Six draft lagers, dozens of specialty beers, and menu served until closing time: Pult is opening a new location in Holešovice
Pult on Tusarova Street is all about beer and meat. In contrast to the original space, the new location features a kitchen, and the culinary team takes the same approach as the bartenders do with beer — the dishes are built on high-quality ingredients and masterful craftsmanship.
“For us, the foundation is beef from Czech farms. At Pult, we process the entire hindquarter, using the premium cuts for steaks and carpaccio, the larger muscles for steak tartare, and the rest gives us the ideal meat-to-fat ratio for our ground beef. We strive to process every piece with respect for the animal and without unnecessary waste,” explains head chef Karol Drzazgowski. His menu features several simple signature dishes that let the flavour of the meat shine through, such as carpaccio or steak tartare. All dishes can be ordered until closing time.
The most drinkable Czech lagers
Since its opening in 2021, Pult has offered six perfectly conditioned and draft-poured lagers on a single tap.
“Two of the taps are permanently occupied by the national breweries Budějovický Budvar and Plzeňský Prazdroj, the ‘fathers’ of lager in the Czech Republic.’ Four additional lagers are selected each year through a blind tasting, with drinkability as the main criterion. The so-called Tasting Council decides which lagers will be on tap at Pult the following year,” says Tereza Pospíšilová, managing director of both Pult locations. She sits on the Tasting Council alongside bartenders, brewmasters, culinary experts, and bar regulars.
As in previous years, the breweries submitted their lagers directly. From eighteen samples, the Tasting Council selected the following four for the new Pult location:
- Čest from the Čestmír,
- Hard Work from the Flying Pivo Preisler,
- Vinohradská 11 from Vinohradský Brewery
- Vycpaná Vydra from the Černokostelec Brewery
Each Pult location has its own Tasting Committee, so while the selection of lagers at the newly opened bar has been announced, we’ll have to wait until October to see the new lineup of lagers at Pult the original location, in celebration of their fifth anniversary.
The six lagers on tap are complemented by an equal number of specialty beers. Dozens from around the world are tucked away in the refrigerators lining the back of the bar. “We’re constantly rotating the specialty beers on tap and in the refrigerators so that every visit is a little different. We want to show our guests the diversity of the beer world, from crisp sour beers to hoppy IPAs to rich stouts. At the same time, you’ll also find less common and experimental beer styles such as spontaneously fermented beers or barley wine,” explains Tomáš Krčmář.
Luxfer bricks and a burning wall
The interior design of the new Pult is the work of Olgoj Chorchoj studio, drawing on the style of the existing Pult to preserve a certain continuity between the two venues. Compared to the original, the new Pult has a more open layout, and since beer is brewed on-site, it also has a larger seating capacity. In total, the space can accommodate up to one hundred guests.
Just beyond the entrance door is a curved wall made of circular glass blocks, through which guests pass upon entering. The interior space is divided by two pillars, clad in black profiled ceramic — a unique material developed in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, the production of which was resumed after 25 years. The centrepiece remains the 13-metre-long stainless-steel bar counter, complemented by a stone countertop. To ensure a pleasant atmosphere in this larger-capacity venue, cork wall paneling serves as an acoustic element.
“The interior turned out to be a bit more elegant than we originally intended. We didn’t want the new space to look too polished, so we planned to simply sand the floor and otherwise leave it exposed, complete with all its imperfections and cracks. However that proved impossible, so we ultimately used a material called Cemflow — a poured, self-levelling cement screed. Overall, the interior should have a minimalist and unobtrusive feel — with the exception of Professor Kopecký’s glass artwork — so as not to distract from the bar and the selection of beers,” explains Jan Němeček from Olgoj Chorchoj.
The back wall of Pult will soon be illuminated by a large-scale work by glass artist Vladimír Kopecký, which is currently in production. Once installed, its yellow-orange colour will create the impression of a “burning” wall and become a striking feature of the interior. It is one of few architectural projects to which this glass artist has lent his name.
