Plank is a bar in Bahnhofsviertel, Frankfurt.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Daytime it is a cafe with laptops; by 22:00 the same counter is one of the street's most reliable bars.
Address: Elbestraße 15, 60329 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.
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.
Signature drink: Late drinks before the dancefloor takes over
Tip: It fills after the Opernplatz bars close; Thursday keeps the music-to-crowd ratio at its best.
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.
