Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:36:08 +0200https://english.radio.cz/celebrity-chef-laments-current-czech-food-culture-8551589© 2026 Radio Prague International In his weekly TV show “Ano, šéfe!” or “Yes, Boss!,” Zdeněk Pohlreich sets restaurant owners straight. Some might say he is the closest equivalent that the Czech Republic has to Gordon Ramsay. And the Czech celebrity chef has some authority on the topic: he started cooking in 1975, then left the country shortly after the Velvet Revolution and spent some time working abroad. Since returning home, he has applied what he calls “the Western standard of cooking and service” to a number of restaurants around Prague. Zdeněk Pohlreich’s current operation is the restaurant in the city’s famous Hotel Imperial, where he talked about why so many restaurants fail at producing decent food. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/pohlreich_zdenek1.jpg?timestamp=1591308094 https://english.radio.cz/celebrity-chef-laments-current-czech-food-culture-8551589 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9