Auerbachs Keller (Auerbach’s Cellar in English) is the best known and second oldest restaurant in Leipzig, Germany. Already one of the city’s most important wine bars by the 16th century, it owes its worldwide reputation to Goethe’s play Faust as the first place Mephistopheles takes Faust on their travels. wine bar at the site was already mentioned in a historical record dated 1438.