DAY ONE: February 10th, 2008; Eating Above Praha

This is the Henry Tower which is along the "Royal Route" from the Prague Castle (which is on the other side of the Vltava River). After the concert on the staircase Ellen and I were starving as we hadn't eaten anything since 11am that morning and it was now after 9pm. So we walked around trying to find something that looking good and interesting and we came upon this tower. On the 7th and 8th floor is the Restaurant Zvonice Jindrisska Vez (I have no idea what that means). So we went up and got a table and had a wonderful meal (probably our most expensive...but the atmosphere was great and the food was delicious!).
The Henry Tower is a Bell Tower...and this is it's bell...still the original bell from way back when. It doesn't ring anymore...which I was thankful for as we were sitting right next to it for our meal.

It was a cozy, Gothic bell tower in which we ate and there weren't many people there...which was nice because it wasn't loud and obnoxious.

Ellen and I both had hit our heads at some point during the evening because of the low beams...not hard...but enough for us to remember to duck next time.

I ordered a green iced tea and this is what I got. It was German and it was delicious. I don't quite get what the green beans on the label have to do with green tea but tasty is tasty.

I ordered the herb crusted Pike perch with lime potato pure. It came with the mini zucchini and carrots too. The potatoes were AMAZING!!! I did find a piece of plastic on my fish tho...and it was a little on the dry side...oh well.

Ellen ordered this dish...some kind of meat thing. I can't remember what it was...I just remember her liking it a lot.

And of Course if there is bacon on the menu Ellen is going to order it. This is a Bacon Salad.

Because of the plastic that was on my fish the restaurant gave me a dessert for free...can't remember what it was called (as it was in czech) but the translation was something like "traditional czech pancakes with forest fruit, a Carmel basket and cream". What it was like was like sponge cake or pound cake with berries on top. The Carmel basket is that decorative piece on the side (which tasted as good as it looked) and the cream was not ice cream, not quite sour cream...more like a heavy butter cream. It was very good.

The Lime Potato Pure was still my favorite of this entire meal tho...mmmm...got to make me some of that!!