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Best Restaurants for Brunch in Frankfurt (2026)
Weekend brunch · Frankfurt · 6 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published March 22, 2024 · Updated June 9, 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
Frankfurt runs two kinds of brunch. There is the Sonntagsbrunch, the long German Sunday buffet that hotels and restaurants set out by the metre, and there is the all-day cafe brunch that arrived with the specialty-coffee wave in the Westend and the Nordend. This list takes both seriously, because the city does, and ranks the six rooms where the cooking, not the format, is the reason to go.
1.IIMORI Patisserie
The crossover Sunday buffet plating sushi next to French croissants near the Dom. Reserve by phone for the morning seating.
IIMORI runs at Braubachstrasse 24 in the Altstadt near the Dom and Romer, and its Sunday brunch is the most distinctive buffet in the city. The spread crosses a French patisserie with a Japanese kitchen: sushi and Japanese specialities alongside croissants and house pastries, at 38 euros a head including buffet drinks.
Reservation is by phone and the buffet opens mid-morning, so book the seating rather than arrive on spec. The rest of the week the room runs a la carte, but Sunday is the day it earns this list. For a brunch that does something no other Frankfurt room does, the patisserie-and-sushi buffet is it.
2.OOSTEN
The former harbour hall on the Main running a weekend brunch under the skyline. Book the Sunday table for a window seat.
OOSTEN occupies a former industrial hall at Mayfarthstrasse 4 in the Ostend, right on the Main with the skyline across the water. The weekend brunch is the draw, an a la carte spread served in a high glass room that fills on a sunny Sunday, when the kitchen runs 10:00 to 22:00.
Reservations are recommended, especially for a window, and the riverside setting is the structural advantage that the Westend cafes cannot match. It reads as a destination rather than a corner cafe, which suits a slow Sunday built around the water. Book the table and take the seat facing the river.
3.Sunny Side Up Westend
The Westend all-day room doing blueberry pancakes and bagel Benedicts. Arrive early on a weekend, it takes no bookings.
Sunny Side Up trades at Bockenheimer Landstrasse 9 in Westend-Sud and is the city's reference all-day breakfast room, vegetarian and vegan leaning. The kitchen anchors on vegan blueberry pancakes, a shakshuka, and a crisp eggs Benedict built on New York-style bagels, with plates roughly 9 to 16 euros.
There are no reservations, so the lever is timing: arrive for the first turn on a weekend rather than the late-morning rush, when the small room queues. It runs daily rather than weekend only, which makes the quiet weekday table the smart play. For the cafe end of Frankfurt brunch, it is the most reliable kitchen.
4.Café Sugar Mama
The central plant-based room running hearty breakfast plates and a cake counter. Good for a mixed vegan and not table.
Cafe Sugar Mama sits at Kurt-Schumacher-Strasse 2 in the Innenstadt, north of the river despite the listings that mis-tag it Sachsenhausen. It is a vegan and vegetarian brunch-and-cake room, with hearty plant-based breakfast plates and a serious dessert counter, at around 20 euros a head for a full breakfast and coffee.
It is a walk-in cafe rather than a bookings room, open late into the evening on Fridays and Saturdays. The cooking is more substantial than the cake-shop framing suggests, which is what lifts it above the city's many plant-based cafes. For a central, fully plant-based brunch, it is the pick.
5.Walden
The Kleiner Hirschgraben café plating Scandinavian, Italian and Greek breakfast boards. Take the terrace on a clear morning.
Walden runs at Kleiner Hirschgraben 7 in the Altstadt, a bright all-day cafe whose brunch is built around themed breakfast platters, a Scandinavian board, an Italian one, a Greek one, served a la carte across a long day. It is mid-range cafe pricing rather than a fixed buffet.
The large terrace is the seat to want when the weather holds, and the central address makes it an easy fold into a morning around the Romer. Reservations are possible by phone, useful on a busy weekend. For a boards-and-coffee brunch in the centre with room to linger, Walden is the reliable choice.
6.MAGO Coffee
The Nordend design café doing breakfast bowls, croissants and proper coffee. A weekday morning is the calm one.
