Mon Amie Maxi is a brasserie restaurant in Westend, Frankfurt.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Signature dishes: Plateau de fruits de mer
Must order: Oysters from the raw bar, then steak frites with béarnaise
Tip: The oyster bar takes walk-ins even when the book is full; Sunday lunch is the calmest way to see the room in daylight.
Address: Bockenheimer Landstraße 31, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Zenzakan stages pan-Asian dinners across a dark 2,000 square metre hall on Frankfurt's Taunusanlage, sushi and robata plates under lantern light.
Order: Black cod and duck from the robata section, shared
Tip: Go with four people and order in waves; the Geisha Room for two is the city's oddest and best private table.
Zenzakan stages pan-Asian dinners across a dark 2,000 square metre hall on Frankfurt's Taunusanlage, sushi and robata plates under lantern light.
Order: Black cod and duck from the robata section, shared
Tip: Go with four people and order in waves; the Geisha Room for two is the city's oddest and best private table.
The Sakai runs a Michelin Guide listed omakase counter on Hedderichstraße in Frankfurt's Sachsenhausen, with parallel fish, Wagyu and vegan menus.
Order: The Red omakase with Wagyu; vegans get the full Green menu
Tip: Book the counter, not a table; the last seating at 21:00 means this is an early, focused dinner by design.
Goldmund pairs Franco-German cooking with the Literaturhaus salon above Frankfurt's Schöne Aussicht, a Michelin Guide listed river-view room.
Order: The seasonal set with a Rheingau Riesling from the short list
Tip: Check the Literaturhaus programme before booking; a reading downstairs plus dinner upstairs is a complete Frankfurt evening.
Emma Metzler is Frankfurt's museum restaurant done right: Anton de Bruyn's regional neo-bistro cooking inside the Museum Angewandte Kunst building.
Order: The set lunch, nose-to-tail and mostly regional, changing weekly
Tip: Reserve the Metzler Park terrace at lunch; afternoons in between services run on cream puffs and Due Mani espresso.
Margarete cooks seasonal German food in a listed 1920s hall on Braubachstraße in Frankfurt's Altstadt, with vegan dishes given equal billing.
Order: The changing lunch plate; the vegan option is never an afterthought
Tip: It sits two minutes from the Römer yet stays local; the bar keeps pouring after the kitchen winds down at night.
YALDY earned its Bib Gourmand cooking seasonal shared plates on Moselstraße in Frankfurt, the Bahnhofsviertel's easiest room to stay in till 02:00.
Order: The nightly vegetable plates with a bottle from the natural list
Tip: Come after 22:00 when the first seating clears; the cocktail list deserves as much attention as the wine.
