A Guide to Eating and Drinking in Frankfurt
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When it comes to eating and drinking in Frankfurt, the reality couldn’t be further from its expensive, city-slicker reputation. Aside from the central business district – where backpackers’ budgets do tend to be overlooked – good food (and plenty of it) won’t cost the earth.
As ever in Germany, the usual ‘wurst’ options are available. But while these can be found all over the country, Frankfurt is the home of the ‘Frankfurter’ and the well-traveled sausage can easily be picked up in its home city for a few euros.
Just to the north of the city center, the Opernplatz and Rathenauplatze districts are never short of reasonable dining options. On and around the Grosse Bockenheimer Strasse (or, as it’s known locally, the ‘Fressgass’) there are also several reasonable places.
For Middle Eastern food, the Bahnhofsviertel area (around Hauptbahnhof station) is the place to head. The residential district of Nordend, meanwhile, has a number of Mediterranean restaurants, particularly Italian and Turkish.
Bockenheim, the city’s university district out to the west, is the best bet for budget travelers looking for a good square meal. Leipziger Strasse (not far from the Bockenheimer Landstrasse), too, has some good inexpensive choices.
On the other side of the river, Sachsenhausen, similarly, has a range of places where the food is generally excellent. A couple of good cheaper joints are bunched together on the Grosse Rittergasse and the adjacent Darmstadter Landstrasse.
For those looking for some cheap pub fare, Sachsenhausen has many traditional taverns known as ‘kneipen’. The area is also home to several places serving the local ‘ebbelwoi’, a drink rather like cider that's made from fermented apples.
It’s also a city with a fine brewing heritage, all too obvious in its two locally-produced pilsner beers, Binding and Henninger. And this love of a good beer goes hand in hand with a broader taste for eating out to make Frankfurt a real standout in the eating and drinking stakes.
