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Dressed to the nines in Art Nouveau splendour, the Municipal House café glitters as a grand piano tinkles in the background. Stop in for breakfast.

If you’re not already staying at the Hotel Paříž, you may be tempted to take a room just so you can have your morning coffee in this Jugendstil café. Superior service.

This café, located behind the Kotva department store, offers a wide selection of coffees: more than 30 freshly roasted single-bean varieties, plus blended and flavoured coffees.

You won’t find a better cup of coffee in the city. A stone’s throw from Old Town Square in the Ungelt courtyard, Ebel is a great spot to address your postcards and plot your mid-afternoon movements.

The local customers here are serious about their literature, but talk so much you can’t read in peace. The hidden courtyard is a blissfully quiet space to enjoy a beer on summer nights, however.

You might expect this coffeehouse to be a rip-off like many other establishments on the square, but it actually offers great value. Good service, too.

The most civilized way to watch the Old Town Hall’s clock go through its hourly paces is from here, cappuccino in hand.

Prague was introduced to the tango here, and the back rooms hosted cabaret during the First Republic. It still offers a good time.

The Communist secret police had their headquarters across the way. Ponder how times change over a pot of tea.

The Prague café with the ultimate view of the castle and Charles Bridge.