Zenz Wirtshaus in Mainz

Very pleasant atmosphere. Karla, in particular, was a top-notch waitress. Everything was perfect.

Ahhh, what can I say... the Zenz Wirtshaus is simply fabulous! I eat here often, almost every weekend, in fact! Because the food, the service, and the restaurant are simply top-notch, and you can't resist the temptation to try these delicacies again. I've already sampled quite a bit from the menu, but today I tried the potato dumplings with pork wax, and I was truly impressed. The potato dumplings, in particular, were truly delicious. I really have to give them a big compliment. But I really wish you could add some larger potato dumplings with chopped pork knuckle and some red cabbage and gravy to the menu sometime, because your red cabbage tastes truly wonderful, and I can well imagine it would be delicious and would tempt many sweet tooths like me who love potato dumplings 😂. But the service team is truly friendly, helpful, attentive, and absolutely fantastic. You feel very comfortable at the Zenz Wirtshaus, and it's truly comfortable and decorated with lots of love. But on special days like football matches, it can get a bit crowded, so I would really recommend reserving a table to guarantee you get one. Otherwise, on regular days, you can definitely go here without a reservation. 😊 I wholeheartedly recommend this restaurant for little gourmets who want to enjoy good, affordable food and who value customer service! I'd like to thank you so much for making me feel so well looked after every time I visit, and to the entire Zenz Wirtshaus team, who always do a wonderful job! I'm always happy to be here. See you next time! 😁

Cocktails are good Happy hours from 10 p.m.

Very centrally located on Bahnhofplatz, the Zenz Wirtshaus combines a modern tavern feel with cozy, rustic charm. Wooden furniture, copper accents, and historic tiles create a special atmosphere. The service and friendliness are of a very high standard. The staff is attentive and warm. But now for the most important part of the review – the food: The kitchen offers a modern take on regional favorites. From roast pork and schnitzel to Palatinate platters, beetroot dumplings, and the "MEENZER SPUNDEKÄS" – all prepared with great commitment and great taste. The portions are large enough to satisfy most people. The absolute highlight, in my opinion, are the Brizzas. I love pizza, and as a Swabian, I love pretzels – what could be better than combining both in one dish? My favorite is the "Zenzer Brizza" with sour cream, shredded pork knuckle, red onions, and white cabbage. Super hearty with a large pretzel crust – simply amazing! Why do I have to go to Mainz for this and can't get something like this in Swabia?! The drinks selection is very extensive: There are a variety of beers, cocktails, homemade lemonades, and good wines. At around €30 per person, Zenz is on the higher end of the price-performance range—but certainly reasonable given the quality of the service and food.

Yes, I do have a suggestion for improvement. Cappuccino has potential for improvement in both taste and size. Cappuccino only gets a grade of 4-5. Especially in terms of taste.

The Zenz restaurant impresses across the board. The service is exceptionally attentive, friendly, and professional. The staff make you feel welcome from the very beginning and always cater to individual requests. We are regular guests, and it's always a thoroughly enjoyable experience – I highly recommend Zenz!

While visiting Germany I had the pleasure of visiting this Wirsthaus called Zenz. Between its elegant dishes, fantastic choices of beer and cocktail happy hour after 10 pm, this is a must stop place if you are visiting the beautiful city of Mainz! Björn, Bernadette, and Anas are among some of the best staff to have served myself and my group. They are always friendly and accommodating.

The service, Albiente, and the food from Proton are all excellent, and the taste is excellent! I'm very impressed, and this place will immediately become one of my go-tos.

Great service, friendly, fast, and attentive; delicious food (unfortunately, the portion was very large, but tasty). Very good beer :) (but to be expected for Kloster Scheyern, it's a light beer).

We just wanted to stop by. We ended up staying there for almost three hours! Great service, friendly, and delicious.

Surprisingly very good food, csn definitely recommend the place: German cuisine, brizza and tasty drinks. A pretty atmospheric place just in front of the main railway station attractive not only for guests of the city but for locals as well.

Very cozy restaurant with delicious food

Great location.....very comfortable outdoor seating.....very friendly and fast service....the guys are great....the food is wonderful...a dream both visually and taste-wise...can only recommend it.

Opposite the maina HBF (train station). The food is good, not amazing, but good value for the price. The service is also good.

This is where our stay in Mainz was saved. After our train was cancelled, we spent several hours enjoying food and drinks at this inn. Björn, our server, took excellent care of us and shortened the hours we spent waiting for the next train immensely. The food and drinks were delicious. We would go back anytime!

I had a knuckle of pork with fried potatoes and a schnitzel with fries – both were delicious. The knuckle of pork could have been a bit crispier, but the flavor was excellent. The atmosphere is perfectly fine for its proximity to the train station: cozy and clean. The service was friendly and attentive – nothing to complain about.

