You really have to want to find the Pivovarsky Klub.
After spending some 30 minutes following a picture of a picture of a bad map, we were committed and had to make the cumulative efforts worthwhile. What didn’t help is an anonymous suburban location, past a run-down underpass.
The exterior is unappealing grey pebble-dash, but inside you are met with a very modern conversion. This first floor is more bottle shop than bar, and does lack warmth as a result.
Typical of Prague, downstairs hosts the main room in a cave-like warren. This is a great space with some classy features and thoughtful lighting. However, there is much more of a restaurant feel, where the interior offered ample opportunities to facilitate a great, cosy bar.
The beers we tried were so-so. The unfiltered pilsner was OK, but once you have tried the incarnation served at 1516 in Vienna, the bar is high. The blueberry beer was a decent desert tipple, but not remarkable.
The staff we met were great and really had everything under control. We were offered fresh beers before we ran out which made us feel looked-after, rather than pestered.
Taken outside, waiting for the rain to lessen.
Venue: 4/10
Upstairs is really a (very good) bottle shop. Downstairs is decent, but lacks some charm.
Beer: 5/10
The tap beers were not remarkable, but the large bottle shop upstairs is somewhat redeeming.
Worthy? No.
It’s a good bar, for sure, but the cave theme is an oft used one in Prague, and the top floor is vanilla at best.
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