Just look at this subversive mob of reprobates, gathered around a den of iniquity (aka a Trinkhalle, this one in the Lessingstrasse in Mainz) and planning whoknowswhat.. Trinkhalle. In the…
I’m a bit schizophrenic about this one … Born in the UK, but emigrated against my will at 4 years old. Grew up in New Zealand Lived and worked in…
“Times are changed; we also are changed with them” Not Silke Wolf, though – it appears that Stadecken-Elsheim’s water supply must be somehow linked to the Fountain of Youth, because…
A bit NQM, but anyway… Zipped down to a plant market in Maikammer, around 90km south to help my mate Frank the Potter to pack up his kit and visited…
..but now and zens OK…. Zen Sushi, Leichhof
kavé studio. | café & workshops | MainzSip⠀⠀create⠀⠀connectspecialty coffee & workshopsMainz | coming soon.26.04. Sip & Chat Door03.05. Opening Which was the day before yesterday and when we fronted up…
…that this dude will not survive until his Best By date of May 2025. Handmade with love in the minute kitchen at the Kaffeekommune with a witty repurposed coffee bean…
Or. The best thing that a potato can aspire to/to which a potato can aspire. Potato pancake. Potato latke. Reibekuchen. Kartoffelpuffer This is the queue (or line as the colonial…
Liesbeth is a cafe on the Zollhafen in Mainz, tucked in next to the Kunsthalle in what used to be the engine shed for the port Port. It’s been there…
(They do it differently in France.) Mainz used to be French, Strasbourg used to be German so it’s legit MDP territory. Marché de Noël With music… Place heaving with visitors,…
There are 3 types of fun. Type 1 fun is enjoyable while it’s happening. Also known as, simply, fun. Type 2 fun is miserable while it’s happening, but fun in…
In 1962, Chevrolet introduced a (for the USA…) small car called Nova. Sold well, with the exception of Spanish-speaking countries Much scratching of well-groomed marketing heads in Detroit until someone…
People in positions of authority must be reading Mainz Daily Photo. Or maybe it’s just in in Sharona’s DNA….
Jan rides to Mayence From Wiesbaden to make me Excellent coffee
Where have all the Julias gone?Long time passingWhere have all the Sharonas gone?Long time ago You used to be able to work out who was on the machine at the…
You know who’s pulling shots at the Kaffeekommune inthe Breidenbacherstrasse as soon as you rock up. Fresh flowers on the table? Either Julia (from Mainz) or Sharona (from the Baltics)…
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…
…to Glue Wine. Oh. Glühwein… That‘s how you spell it? Live and learn…
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…
The Aeropress coffee at kaffeekommune is so good, it’s luminescent…..
Also in Mainz. Also in Rheinland-Pfalz. Also in Germany. Anyway, that’s what the award says that has pride of place on the wall at the Martinstube, slap bang in the…
Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,…
Up at the Kaffeekommune the other week when 2 ladies walked up, wavering a bit as whether to go in. “Best coffee in Mainz” I said. “If not the world…”…
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…
Matthias Wolf’s winebar and vineyard restaurant in Lörzweiler is a real treat. In a very elegant barn conversion, he sells his own wine by the bottle and/or glass, Paulaner wheat…
When the Wall Street Journal writes an article about the German craft beer scene, you know it’s getting some traction. The latest on the scene in Mainz is Kuehn-Kunz-Rosen, drawing…
I have an excellent recipe for a fresh pea soup, which I’m most happy to share if you’d care to send your address on the back of a €100 (or…
In New Zealand, there’s no greater achievement. Once you’ve played for the national Rugby team, it’s not “Oh, he used to be an All Black”, it’s “He’s an All Black”…
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