The Anglo-Asian restaurant Sansho has already had a monument to its fame raised in the media, and for good reason. We visited it with one thing in mind: either to 1) festoon the monument with yet more flowers, or 2) furnish it with a more accurate inscription.

Here in the Czech Republic, the two classic Easter baked goods are mazanec and beránek. Mazanec is a sweet, though not cloyingly so, bread filled with raisins and often topped with almonds. Beránek is a cake baked in the shape of a lamb. Many commercial varieties are covered in chocolate.

If you go back far enough, you’ll find a pagan root for anything. But that doesn’t explain the continuing popularity among Czechs for baking Christmas sweets, from chocolate-topped baskets filled with nuts, to gingerbread fish, dusted vanilla rolls, and doughy wasp-nests oozing egg-liqueur. Just make sure you hold out on sampling them until Dec. 24 — legend says you’d be inviting misfortune.

It says a lot about the much-deplored poor state of customer service in the Czech capital that the single-most impressive aspect of Vinohrady’s tapas restaurant Kofein is the friendliness with which an order of a tap water carafe is received. Kofein also offers a decent and affordable selection of whites and reds along with a variety of simple, honest dishes, at a fair price.