History

Currywurst may be Berlin's invention, but Frankfurt built its own cult around heat. Best Worscht in Town, grown by Lars Obendorfer, whom the local press calls Frankfurt's Godfather of Worscht, grades its curry sauces from gentle Bissi Prickeln through Godfather's Deathkiss to the waiver-worthy FBI level, served on handmade sausage with Huck bakery sourdough. The format spread across a dozen branches and turned the humble curry sausage into a Frankfurt endurance sport, complete with regulars who order letters most humans should not.

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Common allergens: Gluten

Make it at home

Yield Serves 4Hands-on 25 minTotal 25 minDifficulty Easy

Ingredients

  • 4 coarse bratwurst or Rindswurst
  • 300ml passata
  • 2 tablespoons ketchup
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder, plus more to dust
  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • Cayenne or chilli sauce to taste
  • 1 tablespoon vinegar and 1 teaspoon sugar
  • Fresh bread or fries to serve

Method

  1. Simmer the passata with ketchup, curry powder, paprika, vinegar and sugar for 10 minutes until glossy.
  2. Adjust the heat with cayenne, from polite to reckless, and keep the sauce warm.
  3. Grill or pan-fry the sausages until browned and cooked through.
  4. Slice into rounds, drown in sauce, dust with more curry powder and serve with bread or fries.

Tip from the editors. Build heat in the sauce, not on the sausage, and taste as you go; the Frankfurt way is a ladder you climb one rung at a time.

Where to eat currywurst, frankfurt style

Currywurst, Frankfurt style in Frankfurt

Best Worscht in Town ★ 4.3

€ Street foodWestend

Best Worscht in Town remains Frankfurt's benchmark cheap hot lunch all week long, currywurst and Huck sourdough bread for well under ten euros.

TryCurrywurst with bread, heat level of your choosing

TipLevel B is the sensible ceiling for first-timers; the bread is from Bäckerei Huck and soaks up the regret.

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Frittenwerk ★ 3.9

€ Street foodBahnhofsviertel

Frittenwerk's fresh-cut fries fill Frankfurt station-district lunch breaks for under ten euros, poutine gravy included and vegan dips on the board.

TryLoaded fries or poutine

TipThe plain fries with two house dips are the honest budget order; poutine upgrades still land under most lunch menus.

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