Chef’s Table

Eska is also a bakery!

Open kitchen, greeting you right when you enter the restaurant

Bread and Butter

Burnt potato in ash with potato espuma

Fermented red wheat with sous-vide egg and button mushrooms

Zemlovka: Bread pudding with apples in an espuma of vanilla and rum

Smoked beef tartar, shallot, mustard, grilled bread, from lunch two days later

At my team’s meetup in Prague this month we went on a four-hour food tour, organized by Taste of Prague. Jan, our guide, was great, taking us from blue-collar, traditional Czech food, to the Vietnamese influence, to Czech wine, and finally to a higher-end place that combines old Czech cuisine with the new.

Eska, the final restaurant we went to, was outstanding. From the design, to the way the kitchen is set up, to the food presentation, it left a lasting impression. An impression so good that we came back for lunch a couple of days later. This post should probably be titled “Eska” since all pictures are from that stop, but they are just the most shareable.

If you’re ever in Prague, make sure to get in touch with Jan and Taste of Prague, and let them take you beyond the tourist traps around Charles Bridge.