Coffee, brunch, dinner and a drink. Places we gladly recommend ourselves — with a weekend filter.
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The best-rated places in town are often closed on Sunday or all weekend. That is why this is the first question after choosing the city.
77 places
The Coffee Roasters tribe is a café and coffee roaster on Lannova Street in §CBGEN §. It's only open on weekdays.
OKis CAFÉ is a café in the Garden under the White Tower on Piaristic Square in §CBGEN §. He has his coffee roasted in the nearby Travelling Roaster.
Vietnamese and Asian restaurant in Otakarova Street — the best-rated restaurant from the entire menu selection.
Family bistro in Kněžská Street — lunch menu with meat and vegetarian options, homemade desserts. Open only on weekdays at noon.
RestArt I café & bistro is a café and bistro on Přemysl Otakar II Square in the centre of Českých Budějovic.
Hroznovka is a wine shop and café in Hroznová Street in the centre ofČeských Budějovic. It offers wine, coffee and small meals with wine.
Café Háječek is a café on Zátkovo nábřeží in §CBGEN §. It offers a breakfast menu until 14:00 daily.
Organic cafe in Česká Street in the centre of§ CBGEN §, with access from Piaristické the square. Breakfast is served every day.
Vegan dining room and restaurant on Krajinská Street in the center of Českých Budějovic.
Fusion restaurant, cafe and market under one roof in the K6 complex — the most expensive of the whole selection, but with a high rating.
NeVinný Bar is a wine bar in Panská Street in the centre of Českých Budějovic, with a summer garden.
The Small Breweries Club is a beerhouse on Husova třída in Českých Budějovic with a variable offer of 13 draft beers.
In České Vrbné you can hire a paddleboard, kayak or boat. The site also has its own slalom course, so the water here is more than scenery.
Café Datel is a café and bar on Piarista Street in the centre of Českých Budějovic. It operates as a café during the day and turns into a bar in the evening. He bakes his own white bread.
Café with its own bakery in Matice školské street in §CBGEN §. They bake desserts and pastries themselves.
Brio Restaurant is a restaurant in Riegrova Street in §CBGEN §.
Indian restaurant on Lannova Street in Českých Budějovic, with an open garden.
Italian bistro in Holečkova Street in Českých Budějovic, with outdoor seating and children's menu.
Krajinská 27 is a restaurant with a microbrewery in the center ofČeských Budějovic. He brews his own beer Krajinská.
Yellow Submarine is a cocktail bar on Česká Street in the centre of Českých Budějovic.
A family brewery in Dolní Bukovsko with its own pub and summer garden, eight house beers on tap and brewery tours by arrangement. Half an hour by car — not a stop on the way, but an outing with beer as the reason. Opening hours vary by season — check their Facebook before you go.
FUNSPACE is for when you want a break from sights and a bit of play. In one place you find laser game, escape room and other activities right in the city centre.
BCROSS is the nearest fitness centre to our apartments, so you can train during your stay. Classic gym, crossfit box and café.
Family café in English style in Dvořák Street — breakfast, English cuisine, own desserts and homemade lemonades. In summer, you can also sit in the garden.
The deck is the Na Mlýnské sewer restaurant in the centre ofČeských Budějovic. On weekdays, they cook a lunch menu from fresh ingredients.
Educational microbrewery of the University of South Bohemia Na Zlaté stoce in§CBGEN §, beer brand "Čtyrák". This is no ordinary pub — tours for groups are ordered in advance — but the beer can also be bought with you in bottles, pet bottles or cans.
A bouldering wall in the centre, over eighty routes and courses even for adults who have never climbed — you climb low above mats, so you need not learn to belay. Note opening hours: weekdays only, closed at weekends.
Praži Café is a café and bistro Na Mlýnské sewer in the centre of Českých Budějovic. It is open from the morning throughout the week.
Restaurant Our Farm is a restaurant at the Black Tower in the centre ofČeských Budějovic. It has a year-round heated outdoor terrace.
Summer brewery garden at Malý jezu, a short walk from the brewery Samson. The entrance is from the river.
Modern Asian restaurant in the centre of České Budějovice — sushi and Asian cuisine in a contemporary style.
Modern Asian cuisine and sushi a short walk from the exhibition grounds in§ CBGEN §.
