chairs is a wine bar in Bornheim, Frankfurt.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Food program: Seasonal plates from regional organic producers
Tip: Sunday evening service is the rarity here; the short menu changes with the producers, so ask what arrived this week.
Address: Gronauer Straße 1, 60385 Frankfurt am Main
Emma Metzler's list reads like a regional natural wine map of Germany, poured with museum-bistro cooking on Frankfurt's Schaumainkai museum bank.
Wine focus: Natural wines from nearby regions and wider Europe
Food: Anton de Bruyn's regional neo-bistro plates
Tip: The by-the-glass list changes with the kitchen's producers; in fair weather, drink it out on the Metzler Park terrace.
Weingut Rollanderhof pours its Rheinhessen estate wines on the Kleinmarkthalle gallery terrace, Frankfurt's daylight wine ritual over Liebfrauenberg.
Wine focus: Rheinhessen estate wines from the family's Saulheim vineyards
Food: Bring plates from the Kleinmarkthalle stalls below
Tip: No reservations, ever; buy Handkäs or sausage from the hall downstairs and carry it up to the terrace with your Schoppen.
Lorsbacher Thal treats apfelwein the way a wine bar treats Burgundy, cellaring over 300 bottlings in barrel below its Frankfurt tavern in Sachsenhausen.
Wine focus: An apfelwein cellar list of over 300 entries, aged in barrel
Food: Hessian tavern kitchen without shortcuts
Tip: Order by flight, not Bembel, and let the host sequence the pours from bone dry to barrel-aged rarities.
Goldmund keeps the wine flowing to midnight in Frankfurt's Literaturhaus, a French-accented list two floors above the Main at Schöne Aussicht.
Wine focus: French-leaning list built for the Franco-German kitchen
Food: Literaturhaus dinners until 22:00
Tip: After the kitchen closes at 22:00 the room relaxes into a wine salon; ask for a table at the river-facing windows.
The Altstadtbäckerei of Hoppenworth & Ploch stocks a tight natural wine shelf beside its sourdough in Frankfurt's rebuilt old town lanes behind the Römer.
Wine focus: Natural wines sold beside sourdough and patisserie
Food: Bakery counter, pastries and pantry goods
Tip: It is a daytime bottle stop rather than a bar; pick up a grower Riesling with bread and picnic on the Main ten minutes south.
YALDY doubles as Frankfurt's most relaxed natural wine room, a Bib Gourmand kitchen on Moselstraße pouring low-intervention bottles till late.
Wine focus: Natural wines chosen by co-owner Andrei Lipan
Food: Bib Gourmand seasonal shared plates
Tip: Ask for something cloudy and cold to start; the kitchen's small plates are built for working through the list.
