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.
The Prince Electors’ palace converts its courtyard in summer to quite a fine biergarten. Good food, good beer and exceptionally good wines from the upper echelon of young vintners from…
Despite the strong African influence on the culinary scene in Mainz – you’ll find Pizza Togo and Kaffee Togo on almost every corner – the classic has to be Ditsch’s…
Bought 6 zucchini flowers on the market on Friday (€4, dip them in tempura batter, fry them in hot oil until they’re crisp, serve with pureed roasted red peppers) and…
This is Jürgen Hofmann’s 2013 Eselspfad white burgundy Prune the vines to focus on one shoot, manage the canopy to let the grapes breath freely and get good sunlight, cut…
Jürgen Hofmann took over his Dad’s vineyard a way back and has developed it into one of the top addresses for wine in the region, if not nationally. His wife,…
Rock on over to the Picolla Salumeria to buy some Finocchiona (that’s fennel salami to you… €2.09/100gm) and you get a free Italian lesson to go…
“Citrus” is a restaurant/bar down by the Fort Malakoff Centre on the Rheinstrasse. (Years back when it had just opened, I was talking to a couple of our young sales…
…I’ve got the Pleurotus eryngii” Aka king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes, trumpet royale (What he’s really going to do…
Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune II’s new location in the Breidenbacherstrasse
From Ethiopia, even. But from Togo?
It works like this. You rock over to Klaus and Isabell Gres’s vineyard restaurant for snack and a glass of wine and no sooner have you ordered, but Klaus turns…
Decades ago in a small restaurant in Albufeira, I asked the waiter what the herb was that I didn’t recognise in the dish. “Oh” he said “that’s Portuguese parsley” I…
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