Cukrárna Alchymista: Garden Cakes in Prague

Past the old-world interior lies the flower-filled garden at Cukrárna Alchymista

Dobrý den! I’m CULT.
Today I’d like to show you a lovely café in Prague. It’s in the Prague 7 district, near Letná Park (Letenské sady), one of the city’s best-known parks. If you have time to spare on your trip, I recommend stopping by.

It’s on the edge of the Prague 7 district, right next to the Prague 6 district. In other words,, this is a wealthy neighborhood. Still, by around 3 p.m. on weekdays, there are plenty of people who look like mothers, along with families bringing their kids after school. So it’s best to book a table even on weekdays.

I haven’t been at every time of day, but all the staff spoke good English when I visited.

As soon as you walk in, the place feels very old-world. Walk through here,,

And this is what you find inside.
It’s the sort of scene where you can picture Vincent van Gogh sitting indoors in a straw hat, absinthe in one hand and a cigar in the other.

How shall I put it,, the owner here.. has somewhat.. eccentric tastes.
Unsurprisingly,, most of the customers here are women.

My favorite spot was outdoors.
There’s a rabbit enclosure at the bottom right, and flowers everywhere.

Flowers galore!
Longtime readers of my blog will know that I got into photography because I wanted to photograph flowers.
It felt so much like being right in the middle of a flower garden that I went and sat in a corner.

A gate that serves no purpose,, you can go around the side to get in, but that side is a marionette museum, not the café. Don’t go in there.

I love all the flowers here. They’re everywhere you look.

It had only been an hour or two since I’d eaten, so I wasn’t very hungry. I ordered cake for dessert.

Ta-da~ Two slices of cheesecake. They’re 8.5 times as tasty as Starbucks’ New York cheesecake.

They’re pretty good, so try a slice if you visit.

Highly recommended 😀

Lots of flowers also means lots of bees,, but with so many flowers around, they didn’t come near the food. Why go for cake when there are flowers ~_~

The drinks took their time arriving: lemonade and an iced cappuccino.
Well,, the coffee was about what you’d expect,, but that so-called lemonade was full of nothing but raspberries,,

Both kinds of cheesecake were so, so delicious,, I ordered another slice of cake.

You can pay at the counter, and apparently through an app too. No need to sit around waiting to pay.
For a café that looks like it might be stuck in the past, its payment system is actually ahead of everyone else.. -_-;;

I thought I hadn’t photographed the rabbit, but there it is in the bottom left corner. This would be a nice place to bring the kids, and Sparta’s football stadium (AC Sparta Praha) is just outside. You could come after watching a match… actually, maybe not. This café is so popular that by the time the match ends, the girlfriends will probably have claimed every seat..

Two drinks and 3 slices of cake came to 590 CZK. That was quite expensive for the Prague 7 district. I suppose being that popular means they can charge that much.

If you’re staying in Prague for a while, do stop by.

Prague’s official tourism website lists the address as Jana Zajíce 7 and the opening hours as 13:00–19:30 every day, year-round (checked November 2, 2026). I found no reports of it closing down. The prices in this article are from my July 2024 visit, so please check current prices before you go.