This is the kind of place where you can imagine yourself tapping out the Great Prague Novel on your laptop with a half-finished coffee on the table beside you. It’s a plain, vaulted room with battered wooden furniture, a scatter of rugs on the floor, old black-and-white photos on the wall and a relaxed – if smoky – atmosphere.
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