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Country Life -Melantrichova 
 based on 25 member reviews
Melantrichova 15, Praha 1, Czechia, Prague
+420-224-213366
Type: Vegan, Organic, Fast food, Juice bar, Take-out
Info: Causal veggie food restaurant behind the Country Life health food shop. Restaurant is buffet style set up and offers fast food items including greens and 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. Open Mon-Thur 8:30am-7pm, Fri 8:30am-6pm, Sun 11am-6pm, closed Saturday. Accepts credit cards. Price: Inexpensive.
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| "Excellent food, surprising amount of selections"
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My Rating |
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4 |
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Posted on: Monday, October 19, 2009 |
Review: 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.
Pros: Wide and changing variety. * Delicious. * Spacious and comfortable
Cons: * * |
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| "Great place to eat"
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My Rating |
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2 |
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Posted on: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 |
Review: Menu changes daily. Everything is vegan, mostly everything is delicious. I like the cafeteria style self service with ingredient cards in english and czech. Some people complained that it is expensive. I believe they charge 29 CZK per 100g. This is cheaper than a number of other restaurants in Praha, and this is the ONLY 100% vegan restaurant in Praha.
While the other vegetarian friendly restaurants are good, they can't rival the vegan selection here. I don't know any other restaurant in the world where you can honestly get a 4 course vegan meal of this variety for under $20 USD.
Pros: large selection * reasonable price * tasty
Cons: cash only * * |
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• Hi smug vegan, I agree with you on the price issue. While $20 sounds like a lot, there are plenty of vegan restaurants that charge over $10 for a burger by itself.. response by Jeffrey
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| "Great"
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My Rating |
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5 |
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Posted on: Thursday, September 10, 2009 |
Review: 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.
Pros: buckwheat meat * self serving * great taste
Cons: bland * * |
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| "100% Vegan"
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My Rating |
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9 |
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Posted on: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 |
Review: 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.
Pros: quick and reasonably priced * central location * lovely decor - wooden tables!
Cons: sometimes there's a bit of a line * * |
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| "Average"
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My Rating |
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15 |
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Posted on: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 |
Review: I had a good memory of this place but it turned out tobe just average luch place
Pros: * *
Cons: * * |
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| "Did not to it for me!"
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2 |
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Posted on: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 |
Review: *Good that you pick you food youself.
*Super good that everyting is vegan but...
*The food was quite bland.
*The price has gone up alot!
*Not high value any more.
Would have loved to give this place a higher rating but can't.
Pros: * *
Cons: * * |
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| "Great food, great place!"
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My Rating |
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5 |
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Posted on: Friday, July 17, 2009 |
Review: The food here is really great! You can take whatever you want and then weigh your plate. The staff is very friendly and helpful. Try the fruit salad for the dessert, is amazing!
Pros: Food * Staff * Location
Cons: Lack of information in English * * |
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| "No-frills sticks-to-your-ribs, not fine dining"
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2 |
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Posted on: Friday, July 03, 2009 |
Review: Country Life deserves a lot of kudos for serving up vegie food since the days when "salad" in the Czech Rep. basically meant "cabbage" and raw vegetables seemed to have been outlawed* ... and their salad bar is great if you need a raw veg. hit with trimmings like sprouts, seeds, etc. That said, most of the hot food is pretty much variations on a theme - where unfortunately the theme is "slop on a plate". There's almost always some version of quasi-baked potatoes, a soup, a dish with pulses, one with "fake meat" stuff, one (or more) vegetable dish(es), etc. If you were blindfolded, the texture would be the only giveaway as to which of the above you were eating, as the flavours tend to be pretty much uniform. Czechs, unlike their Hungarian neighbours, are not even remotely into spicey food, and nowhere in Prague does this become more obvious than at CL.
As everyone else has said, it's self-service, not very expensive, and it's very central. When you can't handle another restaurant in Prague with smoke so thick you could cut it with a knife, and the perennial "vegetarian" dish that comes with ham or bacon (!), then CL can come in handy. The ambiance is possilby best described as "high school cafeteria meets Czech 1980s hippy". They also have quite an extensive social programme, helping many less fortunate members of Czech society.
