Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: food

This is maybe the dish most associated with the Czech Republic, "Smazeny syr," or fried cheese, with tartar sauce and one or another potato side, in this case baked potatoes. Usually it's served with beer, but it was a work day when I was having lunch at Havelska Koruna, so I ordered some kind of cola. In this case, I think the cola was Kofola, which is another traditional Czech product. Havelska Koruna, incidentally, is a traditional Czech "jidelna" or fast-food restaurant, serving traditional Czech pub food. Havelska Koruna is and was unusual in that it's located close to Mustek in the tourist area of Prague, and not in a working-class neighborhood where these types of restaurants would normally be located. More impressively, it's survived for the long-haul, as it is still in business today: www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g274707-d2018223-Reviews-Havelska_Koruna-Prague_Bohemia.html

I unfortunately didn't think to shoot this picture until I had finished with breakfast, so you don't get to see the food. I was very good, though. NZ242 gets into Brussels so early that in the winter it's still dark out, so this was still essentially taken at night, with my flash. The lighting is still weirdly blue, though. I actually got ripped off on my tickets....again, as the agent sold me a first class ticket when I didn't ask for one. A benefit of this, though, was that I got a much nicer place to sleep than usual, on linen, and got a good breakfast the next morning. DB can certainly be called first class in any case, but a first class ticket was actually nice to have in the end, and not as expensive as it could have been, either. Almost anyplace else in the world I wouldn't have been able to afford it at all, and the trip would have never happened.

The coaching stock on the Hungaria is usually Hungarian, appropriate to the name, and the Hungarian State Railway, MAV, is truly a throwback to the age of steam when it comes to luxury. This was the diner where I had a very good meal for dirt cheap while rolling through the night towards Berlin. The diner, I should note, is thoroughly modern, and authorized for 200Km/h operation, even if it looks like it was built in the 1930s.