Start from 54 curated places around Frankfurt, DE, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Zum Gemalten Haus
One of the oldest and most atmospheric of Sachsenhausen's traditional Apfelwein taverns, on Schweizer Strasse with wooden-panelled walls hung with paintings of old Sachsenhausen. The house presses its own cider and serves it alongside classic Frankfurt food — Handkäse mit Musik, Grüne Soße, and schnitzel. It is a genuinely functioning neighborhood restaurant, not a theme park.
Apfelwein Wagner
The most celebrated of Frankfurt's classic Apfelwein taverns, family-run in Sachsenhausen since 1931. Unlike nearby competitors, it serves no beer — only its own cider — and the food card is short and traditional. Fried fish on Fridays and homemade stews on Saturdays make it a local weekly ritual as much as a tourist destination.
Trails & outdoors
Großer Feldberg Summit Loop (Taunus)
A circular hike around the 881-metre Großer Feldberg, the highest peak in the Taunus hills north of Frankfurt and the highest point in Hesse. The summit carries a distinctive telecommunications tower visible from Frankfurt on clear days, and the panoramic views on the approach stretch across the Rhine-Main plain to the south. Reachable by bus from Bad Homburg, which is itself accessible by S-Bahn from Frankfurt.
Drei Burgen Weg (Three Castles Trail)
A 20-kilometre day hike in the Hochtaunus district passing the ruins and restored towers of Königstein, Falkenstein, and Kronberg — three medieval hilltop fortifications connected by forest trail. The route combines castle history, elevated forest walking, and views over the Taunus landscape. Both start and end points are reachable by S-Bahn from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof.
Things to do
Museumsufer Festival (Museumsuferfest)
One of Europe's largest open-air cultural festivals, held every August over a long weekend on both banks of the Main. The festival opens all Museumsufer institutions at reduced prices and pairs them with outdoor stages, food stalls, and craft markets. It draws over half a million visitors across the weekend and is Frankfurt at its most publicly festive.
Bockenheimer Depot
A converted tram depot in Bockenheim that serves as an experimental stage for Frankfurt's opera and theatre companies, programming productions too large for the main Oper Frankfurt stage. The industrial space is used with physical imagination — seating configurations change per production, and the venue can accommodate promenade, in-the-round, and conventional formats.
Landmarks & sights
Römerberg
Frankfurt's medieval old town square, a cluster of reconstructed half-timbered facades surrounding a central fountain and the Römer — the city hall that has served Frankfurt since 1405. The Kaisersaal inside preserves portraits of 52 Holy Roman Emperors who celebrated their coronations here. It is the one place in Frankfurt where the pre-war city is legible again.
Städel Museum
Germany's oldest and most comprehensive art museum, housing 700 years of European art from Botticelli and Rembrandt to Monet and Picasso. The permanent collection spans three floors in a building partly extended underground, with natural light flooding the modern galleries. It anchors the Museumsufer and rewards two to three hours at minimum.