Nowadays, lunches and dinners in restaurants during the Christmas holidays are becoming increasingly common. Some prefer to spend Christmas Eve and the evening at home with family, while others can imagine celebrating Christmas with friends and family over specialties from Prague’s restaurants. That’s why we have selected a few restaurants offering special Christmas Eve and holiday menus for you.
Recommended restaurants in Prague for Christmas Eve and the holiday season:
| The Monkey Bar, 24. – 25.12.2024 Prague 1, Opletalova 21 Phone: 226 216 599 The Monkey Bar invites you to celebrate Christmas in an unconventional setting. Choose between brunch from 12:30 to 15:30 or a Christmas dinner starting at 18:00. The 5-course dinner includes oyster Vichyssoise with caviar, foie gras with cocoa and quince, creamy lobster soup, beef Wellington with mushrooms and spinach, and crispy coffee cannelloni. For the Christmas brunch, you can enjoy scrambled eggs with brioche, mini beef burgers, pumpkin salad, roasted beef with Béarnaise sauce, or caramelized French toast, along with unlimited Prosecco, Mimosa, and Cherry Bellini. Price per person: brunch 2,500 CZK, dinner 3,500 CZK |
| Restaurant Obecní dům, 24. 12. 2024 Prague 1, nám. Republiky 1090/5 Phone: 222 002 770 The Obecní dům restaurant invites you to a Christmas buffet dinner or a 4-course menu. You can expect a rich buffet selection of appetizers, traditional fish soup, and main courses such as barley risotto with porcini mushrooms, carp fries with potato salad, and desserts like laskonky, cream rolls, or Christmas cookies. Unlimited beer, wine, and non-alcoholic drinks are also included. The 4-course menu is available in standard and vegetarian options, featuring smoked salmon with salmon caviar, veal chops with potato fondant, and for the vegetarian option, potato tartare with goat cheese croquettes and beetroot or barley risotto with mushrooms, followed by Christmas cookies and mandarin sorbet with hazelnuts for dessert. Price per person: buffet 2,900 CZK, menu 2,990 CZK |
| Restaurant Zinc, 24.12.2024 Prague 1, V Celnici 7 Phone: 221 822 300 You can spend Christmas Eve at the Zinc restaurant in the Hilton Hotel with a festive buffet dinner. A glass of prosecco for the toast is included, along with unlimited access to the buffet, as well as beer, wine, and non-alcoholic drinks. Every Advent Sunday, Zinc also invites you to brunch from 12:30 to 15:00. Price per person: brunch 2,150 CZK, Christmas Eve buffet 2,350 CZK |
| Restaurant CODA, 24. – 25.12.2024 Prague 1, Tržiště 9 Phone: 225 334 761 The perfect Christmas atmosphere will be set on the evening of December 24th or at lunch on December 25th with an 8-course menu at CODA restaurant. Enjoy foie gras, carp milt, crayfish cream, sturgeon fillet with potato salad espuma, kuba croquette, traditional prune dumplings with plum brandy glaze, or rosehip sorbet. Christmas cookies are also included. The dinner or lunch can be complemented with wine pairing. Price per person: 4,800 CZK |
| Terasa U Zlaté studně, 24. – 25.12.2024 Prague 1, U Zlaté studně 166/4 Phone: 777 737 020 The restaurant Terasa U Zlaté studně is preparing a 9-course Christmas tasting menu for the 24th and 25th of December. You can enjoy scallop carpaccio, crab with black caviar and quinoa, halibut with mussels, roasted foie gras with poached fig, venison loin with red cabbage and apples, chocolate mousse, and a selection of pralines. Wine pairing is available. Price per person: 4,900 CZK |
| Restaurant Bricks, 24.12.2024 Prague 1, Cihelná 2b Phone: 732 950 960 The restaurant Bricks invites you to a 7-course special Christmas menu. Blinis with black caviar and a duck liver foie gras terrine are followed by carp velouté with a fish croquette, halibut on roasted cauliflower purée with mushroom jus, and a royal Angus steak with Rougié foie gras and mashed potatoes with black truffles. Traditional Christmas cookies and a pistachio cake with raspberry cream and ice cream are also included. Price per person: 3.400 Kč |
