Prague springs a foodie revolution ; With its first Michelin-starred restaurant and Gordon Ramsay's new venture, dining in the Czech capital is light years from Soviet-era stodge, says Jonathan Gregson

Evening Standard - London | March 26, 2008| | Copyright

FORTY years have passed since the Prague Spring, when Czechoslovakia enjoyed a few heady months of freedom before Soviet tanks rolled into town. Much has changed since then. Indeed my father, who visited Prague at the time, would scarcely recognise anything about today's weekend-break destination, with its boutique hotels and stag-night parties, apart from the timeless beauty of its setting beside the River Vltava and its architecture.

Apart from a handful of socialist "fellow travellers", not many tourists went to Prague back then. It was as a "businessman" that my father boarded a turboprop ...

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