Summary: If you're after "haute gastronomy", this is really not the place to head to.
*Note: this is actually closer to the truth than I intended - CL is ... Mormon? 7th Day Adventist? can't remember, sorry ... so in fact their emergence, unsurprisingly, occurred after the end of communism.
Pros: non-smoking * free water * not a piece of ham or bacon in sight!
Cons: bland, bland, bland * Ambiance of a rented caravan :( * |
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| "100% Vegan!!!"
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Posted on: Sunday, May 17, 2009 |
Review: I was surprised this wasn't listed with the Vegan marker when they told me it everything was vegan. I read many of the reviews below so I'm assuming that is the case. First off, price is so low!!! Its part of a grocery store and I guess they don't mark up the produce??? We had two full plates and a soup for 12$. The food is great, exactly what the doctor ordered, low fat, vegan, tons of grains, hot and cold dishes and nice healthier desserts. If I lived in Prague I'd probably eat here every day!!! Plenty of indoor seating and outdoor seating as well right near the Astronomical Clock in Old Town, perfect place for lunch during your sight seeing! Doesn't get better than this!!!
Pros: 100% Vegan * Healthy!!! * Low Fat!!!
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| "Wholesome meal"
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9 |
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Posted on: Saturday, April 25, 2009 |
Review: Since the last time I visited Prague 3 years ago, Country Life has not changed and is still very good. There are many options in buffet style and the food is well-priced. It is popular, so often sharing a table, which is good for people watching and socializing, but the busy-ness can be a bit distracting from a calm meal.
Pros: value * options *
Cons: buffet * busy * |
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| "Yummy"
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17 |
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Posted on: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 |
Review: This place is great for a healthy & tasty lunch. It is very reasonably priced and as said before you pay by food by weight which means you can have as little or much as you want. There is a big salad bar & a selection of hot food too.
Pros: good food * no smoking *
Cons: * * |
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| "Fantastic Vegan Desserts"
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21 |
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Posted on: Monday, January 19, 2009 |
Review: Everything is completely vegan in this restaurant. They serve cheap, hearty, traditional-ish Czech food.
The desserts were so great. It is true that many taste "healthy" (for lack of a better term) but their creamy, custardy and fruit desserts are simply delicious.
There is also a great little health food store next door which sells some vegan baked goods as well as soy yogurt, fruits, vegetables, etc.
Pros: All vegan * Great desserts * Hearty and cheap
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| "Great vegan food"
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Posted on: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 |
Review: Went here on a busy lunchtime but lots of seating so no problem. Amazing array of food (I was told it was all vegan), burgers, salads, hot dishes and fantastic desserts... the vegan 'cream' horn was to die for. My partner claimed his food was tasteless (a Pumpkin/Quinoa bake) but I think this was a one off as everything I had was wonderful.
Pros: Fantastic choice for vegans * Great vegan desserts *
Cons: Tasteless Pumpkin bake!! * * |
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| "Great food!"
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Posted on: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 |
Review: A healthy vegetarian buffet with many vegan options! What more can we ask for? Very reasonably priced. Offers a wide variety of salad bar, hot dishes and some pre-made burgers and sandwiches. The soup was excellent. There was a wide variety of desserts as well which we couldn't eat at that time as we were already full and hence did a take away. Everything was awesome and very healthy. A great place to go again n again if I had lived in Prague.
Pros: Reasonable price * great food & variety * Excellent location
Cons: Too crowded during lunch time * * |
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| "Country Life"
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Posted on: Monday, August 18, 2008 |
Review: Very enjoyable and very reasonably priced. Would eat there again.
Pros: Good value * Good range of food *
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| "great place"
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5 |
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Posted on: Saturday, July 12, 2008 |
Review: it s really a pleasure to eat in this place, great food , nice and quiet court yard, good choice of salad and main dishes and herbe / green tea. pure vegetarian, tasty stew . I eat there almost every day when I was in Prague. too bad sunday its closed. in the shop next door you can get some no sugar cookies. not so much english speaking but since its buffet so its not really a problem.