| Restaurant George Prime Steak, 24.12.2024 Prague 1, Platnéřská 111/19 Phone: 226 202 599 The George Prime Steak restaurant offers a three-course Christmas menu. For starters, you can choose between lobster croquette with avocado purée, French onion soup, Caesar salad, or steak tartare. The main course features seven Prime steak options, such as New York Strip, boneless or bone-in Rib Eye, T-Bone steak, Porterhouse, GSP Signature Filet Mignon, or Petit Filet Mignon. For dessert, you can enjoy a chocolate cake or „Baked Alaska,“ a sponge cake with chocolate, hazelnuts, vanilla ice cream, and Italian meringue. Wine pairing is available. Price per person: 3.150 CZK |
| Restaurant Červený jelen, 24. – 26.12.2024 Prague 1, Hybernská 5 Phone: 735 123 647 The restaurant Červený jelen offers a festive menu for all three Christmas holidays, along with a Christmas special on December 25 and 26. The à la carte menu includes dishes like pike-perch fish soup, pea cream with crème fraîche, barley risotto with dried mushrooms, pike-perch with Riesling sauce and gratinéed creamy potatoes, veal tenderloin, or salsiccia with black truffle and potato salad. There’s also a rich selection of desserts, including Kaiserschmarrn, beer cake, pecan bar, or plum crumble. The Christmas special offers a 3-course menu featuring pea cream with crème fraîche and mint oil, duck breast Magret with grilled Hokkaido pumpkin, roasted chestnut stuffing, mulled wine sauce, and gingerbread cake with apples, cinnamon, and milk chocolate. Price: à la carte |
| Restaurant Augustine Prague 1, Letenská 12/33 (hotel Augustine) Phone: 266 112 282 For a Christmas dinner, you can head to the Augustine restaurant at the hotel of the same name. They offer a 4-course menu, with a different one each day. On Christmas Eve, the menu features hamachi slices with plum sauce, chicken broth with yeast and duck giblet filling, veal tenderloin with spinach custard on brioche and truffle sauce, and gingerbread „Bavaroises.“ On Christmas Day, the menu includes tuna tartare, king oyster mushrooms with Jerusalem artichoke velouté, braised beef cheeks with polenta, and eggnog mousse with rum sponge cake. The evening will be accompanied by Elena Sonenshine and a pianist. On December 25, the Augustine restaurant also offers a festive brunch accompanied by a saxophonist and guitarist. Price per person: 2.590 CZK, brunch from 1.690 CZK |
| 1890 Restaurant & Bar, 24.12.2024 Prague 1, Staroměstské náměstí 13 (hotel NH Collection Prague) Phone: 778 449 055 Restaurant 1890 invites guests to enjoy a 6-course Christmas Eve menu in the neo-Renaissance palace setting of the NH Collection Prague hotel. The courses include foie gras mousse, parsnip cream with pear and miso, pike-perch ravioli with ginger, caviar, and Riesling, quail with morel sauce and chestnuts, chocolate tart with macerated cherries and ice cream, and a champagne praline. The festive dinner also includes a welcome toast, non-alcoholic drinks, beer, and wine. Price per person: 4.490 CZK |
| Restaurant Ginger & Fred, 24.12.2024 Prague 1, Jiráskovo náměstí 6 Phone: 601 158 828 On Christmas Eve from 5 p.m., you can enjoy a 5-course festive menu in the unique setting of the Dancing House. Ginger & Fred restaurant invites you to a tartlet filled with foie gras mousse, fish soup with pike-perch croquette, gratinéed snails with buttered toast, grilled turbot with salmon caviar, red lentil ragout, roasted parsley sauce, and an apple mousse. Optional wine pairing is available. Price per person: 2.990 CZK |
| Restaurant Seasons, 24.12.2024 Prague 8, Pobřežní 1 (hotel Hilton Prague) Phone: 224 842 125 The Seasons restaurant at the Hilton Prague invites you to a festive buffet dinner on Christmas Eve from 6 p.m. The following day, December 25, enjoy a brunch buffet from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., including unlimited wine, beer, and soft drinks. Both events will feature live music. Price per person: dinner 1.890 CZK, brunch 2.190 CZK |
| Restaurant Malostranská beseda, 24.12.2024 Prague 1, Malostranské náměstí 35 Phone: 257 409 112 The Malostranská Beseda restaurant invites you to enjoy traditional Christmas specialties. The menu includes fish soup with milt and roe, mushroom kuba, and butter-fried specialties such as carp fillets, veal schnitzel, or chicken breast schnitzel served with potato salad. On Christmas Eve, you can also choose a festive offering of sautéed snails with chanterelles, pancetta, garlic-herb butter, and a baguette. Price: à la carte |
