sam went to a place in prague's suburbs for strudel. where is it located?

The address of Susta Strudl is Jeseniova 29, Prague 3. Take subway line A to Flora stop than ask.

Has anyone found this place?? I'll be there May '06, and wondering if I'd be okay to find it alone or if it really is far off the beaten path. It looks like the Flora stop is east of Wenceslas Square...

Thanks for any help you can provide!!

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sam went to a place in prague's suburbs for strudel. where is it located?

barrets2000@yahoo.comi'm curious about the name and address also.

I have been trying to find Susta Strudl on the web. Is there a site and I just haven't found it? Has anyone been there? Marlyne

I posted a similar question on trip advisor and received a response. The person said he loves Susta Strudl. It opened in the 90's. I is a little hard to find but worth it. There is a hill in the area for a great view too. Marlyne

So how do you really get to Susta Strudl in Prague? Having been there twice during my visit to Prague last week, I just may be the ranking expert on this question here on Samantha Central. If you follow the existing directions to take Metro Line A to Flora, then ask directions, you may get there but it won’t be easy. First, it is a bit of a walk from Flora. Also, I warn you that I couldn’t find anyone who knew Susta Strudl by name, and the street, Jesseniova, is not a particularly prominent one. You may find it hard to get accurate directions. The Czechs I asked, trying to be helpful, kept giving me directions to the nearest bakery, where, I was assured, I would find very good strudel. They didn’t seem to understand the quest for this particular strudel. Understandable since they did not get to see Samantha’s compelling presentation about the joys of Susta Strudl.

I found a better way to get there. Susta Strudl is in Zizkov, a largely residential area east of downtown. There is a massive, Soviet era telecommunications tower that dominates Prague’s landscape. Most people I talked to would like to tear it down. They consider it a blight on the landscape of their lovely city; and it is. But this tower is in Zizkov, so you can tell if you are in the right area by keeping an eye on it. Take tram number 9. Number 9 crosses through the middle of Wenceslas Square (Vaclavske Namesti in Czech). Tram 9 also crosses the bridge (Most Legii) just south of the Charles Bridge and stops at the National Theatre. OK, take tram line 9 east out of downtown Prague. Get off at a stop called Lipanska. You can also take tram 5 or 26. They both stop at Lipanska and the directions from there will be valid. You will get off just short of a bend in the road. The bend is the point at which the road called Seifertova changes names to become Taboritska. When you exit the tram, turn to your left and walk around the bend (which bends to the right). You will pass a bar with the name Herna on your right at the bend. Very shortly, you will pass a sex shop on your right. Across Taboritska on your left is the Hotel Golden City. Just past the Golden City, you’ll see a broad staircase going down a hill. Cross Taboritska at the Golden City Hotel and walk down the staircase. At the bottom, you will walk straight onto a street called Rokycanova. It begins straight off the bottom of the staircase. Walk down Rokycanova for two blocks. You’ll come to an intersection with about five roads radiating off it. There is a tiny triangular square (now there’s an oxymoron for you) in the middle of the roads. Jesseniova (pronounced Yes-en-yova) runs out of this intersection. It is not the sharpest right turn. That is the busy Prokopova, which is the road you would walk up from the Flora Metro stop if you came that way. Jesseniova is the other right turn radiating from this intersection. Jesseniova looks like it cannot be the right street. It has what looks like low income housing on it and currently has a great deal of building construction going on. Nonetheless, Europe’s finest strudel awaits about three short blocks up the hill on the left. The total walk is about ten minutes from the Lipanska tram stop.

As a Passport to Europe viewer, you will have a déjà vu experience when you reach it. It looks exactly as it did on Samantha’s Prague episode. But as you approach, you’ll think my directions are wrong because it is all residential here. Susta Strudl appears to be just a window out the front of a residence. A Czech man told me this is not uncommon in his country. They call them ‘hungry windows.’ When I was there, they had three kinds of strudel, apple, poppy seed and cheese. The apple is quite wonderful, full of apple filling and not a lot of breading. The cheese strudel is similar, with more cheese filling than you could imagine they could fit in a strudel. I didn’t try the poppy seed strudel, but one of my students did. He said it was terrific, but Olympic athletes be warned. Eat this and you will surely fail sophisticated drug tests due to the extremely high concentration of poppy seeds within it. I still can’t believe how packed it was with poppy filling.

