The Globe Bookstore and CafevsGrand Cafe Orient
The Globe Bookstore and Cafe and Grand Cafe Orient are both recommended by professional travelers. Overall, Grand Cafe Orient ranks significantly better than The Globe Bookstore and Cafe. Grand Cafe Orient comes in at 84 with praise from 6 publications including Rough Guide, Let's Go and Time Out.
The Globe Bookstore and Cafe
Fodor's
Time Out
Rough Guide
Let's Go
Lonely Planet
Pštrossova 6, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
From $3/night
"Prague's first English-language bookstore with a café draws both foreigners and Czechs for its large selection of books, popular brunches, and memories of the go-go '90s." Full review
"Far more than a bookstore with coffee, the city's original expat bookshop-café has been pegged as the literary heart of post-revolutionary Prague." Full review
"Large, buzzing café, at the back of the English- language bookstore of the same name that’s a popular expat hangout, but enjoyable nevertheless."
"Part bookstore, part cafe, part cultural center, Globe is one of the best-known American outposts in Prague." Full review
"A popular hangout for the city's ex-pats, the Globe Bookstore & Café has wooden shelves chocked full of new and second-hand English-language novels, travel guides and newspers. The..."
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Grand Cafe Orient
Travel + Leisure
Time Out
Rough Guide
Afar Magazine
Let's Go
Frommer's
Lonely Planet
Dum U Cerne Matky Bozi, Ovocný trh 19, Prague 110 00 , Czech Republic
From $0/night
"Everything is a faithful replica of what once was: immense polished-brass and silk-shaded lamps are suspended from the glossy, white-beamed ceiling." Full review
"Probably the most stylish caff in Old Town, which is saying something, the Orient provides an unmissable opportunity to sip cappuccino in a cubist building." Full review
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"This superb reconstruction of a famous Cubist café from 1911, on the first floor of the Museum of Czech Cubism, dishes up cakes, pancakes and coffee."
"Prague’s Grand Café Orient is the only cubist-designed space of its kind in the world." Full review
"If the small sandwiches, salads, and plethora of pancake options are not persuading enough, just stop by to check out the incredibly cool coat hangers near the entrance." Full review
"Complete with an Art Deco-style interior, mint-green walls and beautiful early-modern chandeliers and furnishings...an atmospheric spot for a quiet coffee and cake or a glass of wine during the day." Full review
"Grand Café Orient in the Old Town is the perfect spot for coffee and cake while delighting in this unique Czech style. Based on the first floor of Gočár's masterpiece, the House of the..."
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