Must-Visit Places & Best Things to Do in Bratislava (2025)

There is a lovely corridor opening up from the street, followed by a series of themed rooms, all dressed up in hard, dark wood and dim light, that lead you to a grand staircase. Most of this part of the building it Bratislava’s Golden Alley and the walls are simply memorials of old times, simulating facades of original homes and shops that no longer exist: a wine cellar, a bakery, a reminder of Zuckermandel’s Town Hall and many others.

Upstairs, on the first floor, a huge, noisy, traditional restaurant serving craft beer and homemade Slovak food awaits for the visitors.

In one small capital, that’s one of the biggest restaurants in Central Europe. The premises of Bratislava Flagship Restaurant used to be part of the former Franciscan Monastery of the Merciful Brothers established way back in the 17th century. At that time, the monastery had not only a church, but also cellars, a hospital and a pharmacy. In the 1950’s, the building became a cinema and was rebuilt almost half century later into a dining establishment. Nowadays, apart from the upper floor restaurant, the ground floor and the basement, the monastic cellars, have been transformed in a small brewery making Pilsen-type monastery lager.

I must admit I had more than a beer! The food is also very tasty and it took less than 10 minutes to have it brought to the table. The menu includes a lot of meat-based dishes like pork knuckle or lamb, but it;s well worth trying the garlic soup in bread and  dumplings with ‚bryndza‘ sheep cheese, that comes from their own farm. For the desert, try Bobaky some kind of Bratislava dumplings with poppy seed!!