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“We mostly open at 5 or 6 pm, sometimes at 11am and then again, sometimes at 1 or 2pm. We mostly close at around 1 or 2 in the morning, sometimes even at 11pm or midnight, sometimes the cleaning lady has to throw us out in the morning.
Some days, we don’t turn up at all, but recently we’ve been pretty good. Just turn up and take your chances…”
So goes their website.
There’s not much to say to that, is there?
Quartier Mayence has been in the Altstadt since 1977.
Difficult to describe. Pub? Bar? Cafe? Dive?
All of the above and more.
To say it has legendary status would be a gross case of understatement…
I’m pretty sure that this is a sketch by Schorch( Hans-Georg, actually) Lautner, an artist and architect who used to run the Altstadt Gallery in the Augustiner Strasse until his untimely death in his mid-40s.
He was a regular, for sure….
Mainz Daily Photo 
>Ah, freedom must feel like that reads. And you got inside to take the perfect photo to go with it.
>Now, that’s a definition of serendipity!