Kavárna Slavia

It opened in 1884 opposite the National Theatre and has been the café of actors, writers and musicians ever since. Under Communism it was a meeting place for dissidents such as Václav Havel.

The Art Deco interior, with marble tables, bentwood chairs and round lamps, was restored in the 1990s. Viktor Oliva's «The Absinthe Drinker» hangs on the wall, and the windows look over the Vltava to the Castle across the river.