Excellent! Our guide led us here and we were so pleased! Very attentive service and a relaxing…read moreatmosphere near the castle. If it is sunny, sit outside! I had the "Svicková" sirloin of beef with dumplings. Loved the gravy and the dumplings. A flavorful meal. My wife had the Chicken schnitzel and she enjoyed the crisp crunch of the well breaded and fried chicken. The lungi coffee and apple strudel! Fabulous. Enjoy this special place.

Excellent restaurant. The location is superb. Inside and outside dining is available.read more

We thought this place was great. We came here after visiting the castle. Wonderful service, clean…read morebathroom, friendly staff, and tasty food! We had traditional Czech goulash, roasted sausage, the Karlstein mix, and finished it off with the apple strudel. We would definitely recommend this place.

It was a bit of a walk away from the rest of the town, but the food was good and the building…read moreinterior was an outstanding environment, plus the walk through the forest to the castle is a nice approach. Definitely your typical hearty Czech food with the focus on game meats. It's always funny to say this as a tourist yourself, but all the other customers being Czech was validating. A review here from a couple years ago said foreigners were charged different prices, which would be wildly unacceptable but at least no longer appears the case: the English+Russian menu we had was just as lengthy as the Czech menu and several spot checks revealed the same prices.

During my day trip to Karlstejn, I was given the name of this restaurant (they also have rooms as a…read morepension) by the owner of the stables (see my other review from Karlstejn). They have non-smoking and smoking sections, a lovely garden patio for outdoor dining, and menus in English and CZ. The food was reasonable priced, well-prepared, delicious and the wines and beers were very good. I would highly recommend ... it is a long but beautiful quiet walk on a broad path up and past the castle.

For me, U Janu is the best Czech restaurant I have had. I ordered the traditional mushroom soup…read morewith potato and stewed beef in cream sauce with bread pudding. I have certainly tried these dishes at other Czech places before, but somehow this place manages to one-up them. The way they do so is by increasing their flavor output. The mushroom soup tastes much denser with stronger cream flavors. The stewed beef's cream sauce is also much smoother and with a stronger flavor. What I really liked about this place is that they also serve Kofola, which is a kind of Coca Cola served during the period when Czech was still under communist rule. They could not have Coca Cola so they invented something similar. The taste is much more lemony and different. Lastly, you should try the sweet coffin (named so because the dessert literally is shaped like a coffin with cream on top). Enjoy!

NEVER EVER! Nasty…read morewaiter: rude and aggressive. Did i mention the LOOOOONG wait just to get a menu? And the food? Only mediocre, if that. Simply do NOT come here!

I was looking forward to great Czech meal, what I got was mediocre food. Dry potatoes, tasteless…read moreschnitzel. And looking at the rest of the table , nothing appealing accept the location. On the foot of the Karljsten

Very typical Czech pub: tasty traditional cuisine, unfiltered Staropramen, pretty fast, and great…read moreprices. Great place to go after a hike. If you speak English only, bring along Google Translate to help with the menu.