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  • A beautiful disappointment

This is a very popular restaurant in a beautiful old building in a cosy backstreet of the city center. Lots of care have been taken to make it beautiful on the inside, too. The tables have lights in them and are painted as if they were made from wood, which gives quite a special effect; and the ceiling is home to many hundred small twinkling stars. The staff is friendly, though very busy most of the time. Reserving a table is a good idea, especially in the evening. The menu contains a lot of different dishes and drinks, and though the place is a little expensive for Czech standards, the prizes are okay. The food is a different story. Being vegan, I had a rather limited choice. Many dishes could easily be served in a vegan version - sometimes it would just be a matter of using coconut milk or soy cream instead of dairy, and the taste would not be in any way offending to a non-vegan palate. For example, there was a potatoe gratin which was being served as a possible side dish, and the vegan alternative was plain rice. Anyway, the vegan choices were a bit on the boring side - more what you would expect in a café that offers a little food than in a real restaurant with a certain culinary ambition. There are in total three vegan main dishes - raw spaghetti from cucumber, Thai curry and grilled vegetable kebabs. Well, the place does not claim to be pure vegan, so maybe that is just the way it is! I decided to combine some starters, as none of the main dishes aroused my interest. I had a lentil soup, which was okay. Then I had hummus, which was mediocre; hummus requires a really good food processor to attain the perfect level of smoothness, the bread was the typical bread you buy in any Arabic supermarket for some cents. I had guacamole, which was, again, okay but not great and which came with Nachos, same Nachos as you buy in a supermarket in a bag. I had Kim Chi which was just plain boring. All three dishes can be great in themselves, but here they tasted as if they were supposed to accompany something really great which unfortunately failed to show up. Our friend had a grilled goat cheese and she was happy. Good. One of us had a raw "cheesecake" as a dessert, and it was not very good, with a strawberry sauce that tasted a little prefabricated (of course! strawberries don't grow in late september). All in all, though we arrived in high spirits and with a thoroughly benevolent attitude, we were rather disappointed once we left. Not recommendable for vegans


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