This is the main motto of the CzechTourism Agency, the Hotel and Restaurant Association and the Czech Republic Association of Cooks and Confectioners in their endeavours to promote national and regional specialities.
The objective of this culinary project is to present regions which are less attractive to tourists and to point out the uniqueness of Czech gastronomy. Czech Specials presents both national and regional cuisine. The Czech Republic is consequently represented not only by classic roast beef with cream sauce or roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut, but also by yeast fruit dumplings and well known regional meals such as Krakonos Sour or the practically forgotten potato cakes or pudding cake with zahour (a special fruit sauce).
Various restaurants, which have acquired a certificate bearing the Czech Specials promotional logo following fulfilment of previously specified criteria and requirements, are involved in this project. Restaurants that own this logo have one regional and one national meal on their stable menu and also fulfil the high qualitative requirements placed on the restaurant environment, offer transparency and honesty, clean and respectable facilities, pleasant staff, etc.
This year the CzechTourism Agency, the Hotel and Restaurant Association and the Czech Republic Association of Cooks and Confectioners declared the first year of the republic wide competition
Czech Food Cup, which took place in individual regions from February to April. Only restaurants with the Czech Specials certificate took part in this competition. Participants competed with two meals. The head chefs of the individual restaurants prepared a previously specified national speciality and also a regional speciality, which they chose themselves. You can find a list of certified restaurants, as well as recipients for national and regional meals
here.