This is a beautiful shop dealing in Czech-made reproductions of fine Art Nouveau and Art Deco glassware, jewellery and fabrics, including some stunning vases and bowls. It's also an outlet for the gorgeously delicate creations of Jarmila Plockova, granddaughter of Alfons Mucha, who uses elements of his paintings in her work.

Alma specialises in Art Nouveau and Art Deco antiques, and also has a wide selection of rather twee porcelain and lacy items, rather stuffy furniture and glassware, and a veritable army of scary-looking dolls.

A small but very well-stocked English-language bookshop, with shelves devoted to a range of subjects including Prague reference books, travel, children's literature, science fiction, poetry and the latest bestsellers. Big Ben also sells English-language newspapers and magazines at the counter.

If you think that Czech beer begins and ends with Pilsner Urquell, a visit to the tasting room at Pivní Galerie (The Beer Gallery) will soon lift the scales from your eyes. Here you can sample and purchase a huge range of Bohemian and Moravian beers - more than 180 varieties from 34 different breweries - with expert advice from the owner, who speaks both English and Swedish.

A cut above, this wonderful shop is palpably a labour of love for discerning owner Ivan Karhan, who's assembled high-quality wooden carved folk dolls (from leading regions like Krouňa, Přibram and Skašov), old 1950s wind-up steel tractors, toy cars and even a few rocking horses. The famous and ubiquitous Little Mole character is here in several guises, but this small store also stocks toys and art supplies you won't find elsewhere in the city.

This is a beautiful shop dealing in Czech-made reproductions of fine Art Nouveau and Art Deco glassware, jewellery and fabrics, including some stunning vases and bowls.

Urban 20-somethings in particular will be delighted by these carefully selected secondhand clothes and accessories, which still have plenty of fashionable mileage in them. Some new designs are found on the dressmakers' dummies on the shopfloor.

French and other Continental readers, look away now; you'll be used to the delights this trendy young Gallic chain brings. However American, Asian, Australian, British and Latin American travellers find this Czech branch a boon. Its range of affordable, covetable, up-to-the-minute fashion and jewellery might also be disposable, but it's a nice change from H&M.

This store is sometimes beset by souvenir-hunting tour groups and it harbours matryoshky (Russian stacking dolls) - artefacts that have nothing to do with Prague, despite their annoying ubiquity. Surprisingly then, it's also a pretty good place to shop for genuine Czech toys, from cuddly Little Moles to marionettes, via costumed dolls, finger puppets, rocking horses, toy cars and more.

To say - truthfully - that knitwear forms the basis of this collection makes it sound less interesting than it is. Designer Hana Stocklassa has woven plastic black stripes into grey vests, knitted sleeveless turtlenecks and added coarse-stitched denim pieces to create an overall preppy/fashionable look. The shirts and jumpers discreetly embroidered with a Czech lion make stylish souvenirs.