Czechoslovak Restaurant

Czechoslovak Restaurant

Czech Restaurant London | Slovak Restaurant London | Czechoslovak Bar in London

A unique and satisfying experience for any visitor wanting to enjoy traditional Czech - Slovak cuisine in London, with the ideal complement of Czech beer.

This club remained here until 1946, but due to the slight inconvenience regarding a ban for serving beer in Holborn, the legionaries bought a new property in 1946, with money that they saved and with the aid of £3,000 from President Beneš.

It is this club that sixty years later still exists for the Czech and Slovak community living and visiting London, and certainly anyone else wishing to experience a small bit of the Czech and Slovakian heritage right here in London.

In 1946, the club saw and suffered the absence of many legionaries who were leaving Great Britain to return to their homeland, after the end of WWII.

A unique and satisfying experience for any visitor wanting to enjoy European cuisine, with the ideal complement of Czech beer.

http://www.czechoslovak-restaurant.co.uk

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#NATtastes : CZECHOSLOVAK RESTAURANT – natinstablog

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The traditional food is “bryndzove halusky” which are potato dumplings with sheep cheese (bryndza) and roasted bacon.

I’d also say that “zemiakove placky” (potato pancakes fried in oil with garlic and flour) could be called as a traditional food.

On the other hand traditional Czech food is probably “svickova”, “utopenec” or “gulas” which basically belongs to traditional Hungarian cuisine .

My favourite choices are: roast pork spiced with black forest, beef goulash and potato pancakes with bacon.

“utopenec” marinated sausage  “zemiakove placky so slaninou” potato pancakes with bacon  “diviak” (1/2 portion) roast pork spiced with black forest “vepro knedlo zelo” (1/2 portion) roast pork with sauerkraut and dumplings beef goulash (1/2 portion) ↓ SCROLL DOWN FOR THE REVIEW ↓ (Source GOOGLE)

Czechoslovak Restaurant in West Hampstead | Tamarind and Thyme

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There were already a few people in the room when we went for lunch: a couple of elderly Czech gentlemen, two elderly German women who were cooing over their food, and a few Japanese tourists (how do they find these gems?!)

I went with the Beef Goulash, beef cooked with onion and spiced with red paprika, marjoram and dumplings (£8.00) while Blai opted for the Czech club pork schnitzel, with garlic, fresh onion, sprinkled with cheddar and topped with Czech club BBQ sauce, garnished with pickled vegetables and potato salad (£9.00).

My goulash was a most comforting thick, mild paprika-rich stew of chunks of extremely tender beef and I wiped every bit of sauce from my plate with the bread dumplings (so different from German bread dumplings!)

The Czech club BBQ sauce was more like a gravy than bottled Heinz to my relief and surprisingly, all those toppings didn’t detract from the deliciousness of the schnitzel.

As we were eating, I overheard one elderly gentleman ask about a pancake with chocolate for dessert, without referring to the menu; he was obviously a regular.

Czech and Slovak Bar and Restaurant

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Welcome to the Czech & Slovak Bar & Restaurant, situated in West Hampstead, close to West Hampstead tube station.

We aim to provide a warm atmosphere, complemented by good food and excellent Czech beers.

The BAR prides itself on serving famous draught Czech beers namely Pilsner Urquell and Budweiser Budvar.

The facilities for our guests include a bar, several spacious rooms, (some with TV screens), table football, pool table and an outdoor seating patio area overlooking our beer garden at the back.

The building was originally acquired after World War II, originally as a meeting place for use by Czech and Slovak immigrants, many of whom had fought alongside the Allied Forces during the war.

Restaurant review: Czechoslovak Restaurant, London - Telegraph

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If you share my gloom, however, the Czechoslovak Restaurant in the Warsaw Pact émigré stronghold of West Hampstead is one for you.

“I must say it’s very bracing,” said my friend as we hugged the radiator, which wasn’t turned on, so we cupped our dimpled pint glasses of icy Pilsner for warmth instead.

By way of a novel inter-course palate cleanser, we shared a bowl of lukewarm goulash: three chunks of tasteless beef in a paprika gravy, with raw onion and, oddly, a pickled chilli pepper.

His roast duck was not crispy, although at least its flaccid skin had enough hair on it to keep the meat below warm, and rested on a bed of sauerkraut alongside cylindrical potato dumplings by which you would on no account wish to be struck on the head.

But things did eventually change for the Warsaw Pact; yet on West End Lane it’s plus c’est la même chose: in the map by reception, and in the gaff’s very name, Slovakia is defiantly unsplit.

Czechoslovak Restaurant | Restaurants in West Hampstead, London

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Instead, you’ll find plenty of eastern European accents, along with locals chewing a sausage and sipping Pilsner Urquells in the almost equally antediluvian bar or, in summer, the domestic-style back garden.

Food is ludicrously inexpensive and geared towards brawny workers taking on weight for the bitter eastern winters – schnitzels, dumplings, roasts, smothered in thick sauces.

Cream, cheese and pork dominate, sometimes all together, as in a main course of tender wild boar roast with creamy, cheesy sauce and dumplings (actually doughy slices of white bread), which came with cranberry sauce balanced on a lemon slice, and, bizarrely, a roasted segment of grapefruit.

Tangy cabbage and sour cream soup began the meal; a thick pancake encasing well-stewed strawberries surrounded by a welter of whipped cream brought it to a solid conclusion.

The food?

Czech & Slovak Club, West Hampstead • whatpub.com

Opened just after the Second World War by a group of Czech expats.

independent bar selling draught and bottled Czech lagers in former Czech club premises now open to all-comers.

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