Note
Brno awesome is a curated list for both visitors and locals who are looking for some quick tips.
Mentioned below are only the places I really enjoy going to — I've been there at least 3 times a year and/or I want to visit again.
I'm providing links to all the places mentioned below. If it's a café or a bistro, I prefer to give their websites. For streets and parks it's their location on Google Maps.
Places are sorted into 3 categories — for drinking, for eating and for walking.
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- Krátký kafe — Instagram | Map | 🏳️🌈
- 💜 My favorite café
- ⭐ Awesome batch brew
- ⭐ Awesome breakfast
- ⭐ Awesome cheesecakes and desserts
- I don't like cheesecakes, but theirs are to die for
- try Chocolate cake, Choux, Banana Bread
- It's Not a Phase Mom — Instagram | Map | 🏳️🌈
- ⭐ Awesome Chai Latté ('25)
- ⭐ Awesome seasonal coffee drinks
- 👍🏻 Great batch and desserts
- qb coffee roasters — Instagram | Map
- ⭐ Awesome location (well worth the ride)
- Hodně Někde — Instagram | Map | 🏳️🌈
- ⭐ Awesome desserts overall
- 👍🏻 Great coffee and meals
- Typika — Instagram | Map
- ⭐ Awesome matcha drinks
- 👍🏻 Very good batch
- Industra Coffee — Website | Map | 🏳️🌈
- ⭐ Awesome Nitro Cold Brew
- 👍🏻 Great coffee, worth the walk
- Hrnček — Website | Map| 🏳️🌈
- 👍🏻 Great coffee and desserts
- try Madlenka or Cake Pop
- Good place to start or end a long walk
- 👍🏻 Great coffee and desserts
- Milady kaffee — Instagram | Map
- 👍🏻 Really good coffee not far from city center or Lužánky park
- Pivní kult — Website | Map | 🏳️🌈
- 💜 My favorite craft beer place
- 👍🏻 10 beers on tap, changing periodically
- 👍🏻 Curated whisky and rums selection
- U Václava — Website | Map
- 💜 My favorite lager place
- 👍🏻 Great snacks that go well with beer
- Lokál U Caipla — Instagram | Map
- 👍🏻 Great tap beer
- 🇨🇿 Contemporary czech culture experience
- Pivovarský dům Poupě — Website | Map
- ⭐ Awesome steak tartare
- 👍🏻 Great place to have a lunch or dinner with a group of friends
- The Erin's Flag Irish Pub — Facebook | Map
- 🇮🇪 Awesome Irish pub
- Air Café — Website | Map
- 💜 My favorite bar
- ⭐ Awesome rums and gins
- Spektrum Bar — Website | Map
- ⭐ Awesome cocktails
- ⭐ Great fusion cuisine
- 👍🏻 Gallery right next door
- The bar that doesn't exist — Website | Map
- 👍🏻 You can't go wrong with this one
- Rotor — Facebook | Map
- 👍🏻 Very friendly and intimate place
⚠️ Cash only
- Yume Anime Bar — Website | Map
- 👍🏻 Great place for anime fans
- Kino Art — Website | Map | 🏳️🌈
- 👍🏻 Great place for students
- Kino Scala — Website | Map
- 👍🏻 Great place for students
- Café JAGA — Facebook | Map | 🏳️🌈
- ⭐ Awesome cinnamon roll
- Confectionery Martinák — Instagram | Map
- ⭐ Awesome traditional desserts
- SugarLife STORE — Website | Map | 🏳️🌈
- ⭐ Awesome macarons
- Ještě jednu — Website | Map
- ⭐ Awesome artisanal ice cream
- Agnes — Website | Map
- ⭐ Awesome soft serve ice cream
- Chleba Brno — Instagram | Map
- ⭐ Awesome artisan bread
- 👍🏻 Great breakfast
- William Thomas Artisan Bakery — Instagram | Map
- ⭐ Awesome pastry
- Dezertína — Instagram | Map
- ⭐ Awesome croissants
- Carlini — Instagram | Map
- ⭐ Awesome focaccia
- 👍🏻 Great selection of Italian stuff
- try Lupakoule dessert
- Ema delicacies — Instagram | Map
- 🇨🇿 Awesome Czech delicacies
- ⭐ Absolute best chlebíčky (open sandwiches) in town
- Little Saigon — Instagram | Map
- 🇻🇳 Awesome vietnam fusion
- 🍜 Awesome Bún bò Nam Bô
- Cà Phê Cổ — Instagram | Map
- 🇻🇳 Awesome vietnamese bistro
- Bango Brno — Instagram | Map
- 🇯🇵 Awesome japanese fusion
- MANYA Sushi & Sake Izakaya — Website | Map
- 🇯🇵 Awesome japanese izakaya
⚠️ Making a reservation is a must!
