Where Frankfurt shops, snacks and lunches: the markets worth your morning.
Food markets, farmers markets and covered halls: where Frankfurt shops, snacks and lunches.
Kleinmarkthalle is Frankfurt's covered market of over 60 stalls, where locals queue at Metzgerei Schreiber for hot sausage eaten standing up.
Go for: Frankfurter Würstchen, Grüne Soße, Wine terrace
Tip: Do the circuit: hot Fleischwurst at stand 8, Grüne Soße from Edel's, bread from Huck, then a Schoppen on the Rollanderhof wine terrace upstairs.
The Erzeugermarkt on Frankfurt's Konstablerwache sells only from regional producers, twice a week, with apfelwein poured right beside the farm stalls.
Go for: Regional produce, Apfelwein, Grilled sausage
Tip: Thursday evening runs to 20:00 and turns into an open-air after-work drink; the producers pour their own apfelwein by the glass.
Bornheim's twice-weekly market fills upper Berger Straße in Frankfurt with produce, cheese and flower stalls under the old village clock tower.
Go for: Produce, Flowers, Cheese
Tip: Saturday morning before 11:00 gets the full stall count; finish with coffee on Berger Straße or a Schoppen at Solzer nearby.
The Sachsenhausen market on Diesterwegplatz supplies Frankfurt's tavern quarter twice a week, produce and regional stalls by Südbahnhof station.
Go for: Produce, Hessian specialities
Tip: Friday afternoon is the livelier session; the seven Grüne Soße herbs appear bunched together in season, ready for the pot.
The Friday market on Friedberger Platz is Frankfurt's open-air aperitivo: half the Nordend shops for produce, the other half stays for wine.
Go for: After-work wine, Produce, Street snacks
Tip: After 17:00 in summer it becomes the city's biggest informal party; come earlier if you actually want the vegetables.
Bockenheim's Thursday market at the Warte tower mixes Hessian growers with international stalls, serving Frankfurt's student quarter all day.
Go for: Produce, International stalls
Tip: Pair the market with the Wednesday-to-Saturday campus life around the Warte; stalls thin out fast after 17:00.
Oberrad's Saturday market on Buchrainplatz sits in the district that grows Frankfurt's Grüne Soße herbs, field to stall in one village square.
Go for: Grüne Soße herbs, Local growers
Tip: Oberrad calls itself the herb garden of Frankfurt; in season the seven-herb bundles here are as fresh as they exist anywhere.
The Höchst market hall trades three mornings a week by the old town's half-timbered lanes, western Frankfurt's daily-bread institution on Melchiorstraße.
Go for: Produce, Butchers, Old-town shopping
Tip: Go Saturday, then walk the two minutes into Höchst's Altstadt for coffee at Wunderbar and the Main ferry crossing.
The Friday Schillermarkt lines Schillerstraße by the old stock exchange, Frankfurt's banking crowd buying lunch from farm stalls every week.
Go for: Lunch stalls, Regional produce
Tip: Hit it between 12:00 and 14:00 for the full lunch scrum, or after 16:00 when the sellers start dealing on prices.
The Thursday Kaisermarkt lines Kaiserstraße in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel, a weekly street-market pause between the towers and the station.
Go for: Snack stalls, Regional goods
Tip: Go at lunchtime when the office crowd arrives; the food stalls do their heaviest trade between 12:00 and 14:00.