02 · The story
A goldsmith's workshop, kept warm since 1998.
The room was a workshop for a hundred and forty years. The furnace is still here. So is the habit of doing one thing slowly and well.
1998
Twelve tables
Vilém Krása buys the workshop on Mostecká with the furnace still standing and opens with twelve tables, a wood fire and a menu of nine lines chalked on slate.
2004
The first tasting menu
The slate goes. Guests are asked to trust the kitchen for the evening, and the first nine-course menu is served to a full room on a Tuesday in March.
2011
The cellar
The vaulted cellar under the room is cleared of a century of tools and filled with nine hundred labels, most of them from growers we have sat at a table with.
2016
Adéla takes the fire
Adéla Nováková, twelve years in the kitchen, takes over as head chef. The menu shortens, the fire grows, the room gets quieter.
2019
The star
The guide gives the room its first star. We celebrate by closing for a week and repainting the ceiling.
2023
The counter
Four seats are built into the pass. Guests at the counter eat what the kitchen eats, in the order it comes off the fire.
