Eska in the pulsating Prague quarter of Karlín is a restaurant with a bakery that combines the old and new. Seemingly ordinary ingredients are transformed beyond recognition there. You’ll get what’s commonly found around you – vegetables from roots to leaves, wild-growing herbs as well as bread baked in an oven with fire – plated in a modern way. It isn’t for nothing that the restaurant boasts a Michelin Bib Gourmand award.
The cooks in Prague’s Eska rediscover old techniques – fermentation, drying, heating with wood and baking/roasting on fire. Things are done here in the way they’d been done in the country since time immemorial. The local speciality is Czech bread baked in the same way as it always used to be done from wheat flour, rye sourdough, water, salt and caraway seeds. The cooks prepare meals from primary ingredients from farmers, so they churn butter or ferment vegetables by themselves on site.
