“Mucha gusto,” by Max L. Feldman

“Mucha gusto,” by Max L. Feldman

A decade ago, the ground floor of Prague’s Savarin Palace was a McDonald’s, sweating a miasmic haze of beef emissions into those Late Baroque curves. This ancient city deserves better. The palace looks out on Na Příkopě street, a five-minute walk from Wenceslas Square. Today, these are typical European shopping streets, where punters can see and buy and feel the same things as anywhere else. But Wenceslas Square is where, two weeks before the Wo…