The beef broth cooks for eight hours. The bistro in Prague resembles an Asian street and is always full
Bistro An is a new business that was opened by the Tranova family at the end of last year. You are located a short distance from the Hradčanská metro station in Prague 6 and, like the older branch at Jiřího z Poděbrady, specializes in traditional Vietnamese cuisine. The food doesn’t have to be eaten on a stand, but the interior is reminiscent of the raw atmosphere of the streets of Hanoi.
In the past, the Tranova family founded the famous business Pho Vietnam Tuan & Lan on Jiřího z Poděbrady and later Botanica Coffee Truck in Vršovice. At the beginning of September, the parents left Botanica to a new owner and bequeathed Bistro An to their son.
“After more than 30 years of hard work in the stomach, my parents finally decided to take a well-deserved retirement. I have always admired and will always admire. I still don’t understand how they managed to build so much from nothing, while being my parents, grandmother and grandfather and kind people.” I am honestly proud of them. It was they who were at the forefront of Vietnamese cuisine in the Czech Republic when the Viet food craze broke out,” says Jackie Tran Ahn, who today runs three other businesses in Prague.
He took Bistro u Hradčanská as his own. He wanted to bring to Prague the atmosphere of the streets of Hanoi, where soup is sipped while sitting on the sidewalks and neon signs are lit in the background. The idea he managed to materialize thanks to the cooperation with the architectural studio Neuhäusl Hunal.
“It was essential for us to grasp the topic in such a way that it was relevant in the Czech context and avoided formal clichés and cheap gestures. We therefore worked on the Czech interpretation of an Asian street and its sympathetic dirt in multiple layers – layouts, materials and atmosphere,” describe David Neuhäusl and Matej Hunal. Look at.