Sleep (Old Guard)
Photo by Stefan Bungert
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.
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Good Eating
Photo by Stefan Bungert
Deutsche bankers are flocking to the new Ivory Club, Europe’s only gourmet curry and steak joint.
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Pig Out
Photo by Stefan Bungert
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.
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Kultur und Kapital
Photo by Stefan Bungert
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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