The consensus of opinion in Nelson is that the best pies are the ones from The Lunch Stop on Pascoe St, run by Mey Khong and Ng Khong, a couple…
Patrick and Ross at the Golden Bear brewery on Mapua wharf. At 7%, it’s sure to give you Delirium Tremors. Or whatever they call it…..
Guy McCracken, champion barista and owner of the exquisite Café on Oxford and Erika, his excellent co-baristeuse. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – his/her doppio is…
That’s the gobbledygook that New Zealand bureaucrats use when they want to say “a nice view”. The highly attractive and exceptionally pleasant Ms. Schulz from Caffee (TSOW) Moguntia definitely qualifies…
Caffea Moguntia (aka the Tin Shed On Wheels = TSOW) is going to be with us all summer. Brigitte Müller-Dildei‘s son Dominic has taken over the market business (they’re in…
Mixed salad greens (and oranges…) at the market
Excellent!
I do a bit of pro bono marketing and methodology consulting for a ceramics market in Alzey and a couple of potters in Höhr-Grenzhausen Design the websites, keep them updated,…
These shop-in-shop bakeries, tucked away in the entrances of supermarkets, fall in between REAL bakeries (start with flour, water and yeast at 4am and make real bread) and the “pressthebuttonforarollfromPoland”…
And the season did come again that the populace cried out for viridi condimentum and the agricola did hear their pleas and proceeded to sow the seeds of Petroselinum hortense,…
Preserved lemons and limes. Dead easy. Lemons. Limes. Sea salt. Bay leaves. Peppercorns
Sliced tomatoes. Torn buffalo mozzarella. Torn basil leaves. New Zealand olive oil. 30º in the shade. Excellent.
Snails. Chablis €6 Excellent
Talk about a quantity discount! A glass will knock you back €0.80. A litre costs €1.10. No contest!
….catcher. At €35 a litre, you’d be silly to let any go to waste..
A couple of new stands on the market – one lurking next to Cafe Moguntia selling delicate cake-type thingies and an outfit just over the way selling some wild varieties…
Backlit apiarisms at the market. Tagline from Rupert Brooke‘s The Old Vicarage, Grantchester Peter Sellers recycled it in his exquisite 1958 American travelogue parody. One man, all the voices..
Having observed me thrashing along the Rheinstrasse on the trusty velocipede the other day, our young friend Rute (aka Little Miss Einstein), erstwhile culinary journalist and budding Nobel Prize winner…
Meenz hat Woi. Die Hesse habbe Ebbelwoi. Aka Apfelwein, Stöffche, Äbbelwoi, Ebbelwei, Viez or Äppler. A very astringent cider and an acquired taste. About 10 years of more or less…
Important stuff, this. Taste The Waste is a grass-roots political platform created to combat food waste. They put on an event on the Gutenbergplatz on Friday, serving 3500 really good…
……..Harry? That’s what “Hintz and Kuntz” means in English, anyway. (Or “Every bastard and his brother”, for that matter…) So this is definitely Koko and David but it’s definitely not…
“Fava beans” sounds SO much more elegant. They could charge AT LEAST €3.50 a kilo. Even “broad beans” would fetch €3.20….
…a boy was playing cricket…. “Zum Goldstein” was first documented in 1568 and registered as an operating brewery in 1747. Mainz had over 20 breweries at the time –…
The Lavazza café in the Augustiner Strasse has a lot going for it. Cosy in winter, seating out in the (pedestrian precinct) road, 2 golden retrievers to step over, nice…
One good reason to visit Bad-Kreuznach is to learn how to walk again after the nice people in the Vincenz Hospital in Mainz give you a Bionic Leg.. Another –…
Deadly looking stuff at the Johannisnacht in Mainz. I’ll stick to beer, thanks very much…
> Er… 8 bottles? White and rosé? Seen at Matthias Wolf’s wine bar in Lörzweiler
> This is the good stuff. If you get a stretch assignment at work, it’s going to push you to your limits and you’ll draw on energy and resources that…
> Did a double-take when I saw this label. Most of the geeky computer people I worked with lived off pizza, Big Macs, Coke (also non-capitalised….) and coffee. Didn’t really…
> ……”Delicious” Or “Ditsch”. Peter Ditsch’s Pretzel/Bretzel/Bretzeln (one of the academics will correct me, I’m sure….) factory is just up the road in Mainz-Hechtsheim and it’s a favourite destination for…
> …or weeks. This is the way you do it. Buy plugs of salad plants when they’re this big (cost €0.15 an each), put them in a planter with home-made…
Mainz Daily Photo 