Still not very nice, though…..
Going to Heinrichs – Die Wirtschaft for Friday lunch is almost like going to lunch with friends. We’re not “regulars” – probably only once every 6-8 weeks – but we’re…
You mostly see these symbols as stickers on the rear windows of badly driven cars. (The drivers – all with a tranquil smile and exuding clouds peace and love –…
Festive decorations at Portobello
….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.…
…in he world are the ones on Mainz’s Christmas Market. 3 of these and a generous dollop of tart apple sauce will do €3.50 worth of damage to your wallet.…
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…
“Portobello” is our local Italian restaurant. We’ve been going there since before Barbara and Giovanni’s kids were born (and they’re now 18 and 20…). We can pop in most anytime…
The bistro attached to the Arp Museum at NQM Rolandseck station
Just what the doctor ordered – a pop-up bar selling decent beer. Leonidas Lazaridis und Philip Vogel, design students at the University for Applied Sciences in Mainz came up with…
First of all, that would be Rheinhessen, not Pfalz. And per minute. At my discounted consultancy rate. For which you get one Kiwi
The new wine’s on the market already. Haven’t finished the old stuff yet. Need to get cracking, then….
“The last Bitburger bowser before the Chagall church” You have been warned…
The location at the corner of the Ludwigstrasse and the Weissliliengasse appears to be somewhat of an albatross around the neck of any restaurant that opens there. Both the Bagel…
They’re selling ostrich eggs on the market. Either that, or I was using my 10mm lens again without noticing….
Pure coincidence that Rod Stewart’s exquisite album came out in 1971. But this picture really DOES tell a story. There are 3 butchers’ vans in a row at the Mainz…
Then we shall begin. An invitation to rest a while at Dicke Lilli’s in the Gaustrasse. Nice enough place, but really naff coffee and full of yapping wimmin. I kept…
Ronald Huckels must be the friendliest guy on the market in Mainz. He’s usually there Tuesdays and Fridays selling organic sourdough bread and other goodies and I’ve never experienced him…
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…
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…
€4/$5 worth from N’Eis on the Gartenfeldplatz. Can you be a regular after just being there once? I think so…..
“Well, dear, it’s either the 10mm lens that that nice man’s using or the fact that you’ve been eating too much icecream from N’Eis, the new icecream parlour on the…
…our daily Fragaria vesca. Aka wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, European strawberry, or fraises des bois. Some plants just TURNED UP unannounced in the flower/herb bed next to the…
“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…
Cress (Lepidium sativum), aka mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepper grass, pepperwort or poor person’s pepper. Line a flat dish with paper towels, saturate with water, sprinkle cress seeds…
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…
….(and I promise to return Mayence real soon Julie….) This is the Restaurant de la Gare de Bonnieux. 3 course lunch with a glass of wine will run you €15.…
A compost (pronounced “compohst” in Americanese) heap is a thing of true beauty. We have 3. One that’s active – sling in any organic matter from the kitchen, grass clippings,…
Ou homard. Not quite sure. MDP’s on vacation for a couple of weeks and – seeing as how posting from the road is frowned upon – this’ll be it until…
Mainz Daily Photo 