Cocktail bars, wine bars, dive bars and gastropubs: drinking in Frankfurt for grown-ups.

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Burbank

Drink Mixology list beside West Coast-Asian plates

Burbank runs the Roomers hotel's black-lacquered ground floor in Frankfurt, cocktails and Asian-Californian plates on Gutleutstraße until midnight.

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naïv

Drink The Glaabsbräu collaboration lager

naïv is Frankfurt's craft beer bar of record on Fahrgasse, with rotating taps and a house lager poured nightly until 01:00 to a walk-in crowd.

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Cocktail tours and tastings in Frankfurt

11 of the bars on this list are cocktail bars.

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YALDY

Drink House cocktails beside the natural wine list

YALDY doubles as the Bahnhofsviertel's most relaxed cocktail room in Frankfurt, Bib Gourmand snacks backing the drinks until 02:00 at weekends.

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Balalaika

Drink Whatever pairs with a singalong at 01:00

Balalaika packs live music into a candlelit Sachsenhausen room on Schifferstraße, Frankfurt's tiny late bar with a cult following and no closing hurry.

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Klapper 33

Drink A late beer among the last standing

Klapper 33 is the Klappergasse Kneipe that outlasts every Frankfurt tavern night, pouring until 05:00 at the weekend, cash in hand and jukebox on.

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Bar Shuka

Drink Arak cocktails with Tel Aviv-style mezze

Bar Shuka brings Tel Aviv nights to Frankfurt's Niddastraße, mezze and arak cocktails running to midnight in the Bahnhofsviertel every night.

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Plank

Drink Espresso by day, house cocktails after dark

Plank runs Elbestraße from morning espresso to 02:00 cocktails, the Bahnhofsviertel's all-day room that helped gentrify the block one bar at a time.

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Chinaski

Drink Late drinks before the dancefloor takes over

Chinaski blurs bar into club opposite the Alte Oper on Bockenheimer Landstraße, open 22:00 to 03:00 or 04:00 late in the week for the dance-inclined.

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O'Reilly's

Drink A properly settled pint of stout

O'Reilly's pours pints opposite Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, the Irish pub every arriving traveller finds within minutes of stepping off a train.

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Harvey's

Drink Aperol on the wraparound terrace

Harvey's turns from Nordend brunch room into a proper corner bar by evening, with drinks poured until 01:00 on Bornheimer Landstraße in Frankfurt.

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Café Maingold

Drink Spritz at the quiet end of the Zeil

Café Maingold slides into bar mode after dark at Zeil 1, Frankfurt's low-lit room between the shopping mile and the Innenstadt bars proper, till late.

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Café Größenwahn

Drink House wine amid four decades of Nordend debate

Café Größenwahn has been the Nordend's talking bar since 1978, wine and daily plates on a Frankfurt corner that never modernised on purpose.

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Ebbelwoi Unser

Drink A Bembel of Ebbelwoi, pure or gespritzt

Ebbelwoi Unser is the apfelwein tavern that drinks like a bar, Sachsenhausen's young crowd holding tables in Frankfurt until 01:00 most nights.

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GRETA OTO

Drink Pisco sour at the all-day bar

GRETA OTO's bar pours pisco and Latin American cocktails from 10:00 daily on Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz, central Frankfurt's easiest good drink before dinner.

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OOSTEN Realwirtschaft am Main

  • ★ 4.1
  • Riverside bar-restaurant
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  • Ostend

Drink A sundowner on the harbour-crane terrace

OOSTEN's terrace under the old harbour crane doubles as Frankfurt's best riverside drinks deck, skyline sundowners over the Main every clear evening.

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Wunderbar

Drink An evening beer in Höchst's old town

Wunderbar is Höchst's bar as well as its cafe, pouring until midnight among half-timbered lanes on Frankfurt's western edge, last orders near midnight.

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