café Louvre - Prague - Restaurants, Cafes & Food Reviews

I have just come back from Prague, and one of the places that I loved was was Café Louvre. Café Louvre is one of the classic old french-type cafe's which has been one of the central places for political and philosophical discussion founded in 1902. These cafes were the hot houses for radical thinking and community development. In 1948, the Louvre - as a "bourgeois" institution - was forcibly closed as the communists took hold in Prague.In many ways these types of cafe quite literally changed the world in its political, philosophical and scientific thinking. This cafe was involved in all the revolutions in central europe, including the last one with the collapse in the USSR. It is directly below this cafe, that the student got shot which led to mass protest and independence in 1989.
In the past the cafe hosted discussions with Franz Kafta, Karel Capek, Albert Einstein, and a lot of the existentialist philosophers.

Fantastic!! The cafe is still almost in its original form, billiard rooms, discussion groups etc. I love it!

Café Louvre is open from 8am every day; with morning newspapers and a broad selection of breakfast dishes, coffee and other beverages.

At lunchtime and on through to the evening, hot food and salads are presented with style.
Vegetarians and those who prefer lighter foods are particularly well catered for, as are lovers of cakes and pastries.

As in most places in Prague, you are never far from a beer tap though and the local Czech brew on sale at Café Louvre is as good as you will find anywhere.

Next door to the café area is a fine billiard room, with 5 pool tables. Payment is by the hour for a table.

A fabulous Art Nouveau interior, with huge original chandeliers, buzzes with the noise of local coffee talk, the shopping crowd, business lunches, and students.

I recommend everyone to go there, you'll get great food, cheap price, atmosphere is great and the service is very pleasant and quick!