22 editor picks in Frankfurt.
22 cafe places in Frankfurt we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Frankfurt · Cafe across every city.
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.
Drink Flat white on the house Länderweg roast
Hoppenworth & Ploch pours its own Frankfurt-roasted coffee at Markt 22 in the rebuilt Altstadt, steps from the Römer and the new old town lanes.
Drink Single-origin filter from the Giesen roaster
The Nordend original of Hoppenworth & Ploch on Friedberger Landstraße is where Frankfurt's specialty coffee scene grew up, filter brews first.
Drink 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.
Guided tour · 2.5 hours
Get to know Frankfurt from its most enjoyable side: between the Kaiserdom, the Römer, and Sachsenhausen, exciting stories, Frankfurt originals, and selected Ebbelwoi t...
Viator · 2 to 4 h
Immerse yourself in German drinking culture and brewing tradition during an exclusive beer tasting tour in Frankfurt’s Old Town. Visit amazing venues selected by a loc...
Guided tour · 1 - 2 hours
No time for long tours? Discover Frankfurt in 60 minutes (in German): Experience the festive Old Town and one of the most beautiful Christmas markets. See highlights l...
Drink 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.
Drink Matcha latte with a yuzu tartelette
Iimori crosses French pâtisserie with Japanese precision on Braubachstraße in Frankfurt, Azko Iimori's cake counter with sushi upstairs in the same house.
Drink 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.
Drink 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.
Drink Rotating guest-roaster espresso, no reservations, no fuss
The Holy Cross Brewing Society has anchored Frankfurt specialty coffee on Fahrgasse since December 2015, cycling roasters from four continents.
Drink 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.
Drink 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.
Drink 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.
Drink 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.
Drink 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.
Order Cake of the day at a garden table between the sculptures
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.
Drink 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.
Order Coffee and the daily kitchen board after a lap of the Altstadt
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.
Drink 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.
Drink 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.
Drink 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.
Order Coffee and the daily kitchen board after a lap of the Altstadt
Wunderbar anchors Höchst's half-timbered old town, the all-day cafe of the Frankfurt district that visitors keep failing to discover, to their loss.
Order Cake of the day at a garden table between the sculptures
The Liebieghaus café serves cake among marble statues in a walled villa garden on Frankfurt's museum bank, in plain sight and unseen by the crowds.
