Midrange
Geberts Weinstuben
(http://www.geberts-weinst...), frauenlobstraãe 94, 55118 mainz. phone: +49 06131 611 619, fax: +49 06131 611662, [email protected]. with an excellent wine list heavy on german wines, geberts offers excellent versions of traditional regional favorites, including handkã¤s-suppe cheese soup and wildschwein wild boar. they are closed for three weeks during the summer, on saturdays, and at lunchtime on sundays.
Heiliggeist
Mailandsgasse 11, mainz. phone: +49 06131 225 757. recently renovated into an upscale bistro, they offer an abbreviated, but very creative menu that goes with an extensive wine list, including wines by the glass, that enable you to experiment wines from around germany.
Haus des Weines
Gutenbergplatz 3, mainz. phone: +49 06131 221 300. open late, they offer a great selection of wines to go with their delicious food that ranges from snacks to full meals and tends to focus on regional cuisine.
Mainz has two culinary specialities, both types of cheese. Spundekäse is local cream cheese whipped with cream into a soft paste, served with chopped raw onion and pretzels — the taste is mild and it goes great with beer. Handkäse is a sour milk cheese with a pungent aroma, most often served mit Musik, or marinated in vinegar and oil, then sprinkled with caraway seeds, resulting in a bizarre, firm, gelatinous mass that most people find to be a bit of an acquired taste — and the "music" refers to the flatulence it tends to cause!
Atrium Mainz
(http://www.atrium-mainz.de), flugplatzstraãe 44, 55126 mainz-finthen. telephone: +49-06131 491 0, fax: +49-06131 491 128, [email protected].