Delicious food, friendly service 👍🏻Top

Very good food and very friendly staff. The food came quickly and was delicious. You have to like the location near the train station, but it's very easy to walk to.

✨🫶🏼✨ Great service Thanks to Kilian, our more than competent waiter

Superbly decorated, incredibly friendly service, and excellent food! Highly recommended! 😀👍🏻

Beautiful inn with a delicious, varied and unusual menu!

With opening hours until midnight, it's quite surprising that the kitchen closes at 9:50 p.m. Breakfast and lunch times are listed on the menu, but dinner isn't. Not a good move after a long journey to Mainz.

A very nice, cozy restaurant. The service was consistently friendly and very attentive. The food was also very tasty; the salad lacked a bit of dressing, but the feedback was gratefully received. Highly recommended!

Great food, great service, great prices

Delicious food, it was also very hot, perfect if you're not the fastest eater, as it doesn't get cold so quickly. Nice service

We were there for breakfast, and what was particularly remarkable was the inn bread - very tasty - and the delicacies were beautifully presented.

A surprising restaurant right next to the train station. Very tasty, good service, and right next to the station. Great, and we'd gladly go back.

A true culinary delight, a must for every visitor to Mainz. You get a generous portion for a good price. There's nothing to complain about in terms of taste. We'll be back when we get the chance.

Yes I can recommend especially the Briza

Top address right next to the train station.

The price/performance ratio is good here. The food was delicious, and there's a wide selection of drinks. Some dishes needed more seasoning, but that wasn't a problem. The service was friendly, although somewhat distracted due to the busy restaurant. The dishes and drinks arrived very quickly. Therefore, I highly recommend this restaurant!

Kilian was a very attentive and efficient waiter.

Kilian is a very dedicated employee! High praise! He's very attentive. 😃

Great location, great ambiance. Dinner with a group of 39 people. Planning was very pleasant and professional from start to finish. We felt very comfortable as guests. People with disabilities are very welcome. The food, drinks, and service were excellent, with excellent communication. Special praise goes to Kilian for the excellent service throughout the evening. Wirtshaus Zenz is definitely recommended and always worth a visit.

Food is good, view is great, service is good as well and they speak very good English I recommend here

Modern decor with outdoor seating, where you sit right on the street. The service was super friendly and quick to take our order. The ordered dishes arrived promptly and were all beautifully presented and incredibly delicious. There's also a small selection for kids, and the portions are quite large.

I'm not normally a fan of system catering, but Zenz somehow manages to make you feel comfortable there - the waitresses are very attentive and friendly. The right concept in the right place - with outdoor dining in summer.

Unfortunately, unfriendly service. We were immediately reprimanded just because we moved a table by 30 cm so that six of us could sit together.

The Zenz Wirtshaus is absolutely recommended. We tried the Brizza there and loved it. The waitresses are extremely friendly and the waiting time for the food was also very short. All in all, highly recommended

The inn is located right next to Mainz main train station and can actually be easily reached from anywhere. The inside is very lovingly and rustically designed, the service is very nice and attentive. If you're looking for good, home-style cooking, you're in good hands here.

I ordered a simple cocktail (margarita) during happy hour. Since it wasn't on the menu, a 50% surcharge was charged over other cocktails despite happy hour without informing us in advance. In conversation: “you were unlucky”. Rip off.

Simply great for waiting time at the train station, but also just because. The menu and the drinks menu are lovingly designed. Super nice service, the food was fresh and tasty, there are lovely vegan options, delicious aperitif... And the espresso is excellent too. There is also right next to the train station and space for the miserable suitcases. Big recommendation.

We had the fried fish and the Wiener schnitzel, each with potato salad and cucumbers. It only took 5 minutes for the food to arrive after ordering. The veal schnitzel was tough and unfortunately so was the breading on the fish. The potato salad is supercooled. Only the beer tasted good. Therefore no recommendation, even if the interior looks very pleasant.

Very nice atmosphere and good service.

Top! Top! Top! Good food and attentive staff. We warmly recommend! Stylishly furnished, less than 10 minutes of waiting for the food - amazing! Taste and value for money are simply top!

- netter, freundlicher Empfang - Bedienung top und auf zack - sehr leckeres Essen, variabel in der Zusammenstellung - gehen auf Sonderwünsche ein - nettes Ambiente - fairer Preis

I came to eat food. The wait person was impatient and laught at me when I could not understand her at first because she was yelling truncated words at me. And since when are we using Du? Food was ok but portioned was very small.

