Best Eats of Frankfurt

Today's guest post comes from Kate of Relokate - check out her blog: http://relokate.eu/

Hey there, my name’s Kate and I am a serial expat travelling the world who is currently living in Frankfurt, Germany. 

Today, I want to share with you some of the beat eats of Frankfurt, my current home away from home, and hopefully help you in planning where to eat on your European adventures! 

Margarete 

Maragarete is pretty fancy as restaurants in Frankfurt go. The menu has a vast selection of different foods to eat from typical German to cuisine, to steaks, salads and so much more. I recommend going with a large group, all ordering different foods and enjoying a bite or two of each thing ordered! I highly recommend Grüne sauce (green sauce = a herby, yoghurt sauce of goodness) with boiled egg and bread as your starter meal! After all, Grüne sauce is one of Frankfurt’s signature dishes! 

Helium 

Not only does Helium serve great food, but the atmosphere inside and outside of the restaurant makes you feel instantly drawn to it. Helium is a club in the evening, which means it’s decked out to the nines with disco lights, a full bar and plenty of seating for either a coffee or a full blown lunch meal. I recommend visiting Helium in the summer, sitting outside to enjoy the people watching opportunities and ordering a burger, I can promise you won’t be disappointed! 

Good Times 

This is my ALL TIME FAVOURITE place to go in Frankfurt. Good Times is actually a nickname for the bar and it’s constantly stuck between that name and “Ohne Name” (no name), as the bar quite literally doesn’t have a name. Good times is the kind of place you can go for a coffee meeting with new friends, cocktails with old friends and lunch with just about anybody. Seriously, the food is that good! ‘Good Karma Chicken’ is the sandwich to order on the menu if you want to give your taste buds a little something different and ultimately, be totally satisified. I also highly recommend a ‘real hot chocolate’ which is sent straight from the heavens. 

Souper! 

If sitting in garden chairs covered in plankets or even standing to eat are your thing, then Suppe is for you. Whilst those things do not sound appealing, you definitely shouldn’t knock it until you’ve tried it! Suppe even has a garden swing you can sit on to enjoy their delicious soups. I highly recommend the Indian Curry Soup, which is the favourite of anyone who has tried it. The wonderful guys at Suppe are there to serve your delicious soup, hand out all the free bread and cheese you could want and all with a wonderful smile on their faces. Suppe is a little bit like Frankfurt’s worst kept secret, so keep this one to yourselves ;). 

For more on the best eats of Frankfurt and to see all the wonderful things Frankfurt has to offer, head over to my city guides.

I Love Doughnuts But...

I have been a little absent from my blog of late, but I haven't been any less obsessed with food. I have begun to make one change however, and that is a promise to myself and my body that I will try my very best to eat cleanly and heathily wherever possible - as well as cutting my meat intake by half.

So I still love doughnuts, but I've just been eating a little less of them and have been getting interested in healthy alternatives to my favourite sugary snacks. The clean eating promise comes from my want and need to nuture my body as there is nothing more important than looking after ourselves. There is a definite awareness that comes with clean eating, and in taking up this challenge, it has really highlighted for me how little I think about what I'm putting into my body - things that would before seem like a normal snack or a drink are things that I no longer want to consume.

This new lifestyle started after I watched the BBC2 Horizon documentary series - 'Should I Eat Meat?', and I was shocked by the effect that meat production is having on the planet. One third of the world's land is used for arable farming, just so we can feed the animals that we eat. Our current meat intake in the UK averages at 220g of meat per day and in order for meat production to be sustainable in our current environment, we need to half that intake. This is a change I thought I could easily make - it would save me money and improve my health. It's been a month or so now and I have definitely decreased my meat intake - some days I don't eat meat or dairy at all. It's made me realise that I don't really miss them.

However being a big foodie and with food being a part of my career as well as my personal passion, I wanted to give myself the freedom to eat animal products if and when I wanted to, as long as I was adhering to my reduction rule. As I cut down on my intake, I started to cook more vegan meals - ones that were piled high with the most delicious vegetables, eating dried fruit for snacks, drinking cold pressed juices and getting really obsessed with avocados. My eating was becoming cleaner, so why not make that a permanent change in my life?

I have also been spending a lot of time on Instagram (you can find my account here: http://instagram.com/skye2612 ), where I post a lot of pictures without writing blog posts to go alongside them. In exploring this, I have found a lot of other accounts that are passionate about clean eating and alternatives to what we are so used to eating. 

Although I still love eating out and am thoroughly obsessed with Crosstown Doughnuts, you will notice a change in some of the things I am cooking and writing about. I hope to share my finds with you - particularly if I find any new good and healthy snacks, as well as my usual food porn.