Liebesbrot
Double Espresso
Salted Pretzel
Nut Bread
Raisin Brioche
Almond Croissant
Marzipan Pretzel
Rhabarberkuchen
Although there appears to be no less than a hundred Bakeries in Frankfurt Am Main, some of them with multiple outlets, Liebesbrot is one of the few offering service early on Sunday and an arrival minutes after 7:00am found several products still warm with the west side Café doing good business without being overly busy.
Independently owned at Mendelssohnstrasse 60, the staff charming and bilingual save for a Baker who seemed all business inside the small kitchen, it was after some indecision that the choice was made to invest half-savory and half-sweet, a Double Espresso to accompany six items and the tally just under eighteen Euros.
Charming on the interior as well as an outside patio, flowers hanging from trees adding a splash of color to otherwise monochrome environs, it was beginning with a Pretzel straight from the kitchen that tasting was underway, the soft pull beneath tanned skin arguably the best tasted across nine days while Nut Bread offered toasty notes and textural heterogeneity from bite to bite.
Sampling spongy Brioche next, occasional Raisins helping to transition the palate sweet, those unfamiliar with Germany’s use of Marzipan will likely find most Almond Croissants in Frankfurt too sugary regardless of baking quality and should instead stick to “Nougatbrezel” incorporating a bit of bitterness from Dark Chocolate, though Liebesbrot’s best bites came from tangy Rhabarberkuchen featuring a razor sharp crust plus Icing and Streusel on top.
www.liebesbrot.com