Excellent food, decor, atmosphere and service. We had schnitzel and a Caesar salad that was exceptional. Didn’t snap a photo of the food but finished dinner with a beer and schnapps! Directly across from main train station. Open late and full bar. Don’t miss it!

Kilian is the shittiest and unfriendly guy I've experienced in my entire time in the restaurant - absolute disaster

Really very good restaurant. Reasonable prices, manageable offerings, delicious food. I would especially like to praise the friendly service (Asian appearance)! Even though we were a group of 15 people ordering food and drinks at once, she had everything under control (including her colleagues) and kept an overview! Class! We felt very comfortable and welcome! Thanks!

You have to visit the Zens in Mainz. For me one of the best places in Mainz to eat... The whole team was really friendly... The atmosphere is really nice... There are great drinks and everything cooked comes from the region... Simply delicious, stop by 😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊

The asparagus with hollandaise sauce was pretty bland. But the vegan schnitzel was just amazing. Even though I knew it, I wouldn't have recognized it as a meat-free alternative based on the taste.

8.50€ for 3 dead pieces of fillet with asparagus (with 6 potatoes already 16.90€) is simply over the top. Ambience really nice, service without any real joy in the job.

On Schnitzel Day the price/performance ratio is very balanced and fair. Salad is worth considering at over 5 euros... Service was very friendly and attentive, not intrusive. Lots of people, but not too loud and you don't smell like you've come out of a frying pan after your visit.

Delicious and fresh food, very nice staff

- Great atmosphere - Good selection of drinks (especially beer) Everything came quickly, the service was almost overzealous. Unfortunately, my sauerbraten was a total failure. Very dry, hard to cut. The first time I didn't want to finish eating. I was so looking forward to a great stew. Too bad. Visually, all the dishes were appealing.

Excellent food, friendly service and the spacious seating arrangement without too close contact with the other guests is particularly pleasant.

Today we ate another schnitzel with fried potatoes, cranberries and salad. Had a wheat beer with it. I thought the summer salad version only with leaf lettuce, especially radiccio and red beetroot cubes, was great, nothing against coleslaw and potato salad as usual, I also like to eat it. Schnitzel and fried potatoes are delicious. There are better products/suppliers when it comes to cranberry compote, but it's great that it comes with it, it's part of the schnitzel. Gladly again sometime!!!

Very cozy and delicious. Fast, friendly service. Original ambience.

Nice & quick service, good recommendation, delicious food All in all a lovely evening. Only the cocktails could have used less ice.

Super tasty and special dishes. Super nice staff and special and unusual bire mixed drinks. I couldn't decide what to get because there are so many great things on offer.

Great restaurant at Mainz main station with Mainz dishes and general German food. The knuckle could have been a bit crispy but it was actually very tasty, the dumplings and the dark beer sauce were also great. We also had Raspberry Mojitos which were very tasty and strong ☺️ the waitress was super friendly. Gladly again

Very good food, very friendly staff 👍 Absolutely centrally located right next to the train station. Delicious dishes even without meat!

We had a very pleasant visit to this restaurant. The kitchen impresses with a wide range of dishes, including vegetarian options. The dishes were nice. The ambience is modern and rather very loud due to the high ceilings. Still a restaurant that we would happily recommend!

I phoned this bar and it seems they can’t speak English and with no etiquette at all. After I say Hello the lady just kept hanging up my phone. Look at the calling record below. Worst service ever! ————————— Updated on 14 Mar The restaurant replied back with and was lying they tried to contact me back but wasn’t successful. Look at the second pic any missing call from you?😂 Aren't you afraid of retribution for lying🤥

I ordered bratwurst with mashed potatoes and Riesling cabbage. The Riesling herb was good. The sausages were probably already pre-fried and for this reason were hard and dry on the outside. They tasted okay. The puree tasted good, but it already had a dry edge in one place. (Was it plated hours in advance to save time?) I had the impression that the dish was not freshly prepared. My companion's schnitzel didn't taste like homemade, more like a store-bought frozen product. The service staff seemed to be new, were very shy and unfortunately didn't really try hard. When asked how big or how many milliliters the homemade lemonade was, the only answer was: "Yes, normal size, I don't know exactly, I'm not that good at estimating." Even when we were served the lemonade, there was no information about it. I would have liked to have found out then at the latest. She could have followed suit at the bar. During our visit, a customer came in who was very loud and behaved very rudely towards other customers. The service staff didn't know exactly how to deal with this situation and hardly did anything. All guests felt uncomfortable. One man even left. It is irresponsible to let staff with little experience work alone! And this is in the train station area, where such situations are more likely to occur. Unfortunately we won't be coming back.

The restaurant is located directly at Mainz main station and therefore very central. The service was good, the food was very nicely prepared, but unfortunately not that tasty. And for what it was, e.g. vegan schnitzel with fries, it was too expensive in my opinion.

