For more than two decades Café FX has been a vegetarian beacon in the gritty but slowly gentrifying neighbourhood surrounding the IP Pavlova metro station. The food – mostly salads, Mexican, stir-fries and veggie burgers – is reliably good, though the menu has changed little since opening day.
Café FX
Prague
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