| Restaurant V Zátiší, 25. 12. – 26. 12. 2024 Prague 1, Liliová 1 Phone: 222 221 155 On both Christmas holidays, the V Zátiší restaurant serves a special 4-course Christmas menu. The meal begins with creamy fish soup, followed by barley with mushrooms, egg, and buttermilk. For the main course, enjoy rabbit schnitzel with an unconventional take on potato salad, and finish with Linzer cookies paired with eggnog and Christmas bread. Wine pairing is available. Price per person: 1995 CZK |
| Restaurant Zvonice, 24. 12. 2024 Prague 1, Jindřišská 33 Phone: 224 220 009 Restaurant Zvonice, located on the 7th floor of Jindřišská Tower, offers three variations of a 4-course holiday menu: Old Bohemian, Czech festive, and vegetarian. Indulge in delights such as cabbage soup with sautéed porcini mushrooms, wild boar tenderloin with cranberries marinated in port wine, beef tenderloin steak with truffle sauce, delicate fish cream with fish meat, grilled duck breast with red beet confit, roasted beetroot with goat cheese in a spring pastry shell, vegetable tartlet with chanterelle ragout baked with Comté cheese, and many other delicacies. Price per person: 5.380 CZK |
| Restaurant Hoffmeister, 24. 12. – 26. 12. 2024 Prague 1, Pod Bruskou 7 Phone: 251 017 111 On Christmas Eve, the Hoffmeister Hotel restaurant invites you to enjoy a festive 6-course menu. After veal tartare, the meal continues with chicken consommé with truffle dumplings, gratinated oysters with saffron, apple sorbet with calvados, and as a main course, halibut with beluga lentils or venison loin with sweet potato puree and rose hip sauce. For dessert, indulge in a macaron with coconut foam, gold, and white chocolate. Price per person: 2.190 CZK |
| Boccaccio Hall, 24. 12. – 26. 12. 2024 Prague 1, Králodvorská 4, Grand Hotel Bohemia Phone: 234 608 156 A truly festive Christmas dinner awaits you in the Boccaccio Hall of the Grand Hotel Bohemia – a four-course menu with two options (game pâté, pea cream, pike-perch with herb crust and purée or grilled duck breast with foie gras sauce and roasted potato dumplings, and crème brûlée with pistachios), complemented by music from the operas Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, a selection of Mozart’s operas, and Christmas carols performed by top opera singers. Price per person: from 4.540 CZK |
| Hotel Paříž, 24. 12. 2024 Prague 1, U Obecního domu 1 Phone: 222 195 877 The Art Nouveau ambiance of Hotel Paříž invites you to a festive five-course Christmas dinner: starting with Kamchatka crab tartare, followed by veal consommé with parmesan dumplings, raspberry sorbet, foie gras with fig chutney and a gingerbread crisp, and a choice between sea bream fillet with shrimp reduction and avocado espuma or roast beef with cranberry demi-glace, caramelized chestnuts, and herb potatoes. Traditional Christmas bread with bourbon vanilla sauce, a Champagne toast, pralines, and a glass of port or cognac complete the experience. Price per person: 5.490 CZK |
| Restaurant Paloma Průhonice, 6. 12. – 24. 12. 2024 Průhonice, Květnové nám. 53 Phone: 220 188 610 From St. Nicholas Day to Christmas Eve, you can savor a festive menu at the Paloma restaurant in Průhonice. Enjoy slices of scallops, Bouillabaisse with tiger prawns and scallops, roasted duck foie gras, venison medallions with green pepper sauce, roasted turkey roulade stuffed with dried plums and pistachios, baked lobster with Gruyère cheese, and a variety of snails. Price: à la carte |
| Restaurant Esprit, 24. 12. 2024 Prague 4, Na Pankráci 15/1684, Hotel Holiday Inn Phone: 296 895 030 The Esprit restaurant has prepared a selection of three-course festive menus for this Christmas Eve. For starters, choose from chicken terrine with foie gras, beef broth with liver dumplings, fish soup, or potato cream with mushroom dumplings. For the main course, enjoy pork schnitzel with potato salad, beef cheeks with chestnuts, pepper espuma, and nut croquettes, or roasted turkey with mushroom kuba and pumpkin purée. The menu also includes a choice of desserts: Christmas gingerbread, coconut cheesecake with caramelized nuts, or apple strudel with vanilla sauce. Price per person: 890 CZK |
| Restaurant Tři Grácie, 24. 12. 2024 Prague 1, Novotného lávka 200/3 Phone: 778 961 971 Celebrate Christmas Eve with a three-course menu at the Tři Grácie restaurant, located near Charles Bridge. Enjoy beef broth with noodles, a fried veal schnitzel with potato salad, and for dessert, a festive apple strudel with vanilla sauce. Price per person: 990 CZK |