Luckily, living on a budget doesn’t necessarily mean eating unhealthy defrozen plastic food served in most of the cheap restaurants. I recently discovered (with a little help from my friends Lia and Fandor) the AVIA café restaurant, offering great food for excellent prices, between CZK70-150 (€2.70-5.80) for a meal.
Cannelloni with béchamel and beef
The owners of Avia describe the place as a “puristic restaurant”, which works on several levels:
- The menu has only about 10 items, but there is a new menu every week. (See the current menu.)
- All fods served in Avia are simple jewels of mediterranean cuisine – pasta, fishes, beef and salads – with few ingredients but strong flavours.
- The restaurant is located in a basement of a functionalistic church built in the 1930s – this makes it a good place to have dinner after visiting the villa Tugendhat.
- There’s no music played in the restaurant. (I think jazz would be great, but I still prefer silence to the radio stations played in many other restaurants.)
- Avia is a non-smoking restaurant. But you guessed that already.
I like the interior, but one of my friends thinks it
I have eaten there for three or four times and I was always satisfied. Meals are simple and tasty, dishes are warm (a detail that is often skipped in three times more expensive restaurants), waiters and waitresses are quick and smiling and draught beer from Černá hora is one of my personal favorites.
I am just sad that all these things are still not a standard in the Czech republic.
Keep on rocking, Avia!
More photos
I am the worst food photographer ever, so check out these galleries and machine-translated articles:
- Photos & review by the most famous czech foodblogger, Martin Kuciel
- Photos & review by a Brno’s rising foodblogger Michal Sänger
Map
Avia is located at Botanická st., close to Art cinema, two blocks from Faculty of Arts.
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I have alreade been there once only, anyway it was not my first visit. Exactly as described in the article, simple meal, but delicious. Hot plate, nice service,…
instead of first should be last;o)
Avia is cool place to have a meal, I just didn’t like the echo sound. I know it is former church, but still it sound weird to me.
Anyway, if you are in Brno and you are looking for decent cheap lunch, go to Avia.
Just has another delicious dinner in Avia. The red wine was a lovely room-temperature and the waitress fantastic and friendly. The restaurant is the perfect location if you fancy following up with a film at Kino Art