Trattoria am Kaisertor - Mainz

The trattoria is a spacious restaurant with beautiful, outer sittings, near the rheinufer. I ordered ravioli filled with lamb and olive, my wife ordered a sweet pizza. the ravioli were filled with a kind of non-descriptive filling, possibly kartoffels and cheese, no signs of lamb or olive. (the waitress checked after and confirmed that I served what I had ordered.) the sweet on my wife's pizza was fresh, but in no way seasoned or seasoned. the pizza base was of the puffy type and did not look like it came from a pizza oven. service was good. Unfortunately, eating was very disappointing.

It was my second time in this restaurant in a span of 6 years. we brought our Filipino friend, and we were impressed by service and eating. a few years later, when we revisited mainz and looked for some food, we stumbled. this resto again. I have the spaghetti frutti di mare and my friend has the spaghetti arrabiatta. She loved eating and I did it too and the personal joked with us. they also recommend a beautiful dry red wine as a meal seal. I'm coming back here. I like server that are very humanly nice and not robots.

One evening in June we made a reservation for a table with some people. On arrival we had to wait for about 1 hour to get a dring and another 1.5 hours to get some food. For me this is simply unacceptable when you have...a reservation in a max 1/3 full restaurant. The food in the end was to a max of average but very pricy. To me the portions are very tiny for the price. I will not go there again as I was very disappointed.

The service here was horrible. Who appeared to be the manager was rude while telling my husband and I were to sit and took forever to bring a menu. Then, once we got our food I asked the manager for a basket of bread to...go with the pasta like the other tables had received. He said okay and then went onto another table and spent the rest of our time at the restaurant chatting with them. We had to ask the waiter and wait while he kept trying to take my dish. Finally he brought out some bread and said that they had been baking it and that was what the wait had been about. He then proceeded to pick up the pieces and show me how they were hot. I am almost certain that they were just leftover pieces from other tables that had been thrown in the basket. The food was a definite disappointment, plain and not worth the money. The service was so bad that I am sure that the only reason they stay in business is because there are not many food choices in their area. You do not get a lot of food and are much better off stopping at a Doner stand.

So, I 've been coming to Mainz on business for the last 9 months or so, and on the first trip I randomly picked a hotel on the river near the old town that turned out to be OK, but nothing to review about. There was...this Italian place across the street that I resisted going into because, well, I didn 't just want to eat at the place across the street . But one evening I was lazy and tried it. Now, I book the hotel just because this restaurant IS across the street. Even though this place looks fairly average from the outside, it is one of my favorites from quite a range of places I have tried definitely my favorite in Mainz. I 've been there, perhaps, a dozen times and have always come away saying to myself, wow, that 's a great place . The service is great friendly but in obtrusive and the food is outstanding. Over the course of my visits I have tried a number of things and not found anything to be less than excellent. My acid test for Italian restaurants, the spaghetti con aglio y olio, is truly great here. It 's a good test because it can be so blah if not done just right. The garlic is toasted perfectly and with a touch of pepperonici to add a kick. Tonight I had the zanderfilet with provencale sauce, which was so good that it caused me to finally take the time to do this review. Perfectly spiced sauce with the fish cooked to be nicely crisp outside but juicy inside wonderful. Served with spinach and steamed potatoes. Normally I hate cooked spinach, but they make it in a way that even I like it. After my meal tonight I asked for a nice grappa without looking at the drink list, and they brought probably the best grappa I ever tasted. Of course they didn 't make it, but they could have just poured some regular big burn grappa expecting that their German clientele wouldn 't notice. The grappa was solice for my skipping the tiramisu (which I know to be awesome) based on a promise to my wife to not over do it on the expense account . If you are in the area, you should not miss this place.