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One my favorite places near Namesti Miru is a pleasant place named Bio Zahrada (Bio garden) which is situated in Belgicka street. 

As the name suggests, Bio zahrada is a shop with organic food including fresh vegetables (sometimes meat) and also functions as a point of supply for veggie boxes (which is becoming a growing popular trend among certain people).

Bio zahrada is also a nice non-smoking coffee house, where you can have a cup of really good coffee (try the single origin coffees prepared in a french press) and a delicious dessert – various types of cakes (my favourite one is currently the lemon tart).

Besides the cakes you can get a proper lunch there – from Monday to Friday, there is always one soup, one main dish (often vegetarian) and a salad. The menu changes every day. Now when the spring is in full bloom, it is very pleasant to take a table outside in the courtyard garden.

Bio Zahrada is not only a friendly place for getting together over a cup of coffee but also a place for occasional events like various tastings (coffee, chocolate, wine etc.), scrapbooking courses etc. 

You will not only find bars and cafés at Újezd. On the corner, there is also a shop you might not have seen before. In Czech, this kind of shop is called “vetešnictví” (literally “junk-shop”) and they were quite popular some hundred years ago. There are not many left these days and that makes this one even more special (I bet it has been there for at least a century)

In this shop you can get just about anything. Old postcards, sewing machines, musical instruments, books, maps, dishes, coffee pots, beer bottles – to start with. Everyone will probably find their sort of thing and won’t leave bare-handed. The prices are naturally very low, although perhaps if you start speaking some other language than Czech, you might get a mark-up.

When you come in, it feels like another world. The room is very dark and crowded with all kinds of stuff. However, they have very short and somewhat irregular opening hours so just try your luck when passing by. Oh, and if you are really broke, you can sell some stuff too…