Czech Cuisine gets the white gloved treatment

Popular Plate: Try La Degustation's Zander cooked in Moravian sparkling wine.

Word to the wise: La Degustation is an evening-only restaurant with long fixed menus of many small courses, so you'll need to give the place a whole evening.

If you thought Czech food was all about bowel-paralysing stodge, this is the restaurant to prove you wrong. At the forefront of Prague's recent gastronomic revolution, this elegantly simple Michelin-starred restaurant has revived the best of 19th bourgeois Czech cooking, with wonderful results.

Using local organic ingredients on a menu that changes daily, La Degustation serves dishes such as fallow deer with elderberries and Prague ham with caviar. Menus are fixed and prices are high - but as a window into how delicious Central European food can be, La Degustation is hard to beat.