HoSPORT brings bowling, an indoor climbing wall, sports courts and a restaurant under one roof. A sensible option when outdoor plans fail because of the weather.
Essence Café is a café on Přemysl Otakar II Square in the centre of Českých Budějovic. It offers brunch daily until 18:00.
Café on Jiráskovo nábřeží by the water, with a breakfast menu. In the same building there is also an information point with bike rental and a boarding point for sightseeing cruises.
A five-kilometre loop in the countryside near Rudolfov with fifteen puzzles and roughly three to five hours of walking and solving. Played in the open air, so no fixed opening hours — you choose the date and start when you like. Book at least the day before.
The indoor pool on Sokolský ostrov is a practical place to swim in town, a few minuteses from the square. In summer the outdoor lido joins it.
Restaurace s bowlingem, saunou a barem blíž centru než Forbes — 2 dráhy, sauna pro 5 osob, živá hudba o víkendech.
Kulturní dům in the centre Českých Budějovic — divadlo, koncerty a další akce; program agreguje i městský kalendář inBudějovice.
Coffee bar U Vás is a café in Kněžská Street in the centre of Českých Budějovic.
MET je vietnamská restaurace na the square Přemysla Otakara II. in the centre Českých Budějovic.
Bowling centre in OC Čtyři Dvory — ten professional lanes, shoes included and free parking. One of the oldest in the country and a reliable evening when it rains outside.
A family cafe and coffee roaster in the CITY Center arcade near the ice rink, a few minuteses from the station. They roast their own selected beans.
Bowling bar v Dlouhé ulici v České Budějovice, s kulečníkem a krytou zahrádkou.
Budweiser BUDVAR beer hall and restaurant on the ground floor of the administrative building of the brewery, about a hundred meters from the visitor center. They draw Budvar 33 and ringed lager.
Budějovice bakery with a café, several branches around the city. Ordinary, delicate and banquet pastries, desserts and coffee. Branches in the center open at 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., respectively.
Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese cuisine (including sushi) in the Kaufland Na Sádkách area.
WineBox CB is a wine shop and e-shop with selected wines on Husova třída in §CBGEN §.
BEERANEK is a microbrewery in Kněžskodvorská Street in §CBGEN §. It does not have its own bar — beer is drawn in the Singer Pub.
A commented boat trip shows Budějovice from the surface of the Vltava and Malše — a view you rarely get on foot. You also reach their confluence, where the whole town began in 1265.
The cycle path along the left bank of the Vltava runs from Budějovice to Hluboká nad Vltavou — to the chateau. You start at the car park by Dlouhý most, ride on the flat and off the road, so it suits inline skates or families with children.
Hire a pedal boat or rowboat right on Sokolský ostrov and see the town from the water. When you return to the bank, the café is next door.
You do not need to bring your own bike. Classic and e-bikes are rented at the Infopoint on Jiráskovo nábřeží in the centre and at Vodácké centrum in České Vrbné. From both places you can head out on the flat cycle path along the Vltava towards Hluboká.
Sauna, hot tub and rest zone for your group only. No sharing with other visitors — the evening is genuinely yours.
Celoroční tržiště in the centre Českých Budějovic, každý čtvrtek a sobotu.
You need not go far from the centre for a film — the multiplex is in IGY Centrum and two hours' parking are free.
The heart of Budějovice is an almost perfect square, 133 metres on each side, lined with forty-eight Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque houses. In the middle stands the Samson fountain, whose lower basin is a respectable seventeen metres across, with four stone Atlases holding up the upper bowl. And although the square is a square, an old legend says you can still lose your way here.
The best view over Budějovice is from the gallery of the Černá věž. Two hundred and twenty-five steps lead up, past six bells. The largest weighs three and a half tonnes and was cast, among other reasons, to protect the town from lightning, flood and war.
The church has stood on this spot since Budějovice was founded in 1265. After the great fire, Italian builders reshaped it into today's Baroque form. Inside are also the relics of St Auratius, patron of the town, brought here from the Roman catacombs in 1644.
The Železná panna is one of the best-preserved parts of the Budějovice fortifications and dates from the 14th century. On four floors it now holds the only permanent exhibition in the Czech Republic devoted to Přemysl Otakar II.
