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Dirty Frank’s Hot Dogs, a casual hot doggery and neighborhood bar is set to open mid-July in Downtown Columbus, Ohio bringing another fun and affordable lunch option to downtown workers and dwellers. Partners Elizabeth Lessner and Harold LaRue look to bring quality hot dogs and some whimsical sizzle to downtown Columbus.
“Columbus has hot dog envy. People visit New York and Chicago and eat at some of the finest restaurants in the world but come back raving about the hot dogs,” says Lessner, current CEO of Betty’s, Surly Girl Saloon and Tip Top Kitchen and native of Chicago, famed for their outstanding “slap your forehead” scrumptious red hots.
Dirty Franks will feature delicious all-beef Vienna franks, Polish sausages, Kielbasa and Tofu dogs served in steamed poppy seed buns topped with fresh ingredients prepared to order. Sides will include Corn on the Cob with Chipotle Butter, Sriracha Cole Slaw, Roasted Sport Pepper Mac ‘n Cheese, India Pale Ale Dredged Onion Rings, and Hot Dog Cornbread. Salads and a few casserole dishes will also be available.
To complement your dog, locally brewed Frostop Root Beer on draught, plenty of Pabst Blue Ribbon and the house specialty drink, Dirty Frank’s Bloody Mary which contains Sport-Pepper Infused Vodka with Celery Seed Bloody Mary mix.
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Phillips Coney Island
Nathan’s Coney Island
OMG it’s all so confusing I might cry.
How did this topic become so controversial/negative? It’s hot dogs!
I think Liz has proven she knows what she’s doing, so I’ll wait and see what the place is like, and even where it is exactly before I cry foul.
Just my 2 cents: I’m pretty sure Liz Lessner could sell poop on a stick and still bring people in the door. Pardon the hyperbole and not to diminish all that is great and holy about hot dogs, but she and her crew are scary good.
Amen Ashland! Lizless – will you please ban mustard from this place. I will take back all I have said if you do this one thing.
Everyone – I was just trying to point out that a restaurant who’s basic principle is selling hot dogs is not new to Central Ohio and that the gentlemen who first opened a restaurant devoted entirely to this lovely sausage deserved some recognition for putting it out on the line before Lessner. She deserves the same respect for taking the risk when she opened Betty’s downtown. I became a bit frustrated when once again a topic on CU was turned into a downtown thing. You can only beat a dead horse (rest in peace 8 Bells) so many times. Nothing less and nothing more.
Good luck Lizless and I hope it works out for you.
Hm.
Liz, in case you are getting any ideas, I, for one, would not line up at such a restaurant. Don’t care if you go upscale and call it Merde sur un Bâton. I’d have to give it a miss. Sorry. Love your places, but I have my limits.
whatever happened to the hot dog shop on west broad?
and other than the thread being aout hot dogs, this thread is ridiculous.
I mean, someone in dublin opened a clothing store and it was successful, every other clothing store is a copy just cause the first one succeeded. Really?! you’ve got to be kidding me.
Are you talking about Phillips?
Are you talking about Phillips?
maybe, I think so. it was near the spaghetti warehose I think. i never went. is it still open?
Let’s talk fried balogna for a moment.
Core?
I’m not sure if its still open, but it was more of a coney place…not that there is much of a difference.
It was delicious though, I thought.
Lizless – you can’t tell me reading about people lined out the door didn’t create the thought in your head that hotdogs could sell downtown. I know you can find a hotdog on every street corner in New York and Chicago, but hotdogs are part of the food culture of those cities. This is entirely new to Columbus. Your concept is wild and crazy (sell beer and hotdogs until 2 a.m. – no way! AMAZING!), but at the core it’s still the hotdogs that are bringing people in the door.
I should have fleshed my argument out a little better I suppose. I could give a rat’s ass where the place is. I actually live in the suburbs and would love to have a place like this in my neck of the woods. I respect Liz and appreciate her places of business. I frequent them and enjoy them, as do may others. She is certainly in no need of defense from me and I did not insinuate anywhere in my post that she “walked on water”.
My point was that there are very few successful concepts that are a singular occurance. Isn’t that the whole idea? Whether or not this idea was conceived simultaneously or consecutively is really quite irrelevant. It’s like debating the Great Man theory versus Zeitgeist; either way it comes out a winner.
Oh, and it’s “she”.
There is that place in German Village on Whittier too, Coney Island? But it closes at 6 or so. early.
I think this new place sounds fun. Yay for more options!
I think Phillips is still opened, pretty sure, would have had to have closed fairly recently, last year, if it did.
Core?
I am from West Virginia, what do you want to know? :lol:
Also, guys, sorry to detract from a thread that should be about being excited for hot dogs and PBR! :D
i thought coney island was on thurman between thruman cafe and easy street.
(I definitely could be wrong about this though)
Core?
I am from West Virginia, what do you want to know? :lol:
So then you’re talking baloney and not balogna, right?
No, its def. on Whittier. Also delicious.
Core?
I am from West Virginia, what do you want to know? :lol:
So then you’re talking baloney and not balogna, right?
Is there a difference? I dunno.
Also there are a million places in columbus with coney island on the name, the one in the short north, the on on w Broad, etc.
Weiners and PBR make me horny. :D
Of course…so do all of Liz’s other places.
Keep up the good work!!! I can’t wait.
Not much of a hot dog gal these days, but holy onion rings, blood marys and another LL grubbin’ bar! YES.
PS – I am not from Chicago or NY, but there’s an amazing little joint where I grew up in Medina, Ohio called Dan’s Dogs. We’re talking 30+ dog variations and the best cheezy fries in the town. If you are ever north and looking for dog inspiration, or topping ideas I’d suggest it. [url]http://search.cityguide.aol.com/cleveland/restaurants/dans-dogs-a-hot-dog-eatery/v-105439511[/url]
Slash Big Bonus points for another downtown location!!! YAY!