The 5 Dessert Shop Patisserie You Can’t Miss in Frankfurt
Frankfurt does not have a native dessert-shop tradition the way Vienna has its coffeehouses or Palermo
its pasticcerie — what it has instead is a banking-and-trade city’s habit of importing traditions whole and
letting them compete on the same few streets. Two of the five shops on this list trace their pistachio and
syrup straight back to Gaziantep, a third works from Aleppo’s Levantine sweet-making tradition, a fourth
folds Vienna’s coffeehouse manners into an “1001 Nights” room, and the fifth runs French and Japanese pastry
side by side under one roof. We went through every dessert shop and patisserie with a Google Business
listing across the city — generic bakeries and chain cafes with no real pastry programme were filtered out
— and weighted each one’s rating against how many people actually left it, since a 4.8 from under a
thousand reviews and a 4.0 from three thousand are not making the same claim. Five came out clearly ahead.
MokkaTeeria, Bornheim/Ostend
The highest-rated and most-reviewed name on this list: MokkaTeeria, 4.8★
from 1,746 Google reviews. The shop builds its whole identity around a deliberate collision of East and
West — handmade Turkish and Arabic mokka alongside classic Viennese-style cheesecakes, served in a room
that pairs orientalist wall ornamentation with minimalist concrete and a curated soundtrack of harp and
oboe. It describes the effect as fairy tales that “melt on your tongue” rather than just get told, and it
runs a sister Bread & Sweets location for its bread and pastry line. On Heidestraße in Bornheim/Ostend, open
daily, 9:30 AM to 10:00 PM, extending to midnight Friday and Saturday.
Seydioglu Baklava, Innenstadt
Seydioglu is a family business that describes its own mission as bringing
“authentic Antep tradition” to Germany — pistachios and walnuts sourced directly from Gaziantep, with
partner farms in Urfa and Adıyaman, worked by hand into paper-thin phyllo by bakers trained on
century-old family recipes. The shop is explicit about the craft detail that makes or breaks a good
baklava: pouring cool syrup over hot pastry, timed precisely to keep the layers crisp while the inside
stays moist. Fıstıklı (pistachio) and cevizli (walnut) baklava sit alongside fıstık sarma and şöbiyet, plus
gift boxes built for Ramadan Iftar. Right on the Zeil, Frankfurt’s main shopping street, 4.7★ from 889
reviews, open every day of the week, 9:00 AM to midnight.
Patisserie de l’Arabie, Bahnhofsviertel
The one shop here working a different regional tradition entirely. Patisserie de
l’Arabie has run as a family business for more than fifteen years, building a base the shop itself puts
at over 10,000 customers, on Syrian and Levantine sweets rooted in Aleppo rather than the Anatolian baklava
style found elsewhere on this list — baklava still appears, alongside maamoul (date- and nut-filled
pastries), kadayif and Arabic coffee. The shop’s own description leans on restraint rather than sugar:
“not overly sweet,” so the pistachios, cashews and walnuts carry the flavour instead of syrup doing the
work. On Hardenbergstraße in the Bahnhofsviertel, 4.7★ from 899 reviews. Open 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM most
days, with a Friday afternoon break from 2:30 to 3:30 PM, and closed Sundays — the only shop on this list
that is.
Anteplioglu Frankfurt, Altstadt
The name states the tradition outright: Anteplioglu means, roughly, “son of
Antep,” Gaziantep’s older name and the region most associated with Turkish baklava-making. The shop bills
itself as “authentisches Baklava & Türkische Süßigkeiten” and frames the whole operation as “a little piece
of home” for Frankfurt’s Turkish community rather than a tourist counter — a second, independent take on
the same Gaziantep tradition Seydioglu works from a few streets over, useful for anyone who wants to compare
two houses making the same style of pastry. On Fahrgasse in the Altstadt, close to the Dom, 4.5★ from
1,726 reviews, open 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM most nights, until midnight Friday and Saturday.
IIMORI Patisserie, Altstadt
The most-reviewed shop on this list by a wide margin, and the one built on the least expected pairing.
IIMORI calls itself a French-Japanese patisserie and means it literally: NY
cheesecake and chocolate gateau sit on the same counter as green tea torte, green tea opera cake, shokupan
(Japanese milk bread) and melonpan, all baked fresh daily on-site on Braubachstraße with no chemical
additives, by the shop’s own description. It’s also the one place here with dine-in, terrace and takeaway
all in one location rather than a counter-only format. 4.0★ from 3,250 reviews — the largest review
base of the five, which is worth weighing against the more tightly-reviewed, higher-rated names above it on
this list.
All five, on the map
The interactive map has every qualifying dessert shop and patisserie 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 dessert crawl in Frankfurt
These five span the Altstadt, the Zeil, Bornheim/Ostend and the Bahnhofsviertel, which is a genuine
cross-town route rather than one afternoon stroll — plan on the U-Bahn or a bike between at least two of
the stops. 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. Paying in euros without a foreign transaction fee on every box of baklava and every
coffee adds up over a full day out — a Wise card is the simplest fix for
that. And if the dessert crawl is one stop on a longer Frankfurt visit, Tiqets
covers skip-the-line tickets for the Dom, the museums along the Museumsufer and the other stops between
shops, so the day isn’t all queueing.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the best dessert shop or patisserie in Frankfurt?
By rating weighted against review volume, MokkaTeeria in Bornheim/Ostend comes out on top at 4.8★
from 1,746 reviews. Seydioglu Baklava and Patisserie de l’Arabie both hold 4.7★ on smaller review
bases, so the honest answer depends on what you want: MokkaTeeria for an Oriental-Occidental coffeehouse
experience, Seydioglu or Patisserie de l’Arabie for baklava made in the Gaziantep or Aleppo tradition
respectively.
Which Frankfurt neighbourhood has the most dessert shops on this list?
The Altstadt carries two of the five (Anteplioglu and IIMORI), both within a short walk of the Dom; the
Zeil, Bornheim/Ostend and the Bahnhofsviertel each contribute one.
Are these dessert shops open on Sundays?
Four of the five are, per Google’s current listings — MokkaTeeria, Seydioglu, Anteplioglu and IIMORI all
list Sunday hours. Patisserie de l’Arabie is the exception and lists itself closed on Sundays.
Is Frankfurt’s dessert scene mostly Turkish?
Turkish baklava houses are the strongest single thread — Seydioglu and Anteplioglu both work from the
Gaziantep tradition — but the list isn’t uniform: Patisserie de l’Arabie works from Syrian and Levantine
technique instead, MokkaTeeria frames itself as an Oriental-Occidental fusion, and IIMORI is a French-Japanese
patisserie with no Middle Eastern influence at all.
Which of these shops has the most Google reviews?
IIMORI Patisserie, at 3,250 — nearly double the next closest (MokkaTeeria and Anteplioglu, both around
1,700-1,750) — though its 4.0★ average sits lowest among the five, worth weighing alongside review
count rather than review count alone.
- 1. MokkaTeeria — Heidestraße 149, 60385 Frankfurt am Main-Bornheim/Ostend
- 2. Seydioglu Baklava — Zeil 53, 60313 Frankfurt am Main
- 3. Patisserie de l’Arabie — Hardenbergstraße 15, 60327 Frankfurt am Main-Innenstadt I
- 4. Anteplioglu Frankfurt — Fahrgasse 80, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
- 5. IIMORI Patisserie — Braubachstraße 24, 60311 Frankfurt am Main-Innenstadt I