Pros: good hot dishes * nice court yard * buffet quick
Cons: * * |
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| "Best Deal in Prague!"
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Posted on: Friday, July 11, 2008 |
Review: In a city of overpriced, meat-laden food, what a fabulous find. Bargain prices and super variety of all vegan food. It was great. Desserts were not impressive and the guy next to us said the vegan ice cream was really bad, so skip that. But all the "loaf" food we had and all the veggie dishes were sooo good.
Pros: great prices * *
Cons: closed on Saturday, ?? * * |
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Posted on: Friday, July 04, 2008 |
Review: what's better than a healthy vegetarian buffet, nothing that's what, and Country Life was certainly a delicious vegetarian buffet. they offered quite a few options for raw salad bar, hot dishes, and pre-made sandwiches. the veggie patty and curry (i think it was curry) vegetables stood out for me - very tasty. everything was really good and very healthy. oh they also had an extremely interesting version of a coconut date for dessert, i loved it. they had other more exciting looking desserts but i didn't try them. i would eat here every day if i lived in prague :)
Pros: healthy * great variety * delicious!
Cons: * * |
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| "Brilliant Food"
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Posted on: Sunday, June 15, 2008 |
Review: Tried this restaurant in February 2008 with my wife, absolutley fantastic food, brilliant prices, friendly service. Top Place.
Pros: Food * Service * Price
Cons: Portions * * |
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| "I love this place!"
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38 |
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Posted on: Thursday, June 05, 2008 |
Review: If i happen to go to Prague i always end up at the country life restaurant after i bought some cheap smoked tofu at the Tesco some streets away and cheap tofuspread at the wholefood store in front. Actually i can't remember how often i went there but nearly 10 times i guess. you get food by weight with lots of choices. i love to create my own dishes and to try everything. the place is packed during lunch and the deserts always gave me the rest. Mindblowing!
Pros: central * cheap buffet * fast
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| "Eclectic, nice, not too vegan-friendly"
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Posted on: Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
Review: This buffet-style place has a nice bio-organic air, and is right in the centre of town. The food is good, especially some of the burgers, but it's hard to figure out what's vegan and what not, and the lack of English speakers in the staff is clearly felt.
Prices are reasonable, but buffet is never too much fun.
This place can be good a a light lunch in a day of touring the old town.
Pros: good location * some good food *
Cons: buffet * no marks for vegan food * |
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• Many of the other reviews seem to be saying that this place is either vegan or largely vegan yet this review says otherwise. Was this person confused? Can anyone explain?. response by Caryne
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| "Best vegan food in the city"
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Posted on: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
Review: Living in Prague I eat at Country Life about 3 or 4 times a week, and it is completely worth the 25 minute commute from my home. The food is always delicious, with a very wide selection with never a day the same in all the time I have gone. There is plenty of fake meat, along with hot vegetables, daily soups, and lots of grains. The couscous burgers are something everyone, especially picky omnis, should try (they've been dyed with beet to look authentic)! Yummy, and inexpensive for foreigners (Czechs may disagree!).
Pros: excellent food * non-smoking * vegan
Cons: Not a lot of non-soy food * * |
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| "long time gem"
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Posted on: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 |
Review: ive been to this resaurant several times several years apart. it is a true gem in this city, its exciting to go... not as cheap as the rest of the city but still good. almost everything is really good, but a few things dry sitting out on the buffet heaters. definatly go here, grab a plate, load it up, cause in prauge there is nothing else like it... if your into this place check out at least the one other restaurant location in london (if its still there?)... there may be others too, for some reason its sort of a chain restaurant but they are linked together very poorly
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| "Super stodge"
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Posted on: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 |
Review: If it's cold and you want some warming stodge then Country Life is your best bet. Also have a good salad bar and some good soups as well as pre-made sandwiches if you need something in a hurry. It's not terrible but it's not the best and the staff we encountered were fairly lax.
Pros: Pretty cheap * Warming and filling *
Cons: A bit hit and miss in terms of quality * Staff attitude * |
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| "Good for a Quick Meal"
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Posted on: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 |
Review: Was here in September 2007. The 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 foods 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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