Best Restaurants in Essen

15 of the 15 wine restaurants listed in Essen publish their opening hours. The median one opens at 12 pm and closes at 11 pm on a typical trading day.

Sunday is the day that catches visitors out: 6 venues in Essen (40% of those with published hours) trade on Sunday, against 10 on Monday. 6 open seven days a week.

15 addresses stay open past 10 pm, which matters if you are buying after dinner rather than before it. Restaurant Capobianco closes latest, at 12 am.

At the other end of the day, MA Essen opens earliest, at 9 am.

These hours come from each venue's own Google Business Profile as read in March 2026. They are regular hours: public holidays, August closures and harvest-season changes are not reflected, so call ahead for a specific date.

The 15 rated wine restaurants in Essen carry 13,371 reviews between them. The mean rating is 4.57 out of 5 and the median is 4.6, and 9 venues hold 4.5 or better — 60% of the list.

Mamani Restaurant carries the highest rating with a review base large enough to mean something: 4.9 from 238 reviews. Hofbräu im Königshof Essen is the most reviewed address in Essen, at 2,836.

A five-star average is worth less than it looks on a venue with a dozen reviews, which is why the ranking above is sorted by rating and review volume together rather than by rating alone. The rating also measures the visit, not the cellar: service, queueing and the state of the room all land in the same number as the wine selection. It is a starting filter, not a verdict on what is on the shelf.

Price level is published for 10 of the 15 wine restaurants in Essen, and it splits as follows: 1 budget (10%), 8 moderate (80%), 1 upmarket (10%). Google's price level is a four-step band reported by the venue and by visitors, not a price list, so it says where an address sits relative to its neighbours rather than what a bottle costs.

Essen accounts for 15 of the 133 wine restaurants we list across Germany, spread over 10 cities.

Sunday is harder here than elsewhere: 40% of venues in Essen open on Sunday against 57% nationally, 17 points lower.

Both columns are computed from the same rows that build these pages, so the national figure moves whenever a city's listing does.

Other wine venues in Essen: 19 wine bars, 18 wine shops, 11 wineries and tasting rooms. In a city with a thin specialist trade, the restaurant list is often where the interesting bottles actually are.

The nearest larger listings in Germany are Leipzig (20), Dortmund (14), Frankfurt (14), Hamburg (14), Berlin (14). Each is a separate page with its own hours, ratings and map.

Essen has 15 wine restaurants on this list, averaging 4.57 out of 5 across 13,371 reviews. The median address opens at 12 pm and closes at 11 pm; 6 of the 15 with published hours open on Sunday.

If you only have time for one stop, Mamani Restaurant is the highest-rated address with a real review base (4.9 from 238).

Ratings, hours and price bands here come from public venue profiles read in March 2026; they describe how an address is reviewed, not how good its wine list is. Confirm hours before travelling for a specific bottle.