We had dinner with 6 people on Shrove Saturday. The waiter was very friendly. The food was delicious and went quickly. The price-performance ratio is good. So, if we're in Mainz again, we'd love to come back.

Hearty cuisine implemented in a modern way. But also delicious salads. Nice ambience, except for the deer head.

Good quality, best service. Changing lunch menu.

Very nice and cozy atmosphere, really tasty food and great service. The waiter who served us was very nice and accommodating. We haven't had such good service in a long time. We will definitely come back.

Price performance good. Friendly service

There were 6 of us there. Since you don't want to eat so much in the evening, we found the dishes quite heavy. That's why 5 of us ordered salad. We mainly got lettuce leaves, hardly any tomatoes, cucumbers or anything like that. Plus hardly any salad dressing. Too bad.

Great shop, very friendly staff and the food is delicious

It was really good. The atmosphere in the inn was great, the cocktails were very good and especially the food. That was really tasty. Price performance was top. Reservation was great, it was just great. Gladly again

We had a wonderful Christmas party. The entire team is very friendly, the food came quickly and easily. We were there with 33 guests. Arranging the booking was super uncomplicated and very guest-oriented. We'd love to come back. The Reichenstein Castle team says: THANK YOU

Very pleasant staff. Good food. Pleasant atmosphere. I enjoyed eating here a lot.

Great German food (try the beer goulash!) and good service.

Great beer, great food, great staff, handy for HBF. Highly recommended.

Hello, we landed here on a recommendation, without a reservation, a friendly welcome and OH WONDER that hasn't happened to us at all in the last few months.... After we had our table, the menu + drink order came, a moment later the food order After that everything happened in no time, (super fast) unbelievable, As if they knew what we wanted to eat, hot food, on a warm plate, good portion, tasted very good and at such a reasonable price. Incredible. Thank you for this experience. LG from Hamburg

Very good food, good service, nice ambiance, fast but not rushed, schnitzel tasted very fresh with a nice flavour.

Good food, great service, nice selection on the menu - clear recommendation!

The service was super friendly and quick. The food was also delicious and came very quickly, even though the restaurant was full. Nice atmosphere, you feel very comfortable and warmly welcomed. We'd love to come back

Best happy hour (wish it started before 10 tho)

I had a bad experience, the waitress got my order wrongly and when I informed him and asked for my original order he said it was not possible, so I had to pay more for something I didn’t ordered and didn’t want to. And he kept during the whole night telling me it was my mistake.

Very nice inn in the immediate vicinity of the main train station. Very attentive and friendly staff, really good local cuisine, decent value for money. Recommended!

Of course we didn't make a reservation. The service was very friendly and still gave us a table with the note that the place would be reserved after 1 hour. We ordered and received our drinks quickly and the delicious food came very quickly. Great here. We rarely give that much tip, but the service staff were so cheerful and friendly that they were happy to give it. You should definitely eat here. Keep it up

Basically, the food looked great and I also liked it, but that was due to my diet. The staff tried very hard and in the end it worked. Thanks for that

I was there for the first time a few days ago and I was thrilled. Great ambience, great service, great food. Only the bouncers in the entrance area seemed a bit strange, but they were also very nice!

Service was a bit overwhelmed that evening, unfortunately incorrect information was also passed on. Otherwise ok

Good service and delicious food. However, they are quite expensive, especially with extras such as sauce for the schnitzel (3.90 euros extra) or ketchup and mayonnaise, also euros extra each. Otherwise, as I said, great, especially the ambience and the location. The schnitzel day is highly recommended!!

Stayed in the rustic Zens for breakfast today, very tasty and beautifully prepared breakfast.

Very tasty food and great ambience. Unfortunately we couldn't order the Kaiserschmarn - because we were just too full :-). The salad and the schnitzel were great. We'd love to come back!!

Schön eingerichtets Restaurant Personal sehr freundlich Essen sehr lecker, wir hatten Schnitzel und Brizza. Eine Bretzelteig basierende Pizza Kommen gerne wieder

Some of the best Mainz has to offer!

Ein tolles Wirtshaus mit zuvorkommendem Personal sorgten für einen angenehmen Abend.

Friendly service and a varied range of food, it's nice that there are also a few little things such as sausage salad or hand cheese.

-) schnelle Bedienung -) gute durchaus leckere Küche -) gute Erreichbarkeit -) freundliches Personal -) sehr zu empfehlen

Hoch professionelle Gastro im Besten Sinne. Nette Location, netter zuvorkommender Service und leckeres Essen…wie bei jedem Besuch bisher! Kompliment dem Team und Chef.

It was excellent, and the waiter was very friendly and helpful.