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Enjoy the Czech Hospitality of the Past (Vychutnejte si české pohostinství z minulosti)

November 10, 2009

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Do you still remember going to Czech restaurants and pubs with tacky decorations, dirty walls, sticky tables or dirty tablecloths with set in stains? The food from that era was very simple, maybe too oily or salty, but very cheap. In places like this you could find interesting people and an atmosphere that was much different form the one you may experience today. This week you can find a restaurant like this in Prague 3 called “U dvou Hrabalu” on Chelcickeho 14 Street. The restaurant was re-designed to show what Czech or even Slovak pubs used to look like in the eighties or maybe even earlier times. Until Sunday, the visitors have a chance to go back in time to re-live the past that may have already been forgotten.

The decoration of the restaurant is very authentic. You may find some old flyers there that are reminiscent of communist propaganda. You could meet policemen that would repeatedly search through the place to check people’s IDs or to observe their behavior. The behavior of the staff is very authentic as well. You may get a glass of beer way below its half liter mark or diluted by water (but also very cheap) or you could be greeted by moody staff that may make you feel if you are not welcomed there. One of our readers, however, told us that these behaviors can still be found in many Czech restaurants today.

Why would somebody open a business like this? It is not to make the visitors angry but to make them realize how the Czech hospitality services evolved since the last century. The restaurant will be open in this setting ‘till the end of the week. This place, that you may call a “blast from the past” coincides with the Prague exhibitions celebrating the 20th anniversary of the end of the totalitarian regime in the former Czechoslovakia.

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Vzpomínáte si ještě, když jste chodili do českých restaurací a hospod s lacinými dekoracemi, špinavými zdmi, lepícími stoly nebo s flekatými ubrusy? Jídla z této doby byla velmi jednoduchá, možná příliš mastná a slaná, ale velmi levná. Takováto místa byla plná zajímavých lidí a atmosféry, která může být velmi odlišná od té nynější. Tento týden si můžete zajít do restaurace v Praze 3 s názvem “U dvou Hrabalů“, na Chelčického 14. Restaurace byla upravena tak, ukázala jak české ale i slovenské restaurace vzpadaly v osmdesátých letech, nebo možná i v dřívějších dobách. Do neděle mohou návštěvníci této hospody cestovat časem a vrátit se do minulosti, která již možná byla zapomenuta.

Výzdoba restaurace je velmi autentická. Můžete zde najít staré plakáty, které připomínají komunistickou propagandu. Můžete také potkat policisty, kteří opakovaně procházejí tímto místem a kontrolují doklady hostů a nebo pozorují jejich chování. Chování personálu je ale také velmi autentické. Tento týden zde můžete dostat sklenici piva hluboko pod mírou a nebo ředěné vodou (ale také velmi levné), nebo můžete být uvítáni náladovým personálem, který vám může dát najevo, že zde nejste vítán. Avšak jeden z našich čtenářů, nám na to řekl, že toto chování lze stále najít v mnoha českých restauracích i dnes.

Proč by někdo otevřel takovou restauraci? Rozhodně to není, aby se návštěvníci urazili, ale aby si uvědomili, jak se české pohostinné služby změnily v porovnáním s minulým stoletím. Restaurace bude otevřena v tomto „nastavení“ až do konce týdne. Toto místo, které můžete nazvat “závanem minulosti” je spojeno s Pražskými výstavami, které vznikly na oslavu 20. výročí konce totalitního režimu v bývalém Československu.

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