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Our guest for One on One this week is Pavel Maurer, who is arguably the Czech Republic’s best known and most influential gourmet. Besides establishing the highly successful Prague Food Festival, which every year gives people a chance to sample the fare of the Czech capital’s best restaurants for rock-bottom prices, Pavel Maurer is also the man behind the highly respected Grand Restaurant guide.

There are many reasons to visit Prague, but up until now, maybe gastro-tourism hasn't been one of them. Guidebooks such as the Lonely Planet and Let's Go don't spare too many compliments when it comes to the fare offered by the city's pubs and restaurants. So, not a place you would naturally expect a top chef with three Michelin stars to open up his latest venture. But that's just what British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has gone and done. His restaurant Maze has been up and running since last Thursday, transforming the ground floor of Prague's

The first-ever fashion show on Wenceslas Square. The nation's patron saint got an eyeful! A baboon from Brno Zoo enjoyed a highly publicized four day outing before the police caught up with him. And, the Pardubice town hall is practicing its bows and curtsies for Princess Anne. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

This Friday sees the launch of the first-ever Prague Food Festival, an event that aims to celebrate the increasingly multicultural nature and rapidly improving standard of the cuisine that is now available in the Czech capital.

Over the last seventeen years Czechs have gotten increasingly used to fast food and now many accept everything from hamburgers to hot dogs to pizza as part of their regular diet, if not every day than certainly from time to time. Forgotten are the days when there were only one or two international franchises in town: there are increasingly more venues to choose, with ever more variety.

I regard myself as having quite a refined taste for food, but for me summer, at least the Czech one, is connected with a very basic, perhaps slightly lowbrow, taste, and that's the taste of a burt, a small thick sausage for grilling.

What is the one thing that infuriates Czech tennis star Nicole Vaidisova about her compatriots? Why was the Czech health minister forced to eat hospital food and, the Czech student who is cleaning up Taiwan. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

A unique find has been unearthed in the Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul in Karlovy Vary, a little Scops owl strays to the Czech Republic and Czechs gather to see a rare sight - a perfect replica of a historic train built in 1891 for the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef I and his wife Elisabeth. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.

This week, the Agriculture Ministry, Food Chamber, and food quality control bodies are holding various seminars and conferences for the general public. What have been titled "Food Safety Days" will run until Sunday and their main aim is to educate consumers about the country's food quality monitoring system and about their rights.

Prague is to get the first Buddha Bar Hotel in the world! A lamb with six feet is born on a Czech farm. And, Prague elects its Metro-sexual of The Year. Find out more in Magazine with Daniela Lazarova.