Susta Strudl can be reached by telephone at: (420) 222-590-912, but I don’t believe anyone there speaks English. If my interpretation of the sign is correct, it is open from 7:45am until 5pm.

Is it worth the trouble? Absolutely. Would Samantha steer us wrong?

Well, that sounds simple enough. Many people have asked directions to that place, and Father O has delivered succinctly. Time for a late dinner here (very busy day...) and I'd love one of those things right now. But Father O will be pleased to know that an authentic Maine whoopie pie (is there an H in it?) was airlifted to my house this weekend, to much rejoicing. Hope he has a safe flight home. Hope Samantha is safely home by now as well.

Anyone of you know what's in that strudl? I have a lot of food issues, and never before have I wanted a strudl so bad... I'd go to Czech Rep. just for that, haha. Actually, I've always wanted to go to Prague, even more so from this episode.

Don't take this post as authoritative. It is a bit of guesswork as to what is in that strudel, but I'll take a stab at it.

When mathematicians and scientists derive simple answers to complex problems, they generally refer to their solutions as being elegant or beautiful. If truth and beauty can be found in elegant simplicity, then the Susta Strudl is truly a beautiful thing. It is not complex, or at least it does not seem so to me.

First, there is the dough. It is thin and a little chewy. It must have a base of wheat flour. I believe it contains eggs, probably a fair amount. Although the dough is rolled out, when cooked it has somewhat of the consistency of thick crepes, which certainly contain eggs. There must be a bit of sugar in the dough along with some salt, a source of oil, and probably a bit of yeast. The dough seems simple enough.

The apple filling seems to be composed of chopped up apples with peels attached. There is some sugar in it, but not too much. There is, no doubt, a starchy thickener of some sort, but just barely enough to hold the apples together a bit. The filling is not runny, but neither is it very starchy. The apples are not heavily cooked. It is not like applesauce. There may be a bit of spice in there, but it is not strong enough ffor me to be sure. Spice is not a big factor here.

The strudl itself is dusted pretty liberally, just before serving, with powdered sugar.

So there it is. These are just guesses. The beauty is in the simplicity and perfect balance of tastes. I've had strudel that was too sweet or too doughy or too starchy (like a canned pie filling). This strudel does not stray into these minefields. There is just enough dough to hold it together; just enough sugar to make it wonderful; and lots of fresh-tasting apple filling.

So, Aodhan, have you booked that ticket to Prague yet?

Thanks for all the info. Unfortunately, I haven't booked my ticket to anywhere yet; what little money I have that doesn't go to insurance and school is stretched as far as it can go...so who knows? My big choice is narrowed down to: Oslo, Prague, or Lublin. It is a very tough choice for me Again, thanks for your help.

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I've been looking everywhere for directions to Strudl. Thank you so much for posting it here. I'm a huge fan of Passport to Europe and I'm headed to Prague in September for my 2nd visit. I'm definitely venturing out to Strudl and will give my personal critique when I return.

Ever since Samantha went off the beaten track, bit into that apple strudl in Prague and called it “amazing” many pastry lovers have come to this forum specifically because they want to find and experience this strudl.
Therefore, I am bumping the thread up to the top, and adding a bit more information.

In appreciation of the recent discussions here about the importance of attempting to speak the native language when traveling, I will try to post here the handy Czech language phrases that Samantha had jotted down for herself in the strudl purchasing segment. As always, she was showing all of us by example how to be smart travelers and good ambassadors when abroad.
With thanks to the website www.wordbook.cz and Father Orange, here it is, without the accent marks on the words:

"Hello" (or good day) is Dobryden, pronounced dobreeden
"How are you?" Is jak se mate, pronounced yak se matay
"One, please" is jeden, prosim, prounounced yedin prosim
"Thank you" is de kuji, pronounced Day kuay

If anyone is fluent in the Czech language and has any corrections, please post them!
Any strudl-seeking stories (successes as well as failures) would be welcome additions here, as well.

I’m pretty sure that this post, containing so many unknown words, will get me sent directly to the moderation queue here (a.k.a. Travel Channel Forum Jailhouse) for a long sentence until mod ben frees me. These words are posted for the good of all going to the Czech Republic, and especially for the strudl makers themselves, who by now must be either praising or cursing Samantha Brown and her TV show.
But as one who has partaken of the strudl, even though frozen for several weeks and then transported across the Atlantic, I wish you all the best of luck.

