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”…
Leonidas Lazaridis und Philip Vogel started their Eulchen beer concept way back in 2013. It bubbled away under everyone’s radar for a while until they took over the lease of…
…blowing bubbles. The bubble machine at the Eulchen and Friends Biergarten in the courtyard of the Kurfürstliches Schloss (Electors’ Palace). Eulchen beer, wine from the Weinraumwohnung, catering from Brits KWIZIN,…
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…
Stumbled over these littlies at the Piccini icecream parlour in Nieder-Olm the other day. Cute icecream concoctions – one a snowman, one the Biene Maja, an animated film character and…
Don’t those Germans just love their spuds…. This website lists around 300 “commercially relevant” varieties grown here The UK has 80…. The US probably only has the Idaho….. You’ll find…
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…
…..Grade 1 through 5. Fresh out of the ground. Could have nicked it. Didn’t. Grown under foil, you see….
Café rebranding in the Augustinerstrasse. Used to be Café Lavazza. Naff espresso, but 2 nice Golden Retrievers and the location’s great. It’s now Caffè Stivale – still a great location,…
Kaffeekommune II. So popular that all the tables were taken. Perch on a wall in the sunshine on the other side of the road.
“This is somewhere near you, how are your detective skills?” asked my friend Cameron in New Zealand. Quick as a flash, I replied “Bratwurst Glöckle, Schusterstrasse/Am Brand. Pedestrian precinct between…
I had no idea of the time…” Neither does the Gasthaus zum Bürgerhof in Gonso…
….celebrates its 1st birthday in its new location in the Breidenbacherstrasse and serves IPA to mark the occasion, you know why it’s your favourite espresso bar/ (Prefer the espresso –…
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Handkäs… Handkäse – literally “hand cheese”, traditionally formed by hand – is a sour milk cheese – a cheese that has been curdled…
….edible. Mesclun (I’ve seen it written as “Mescalin”…..that woke me up…) with edible blossoms at Stein’s Herbs in Gonso
Which translates into Cafe Indulgence, and they’re not far off with the name. If you go anywhere for a continental breakfast in these parts, you’ll normally get Butter packaged in…
The storm begins; poor wretch, That for thy mother’s fault art thus exposed To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot, But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am…
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.
Mainz Daily Photo 