4 Best Restaurants in Southern Bohemia, Czech Republic

Czech comfort food is served up every day and every night at Na louži. Lovingly preserved wood furniture and paneling lend a traditional touch to this warm, inviting, family-run pub. The food is unfussy yet satisfying; take your pick from the Czech specialties on the menu. If you're feeling too full to move after dinner, the 10 country-style rooms upstairs are basic and cheap and include breakfast; perfect for a one-night stay.

Right on the square, this café-bar has a superb atmosphere, if oddly resembling an English pub, and serves up tasty plates of steaks, grilled meat, burgers, and chicken.

Operated by the Budvar brewery, the restaurant—a former butcher's market—aims for an upscale yet casual atmosphere with reasonably priced food and is now one of the best restaurants in town. It specializes in great Czech food and serves unpasteurized Budvar beer; fish and game are also on the menu.

In a city full of fish, this is where the locals come to enjoy theirs. A stylish interior with floor-to-ceiling wooden arches and a small terrace serve as the backdrops to some creative cooking. There are some interesting chicken and pork dishes. Still, the majority of the menu focuses on kapr (carp), including a "demon" carp filled with Dijon mustard and chilies and grass carp with lard and onions. There is a sister restaurant called Šupina nearby (closed Monday and Tuesday).