After 2 weeks of abstinence (the Provence is very nice, but you can get really naff coffee. Even if they DO run out and get you pain au chocolat…) so…
Paul Bonna, proprietor of the ever-excellent kaffeekommune in the Gaustrasse (worth the climb…) obviously thinks – at the ripe old age of 25… – that opening 5 days a week…
When I was in London last week for a school reunion of the Westlakers diaspora*, Paul from kaffeekommune zwei recommended that I rock on over to Talkhouse Coffee in Portobello…
Let’s roll the clock back 10 years. There’s an article in Sensor magazine about a couple of young dudes opening a pop-up espresso bar at the corner of Gaustrasse and…
Says Paul Bonna, barista extraordinaire, owner and proprietor of the exquisite Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstarsse and friend (despite my having a good decade on his Mum) for close on a…
Christmas tree decorations at Paul’s ever excellent Kaffeekommune. That’s it. Seriously…
Hard times for anyone in hospitality these days. Germany’s currently back in a mild version of lockdown for the month in an effort to get daily infection rates down from…
Or.. how Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstrasse in Mainz reached a global audience of over 50 million viewers.Via Chinese Global Television Network Six degrees of separation is the idea…
Can you have 2 places where you feel you belong? I guess so. I got tapped for the March theme and I chose – there was a bit of pushback…
Down here in NotNelson, I’m really spoiled for choice. In Mainz, there IS only one coffee house worth considering, namely Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune. Paul himself, with an espresso cup…
I do love Paul Bonna’s kaffeekommune, but it’s definitely solaristically challenged. Solution: Grab a chair, move to the sunny side of the street. Tony’ll take his life in his hands…
Down at my local hangout, the Kaffeekommune, the other week and Tony, the English barista, said ” Oh, we’ve got a new blend today – it’s like drinking little raindrops…
I first met Phillip (r) and Leon (l) at their Eulchen pop-up store in the Gaustrasse in November 2013, they’ve gone on to taking over an unused kiosk in the…
I think it’s with a “K”. (It’s not. I’ve changed it) Paul Bonna at the ever excellent Kaffeekommune is a dab hand at choosing good staff. This is Carina, born…
The Osteiner Hof at the head of the Schillerplatz has a bit of history. Even for Mainz The Osteiner Hof (“Court of Ostein”) is one of several Baroque-era palatial mansions…
Paul Bonna’s coffee roaster, jb Kaffee in deepest Bavaria, produced a special limited edition blend to celebrate the recent matrimonials. Honeymoon Espresso and the small print says: angela & paul…
Why do I always have problems with the Allgemeine Zeitung, our local rag? A couple of years back, they lifted an image from this post and used it in their…
This is Tony, newest addition to Paul Bonna’s galaxy of stars at kaffeekommune 2 Born in Mönchengladbach to British parents (Dad was in the BAOR – British Army of the…
If you balance your espresso cup on your knee and lean back a bit, this is what you’ll see from Paul Bonna’s kaffee kommune zwei in the Breidenbachstrasse.
This is the Eisberger. Take: 1 large ice cube a double shot of espresso Creamy milk, cold foamed to a soft-creamy texture Assemble. To be admired/enjoyed at kaffee kommune zwei.…
“Public viewing” is one of those Denglisch words that baffle native English speakers. (We think it means the laying out a corpse for mourners to traipse past…) Along with (the…
Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune II’s new location in the Breidenbacherstrasse
….Mainz. Paul Bonna, the proprietor of the excellent (but currently dormant) Kaffeekommune in the Gaustrasse used to work as a barista at the Rapha Cycle Club in Brewer Street, Soho.…
“Mayence” (which is what the Froggies ..er.. French call the place ) is a new magazine featuring young funky entrepreneurs. No big surprise, then, that Paul and KaffeeKommune zwei are…
This morning, I did my Good Samurai act in saving Cynthia, Judy and Carol (all originally from New Jersey, but now spread between there, Baltimore and Texas) from a fate…
The hoolie on the Gartenfeldplatz a few weeks back was really quite excellent. And not only for N’Eis’s ices. Café Prego is a 1968 10hp Piaggio Ape 400, fitted out…
Looking at the goldsmith across the road from Kaffeekommunezwei, I was quietly wishing that my Italian was a bit better. Like” what’s a “Heib”? “Che cosa è una Heib?” I thought.…
“Cleanliness is next to godliness” say (supposedly) ancient Hebrew writings. Highly applicable to making good espresso. When you’ve just blasted (almost) boiling water at high pressure through finely ground coffee…
Markus Wehrle (pictured) and Kai Tietze (with a little help from their friends) have turned a direly neglected and unbelievably scruffy building in the Gaustrasse into “Lönneberga“, a “café for…
It snowed last week. We’re only DAYS away from the summer solstice and it’s SNOWING? Paul at the Kaffee Kommune 2 tries to get us in the mood with bunches…
I can’t recall the last time I voluntarily drank filter coffee, but Paul at Kaffeekommune Zwei (@kaffeekommune, #kk2) in the Gaustrasse extracted a promise from me that I’d at least…
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