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There's a monastery kind of close to the castle that makes their own beer and has their own restaurant. You can order the beer in massive jugs too. Definitely recommend checking that out.

Pilsner Urquell is quite expensive in Prague compared to some of the other beers and to my taste Gambrinus was better and cheaper anyways. Kozel I remember being decent. Most pubs are sponsored by a particular brewery and thus only serve the one or two kinds of beers that brewery produces and maybe each one in a light and dark version. Dunkl I believe was dark beer. Velky was light maybe? Beer was as cheap as water/juice everywhere I went.

Definitely some funny clubs. There's a 4 or 5 story one near one of the bridges, quite a lot of tourists. We went to one called Mekka that had all sorts of old mechanical parts hung up all over it. They sold space brownies there lol.

If you love foosball they will have some tables at pubs/clubs. Czechs are quite good at from what I've seen.

There was another funny pub we went to where they had a scoreboard displayed on the wall of how much each table had drank and countrywide in other pubs owned by the same chain. You poured your own beer with 4 taps at every table and it kept track of it. You could even order food from the computer above the taps. They really cut down on serving staff there. Can't recall the name of it.

It is a bit tricky to find the really cheap and good food. Lots of the restaurants are tourist traps. If you ever see a pub that looks like only locals go to it, probably worth checking out. One strange thing is that in local pubs you ordered the side dishes separately. So you'd pick a meat component (I'd highly recommend the pork in Prague) and then you could order potatoes or fries on the side. Brambory was potatoes.

I was there a month and didn't find English to be that prevalent frankly. But I wasn't just hitting up the touristy spots, we went all over.

Its been a few years but I think these were the most useful words
djekuju - thank you? (j are like y). not sure I spelled it right
prosim - please
dobry denn - good day

If you like absinthe Czech Republic is one of the places that makes the real stuff I believe. The popular local spirits that one who likes to try such things might like are Becherovka (kind of herbal tasting somewhat like Jagermeisster) and Slivovice (plum brandy.)

One local specialty which is quite crazy is this deep fried cheese chunk in a bun. It's called Smazeny Syr. I only tried it at late night places where it was decidedly average. But I'm sure there must be somewhere good that makes it well.

I'd definitely check out the castle. Really nice gothic church there. I'd definitely walk around the old city.

We did go to Kutna Hora and Cesky Krumlov outside of Prague