Rooftop FRANZISKA in Frankfurt

FRANZISKA: the skyline seen from the Henninger Turm

The barrel of the Henninger Turm

For decades, the Henninger brewery's silo tower dominated Sachsenhausen with its strange barrel-shaped crown. Demolished and then rebuilt as a 140-metre residential tower, it has regained its silhouette and, right at the top, a restaurant. A fast lift takes you up in about forty seconds.

The circular room is glazed from floor to ceiling: on one side, the towers of the banking district beyond the River Main; on the other, the rooftops of the south of the city and the surrounding countryside. At sunset and then at night, the spectacle is complete.

Reinvented German cuisine and the Barrel Bar

The kitchen, open to the dining room with a counter where you dine facing the cooks, reinvents German and Hessian classics: Königsberg meatballs in tortellini, Leberkäse carpaccio, fish fried in beer batter, a cherry-shaped Black Forest cake. The five-course menu costs €99.99 and the tasting menu of seven small plates €149.99; from 9.30pm, a late menu offers individual dishes. In one half of the barrel, the Barrel Bar, with its green marble counter and mirrored back wall, serves house creations, great classics and bespoke cocktails, not forgetting draught beer from the Henninger house.

Practical information

Open every evening from 6pm, until midnight Sunday to Thursday and until 1am on Friday and Saturday. Booking advised, online or by telephone; the tasting menu must be ordered before 8.30pm. The restaurant seats about 85. Allow around ten minutes on foot from Frankfurt Süd station (Südbahnhof, U-Bahn and S-Bahn) or from the Lokalbahnhof S-Bahn station.