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Frank was my birthday dinner. I thought, why the heck not? I want to go bougie tonight. We ordered a couple of servings of the perogies and some frites to start. Both were good. But now, I'm going to RAVE about the melt-in-your-mouth perogies. Oh. My. Goodness. "Truffled potato and porcini mushroom perogies with buttered bread crumbs truffled sour cream sauce and fresh chive" and they WERE as good as the description makes them sound. I swear I could've eaten 3 plates, but at $13 a plate for 4 (2 of each), that would've been a little TOO indulgent. So...my tactic was to cut them up in small pieces and...savour.
For my main, I got the open faced ravioli with braised beef short ribs and mushrooms. This thing is literally a piece of ravioli skin, topped with chunks of short ribs, then maybe another piece of ravioli skin on top of that and short ribs. Now going to a place like this, you wouldn't expect the plates to be very big. Well, there was a meat-bonanza on my plate. I normally can tuck away a lot, but I was quite stuffed and thought the portion quite generous. The meat was tender and moist. My other companions got this as well, but my sister got the gnocchi which was delish!
Dessert was a beautifully presented trio of rhubarb ice cream, pastry and something else (I forget), but all were good! We also had a super rich, heart attack inducing chocolate pudding, that the server so graciously insisted we try (comped). It was really nice but probably would've tasted amazing with a large glass of milk. I should've asked for a glass of milk. At Frank. 3 people could probably share this, from the sheer richness of it.
I really enjoyed my experience at Frank, service was lovely, and the food was delicious. I think it's worth it for a special occasion. If anything, get the perogies.
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