Veg in Czech

Prague and the Czech Republic in general offer quite a wide vegan menu. You can enjoy most of it in the capital city of course, but you should know your vegan way around. However you need not worry if you don’t, for there is no better way than to use the Prague Ethical Guide to get your bearings.

Several strictly vegan restaurants, even more vegetarian places which also offer vegan menus and literally countless stores with both vegan foods as well as goods, can be found throughout the whole city of Prague and in many other Czech cities. Small stores specialized in healthy living would be your best choice if you are looking for something vegan and they are almost in every district of Prague, offering wide variety of products suitable for vegans, ranging from cookies to cosmetics or household products.
We strongly recommend these rather than stores owned by multinational companies, which often have only a limited range of products to choose from.

The capital is definately the most convenient place for a vegan tourist, for it offers a lot of opportunities to shop and eat, however more and more vegan or vegetarian places have been showing up in the whole country. If you are going to plan a trip across the country make sure to use the Czech Ethical Guide online, which can be a very useful tool, as it has been already to many visitors from foreign countries around the world.

Another thing that makes vegan shopping in the Czech Republic a lot easier are certificates such as the Vegan one or the HCS. More and more companies use these to mark their products to help customers properly choose what they want, and to be sure they are buying harmless goodies. Yet again a whole bunch of such certificates as well as other useful info can be found in both the Ethical Guide and at www.etickespotrebitelstvi.cz, now available also in English.

Additionally there is one more important issue to be mentioned: additives. As you probably all well know they are not all suitable for vegans, so we would recommend to use our list of non-vegan additives that you can find here. Since not all products on the Czech market suitable for vegans are marked by these easily recognizable certificates, you may easily find yourself in a need of a list like this one.

Presently we are also working on a Czech Vegan Cookbook containing traditional Czech recipes made the vegan way.