At first glance the tower from 1724 can look like a fragment of a castle. In fact it is a technical monument that pumped water from the Vltava into the town, including to the Samson fountain. It was not for drinking. The town got drinking water only in 1882, through a second, entirely separate pipe ending at street fountains. Pipes to flats came only from the 1950s.
Eliášova štola is a technical trace of the silver mines near Rudolfov and shows how big a problem groundwater was for miners. They drove a three-kilometre gallery for almost two hundred years to drain flooded workings. The mines themselves died out, but water from the gallery was used as drinking water for Budějovice centuries later.
Pencils have been made in Budějovice since 1848 and the company shop is normally open, so you can take home something genuinely local. The famous yellow Koh-i-noor was created here too, named after the diamond in the English coronation regalia.
Here you reach the very beginnings of Budějovice. Work on the oldest building in town started in 1265 together with the founding of the city. Inside, medieval wall paintings survive, including a St Christopher over ten metres tall.
On the walk from the square to the walls stands a striking building with a tower, today's bishop's residence. The town paid for it, the Piarists built it and a bishop moved in. On such a narrow street it has an unusually long façade — try counting windows: each was originally meant to be a classroom.
Nejužší budějovická ulička, kterou se kdysi na the square **hnala prasata**, protože hlavními vstupy to bylo nedůstojné. Odtud se jí říkalo **Svinská.** Dneska je v ní neapolská pizza, dánsky vedená pekárna, španělská a venezuelská kuchyně a kavárna, kterou vede pravnuk hostinského, co v tom samém domě dělal gastro před sto dvaceti lety.
The historic Solnice from 1531 now combines a Renaissance hall with a restaurant and its own microbrewery. Beer does not arrive in barrels — it flows through pipes laid seventy metres beneath the square paving straight into the restaurant.
The brewery on the northern edge of town offers walk-through tours without booking and unfiltered lager straight from the tank. The name Budweiser, which Budvar has disputed with American Anheuser-Busch for over a century, simply means "from Budějovice" — and this is the only place in the world where you need not wonder which of the two beers you will get.
Nejznámější budějovická restaurace sídlí v domě, který se **město sto let snažilo koupit, aby ho mohlo zbourat.** Nepodařilo se to, protože budova nepatřila jednomu majiteli, ale osmadvaceti — a stačilo, aby jeden odmítl prodat. **Dnes má zase osmadvacet majitelů.**
The oldest brewery in town — brewing since 1795, a century before Budvar. Tours run year-round but only by prior booking. Worth knowing: for over a century this older brewery was not allowed to use its own historic name — Budweiser Bürgerbräu had claimed it for the younger one.
Jihočeské muzeum is a good choice on a day when the weather is not kind to walking. It was founded in 1877 from gifts by local people and today holds over 800,000 objects — including moldavites formed when a meteorite struck in what is now Bavaria and ejected material as far as South Bohemia.
A small museum recalls the first public railway on the European continent. It ran from here to Linz and horses still pulled the wagons. Not everyone welcomed the build: opposition was so strong that peasants went after the builders with axes. Inside you learn how it ended and why the line closed.
Wortnerův dům is the exhibition hall of Alšova jihočeská galerie. You do not come for a permanent display but for what is on now, so check the programme beforehand. The building itself is worth attention: with battlements and corner turrets it looks more like a small fortress than a burgher's house.
The observatory and planetarium suit an evening or a day when weather is poor. The second public observatory in Bohemia arose in 1937 from a collection by amateur astronomers — no single patron. The planetarium still uses a projector from 1961.
On the summit of Kleť stands the highest observatory in the Czech Republic and one of the places where new bodies in space are genuinely searched for. Over a thousand asteroids were discovered here and the team took part in one of five cases in history when an impact was predicted in advance.
Jihočeské divadlo plays in Budějovice and in summer also at the revolving auditorium in the chateau garden in Český Krumlov. The auditorium was the first of its kind in the world. At the very beginning it did not turn by motor — forty people powered it.
A functionalist site from 1933 on Sokolský ostrov, minuteses from the square, nicknamed little Budějovice Barrandov. The fifty-metre pool was to be the largest in interwar Czechoslovakia — and people swam in it a year before it was fully finished.
