The 5 Brunch Cafe You Can’t Miss in Frankfurt
Frankfurt’s brunch scene doesn’t cluster in one neighbourhood the way its skyline clusters its banks — it’s spread across the city in pockets that reflect very different ideas of what a late-morning meal should be: a riverside bistro on the Mainkai looking straight across the water at the skyline, a Parisian-styled café tucked into Sachsenhausen, a health-driven breakfast spot in the Westend near the old opera house, and two very different takes on the modern all-day brunch concept in Nordend and the Innenstadt. We went through every brunch cafe with a Google Business listing across the city, filtered out the obvious mismatches, and weighted each one’s rating against how many people actually left it. Five came out clearly ahead, and between them they cover most of what brunch in this city can mean: a single-ingredient concept restaurant, a late-night all-day dining bar, a riverside institution, a French-accented café, and a fully vegetarian breakfast specialist.
Kiwis – Restaurant • Bar • Events, Innenstadt
The highest-rated and most-reviewed name on this list by a wide margin: Kiwis, 4.8★ from 3,690 Google reviews. It sits between the stock exchange and the shopping district, and by its own description it exists to bring “Urlaubsstimmung” — holiday mood — into the middle of the financial city, pairing modern dining with an atmosphere built for good vibes rather than business-lunch formality. It covers the whole day deliberately: an extensive breakfast, a quick fresh lunch, or a relaxed dinner, built around cocktails as much as food, and it stays open deep into the night on Schillerstraße rather than closing after the brunch crowd leaves. It also runs as a genuine event space, with room for 30 to 100 guests and a weather-protected terrace. Open daily, 11:00 AM to 3:00 AM, with Friday and Saturday running to 3:30 AM.
Le Petit Café, Sachsenhausen
The most specifically themed café on this list, and the smallest. Le Petit Café ties Kiwis at 4.8★, from 1,627 reviews, on Schulstraße in Sachsenhausen. Its own guests describe the feeling as walking straight into Paris, and the café backs that up with Barbarossa beans prepared for a genuinely international coffee range and homemade cakes — rhubarb and apple-almond are the two specifically singled out by its own reviewers — rather than a standard pastry case. It also runs vegan and gluten-free options alongside the traditional French-café fare, and hosts small private celebrations, from birthdays to baby showers, on top of daily service. Open Monday to Sunday, with hours that stretch from an 8:00 AM opening to as late as 10:00 PM on Fridays.
Avocateur, Nordend
The one entry on this list built around a single ingredient rather than a cuisine or a national style. Avocateur‘s own tagline is blunt about it — “It’s all about Avocado!” — and the Oeder Weg menu commits to that fully: housemade avocado toasts, avocado cocktails, avocado desserts, even avocado burgers and tacos, all built around what the restaurant calls the “superfruit.” It bakes its own sourdough and brioche on site rather than sourcing bread in, and pairs the concept with what it describes as “breathtaking interior design” and heartfelt hosting rather than treating the gimmick as the whole experience. 4.7★ from 1,753 reviews, open daily, noon to 10:00 PM (11:00 PM on Fridays and Saturdays).
Mainkai Café•Bistro, riverside Altstadt
The one with the view. Mainkai Café•Bistro sits directly on the river its name comes from, with a direct line of sight to the Main and the cruise boats that pass in front of it — by its own account, a vacation-like ambiance in the middle of the old town. The kitchen leans into a proper breakfast-to-bistro range: gourmet breakfasts through the morning, then salads, snacks and daily-changing dishes into the evening, with a homemade tiramisu specifically called out on its own site. It also takes bookings for groups of up to 40 with custom menus, which is more function-space capacity than a typical café carries. 4.6★ from 2,613 reviews on Mainkai, open daily, 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM.
Sunny Side Up Westend, Westend
The only fully vegetarian kitchen on this list, and the most direct about its own philosophy: its tagline reads “because brunch is our love language,” and the menu backs it with modern international breakfast dishes, açaí bowls and matcha specials rather than a classic eggs-and-bacon spread — largely free of refined sugar, with wide vegan and gluten-free coverage built in rather than bolted on. The Bockenheimer Landstraße location, near Frankfurt’s old opera house, was recently renovated with wood furnishings, woven pendant lighting and heavy greenery, and runs without reservations except for groups of four or more. 4.6★ from 2,384 reviews, open daily, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
All five, on the map
The interactive map has every qualifying brunch cafe we found across 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 brunch crawl in Frankfurt
These five sit far enough apart — Westend to Sachsenhausen crosses the river, and the Altstadt riverside is its own short walk from Innenstadt — that a proper crawl means real cross-town movement rather than one stroll. If you’re visiting rather than living here, a local eSIM from Airalo means Google Maps and transit apps work the moment you land at FRA, and a booked transfer from Welcome Pickups takes the guesswork out of getting from the airport into the city first. Frankfurt runs on banking, and that shows up even at brunch: paying in euros without a foreign transaction fee on every coffee and avocado toast adds up over a full day out, and both a Wise card and N26 — itself a Berlin-born neobank now squarely part of the German financial landscape this city is built on — are straightforward ways to avoid that. And if the brunch crawl is one stop on a longer Frankfurt itinerary, Tiqets covers skip-the-line tickets for the museums along the Museumsufer and other attractions between cafés, so the day isn’t all queueing.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the best brunch cafe in Frankfurt?
By rating weighted against review volume, Kiwis – Restaurant • Bar • Events in the Innenstadt comes out on top at 4.8★ from 3,690 reviews, though Le Petit Café matches its 4.8★ on a smaller review base. “Best” depends on what you want: Kiwis for an all-day dining-and-cocktail concept with holiday energy, Le Petit Café for a genuinely French-styled café experience.
Which Frankfurt neighbourhood has the most brunch cafes?
They’re spread rather than clustered — this list alone covers Innenstadt, Sachsenhausen, Nordend, the riverside Altstadt and the Westend, one each, which reflects how brunch culture in Frankfurt sits across the whole city rather than in a single strip.
Are there good vegetarian or vegan brunch options?
Yes — Sunny Side Up Westend is fully vegetarian with extensive vegan and gluten-free coverage, and both Le Petit Café and Avocateur list vegan and gluten-free options on their own menus alongside their standard fare.
Do these cafes need a reservation?
It varies by venue — Sunny Side Up Westend takes walk-ins except for groups of four or more, while Kiwis and Mainkai both also handle private events and larger groups by request, according to their own sites. Check the individual listing on the map before a weekend visit, since brunch demand is highest Saturday and Sunday mornings everywhere on this list.
Is Frankfurt brunch different from a typical German breakfast?
Yes, noticeably — three of the five cafes here (Avocateur, Sunny Side Up Westend, and to some extent Le Petit Café) build their menus around a specific modern concept — single-ingredient, health-focused, or French-accented — rather than a traditional German cold-cuts-and-bread breakfast; Kiwis and Mainkai sit closer to an all-day bistro format instead.
- 1. Kiwis – Restaurant • Bar • Events — Schillerstraße 10, 60313 Frankfurt am Main
- 2. Le Petit Café — Schulstraße 38, 60594 Frankfurt am Main
- 3. Avocateur — Oeder Weg 52-54, 60318 Frankfurt am Main
- 4. Mainkai Café•Bistro — Mainkai 15, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
- 5. Sunny Side Up Westend — Bockenheimer Landstraße 9, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
