Poison Kitchen is a restaurant in Prague owned by Imrich. It was previously hard to find until it was mentioned in the latest edition of the Lonely Planet guide. It is one of Karou's and Zuzana Nováková's favorite places to hang out in.
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Poison Kitchen got its name in the Middle Ages, when the cook lost his mind and killed the whole priory with poisoned goulash. It used to be the monks' quarters of a church that burned down three hundred years ago.
Poison Kitchen is a place rarely stumbled upon by chance, one has to know it is there. To enter, one must duck under an unmarked stone arch into a walled graveyard, beyond which glow the lamp-lit windowpanes of the café.
The restaurant is filled with real skulls and life-sized classical Roman statues wearing the owner's collection of World War I gas masks while coffins are used as tables, all of which are supposedly authentic. The coffin tables are flanked by low velvet settees. One of the statues, a statue of Marcus Aurelius on horseback, both wearing gas masks, is the preferred table of Karou and Zuzana, who nicknamed it "Pestilence." Karou and Zuzana also painted the murals in the bathrooms when they were first years at the Art Lyceum of Bohemia. The tea comes in an antique silver service. The sugar and creamer dishes are engraved with words like arsenic and strychnine.
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