Chinaski is a bar in Westend, Frankfurt.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: It fills after the Opernplatz bars close; Thursday keeps the music-to-crowd ratio at its best.
Address: Bockenheimer Landstraße 3, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
O'Reilly's pours pints opposite Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, the Irish pub every arriving traveller finds within minutes of stepping off a train.
Signature drink: A properly settled pint of stout
Tip: Match days pack it beyond reason; otherwise it is the softest landing between a delayed train and a hotel check-in.
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.
Signature drink: Aperol on the wraparound terrace
Tip: The terrace at golden hour is the draw; inside stays calm enough for actual conversation even on weekends.
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.
Signature drink: Spritz at the quiet end of the Zeil
Tip: It is the meeting point before deciding on the real destination, and often the night stays right there until 01:00.
Café Größenwahn has been the Nordend's talking bar since 1978, wine and daily plates on a Frankfurt corner that never modernised on purpose.
Signature drink: House wine amid four decades of Nordend debate
Tip: Arrive at 16:00 for a table and stay through dinner; the room's history as a queer and activist hub is the atmosphere.
Ebbelwoi Unser is the apfelwein tavern that drinks like a bar, Sachsenhausen's young crowd holding tables in Frankfurt until 01:00 most nights.
Signature drink: A Bembel of Ebbelwoi, pure or gespritzt
Tip: Order the Bembel and settle in; this is the tavern to treat as a night out rather than a dinner stop.
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.
Signature drink: Pisco sour at the all-day bar
Tip: The bar takes walk-ins when the dining room is fully booked; a ceviche at the counter is a complete evening in miniature.
