
Points +3873
Bad experience - probably non-vegan items - Edit
I had previously left a review here stating what a great restaurant this is.
Read moreI'm deleting it and leaving this bad review, instead.
I will never, ever go back here. My friend and I ate here recently, and we both got EXTREMELY sick afterward. We are certain that there was dairy cheese in the food we ate, and we stopped eating in the middle of lunch and just threw our food away. We tried to ask an employee a question, but her English was not good enough to understand us.
In the end, we left extremely frustrated. We've both been vegan for 10 years, and we were vomiting all day the next day.
I will never, ever go back to this place.
Cons: 'Vegan' food probably isn't
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SagarKShah
Points +397
Really good place for a healthy lunch - Edit
Came here for lunch on a Thursday - our first day in Prague, after stumbling upon it en route to the Old Town Hall Square. You pay by weight, and it costs approximately 30Ck for 100g. There is a large selection of salads (including vegetable proteins like tempeh and buckwheat burgers), and two or three hot dishes (broccoli soup, lentil stew, vegetable curry in coconut sauce, and kidney bean/sweetcorn curry). 90% of the dishes on offer were vegan - but there was one curry which contained milk protein and one sandwich which had organic cheese (and the staff / labelling made this very clear).
Read moreEverything we took was really nice tasting and healthy - though none of the dishes completely blew us away. Staff were really helpful in explaining what various dishes were. Will definitely be back here again whenever we visit the City Centre of Prague.
Pros: Great Value, Healthy Food, Great Location
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micococo
Points +79
Great Tasty Food - That's Afforable - Edit
As a mostly vegan & raw traveling Chocolatier, I found this place to be a great respite from the usual meat & potatoes places around the city.
Read moreThey also have hearty dishes with potatoes. Lol.
But I also found plenty of variety & wholesome nutrition.
Try their juices. I blended beet root with orange & apple.
Delicious !
Happy traveling
Micah Intrator.
www.ChocolateTherapie.weebly.com
Pros: Helpful staff - (english), Good variety, Over 50% organic
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veg.dan
Points +124
good option when in old town. - Edit
Buffet pay by weight establishment with health food and items next door. Food was fresh, tasty, affordable and a good casual lunch option. Lots of options. Nice to find a cake (fruit/tofu) that wasn't super sweet like every other dessert in Europe. Good location from old town sights.
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Titanium
Points +138
Lovely Restaurant - Edit
It is a very nice buffet, with many options. The staff was so kind and the food so good!
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Jeffrey_Monica
Points +77
healthy, fast, veg buffet - Edit
This restaurant is conveniently located and is very fast as it is entirely a buffet. It is also open on Sundays which is good because most of the other veg restaurants are not open.
Read moreThe food was healthy and reasonably tasty. Note that the cost of our plates without desserts nor beverages was almost as much as Maitrea with dessert and beverage.
Pros: good location, fast buffet, no smoking
Cons: somewhat pricey
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behemota
Points +19
Perfect! - Edit
What a magnificent place! We found it thanks to our guidebook and finally ate there 3 great dinners that were cheap, vegetarian, delicious... Great variety of veg dishes, changing menu in the heart of Prague - how cool is that?
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Aya
Points +631
Vegan food! - Edit
I've eaten here twice, as the location is very convenient + the place is spacious, with comfortable seating (so good to rest after all the sightseeing). Unfortunately, the food was nothing exceptional. It wasn't bad or anything, just nothing to write home about.
Read morePros: Spacious, Free water, Very easy to find
Cons: Food could be better, Not very cheap
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Chia
Points +3631
Good for a Quick Meal - Edit
Was here on a past trip to Prague, and here's my Country Life review for happycow.
Read moreThe lighting in the restaurant was rather dim which made the buffet food look less than appetizing. However, it was a popular place and people kept coming in to
get food.
My husband and I got our trays and choose the foods that we wanted to eat. He got a soup in addition to the salad bar items, and I got a dessert in addition to my salad bar and hot food items. There was a hot dish made with tofu and broccoli that was quite delicious.
The food we got were all pretty tasty except for the dessert that was a bit on the dry side (a cake with mousse topping). One of the regular patrons told us that the food was all vegan.
Pros: decent food, central location, affordable
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hokusai77
Points +13599
All vegan with a very good selection of food - Edit
I had lunch here and was very satisfied. They offer an all vegan buffet lunch, with many interesting options, from more basic ones (salads, grains, legumes, millet or buckwheat burgers), to fancier ones (pizza, stuffed vegetables, veggie sausages). Desserts are simple but tasty, as well.
Read morePros: inexpensive, good selection of food, organic food
Cons: can get crowdy
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lovela5
Points +232
Great Vegan Buffet - Edit
This place is 100% vegan. I went there 3 times while I was in Prague for 3 days. I loved their orange juice and the avocado sauce !!! In general the food was good but it was very repetitive. The staff spoke English well so there was no problem communicating.
Read morePros: everything was vegan, close to the city center, friendly staff
Cons: repetetive food, small
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jimmeh
Points +45
A life-saver! - Edit
I was relieved when I found this shop on my first day into a week in Prague. Located down one of the twisty alleys near the Astronomical Clock, it couldn't be in a better location. The first couple of days I got there too late, and when I arrived early on Saturday I realised it's closed all day Saturday :( When I did eventually make it inside, there was a good selection of vegan produce - mainly fruit and veg, soya milks, grains and wholefoods. I had a bad experience in Tesco the previous day where I bought (and ATE!) tofu which mysteriously contained cheese (sýr in Czech), so I asked the assistant if she could check that all my goods were vegan, which she happily did.
