Dirty Frank’s

Dirty Frank’s is a brand new place downtown on 4th Street just south of Main. I’ve been looking forward to Dirty Franks opening up for a while… I should have known better. Opening up for evening and late night hours two weeks ago this week is the first for lunch service.


Today a coworker and I went to the Dirty for lunch. We arrived shortly after 11:00 and there was plenty of street parking (albeit before the lunch rush.) The decoration is slightly odd with a mix of late 70’s early 80’s rock band paintings and roughly the same period baseball player paintings. All appeared to be done be the same artist who did not waiver in style so everything, while an eclectic mix, seemed to fit.


Here’s where it all went downhill for me. I had two hotdogs, an Ohioana which comes “topped with spicy corn relish (sweet corn, pickle relish & jalapeno blend), & a dash of celery salt” a Chili dog that is served up with “coney sauce, fresh onions, yellow mustard, & sharp cheddar” and an order of fries topped with cheese sauce and bacon bits. The hotdogs were underwhelming to say the least. The Ohioana’s spicy corn relish did not have any spice at all. The coney sauce had a weird flavor to it as well. I’m not sure if they put sugar in it or just an incredible amount of tomato paste but something tasted off to me. While the dogs lacked flavor the fries were over cooked and way over salted. The cheese sauce on the fries was the best part of lunch. My friend had a similar experience, tasteless hotdogs but he ordered the tater tots… which were undercooked and mushy.


On a positive note the service was great. Initially, my fries did not have cheese and bacon bits as ordered. The waitress not only brought me a new order but knocked them off my bill completely. The prices were reasonable, $3 dogs and $2 fries, this was nice to see.


Over all Dirty Frank’s seems to be similar to another crappy downtown lunch spot Cinco, the food is bland and the only saving grace is the cheese sauce.