Ok, I’m not going to lie to you. It’s really hard writing about great places to eat when, like all of you, I haven’t been anywhere since the start of lockdown. And, truth be told, I would rather invite you all over to our house for a great meal (since my girlfriend and I have both become creative cooks in our own right) to enjoy some company during these socially distant times☺. Hopefully, restrictions will begin to loosen up soon and we can get back to some of those places we all love and miss. For now, I’ll try my best to recall the best of the best as this, my fifth blog in this five-part series on restaurants in and around Ostrava, will reveal my number one picks for local Czech, Italian, Mexican and American cuisine.

Before we get to my winners, however, I will take a minute to recommend a true winning concept in food delivery here in the Czech Republic, which can really come in handy during these trying times. For those of you who haven’t yet used the Dame Jidlo delivery service www.damejidlo.cz, make sure you get to know this inspirational site, a real Coronabuffer and all around awesome idea. Their credo is “The restaurants you love brought to you”. And that’s exactly what Dame Jidlo does, bringing over 3,000 restaurants together in one service that just (call me nostalgic) takes me back to that New York state of mind...read more.