Café Größenwahn is a LGBTQ+ bar in Nordend, Frankfurt.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Come for dinner and stay for the room; the walls carry nearly five decades of Frankfurt counterculture.
Address: Lenaustrasse 97, 60318 Frankfurt am Main
Klapper 33 is Frankfurt's dive of record, a smoky Klappergasse Kneipe that keeps pouring until 05:00 when the weekend demands it of the room.
Tip: Cash only in spirit if not in fact; this is where Sachsenhausen's bar staff drink after their own shifts end.
O'Reilly's works the graveyard shift opposite Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, pints and stray travellers until 03:00 on Saturday nights and first trains.
Tip: Between a missed connection and the first morning train, this room has sheltered generations of the stranded.
Tanzhaus West drives Frankfurt techno through an old industrial complex on Gutleutstraße, marathon weekend sets running past sunrise into Sunday.
Tip: Events like the 28-hour season openers run through the morning; check the programme and buy ahead for anniversary nights.
Chinaski packs a bar-sized dancefloor near Frankfurt's Opernplatz, the late-week club for people who wanted a bar until midnight and then changed their minds.
Tip: Thursday is the local secret; Saturday queues build after 01:00 when the Opernplatz bars empty out.
The Jazzkeller has run jazz down 19 stone steps off Frankfurt's Fressgass since 1952, founded by trumpeter Carlo Bohländer and still programming new players.
Tip: The monthly Junge Szene Frankfurt night ends in a jam session; the cellar is small, so buy concert tickets ahead.
Balalaika's nightly music squeezes into a candlelit Sachsenhausen room, Frankfurt's smallest stage and its most devoted audience packed close.
Tip: There is no setlist and no stage to speak of; the night finds its own music, usually after midnight.
