The 5 Rooftop Bar Skyline View You Can’t Miss in Frankfurt
Frankfurt is the one German skyline the country actually has — a compact cluster of glass towers that
earned the city its half-joking nickname “Mainhattan” — and the venues that turn that skyline into something
to drink or eat in front of are scattered across it: an Innenstadt hotel roof near the Eschenheimer Tor, a
converted riverside address on the Ostend bank of the Main, a skybar 185 metres up inside one of the
Europaviertel’s tallest towers, and the shopping streets in between. We went through every venue with a
Google Business listing matching “rooftop bar skyline view” across the city centre and weighted each one’s
rating against how many people actually left it, because a 4.6★ from under two thousand reviews and a
4.3★ from over ten thousand are not making the same claim. Five came out on top, and between them they
cover more ground than “rooftop bar” alone suggests: a boutique hotel’s 360-degree roof terrace, a
Main-riverside restaurant with its own rooftop bar and summer garden, an art-themed skybar near the top of the
ONE Tower, a casual all-day chain restaurant inside the Skyline Plaza mall, and — more surprisingly, and worth
saying plainly — a department store on the Zeil.
Flemings Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City, Innenstadt
The highest-rated name on this list, and the only one built around a hotel roof rather than a standalone bar
or restaurant. Flemings Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City sits in a protected historic
building at Eschenheimer Tor, and its 7th-floor Occhio d’Oro restaurant carries a 360-degree roof terrace
alongside its Italian regional menu and mid-century-modern interior — the hotel’s own language for the evening
view is a “Lichtermeer,” a sea of lights, once Frankfurt’s towers switch on. A seasonal package called “Tastes
of Frankfurt — Above the City” pairs a golden-hour aperitivo on the terrace with dinner service afterward. The
building itself earned BREEAM DE sustainability certification in August 2024 and carries two other distinctive
architectural details worth knowing before you go: a public Paternoster elevator, and a seven-metre lobby wall
designed by Rafael Horzon. 4.6★ from 1,925 reviews.
NFT Skybar, Europaviertel
The most literal answer to “skyline view” on this list. NFT Skybar sits on the
47th floor of the nhow Frankfurt hotel inside the ONE Tower, 185 metres above street level, with a 360-degree
terrace the bar itself describes as showing “Frankfurt’s skyline from its best side.” Its whole concept pairs
digital art with mixology — cocktails positioned as “modern art in the glass,” with a menu running to names
like the Nebula Elixir, the Golden Smoke Old Fashioned and a Fresh built on raspberries, elderflower syrup,
passionfruit, lime, vodka and Passoa. It keeps a smart-casual dress code and shorter hours than a standard bar:
closed Monday and Sunday, Tuesday to Thursday 6:00 PM to 1:00 AM, Friday and Saturday until 2:00 AM. 4.4★
from 3,214 reviews.
Oosten, Ostend
The one on this list built around water as much as height. Oosten sits directly
on the Main riverbank in Ostend, and beyond the main restaurant it runs a separate rooftop bar and a summer
garden, with event space for up to 180 guests. The kitchen leans Mediterranean and describes its own approach
as “quality in focus. Seasonal. Precise” — ingredient-led cooking rather than complexity for its own sake, in
a room the venue itself sums up as “glass, concrete, sunlight.” Open 5:00 to 11:00 PM on weekdays, with earlier
weekend and holiday hours from 10:00 AM Sunday and noon Saturday. 4.3★ from 4,844 reviews.
Alex, Skyline Plaza
The most casual, highest-traffic stop on this list — 6,197 reviews is the largest review base of the five,
even if its 4.0★ average is the most modest. Alex is one of more than 40
locations of a German café-bar-restaurant chain, this one built into the Skyline Plaza development on
Europa-Allee, running a rotating weekly menu across breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner — pancakes, bowls,
burgers, steaks and cocktails, open long hours daily from 8:30 AM. In fairness to the “skyline view” framing:
the chain’s own site doesn’t specifically call out a terrace at this address, so it earns its place on this
list through its name and its position inside the mall that shares it, not a confirmed rooftop seat of its
own — worth knowing before setting an afternoon around it.
