While on our trip to Brno a few weeks ago we went to a medieval bar! We intended to go for the mead, which they were out of, but we did have grog. Grog is warm Czech rum with lemon. The bar itself was really neat. It was in an old romanesque basement so basically it was a really long stone arch.
There were authentic iron work grates over the air shafts. Also, the brick leads me to believe that this is not the original stone work but that it was probably redone in the last fifty or so years (Very recent for Czech standards).
Some nights they have fire-breathing, the night that we were there they had a three way knight fight. These three guys battled up and down the length of the bar in full armor. There was one point where one knight ran from the other room and unleashed a mighty ax swing onto the back of one of the other knights, it was really loud.
And animal skins. I'm pretty sure this one was a wolf. The benches were even covered with piles of furs instead of cushions.
Most of the lighting was from candles, it gave the bar a really great atmosphere and very warm lighting.
This is the second half of the bar. It is all communal tables, next to us were some Swedes who kept to them selfs.
This is one of the private rooms in the front of the bar. Check out the cascades of melted wax on the right wall.
2 comments:
This bar reminds me of Monty Python & the Holy Grail...too bad John Cleese isn't actually there.
that would have made it the coolest bar ever, especially if there was a black knight to hack at!
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