Mother Orange

Greetinga All, I live in Germany and in the states and this past winter when I was layed up in FL I found Samantha Brown. Her shows were awesome as I too love Europe. We are heading to Prague to find that Strudl and enjoy spring in CZ. We are also heading Karlvory Vary and I'm trying to find info about the Castle Baths. I'll post my findings after my return the end of May.

My wife and I just returned from Prague and followed father_orange's directions to Susta Strudel and they were PERFECT. We easily found the store and it was a very fun and delicious adventure. The strudel is UNBELIEVABLE. We purchased 2 apple strudel and could not even finish 1--so we gave the other to our hotel front desk and, needless to say, we received excellent service for the balance of our trip. The strudel is piping hot and wrapped excellently so that it remains hot even during the trip back. It is true--a coffee shop would be an excellent addition, but the strudel alone is worth the trip. It was a highlight and as fun as could be.

Thanks, tenortime, for using and endorsing my directions to Susta Strudl in Prague. You're the first to come on and say you followed my directions, although I imagine others have done so as well.

I've been thinking a lot about that strudel lately. I'm just five weeks away from a return visit to Prague. I'll be there for parts of five days...surely time enough for a couple more visits to tickle my tastebuds.

I've also been thinking about this thread. Has anyone noticed it is approaching 2500 views? Isn't it odd that a thread about strudel in Prague should attract such a devoted following? That was just a tiny bit of the Prague episode of Passport to Europe, but the strudel lives on in viewers' imaginations.

Think of the power Samantha Brown has to change lives. She certainly touches those of her loyal viewers. When I went for strudel last year, other Samantha viewers showed up at the shop while I was there. But what about that little non-English-speaking man behind the glass at Susta Strudl? Sam has certainly affected his business and changed his life as well, although with his lack of facility with the English language, I never thought we'd learn much about him. Until now.

Recently, while cruising around the Internet, I found an article in the online edition of the Florida Sun Sentinel. A reporter, working with a Czech friend, found his way to Susta Strudl. Armed with his friend/translator, we learn new things about that little man behind the window. For example, the place is called Susta Strudl because the man's name is Petr Susta. The article goes on to describe his shop and tell a bit of his life story. Just point your browser to:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/print/sfl-pragufeb11,0,7595383.story

The story makes for a nice accompaniment to Samantha's piece.

Father Orange

For anyone who likes to navigate by GPS, the coordinates are:

Latitude 50 5'11.37"N
Longitude 14 27'34.33"E
OR (decimal format)
N50.0864917 E14.4595361

This is a confirmed point. I was standing in front of the shop chomping on an apple strudel while I marked it on my Garmin handheld.

I was just in Prague this past weekend, directions in hand ready to find Sam's strudel. Since we had quite a journey from just off Old Town square, we had the front desk call the number posted to check if they were open. Unfortunately, they were closed so we weren't able to make the visit. BUT we fell in love with Prague and will definitely be back, and will MOST definitely plan to visit on a day other than Sunday!

Father Orange, tenortime is not alone. Through the cold, wind, and rain, my friend and I, too, made our way, directions and faulty 99-crown umbrella in hand, directly to Susta Strudel's front door!

There, our frozen frowns promptly turned into disappointed ones when, instead of feasting our stomachs on poppy, cheese, and warm, apple strudel, we feasted our eyes on Peter Susta's homemade sign which read, in bold type, "Zavreno," "Closed."

Unlike Tivogirl, we hadn't called ahead. And, even though the day of our journey happened to be a Czech holiday, I dragged my hesitant friend (who of course hadn't seen Samantha's endorsement, else, she too, would have hungered for Susta Strudel) undaunted out to the unlikely Jesseniova street. However, NOTE: the shop was not just closed for the day. Susta and family are on HOLIDAY and the shop is closed until August 10.

Well, my friend and I flipped our holey umbrella right side out and made our way back home. In any event, Father Orange's directions were indeed spot on, and we both loved Prague. It was our favorite destination of our recent Europe trip.

One last word of advice to anyone who may be visiting from Texas or other warm spots: pack a jacket! European summer can be as cool as Texan Winter!

Thanks, all. Good luck to those heading to Susta Strudel after August 10th! I'll just have to imagine it, myself...