Chicago Meatpackers Restaurant

Situated just on Willi-Brand-Platz, this American style burger joint is worth a visit if you're with a group of friends.

Beer of choice is Becks (on draft for €3.90, 0.5L) and they also do a Franziskaner Weizen. Some American beers are available. Plenty of cocktail options and the like available too.

The food is the expected fare of burgers, ribs, steaks and the like. I can definitely recommend the Big Bopper 360g burger. There're a couple of vegetarian options too but let's face it, you don't go to a place called Lentils-R-Us looking for a 300g rib-eye.



The bar area is nice enough and has baseball on TV. To be honest I really have no complaints at all about the place. Service was prompt and very friendly, food n' drinks were quality and not overly expensive. All in all it lives up to what it claims to be and is definitely somewhere I'd go back to.

Chicago Meatpackers
Untermainanlage 8
60329 Frankfurt am Main
Phone +49 69 231659

They have a really nice burger with mushrooms .

Their cocktails aren't up to scratch in my opinion though. Sadly they lack the most important ingredient, alcohol !

Service was good when I was there, and the place is normally quite busy.

I think it's awful there..i work just around the corner and have been after work sometimes with collegues and it was shit. Way too american,. one evening the music was so loud in there we could hardly hear ourselves speak. And 3.90 for a becks is a rip off...
Nah, give me a eppelwio kneipe anyday

"Chicago Meatpackers Restaurant"...



You're absolutely right. What this 'American style burger joint' needs is some Indonesian decor, Ghanian music and waitresses in French maid outfits.

Actually I think I'll mail them about that last point.

Beer in FFM is quite expensive in general, I've found. Often a Euro more than in Munich. Tell me where to get a Hefeweizen for 2.80 in FFM and I'll check it out!

I've had great ribs at the Meatpackers though, mmm. And the music wasn't too loud on the Saturday night I was there. Maybe joolz was there after closing time when they're trying to get the last people to leave? Turning up the music is a common strategy for that time of night...

They do onion loaf there???

On the website...

I saw it brought out to a table too and thought about getting our table to order it -- I will next time, it looked great. Why, is that a real Chicago thing? I've never seen it before.

I think it might be, as I have only seen it in Chicago. Maybe it's a Midwestern thing as well??

God, how I LOVE onion loaf. I think I'm going to plan a weekend trip out just to go to this restaurant!

ooh yes come visit! It did look good!

I have walked past that place several times and wished that I had more time to give it a try. Everytime that I am in Frankfurt, my schedule is usually packed. Local FFMer's I know say that it is damn good, but a bit pricey. Still, I would kill (or just pay a bit extra) for a good steak that melts in your mouth.


Perhaps you are just way to british.

http://the-steakhouse.de/ is supposed to be good, also up here. On my list of places to try.

Damn, an even better looking menu:

Grain Fed Prime Rib Eye or Sirloin
Rib Eye oder Sirloin 450g
29,80 €


The Surf & Turf
Filet und Hummer
T.P.


Hard choice.

Dammit I'm goin tonight. I'll take the camera for Keydeck's benefit. On to the Arc for a beer afterwards.

Rizzo, appreciate the sentiment, but it's a bit of a schlepp from Frankfurt to get back to the Arc after dinner.

Yes, the steak house is AMAZING. Comparable to Morton's back in the U.S...mmmmmm...

Doh! Doh! Doh!

Screwed on two counts. No Onion Loaf. And undoubtedly a nomination for Dumbass post of the week.
Still going to the Arc though. And thanks Keydeck - I would have been walking around Willi brandt strasse for hours trying to find the restaurant. Arc burger here I come.

maybe this is a bad place to put it, but i will be in frankfurt on sunday afternoon and thought about eating a good steak for dinner. does anyone have a good recommendation. it'll be a birthday thing too (not for me). only one said something good about the steakhouse.

only one person? You must have been looking at the wrong thread. The steakhouse is FABULOUS. Best steak I've had in Germany, second only to Tucker's Steakhouse in St. Louis in my life in fact.

http://the-steakhouse.de/

and yes, this is the wrong place for this conversation. Chicago Meatpackers is a great place, but cannot compare to The Steakhouse. I'd search but I have to run. oh wait it was me further up in this thread. This thread needs a split then...

Oh and you do have to reserve at the Steakhouse as they get full.

i saw a review about the steakhouse about 4 posts up, which is what i was referring to when one person gave a good review. alrighty then! mmm, steak.

I don't know how to link to another thread but there's one titled 'Steak houses in Frankfurt' elsewhere in the forum. There's quite a few votes for Buffalo (and it's the favourite in my office too), although Blockhouse can also be quite good (and easier to get into - Buffalo can get very, very packed). Mind you, it might depend on whose birthday it is too: Steakhouse is easily the most formal of the three.

HTH.

Oops, forgot to add (and I should really have picked up on it earlier, silly me) that not everywhere will be open on a Sunday, and, indeed the Steakhouse is shut on Sundays.

I think the person to ask here is Number 10! I went to one with him I think it was Buffale but I am not sure. It was the one in a dingle around by Blaubart if that is any help? Between Hauptwache and Alte Oper, Kaisershof str is the name of the street where it is if that helps?

I am not a big steak eater so cannot really help any more

NOOONE thinks MEATPACKERS is a funny name? eh? eh? cam ooooooooon!

Yep, PM is correct: Buffalo is the one in Kaiserhofstr. It's down a little alleyway-thing just past the Central Park bar/restaurant thing. And I've figured out how to link to a previous topic, so here it is: Steak Houses in Frankfurt.

the hamburgers suck big time at meatpackers

I noticed that most steakhouses in Germany do not really serve fresh meat. I am one of those customers who does not like to chow down on meat that has been in the fridge for 6 years.
The Steakhouse is the best and I would recommend the Steakhouse cause the meat is of great quality and it serves the juiciest ribs in town.

I hate that place. Anyone who dares to serve good Beck's in plastic pitchers should get the boot out of this country.

you're all Meatpackers...goddit?