Embassy Restaurant

Karlovy Vary


The in-house restaurant of the Embassy Hotel is a destination in its own right, often patronised by big-name stars attending the film festival. The dining room is richly atmospheric and the food, mostly Czech standards such as roast pork or duck, is top-notch.


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Nearby Karlovy Vary attractions

1. Karlovy Vary Museum

0.02 MILES

The Karlovy Vary Museum has extensive exhibits on the town's development as a spa resort, Czech glasswork and the region's natural history.

2. Diana Funicular Railway

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Just beside (to the north of) the Grandhotel Pupp, a narrow alley leads to the bottom station of the Diana Funicular Railway, which climbs 166m to great…

3. Hot Spring Colonnade

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The Hot Spring Colonnade is in an incongruous concrete-and-glass functionalist structure built in 1975 and once dedicated to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin…

4. Church of Mary Magdalene

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Karlovy Vary's most important Catholic church and one of its grandest baroque buildings, this imposing, twin-steepled structure in the heart of the spa…

5. Market Colonnade

0.27 MILES

The only one of the town's colonnades to be crafted from wood, this beautiful neoclassical structure dates from the 1880s and was the work of the fabled…

6. Mill Colonnade

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The most impressive piece of architecture in Karlovy Vary is the neo-Renaissance Mill Colonnade (built 1871–81), with five different springs, rooftop…

7. Diana Lookout Tower

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This hilltop lookout tower affords fine views across Karlovy Vary and the surrounding forested hills, and is the starting point for waymarked hikes…

8. Church of Sts Peter & Paul

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This impressive Orthodox Church, with five polished onion domes and art-nouveau exterior murals, was apparently modelled after a similar church near…