Cafés & dinner
Recommendations from the OpenSSL team for Dejvice cafés, pubs, and dinner — vetted by the people who'll be in them.
Posted summer 2026§ 09 — Prague
The room is the city's gift
back to itself.
The Diplomat sits in Dejvice — the embassy quarter, west of the Vltava, ten minutes from Prague Castle by the Number 8 tram. The conference is one building. Sleep, talk, eat, sit in a session, walk into a corridor conversation — all without leaving the lobby's gravity.
the Diplomat Hotel Prague, the conference hotel since the inaugural edition.
Diplomat Hotel Prague
The principal venue for the inaugural conference and again for Edition 02. Four halls — one per track — all inside the hotel itself; the entire programme, accommodation, coffee, and quiet rooms live under one roof. A short tram ride from the historic centre, with views toward Prague Castle.
Address
Evropská 370/15
160 41 Prague 6
160 41 Prague 6
Tracks
Four halls
one per track
one per track
From the airport
25 min by Airport Express
or hotel shuttle
or hotel shuttle
Hotel partner
Diplomat Hotel Prague
conference rate coming soon
conference rate coming soon
§ Inside
The halls, the bar, the quiet rooms.
A working hotel built around the conference, not the other way round. Coffee where the conversation is. Late check-out for talks that ran long.
The Diplomat reads as a working European conference hotel — generous corridors, a real bar, a lobby designed for the conversations that actually advance the work.
Four halls on the ground floor. 23 meeting rooms across the building. The 9th-floor rooms open onto a roof terrace with Prague Castle in plain sight.
Three days, one building, no shuttles. The point is to keep the room with you.
400Rooms
23Meeting rooms
9Floors
3Restaurants & a bar
1990Built
2018Renovated
§ Edition Nº 01 · a voice from the room
The bar after the keynote. The corridor conversation that finished six months later. The breakfast room. One line, in their own voice — we'll set it here when it arrives.
§ Getting there
Three ways in, none of them long.
Prague is small and well-trammed. From your most likely landing point, you're at the Diplomat in under half an hour.
i.
From the airportVáclav Havel · VAC
Airport Express bus or a Diplomat-arranged shuttle. Pickup details coming soon.
15min
ii.
From the Old TownStaroměstské náměstí
Tram 8 or 26 direct, or Metro A (green line) two stops to Dejvická. Walking takes about an hour through Hradčany if you've got the time.
20min
iii.
From the main stationHlavní nádraží · DB · ÖBB
Metro A (green line) west, six stops to Dejvická. Walk the last 4 minutes.
22min
§ The building
Four halls, one floor.
All four rooms sit on the ground floor. Walk between tracks in under a minute. Halls assigned to tracks at the start of summer.
A
Sál Europe
PlenaryDay 01 keynote · the whole room
B
Sál Prague A
Track IICryptography
C
Sál Prague B
Track IIIEngineering
D
Sál Prague C
Track IVStandards & law
Capacities & final assignments confirmed in summer 2026.
§ Conference plan · Diplomat Hotel
From the hotel
§ Around Prague 6
The neighbourhood, quietly excellent.
Prague 6 is the embassy quarter — green, low-rise, lived-in. The German, Indian and Swedish embassies all sit within five minutes' walk of the Diplomat. Five minutes further, the city changes register entirely.
Park · 10 min walk
Coming soon
Stromovka
Prague's largest park, and the royal hunting ground where Křižík's arc lamps first lit Europe in 1881. Run it at dawn, walk it at dusk.
Walk from Dejvická · or tram № 8 to Výstaviště View · 12 min by tramHanavský pavilion
A neo-baroque cast-iron pavilion on the Letná bluff, now a restaurant. The best skyline view in the city — across the river to the bridges and Old Town.
Tram № 8 → Letenské náměstí Sacred · 15 min by tramThe Loreta
A Baroque pilgrimage complex in Hradčany. The carillon plays from the tower every hour, on twenty-seven bells. Walk back through the castle for the long way home.
Tram № 22 → Pohořelec
§ First time in Prague
Six things worth knowing before you land.
The friction-removers. Currency, language, plugs, water — the questions you'd Google anyway, answered in one strip.
§ Currency
CZK · Czech crown
≈ 25 to €1
§ Language
English · widely spoken
Czech is local
§ Power
Type E / F · 230 V
EU two-prong
§ Water
Tap is drinkable
Soft, alkaline
§ Tipping
~10% · rounded up
Hand to server
§ Transit
3-day pass · 350 CZK
340 CZK on Lítačka app
§ Stay an extra day
Three day-trips, each under three hours.
If the conference is the reason, the country is the bonus. Three places worth a day off the back of your flight.
UNESCO · 3 hrs south
Český Krumlov
A medieval town curled around a bend in the Vltava, with a castle larger than the village itself. The old town is one architectural moment — Renaissance plasterwork on every wall.
Bus from Florenc · 3 hrs Spa town · 2 hrs westKarlovy Vary
A Bohemian spa town in a wooded river valley, with twelve hot springs and a colonnade you walk while sipping mineral water from a tiny porcelain cup. Goethe came twelve times.
Bus from Florenc · 2 hrs Silver town · 1 hr eastKutná Hora
A medieval silver-mining town with a Gothic cathedral that rivals Prague's, and the Sedlec Ossuary — a chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people.
Train from Hlavní · 1 hr
From Letná to Stromovka — Křižík's tram, 1891
§ October in Prague Days 8 — 15 °C, evenings cool. Bring a coat — and shoes you can walk cobbles in.
§ 09 — prague 6 · castle quarter · 25 min from VAC · trams 8 & 26 to old town