There, in a hilltop farmhouse kitchen, I helped her ready a pork rib roast for a dinner party.

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The decor seems to have changed little since then, but the restaurant serves rib-sticking MittelEuropean food such as goulash, schnitzel and roast goose to soak up the likes of Gambrinus and Budvar lager.

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