Kleinmarkthalle, Frankfurt

The traditional, beating heart of Frankfurt’s food scene set along Hassengasse is a treasure trove with the perfect mix of ingredients, experts, tales and stories. A beacon of yesteryear in look, it still retains its 1960s style but this recently modernised market is still standing on the position of an open air market that pre-dates the building by hundreds of years! Sadly flattened in WWII, it was reconstructed throughout the Fifties and re-opened in the Sixties in the popular Art Deco style of the time. Spread over two floors, it bears a mix of international cuisines and time-honoured local stalls. Kleinmarkthalle is still where so many locals buy everything from exotic delicacies to daily provisions from over 60 stallholders who have been commanding their patches for decades