It’s a small cafe, quaint, very unassuming from the front door, soft in colour – like chocolate, with an awfully welcoming atmosphere. It’s the best chocolate shop in all of Prague and I don’t even think they sell chocolates. Their specialty? Hot chocolate drinks. Like a coffee shop offering different flavours and varieties of coffees, so Choco Café is offering up almost 70 different chocolate drinks. Some of them are spiked with alcohol like my favourite whisky spiced hot chocolate but then, I don’t really know if it’s a favourite because I haven’t tried the Cherry Rum or the […]

There’s this little place on Dlouhá in the Old Town district of Prague worth saving your appetite for. You can’t miss it; during the day there will be people lined up out the door and into the streets. In the evening, the little butcher shop is buzzing with carnivores lusting over the meat counter, distracted with the slicing and dicing of the blood stained butchers behind the window. This is Naše Maso. Lean over the butcher counter and master butcher, Frantisek Ksana is right there to boast the quality standards of his products like a North American locavore. He’s […]

“I hope you all wore a good pair of walking shoes and stretchable pants,” says Mirka Charlotte Kostelkova of a new tour company in Prague called Eating Prague. From a North American perspective one may envision the food of the Czech Republic as being pork, cabbage and dumplings but our small group of seven foodies were about to be educated in the most delicious way. Eating Prague is part of a larger family of Eating tour companies that, not surprisingly, started in Italy. Headquartered in Rome, Eating Italy quickly spread to London and this year Eating Amsterdam and Eating […]

Driving through rural Louisiana in our little minivan we passed by drive-thru daiquiri shacks. They were everywhere. In downtown New Orleans you can find daiquiri bars on almost every street corner. They’re like slushies with alcohol or as I overheard on the street, like a “7-ELEVEN slushie with booze”.   You can get frozen daiquiris in a big gulp cup on almost every street corner. Fat Tuesdays in the new Riverwalk Outlet Mall boasts a wall of slushie machines, all churning different coloured and flavoured slushies – or no, they’re daiquiris! You can choose from dozens of different flavours […]