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…
Laying new tram tracks in the Gaustrasse isn’t as simple as it looks, it appears. You don’t just dig everything up, whack in new metal and Bob’s your uncle… No,…
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…
Well, price and product don’t really apply, but promotion, and place? Brother, did this guy get THOSE two right…. The Schottenhof at the bifurcation (if you’re ascending) or the confluence…
The Gaustrasse – the main route from town to the top of town – is a bit of a mess at the moment. The tram lines are in the process…
Some distinctively shady characters hang out in the Breidenbacher Strasse. Must be for the coffee
Mainz’s electrified tram network’s 111th anniversary celebrations coincided with the “Sommerfest in der Gaugass” (Subtitle: “Spass uff de Gass) on Saturday. Why 111? Well, it’s this fixation with the number…
…… Paul and Christina frantically refer to “Espresso Making 101”. “It says here “Grind the coffee beans”. Do you remember how we used to do that? Sorry jb – this…
This is Tony, newest addition to Paul Bonna’s galaxy of stars at kaffeekommune 2 Born in Mönchengladbach to British parents (Dad was in the BAOR – British Army of the…
….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.…
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…
In the Gaustrasse
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Gautor Apotheke, a pharmacy in the shadow of the Gautor at the top of the Gaustrasse, closed its doors at the end of 2011 after 70 years in business.…
At the very excellent Shakespeare & So in the Gaustrasse
Rocked on down to Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune Zwei (which opened during my sabbatical) in the Gaustrasse today. Just a STUNNING double espresso – so much intense flavour and not a…
Paul Bonna and Sebastian Lösch ran a pop-up cafe in the Gaustrasse for 5 weeks at about this time last year and called it Kaffeekommune Eins. Hardcore espresso-based drinks by…
Rocked on up to “La Gallerie” the other day, a very fine Italian restaurant in the Gaustrasse shadowed by St Stephan’s church and nodded to the folks at the adjoining…
More to the point, where’s the bloody lobster? “Dicke Lilli, gutes Kind” is a cool new cafe in the Gaustrasse in Mainz. “So where’s Fat Lilli” I asked “She must…
New café in the Gaustrasse. Dicke Lilli, gutes Kind. Excellent espresso, naff cherry tart, great decoration. Not sure if it was Women’s Day (they have those at the local swimming…
Detail in the cloisters of St Stephans church. Here’s the true story (I’m in the process of picking up some work, translating audio book texts. The one about Mainz STILL…
Didn’t know that Marc Chagall was a drinking man, but why else would he smuggle a serving wench carrying 2 decent sized glasses of ale into one of his windows…
Another excuse to wonder at the Chagall stained glass windows in the St Stephans church at the top of the Gaustrasse
> Mrs jb’s mumble-mumble birthday yesterday, so we rocked on over to “Heinrichs – Die Wirtschaft” to commiserate celebrate. “Heinrich” is Wilfried Heinrich Nestle (no, not a scion of the…
The Gaustrasse’s gradually becoming a cluster of Good Places – interesting galleries, good restaurants and still a few hardcore Mainz bars. If you keep your eyes peeled, you pick up…
> “Senfkorn” – Mustard Seed – in the Gaustrasse is a non-alcoholic pub. Correction: “WAS” a non-alcoholic pub. For 20-odd years it’s been a meeting point for folks with alcohol…
>Gau-Straße looking up the hill to St Stephens. Gau-Straße is the bane of cyclists in Mainz. It is not overly steep, but it is a long incline, and it is…
>Very obliging of the chappy in the car to light up the Gaustrasse for me the other evening. St Stephans (of Chagall fame) at the top of the hill. (Puff,…
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