- Café Seoul — Website | Map
- 🇰🇷 Awesome korean fusion
- 👍🏻 Great vibes
- Toppu Ramen — Instagram | Map
- 💜 Great ramen, side dishes and overall vibe
- 🇯🇵 Awesome japanese ramen
- Ramen Brno — Website | Map | 🏳️🌈
- 🇯🇵 Awesome japanese ramen
- 🍜 For orthodox ramenheads
- 3F by Mori — Website | Map
- 🍣 Awesome sushi
- try Sushi Donut
- 🍣 Awesome sushi
- Būcheck — Facebook | Map
- 🍔 Awesome non-burger burgers (you have to try to understand)
- Leháro Street — Website | Map
- 🍔 Awesome smash burgers
- Jean Paul's — Website | Map
- 🍝 Awesome pasta
- Spaghetti d'Amore — Instagram | Map
- 🇮🇹 Awesome Italian cuisine
- L'Eau Vive — Website | Map
- 🐌 Awesome escargots
- 👍🏻 Great selection of french wine
- 👍🏻 Very nice garden right under the cathedral
- try Chocolate Mousse
- Pokhara — Website | Map
- 🇮🇳 🇳🇵 Awesome indian/nepalese
- 👍🏻 Unbeatable lunch menu prices
- try Chicken Pakhora
- Dhaba Beas — Website | Map
- 🥗 Awesome vegetarian/vegan
- 👍🏻 Great vegetarian/vegan buffet
- MJ Holiday — Website | Map
- 🥩 Awesome spare ribs
- Let's Steaking — Website | Map
- 🥩 Awesome steak
- try Flank steak, rare, with a Lagavoulin 16y
- 🥩 Awesome steak
Note
You can either go from start to finish or pick your own starting point.
Warning
Be aware that these routes are going to get very dark after sunset and there are mostly no street lights at all. Take a friend or pack a flashlight with you. Also be mindful of cyclists in the spring/summer season.
Svratka route | map
Brno reservoir (Prýgl) → Zoo Brno → Jundrov bridge → Anthropos → Mahenova stráň → Vídeňská → Komárov skatepark → Avion → Olympia
- 💜 My favorite parts are:
- Anthropos → Vídeňská, which I usually end at Duck bar;
- Vídeňská → Olympia;
Svitava route | map
Obřany bridge → Cacovice island → Industra → Vojenská nemocnice → Křenová → Černovická → Kaštanová → Olympia
- 💜 My favorite parts are:
- walk around Žlutý kopec & Masaryk quarter (Masarykova čtvrť)
- walk around Kraví hora
- walk from Kraví hora → gardens above Grohova/Úvoz → Rybkova | Map
- walk around Vašek's gardens (Vaškovy Sady)
- walk around Stone Colony (Kamenná kolonie)
- walk from Mendel's Square (Mendlovo náměstí) → Výstavní → Hlinky → Park Anthropos
- walk on both sides of Náplavka (🦆 lots of ducks!)
- walk around Cacovice island (Cacovický ostrov)
- walk from Obřanský bridge → Bílovice nad Svitavou
- walk around Těsnohlídek valley (Těsnohlídkovo údolí)
- walk around Marian valley (Mariánské údolí)
- walk from Marian valley → Ochoz u Brna
What is a "vnitroblok"? Here.
- Poříčí + Křídlovická
- Nové sady + Bezručova
- Rybářská + Křížkovského
- Výstavní + Hlinky
- Kounicova + Šumavská
- Kotlářská + Bayerova
- Římské náměstí
- Nádvorní + Náplavka
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Veveří (I recommend getting lost on purpose in here, lots of hidden gems)
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Stránice (Also a great part of the city to get lost in, even more hidden gems)
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Old Brno
- Pellicova
- Nice old architecture, right under the castle, great for a walk
- Bezručova
- Street with sakuras, great in spring
- Křídlovická, Leitnerova & Kopečná
- Not the nicest streets, but great place to catch glimpses of how the old town used to looked like in the past
- Pellicova
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Brno-střed
- třída Kapitána Jaroše
- Very nice park/boulevard with trees on both sides
- Pick a coffee at Milady and go for a walk
- Biskupská, Dominikánská, Minoritská, Beethovenova & Mozartova
- Ulička Václava Havla
- Leads into Denis Gardens
- třída Kapitána Jaroše
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Brno Černá pole
Sorting based on proximity to the city center, starting from nearest.
- Moravian Square Park (Park Moravské náměstí)
- Denis Gardens (Denisovy sady) and adjacent Capuchin terraces (Kapucínské terasy)
- Park of the Špilberk Castle (Park Hradu Špilberk)
- Vaškovy sady
- Park of the Mitrovsky Summer Pavilion (Park u Letohrádku Mitrovských)
- Grain Market (Obilní trh)
- Leoš Janáček Park (Park Leoše Janáčka)
- Tyršův sad
- Park Vaněk's Square (Park Vaňkovo náměstí)
- Lužánky Park
- Park Löw-Beer/Tugendhat
- Björnsenův sad
- Kraví hora
- Park Pod hvězdami
- Park Schreber Gardens (Schreberovy zahrádky)
- Stanislav Krátký Park and near Marie Restituta Park
- Industra Park
- Park Mariacela
- Park Anthropos
- Botanical Gardens and Arboretum (Botanická zahrada a arboretum)
- 150 CZK / €7 entry fee
- Wilson forest-park (Wilsonův les) and adjacent Žabovřesky Tunnel Park (Park nad Žabovřeským tunelem)
- Park on the Slavic Square (Park Na Slovanském Náměstí)
- Masaryk Grove (Masarykův háj) and adjacent Pasque Meadow (Koniklecová louka)
- Holedná Deer-park (Obora Holedná)
- Biotop Chrlice
- Park Medlánky Hills (Medlánecké kopce)
Important
This list is heavily inspired by Sindre Sorhus's awesome.
Caution
I don't work for, get paid by, have any affiliation, sponsorship or partnership with the places mentioned in this awesome list.
- Add Google Map links to Vnitrobloks
- Add both Website and IG/FB for shops (now it's either/or); socials usually provide more recent information.
- Consider switch from Google Maps to Seznam Maps or Open Street Maps (it's either convenience or privacy, now I'm more focused on readers convenience).
- Create an easy-to-use one page website, since GitHub is not really non-dev friendly environment.