MAGO holds a corner near Nibelungenplatz in the Nordend and is the design-led cafe end of Frankfurt brunch: breakfast bowls and plates, croissants and house cakes, and the specialty coffee that the neighbourhood expects. It runs mid-range cafe prices a la carte.
It is a walk-in room that fills on weekends with the Nordend crowd, so a weekday morning is the calm version. The strength here is the coffee programme and the room itself rather than a single hero dish, which is the honest read on a cafe of this kind. For a stylish, low-key Nordend brunch, it is the local answer.
Not for everyone
Famous, but not the brunch you want
Maxie Eisen, Bahnhofsviertel. The Ardinast brothers' pastrami-and-Reuben deli on Muenchener Strasse is still in older guides as a brunch option, but it has closed. Do not plan a weekend around it; for a proper sit-down brunch, the Westend and Altstadt rooms above are open and working.
Flemings Skyline Brunch. The rooftop buffet at the Flemings hotel sells a skyline view, and the view is the point, not the cooking. Hotel reviews run mixed on the food and the service. Fine as a panorama experience, but the wrong pick for a brunch ranked on the plate.
Movenpick Hotel City buffet. The chain-hotel brunch buffet in the Innenstadt draws sharp reviews for price and execution, warm hot food and disappointing dishes among them. It is the tourist-default hotel buffet that underdelivers, and the independent rooms above beat it on every axis that matters.
How to brunch in Frankfurt
Decide first between the Sonntagsbrunch and the all-day cafe, because they are different mornings. The buffet rooms, IIMORI and OOSTEN, run a Sunday window and reward a booking; the cafes, Sunny Side Up, Sugar Mama, Walden and MAGO, run a la carte across the day and take walk-ins. The buffet is the event; the cafe is the slow morning.
Reserve at the buffet end and time your arrival at the cafe end. IIMORI is phone-reservation only and OOSTEN fills its riverside windows on a sunny Sunday, so book both. Sunny Side Up and the Nordend cafes take no bookings, so the lever is the first turn at opening rather than the late-morning rush, when the small rooms queue.
Pick the bank of the river to match the day. A Westend or Nordend cafe brunch sets up the Palmengarten and the Grueneburgpark; an Ostend brunch at OOSTEN puts the harbour and the riverside path at the door; an Altstadt brunch at IIMORI or Walden leaves the Romer and the museum embankment a short walk away.
Frequently asked
What is the best brunch in Frankfurt?
IIMORI in the Altstadt, for the most distinctive buffet in the city, a Sunday spread that plates sushi and Japanese dishes next to French croissants and pastries at 38 euros a head including drinks. It is reservation by phone and the buffet opens mid-morning, so book the seating ahead.
Does Frankfurt do a Sunday brunch buffet?
Yes, the Sonntagsbrunch is a city institution. IIMORI runs a French-Japanese buffet at 38 euros, and OOSTEN serves a weekend brunch in a former harbour hall on the Main. Both take bookings and both reward one. The cafe rooms run a la carte instead and most of them serve brunch across the whole week.
When is brunch served in Frankfurt?
The buffet rooms run a Sunday window, often from mid-morning; OOSTEN serves through the day until late. The cafes are easier and most run daily: Sunny Side Up, Sugar Mama, Walden and MAGO all serve brunch a la carte across the week, so a quiet weekday morning is the calmest table.
Which Frankfurt neighbourhood is best for brunch?
The Westend and the Nordend hold the densest cafe scene, with Sunny Side Up in Westend-Sud and MAGO near Nibelungenplatz. The Altstadt holds the buffet at IIMORI and the boards at Walden, and the Ostend has the riverside brunch at OOSTEN. The centre is compact, so none is far from another.
How much does brunch cost in Frankfurt?
The cafe plates run around 9 to 16 euros and a full breakfast with coffee lands near 20. The Sunday buffets are higher and fixed: IIMORI is 38 euros a head including drinks. The hotel buffets run higher again and are a different kind of occasion rather than a neighbourhood brunch.
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