Mainz
Lorenz Adlon joined a fellow student, opening a wine store together, for selling what was produced by the many regional vineyards.
During those years, Adlon couldn't resist the appeal, often visiting the Holländische Hof hotel near the Rhinefront, there taking note of the German aristocracy and its culinary customs. Adlon also was an athletic person, and -reportedly- he once catered his whole team, in a profitable experience which particularly fueled Adlon's dream for a gastronomic career.
Lorenz Adlon got earnestly interested for gastronomy after a trip to France; after returning from the Franco-Prussian War, Adlon so started working as an innkeeper, in 1872. In 1876, Adlon accomplished his first big job in Mainz, catering the crowds during a regional shooting contest.
In 1878, Lorenz Adlon opened the Raimundigarten restaurant, a wooden building, built over an abandoned fortification of Mainz, at its northwest, over the bank of the Rhine. Basically oriented for the tourism, it soon became a successful endeavor. Adlon then started exporting Bohemian Pilsener beer abroad, to both Holland and Belgium.
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