GALERIA Frankfurt an der Hauptwache, Zeil
The honest surprise of this list, and worth naming as one rather than dressing up. GALERIA Frankfurt an der Hauptwache is a department store on the Zeil, Frankfurt’s
main shopping street — not a bar, and its own site was unreachable to confirm any rooftop terrace or café
firsthand, so nothing about a skyline view here is claimed beyond what Google’s listing itself shows. What
that listing does show is scale: 10,688 reviews, more than double any other name on this list, at 4.3★,
for a store open 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM on weekdays and Saturdays until 8:00 PM (closed Sunday). If a rooftop view
turns out to exist here, it comes as a bonus on top of one of the busiest addresses in central Frankfurt —
not the reason to make the trip.
All five, on the map
The interactive map has every qualifying venue we found for “rooftop bar skyline
view” across central Frankfurt, these five marked and numbered, and a button that hands the walking-and-transit
route between them straight to Google Maps on your phone.
Getting the most out of a rooftop-bar evening in Frankfurt
These five sit far enough apart — Innenstadt, Ostend and the Europaviertel are three distinct parts of the
city — that covering more than one or two in an evening means real cross-town movement, not a single stroll.
If you’re visiting rather than living here, a local eSIM from Airalo means
Google Maps and Frankfurt’s U-Bahn and S-Bahn apps work the moment you land, and a booked transfer from Welcome Pickups takes the guesswork out of getting from Frankfurt Airport
into the city in the first place. Rooftop cocktails and a hotel restaurant tasting menu are not a cheap combination,
and paying in euros without a foreign transaction fee on every round adds up over one night out — a Wise card is the simplest fix for that. And if the skyline evening is one stop on a
longer Frankfurt visit, Tiqets covers skip-the-line tickets for the museums
and towers between drinks, so the trip isn’t all queueing.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the best rooftop bar in Frankfurt for skyline views?
By rating weighted against review volume, Flemings Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City’s Occhio d’Oro rooftop comes
out on top at 4.6★ from 1,925 reviews, with NFT Skybar close behind at 4.4★ from 3,214 reviews and
the more literal claim to height — it sits on the 47th floor of the ONE Tower, 185 metres up.
Which Frankfurt neighbourhood has the most rooftop venues on this list?
The Europaviertel contributes two — NFT Skybar and Alex — with Innenstadt, Ostend and the Zeil each
contributing one. It’s a genuinely citywide spread rather than one concentrated strip.
Are all five of these dedicated rooftop bars?
No, and that’s worth saying directly: two of the five are not purpose-built rooftop bars. Alex is a casual
all-day chain restaurant inside the Skyline Plaza mall, and GALERIA Frankfurt an der Hauptwache is a department
store on the Zeil — both surfaced under this search, but neither one’s own website confirmed a rooftop terrace.
The other three — Flemings, NFT Skybar and Oosten — are built specifically around a rooftop or riverside view.
Do I need a reservation or is there a dress code?
NFT Skybar keeps a smart-casual dress code and runs shorter hours than a standard bar — closed Monday and
Sunday, open from 6:00 PM the rest of the week. Oosten and Flemings’ Occhio d’Oro both support reservation-based
dining, useful for a sunset seat rather than walking in and hoping for one.
Are these rooftop venues open in winter?
Google’s current listings show all five operating year-round on their stated hours, though an open-air terrace
in a German winter is a different experience than the same seat in July — check the individual listing on the
map before building an evening around outdoor seating specifically.
- 1. Flemings Selection Hotel Frankfurt-City — Eschenheimer Tor 2, 60318 Frankfurt am Main
- 2. NFT Skybar — Brüsseler Str. 1-3, 60327 Frankfurt am Main
- 3. Oosten — Mayfarthstraße 4, 60314 Frankfurt am Main
- 4. Alex — Europa-Allee 6, 60327 Frankfurt am Main
- 5. GALERIA Frankfurt an der Hauptwache — Zeil, An der Hauptwache 116-126, 60313 Frankfurt am Main
