Nordend-West

This guide to Nordend-West in Frankfurt follows Oeder Weg, a street whose name comes from isolated farmsteads that once fed the city just outside its old walls. It traces how those farms gave way to a shopping mile of bakeries and butchers, now lined with Indian, Turkish, Neapolitan and Thai kitchens, and centers on the Chantarabamroong family, who opened Frankfurt's first Thai restaurant on nearby Sandweg in 1974. Walk the street slowly to notice how many storefronts still change hands from one immigrant kitchen to the next.