Coffee shops, bakeries with seats and the places Frankfurt lingers in over a cortado.

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Wacker's Kaffee

Order House-roast espresso at the stand-up counter

Wacker's Kaffee has roasted and poured in Frankfurt since 1914, four generations in, its Kornmarkt Stammhaus drawing a queue of regulars most mornings.

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Café Karin

Order Filter coffee from an 1847-founded traditional roastery

Café Karin beside the Goethe House has served Frankfurt all-day breakfast for over three decades, a city-centre institution with zero polish lost.

Café Laumer

Order Pot of coffee with a slice from the Konditorei counter

Café Laumer has kept Westend Kaffeehaus culture running since 1919 in Frankfurt, the room where the Frankfurt School once argued over cake and coffee.

Bitter & Zart

Order Thick drinking chocolate beside the chocolaterie shelves

Bitter & Zart pairs a chocolaterie shop with a salon on Braubachstraße in Frankfurt, pouring drinking chocolate on the city's gallery street.

Café Siesmayer

Order Coffee and patisserie beside the Palmengarten palms

Café Siesmayer runs classic Kaffeehaus service at the Palmengarten's edge in Frankfurt, patisserie by the team behind two-star Lafleur next door.

Café Hauptwache

Order Coffee under the baroque guardhouse roof

Café Hauptwache occupies Frankfurt's 1730 baroque guardhouse on the city's central square, serving coffee and Grüne Soße for over a century.

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Glauburg Café

Order Cappuccino with the Nordend weekend crowd

Glauburg Café holds its Nordend corner in Frankfurt with all-day breakfast and coffee, the neighbourhood's default weekend meeting room on Glauburgstraße.

Sunny Side Up

Order Flat white with an eggs-led breakfast plate

Sunny Side Up cooks eggs every way at the city end of Frankfurt's Bockenheimer Landstraße, the Westend's dependable daytime breakfast room by some distance.

Café Maingold

Order Coffee by day, spritz after dark at Zeil 1

Café Maingold sits at the quiet end of Frankfurt's Zeil, a café-bar hybrid running from midday coffee to weekend closing time past midnight.

Café im Liebieghaus

Order Coffee and cake in the sculpture museum's garden

The café in Frankfurt's Liebieghaus serves coffee and cake in a villa garden full of sculpture on the Museumsufer, an open secret in summer.

Harvey's

Order Weekend brunch coffee stretching into evening drinks

Harvey's runs from morning coffee to last orders past midnight on a leafy Nordend corner of Frankfurt, a café-bar and long-time queer landmark.

Wunderbar

Order Coffee in Höchst's old town, kitchen running all day

Wunderbar is the café anchor of Frankfurt-Höchst's old town, pouring coffee by the half-timbered lanes far from the city-centre crowds and their noise.

Baguette Jeanette

Order Café au lait with a filled baguette from the counter

Baguette Jeanette bakes French loaves and pours café au lait on Frankfurt's upper Berger Straße, Bornheim's default morning bread and coffee stop.

Café Größenwahn

Order An evening coffee sliding into wine at the Kneipe tables

Café Größenwahn has run its Nordend corner in Frankfurt since December 1978, a café-Kneipe of daily menus, wine and four decades of debate on its walls.

Kaffeewerk Espressionist

Order One of four house espresso roasts, dialled in daily

Kaffeewerk Espressionist brews four house espresso roasts below Tower 185 near Frankfurt's Messe, the trade-fair district's serious coffee bar.