Don't ask me why I'm already around the corner with food again today. Probably the lingering cold is to blame. Or the relief of not having to cook at home or order anything from the delivery service. I went to the canteen! Oh no, some will exclaim now. But the days when canteen food made you fat are thankfully over. And this is clearly due to the improved range of products on offer. The meals are healthier and tastier. Which is in the sense of most of us who want to eat healthy.
Eating keeps body and soul together. If it comes along then also still healthy, all the better, not true? Apparently the word has spread to the local canteens.
I often go to the Ostend on business. Since the ECB has set up home there and many companies have moved in, the canteen of the Volkshochschule has also stepped up its nutritional game: not enough that the ambience is chic and friendly, decorated with colourful lamps and the deep windows offer a beautiful view. No, the menus are also more substantial, less meat-heavy and the salad bar offers a choice of three different sauces. Reason enough to take a look around and see what Frankfurt's canteens have to offer. Looking from the east to the west, more precisely in the direction of Gallus, the hungry will find the canteen of the Societäts-Verlag.
In the offer of the F.A.Z. canteens? Usually three menus plus sometimes a "daily special". Plus a salad bar with fresh vegetables and dressed salads, which satiates most of the employees from the editorial and publishing departments, but also from the surrounding companies on Mainzer Landstraße. In the opinion of canteen users, the offer has "improved significantly" recently, the price-performance ratio is right and the kitchen is also praised for its efforts to offer more variety: fewer fries, more healthy things like vegetable thalers with mint yoghurt.
The lassi in various flavors as an alternative to the starter soup and the option of sitting in the courtyard in summer are particularly popular. Opening hours of the Casino Frankfurt: Monday to Friday 8:30 -10:00 and 11:30 to 14:00.
And in the city center? There, not only bankers will be eating healthy in the future: the Commerzbank on Kaiserplatz has just reopened its casino. In Germany's highest skyscraper, guests can choose between beef goulash or healthy dishes such as warm salad with lentils. After the renovation, it now seats 400 people between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for freshly prepared food.
What are your experiences with canteens: Hop or top? Where do you eat at lunchtime?