Sleep (Old Guard)
Bankers and politicians enjoy the palatial, 19th-century Frankfurter Hof, where U.S. Federal Reserve vice chairman Donald Kohn, Bank of England boss Mervyn King, and German chancellor Angela Merkel have checked in.
Good Eating
Deutsche bankers are flocking to the new Ivory Club, Europe’s only gourmet curry and steak joint.
Pig Out
Never get between a Frankfurter and his frankfurter. They enjoy nothing more than plowing through a plate of sausages with sauerkraut. Wash them down with a glass of gut-rotting local apfelwein (that’s hard cider to non-Frankfurters). Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl is known to scarf down heaps of wurst at the Adolf Wagner tavern, but locals swear by the less touristy Zur Germania.
Kultur und Kapital
Lots of banks and financial institutions equal lots of corporate sponsorships and a glut of some 60 museums and galleries. Ignore the Museum for Comical Art—Frankfurt is not the place for funny—and head to the Städel and its collection of Dutch masters instead.
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