Cafe€€innenstadtMon-Thu 12:00-00:00; Fri-Sat 12:00-01:00; Sun and holidays 10:00-21:00Work-friendly
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.
Signature drink: Coffee by day, spritz after dark at Zeil 1
Tip: Breakfast happens only on Sundays and holidays from 10:00 to 14:00; on weeknights it turns into a low-lit bar.
Cafe€€sachsenhausenTue-Sun 12:00-17:00; closed Mon
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.
Signature drink: Coffee and cake in the sculpture museum's garden
Tip: The garden tables sit among the museum's outdoor marbles; combine with the Städel two doors along the embankment.
Cafe€€nordendMon-Sat 09:00-01:00; Sun 09:00-00:00Work-friendly
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.
Signature drink: Weekend brunch coffee stretching into evening drinks
Tip: The wraparound terrace on Friedberger Platz territory fills Friday evenings; brunch is the calmer way to get a table.
Cafe€hoechstMon-Sat 10:00-00:00, kitchen until 21:00; Sun 10:00-16:00Work-friendly
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.
Signature drink: Coffee in Höchst's old town, kitchen running all day
Tip: Pair it with the Höchst porcelain museum and the Main ferry; Sunday closes at 16:00, so go for late breakfast.
Cafe€bornheimDaily 08:00-19:00; counter sales from 07:30 on weekdays
Baguette Jeanette bakes French loaves and pours café au lait on Frankfurt's upper Berger Straße, Bornheim's default morning bread and coffee stop.
Signature drink: Café au lait with a filled baguette from the counter
Tip: Weekday counter sales start at 07:30, before the seating opens; the baguettes sell through by early evening.
Cafe€€nordendDaily from 16:00; kitchen Mon-Sat 17:00-22:00, Sun 17:00-21:00
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.
Signature drink: An evening coffee sliding into wine at the Kneipe tables
Tip: It opens at 16:00, so treat it as an evening café; the rotating German-Mediterranean menu rewards the indecisive.