Read moreThe next day we came back to try the restaurant through the alley to the left of the main shop. It was super busy at lunchtime (which was great to see), but the vegan buffet was definitely worthwhile. It's a pay per weight place, so just fill up and enjoy!
If you had to choose one veggie/vegan place to find in Prague, it would have to be this one.
Pros: Location, Range of vegan good, Helpful staff
Cons: Closed Saturdays, Restaurant busy at lumchtimes
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kim_denver
Points +65
Inexpensive all vegan - Edit
I really enjoyed all the options on the buffet. A comparable vegan meal where I live (Denver) would have cost significantly more. But this was pretty affordable, especially in Prague, which was an expensive city. I liked all the choices and appreciated its location. It was easy to find and near the action. Don't bother with the desserts though. I got them on two different ocassions and both were pretty bad -- weird texture and not a good taste. But the other options were good. Because it's a buffet, the food wasn't particularly hot -- tasty but not hot. Many of the items had English so you knew what you were eating. But most didn't and the staff didn't speak English. Then again, you're in a foreign country and it's all vegan, so who cares if they speak English?
Read morePros: Inexpensive, many choices, good location
Cons: bad desserts, lukewarm food, not much English
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juliotnunes
Points +744
Country Life - Edit
Very good. Hard to find a table, small dinning area.
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·X·
Points +25197
Bland food... - Edit
The food here was not good and was very bland. There was one thing I got that was decent and had some flavor (they called it soy meat, but it looked like orange mush), and it's certainly not worth going there for. At the end of the buffet line there were some vegan cakes and pies, I asked the employee if they were good and if he recommended them. He spoke very highly of the raspberry cheesecake so I got it. Bad choice because it was disgusting - there was no flavor to the cheese cake part and the raspberries were covered in some tasteless plasticy gelatin-like substance, it was just horrible.
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johanandren
Points +326
All vegan buffet - Edit
Visited end of september 2010. Nice buffet with lots of choices. We also entered the restuarant at a saturday when it was closed and the staff was very helpful and told us about another vegetarian restaurant nearby.
Read morePros: good value, friendly staff
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Edz
Points +68
Great Buffet - Edit
So good we ate here twice within 3 days. Good selection on the buffet, standard salad items and nice "hot" selection which varies daily. The sandwiches were delicious and generously filled but can sell out.
Read moreGreat central location, the streets were extremely busy in August but the restaurant is in a quiet courtyard away from the hustle.
Charged by weight. The food was very cheap but the drinks were a little more costly. Water cooler is free to use on the other side of the till.
Pros: central location, cheap
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jenniseattle
Points +20
Gross - Edit
The food was very bland, even the "hot" food was cold or barely warm, and was just generally not good food. We had two vegans, one vegetarian, and one meat eater. All four of us thought it was pretty gross. The health food store attached is decent though - save yourself the trouble and just get snacks from the store.
Read morePros: all vegan
Cons: food is not good, expensive
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kveg10
Points +73
Vegan escape in the heart of Prague - Edit
Excellent place for a wide variety of vegan fare from the buffet-style restaurant.
Read morePros: excellent, fresh food, smoke-free, good value
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Powerbex
Points +196
Value for money - Edit
I always get excited when everything is vegan, especially when you get to pile onto your plate as much as you want!! The selection was great, from salads, soups, faux meats, pizza, Burgers, warm dishes and desserts. The pumkin soup was delicious and I also enjoyed the pizza(with soy cheese) and the tofu salad. I got a tofu burger to take away for the journey home, which was great, and also a yummy apple strudel slice. Atmosphere is a bit like a cafateria but all vegan :) great for a cheap,hearty,healthy lunch! Place was full at lunch time.
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klingsor
Points +84
Excellent food, surprising amount of selections - Edit
This place has something for everyone. Lots of pseudo-meat options, a very decent salad bar, a soup or two, plenty of desserts, take-away sandwiches. Every time I come here, I wish I were hungrier so that I could try everything they have available. They also seem to change up their menu daily, so there is always something new to try. Also the attached store has packaged food, some produce, bulk bins, fresh baked breads, and a good assortment of tofu, seitan and cheese in their refrigerated section. Which is all to say that the store is just as good as the restaurant.
Read morePros: Wide and changing variety., Delicious., Spacious and comfortable
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Fanny
Points +53
Great - Edit
Food by weight is a great concept. We hadn't eaten properly for a few days so the price was a bit high but that wasn't really their fault. Everything was vegan, from the tzatsiki to the creamy pizza. A huge cold buffet as well as a warm one, you could have eaten from it for days and not become bored. They change every day though, so we took a little of everything. Also has desserts, but we were so full we couldn't have that even though the ice cream looked great.
Read morePros: buckwheat meat, self serving, great taste
Cons: bland
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sarahwade
Points +72
100% Vegan - Edit
This place is amazing - huge cold salad buffet bar followed by hot buffet bar, cakes, drinks etc. Fill your plate and pay by weight! We were amazed to find that everything was vegan because a lot of it looked like it contained dairy. We didn't try any of the desserts because we over did it on the plates but they looked good.
Read morePros: quick and reasonably priced, central location, lovely decor - wooden tables!
Cons: sometimes there's a bit of a line
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