Franklin Park — Restaurant in New York

This is a divey hipster bar with both sunny outdoor seating and cave-like indoor seating in a garage.

They serve standard guilt-inducing, greasy food. I came here for brunch, the menu for which our waitress read out to us since they didn't have it written down on the menu. My party ordered the lamb burger, the bacon and blue cheese burger, chorizo hash, and curly fries. They didn't have bread (yes, a restaurant with no bread), so I asked for hamburger buns instead to help me sop up the chorizo hash.

The burgers, curly fries, and my hamburger buns came first. After a long wait for my chorizo hash and a couple of inquiries to the waitress, I found out my order was lost and that they wouldn't charge me for it. Not wanting to make my party wait any longer, I split the blue cheese burger, which was good. The burger half and curly fries actually filled me up quite a lot so by the time my actual meal came out on the skillet, I was full and asked for it to be boxed up.

The food was decent but the service was unacceptable. A waitress should be cognizant about bringing out all entrees at the same time for their guests. Additionally, our waitress was hard to get a hold of. It was an effort to flag her down for anything including water refills or the top half of the hamburger bun that they had neglected to give my friend. The one good thing was that she proactively offered to not charge us for the missing meal and she seemed like a very nice person.

I guess if you're coming here for drinks and greasy food, the experience would be better as being drunk would probably make you feel happier and not worry so much about your missing meal...

Dutch Boy Burger provides some pretty tasty burgers for the Prospect Heights area. Tied to the adjacent bar - Franklin Park - through an arcade walkthrough at the rear of the shop, the place feels cozy enough. The menu has several decent burgers (the Dutch Boy and Hangover are their best), some good hot dogs, and a few great odds and ends (the BLT and Mac n Cheese). They have a few drinks and boozy shakes but if you really want to drink, just go over to Franklin Park - you can order the same burgers in there too!

The reason for 3 stars?

1. There burgers are $10 or more and do not come with fries (unless you order the special). This is a joke. Fries are basically nothing and if you're a burger place, you better be including fries with your burger unless you're charging $5-$6 for it. If there fries were incredible, I might give it a pass but they are your typical, run-of-the-mill fries.

2. I got food poisoning there one time. I can give you the 100% certainty that it was from DBB. It's all I'd eaten that day and I could tell right away that it was not going well as I ate it. I've gotten food poisoning twice in my life so no excuses there. Keep it clean, y'all.

3. And this is a small one but, as a designer, I have to say something. They have a massive black and white photo of a diner in the main dining space. The image is so embarrassingly low-res that you'd think they were going for a pixel art aesthetic or commentary on censorship. There are only two pieces of art in the place and this is one of them. And it's been up the entire time they've been open. Please, get it reprinted or just take it down. It's...

Nice place to hang out. I wish they had longer bar space to accommodate more bar stools since often times there aren’t enough seats at the bar.

UPDATE: the service has declined. Extremely slow table service on a normal (not busy) Tuesday night and terrible attitude from our waitress. Was seated by the hostess and after 15 minutes we notified the hostess that no one had taken our order. She was apologetic and after 5 more minutes a waitress came to our table and asked us if we were ready for drinks... we put in our order for drinks and food. After 10 minutes we had not gotten our drinks. We had been at the table for approximately half an hour just waiting at that point so we gave up on our waitress and asked to be seated at the bar for faster service even though we had already ordered since we had not received anything. When we went in we saw our waitress just talking to another waitress by the POS. She brought our drinks to the bar- a beer and a cocktail with ice that had already started to melt into the drink... We asked if our food would arrive at the bar since we had switched seating and our waitress seemed very offended. We closed out with her and still tipped 20% even though she had only taken our order and it turned out she was not the one to bring our food. We never saw her after signing the receipt. She never checked in with us after and we had to ask the bar for cutlery. The service at the bar was much quicker and friendlier. Very disappointed with the table service, will only sit at the bar...