Sports, Spuds, & Suds

The Sport Bar Praha-Zlatá Hvezda (tel. 222-210-124), on Ve smeckách 12, Praha 2, is about 3 blocks from the top of Wenceslas Square. Here you'll find a big screen, big burgers, and big games -- with local prices. A burger and fries run 99Kc ($4.10), while a half liter of local brew costs as little as 35Kc ($1.45). There's a rock music club in the basement and billiard tables for those times when the games drag on.

Challenging the Sport Bar Praha on his own home ice is former Pittsburgh Penguins (now New York Rangers) Czech-born hockey star Jaromír Jágr, who has opened Jágr's Sports Bar along with Czech partners in the Blaník Passage on Wenceslas Square at Václavské nám. 56 (tel. 224-032-481). During the season, images of Jágr and his mates from the NHL fill the 35 screens in this glass-and-neon disco-esque space, live and on tape, along with soccer, tennis, and other favorite Czech sports.