Quality food with Frankie and Benny's

Advantages: Great food, resonable prices, family atmosphere
Disadvantages: Can get noisy, difficult to get table

...My partner is quite a fussy eater, therefore eating out is also a challenge. However with Frankie and Benny's we both win! I get to try different things off the menu, whilst my partner can stick with his burger and chips. ~~The food~~ Frankie and Benny?s is a well know chain restaurant specialising in American and Italian food, great for those who aren?t very adventurous when it comes to food! The starters range from prawn cocktail to barbeque chicken wings, all reasonably priced at under £5. Sharers are available (which are very filling!) for two people, this is definitely our favourite as it gives you chance to sample a bit of everything off the starter menu at under £12. Main meals in my opinion are served in huge portions, and I could quite happily share a main meal - not so sure that my partner would agree though...

Diamonds08 19.10.2009 · Read review
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Frankie and Benny - my two bestest pals!

Advantages: Lovely food, relaxed atmosphere, good music, good service, well priced, good deals, cater for kids
Disadvantages: Not a huge selection of vegetarian main courses, not situated in the most desirable of locations

...Frankie and Benny's is a New York Italian themed restuarant. It is a chain which currently has 180 restuarants spread across the UK. Frankie and Benny's originally began when Frankie Giuliani was just a little boy. He moved with his family to an all Italian neighbourhood in New York in 1924. Before long Frankies father managed to get a restuarant up and running in which the whole family pitched in and contributed their own favourite recipes, but the best recipes always came in the form of 'Mammas home-style cooking'. Frankie started high school where he met an American boy named Benny and made a life long friend. When Frankies fathers retired in 1953 Frankie and Benny took over the business where they combined 'the best of popular American food with traditional Italian dishes'. I have been to 3 different Frankie and Benny...

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Frankie and Bennys, Riverside, Norwich

Advantages: The toilets are nice, we got a table without booking
Disadvantages: Everything else!!

...This is the worst place to est in Norwich, and one I would highly recommend avoiding. I ended up in this, so called American Italian Restaurant on a last minute whim. I met my girlfriend after work for a few drinks around xmas time. The beer was flowing, and as always, the munchies crept in. Whilst walking home we strolled along the Wensum down Riverside road. The further we walked the hungrier we got. Niether of us could be bothered to cook and as we neard Frankie and Bennys we saw the luminous lights, the 'happy eaters' and the nice looking atmosphere. Neither of us had ever been to one before, so we thought it would be worth a look. Being a Wednesday night it was easy to get a table, without booking. The first thing that struck us was the cheesy 60 style dinner look. The seats were red leather benches, musical instruments...

yackers1 18.03.2007 · Read review
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Fun, fun, fun at Frankie & Benny's

Advantages: Delicious food and cocktails, fun and lively atmosphere, great for any occasion, good value
Disadvantages: None for me

...Frankie & Benny's is one of my all time favourite restaurants, if not my favourite, and I often go there for meals and evenings out. It first opened in 1953 when Frankie Giuliani, an Italian living in New York, took over his parent's restaurant along with his best friend, Benny. They combined their cultures and turned the restaurant into an American diner with an Italian style serving traditional American food and popular Italian homemade dishes. It is quite an old fashioned diner with black and white photos on the walls and old American music playing while you're eating. It's a great place to go for breakfast, lunch or dinner or even just for a few drinks at the bar where they have a great cocktail menu. The menu is jam packed with tasty choices and there are so many of them that you'll spend ages just deciding what to have...

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  Frankie and Benny and me

Advantages: Loads of choice - nice size portions
Disadvantages: Not quite as authentic as it purports

...Nothing in the fridge and a late night at work, meant either a quick dash around Tescos or we would eat out. Who wants to face running the gauntlet of supermarket aisles after a long day at work, so eating out it was. We decided to pay another visit to Frankie & Benny's in Chichester as we wanted something quick, reasonably priced and unfussy. ~ HISTORY OF FRANKIE & BENNY'S DINERS ~ There are two versions of the history behind Frankie & Benny's. According to their website, a Sicilian immigrant called Frankie Giuliani arrived in the States via Ellis Island in the 1920's. His parents started up their diner in Little Italy favouring Italian home style cooking. Frankie went to the nearby high school and became friendly with Benny, a third generation Italian American. When Frankie's father retired in the 1950's, Benny joined Frankie...

Bollinger28 02.04.2005 (16.06.2007) · Read review
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Frankie and Benny's Chesterfield

Advantages: Quick food of a high standard, varied menu, child friendly
Disadvantages: Can have a long wait for a table on friday/saturday night

...Frankie and Benny's is the ideal place to visit for good quality fast food at reasonable prices. It is a cross between an italian and an american diner and offers a wide variety of food to suit everyone. When you enter the restaurant it is like you are stepping back into another era. With an american diner theme with music playing from the 50's, 60's and 70's you soon find yourself singing along to the old classics whilst enjoying the relaxing atmosphere. The music can be bought on CD if you do get carried away! The menu consists of varied dishes including burgers, pizzas, pasta and chicken dishes. The kitchen is in open view and has been made part of the restaurant so you can be assured that all the food you eat is being freshly made. The prices of the main meals range from about £5-£10 and please note that the portions are just...

Morgan0403 29.07.2006 · Read review
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Frankie and Benny's Telford.

Advantages: Family friendly
Disadvantages: Terrible service, terrible atitude, total contempt for the customers

...I have visited Frankie and Benny's Telford three times. The first two I found it to be ok, a bit fast foodish and artificial but very child friendly which was a big bonus to the in-laws we were with. The third visit was a quiet Sunday evening with just my wife and myself. It was a disaster. I ordered ribs and salad and as I took the first mouthful of the 'sticky out of a jar' sauce I discovered something in my salad that shouldn't have been there... My wife called the waitress over, who squealed and clamped her hands over her face. She then picked up my meal and ran off with it. After a long wait the waitress came back, very sheepish, and mumbled 'I have spoken to the manager and he says you will not be charged for that meal'. (They could hardly have charged for it since it was taken away without me eating it). Before I...

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Frankie & Benny's Cambridge

Advantages: Good location and very clean
Disadvantages: Food quality

...As it was fairly new and wanting to try something different my partner and i decided to try frankie & bennys. What attracted us was the cleaningness and the cheery feel and the bright colours. Also it was packed so decided it couldn't be all that bad. The location is excellent as its right in the centre of all the attractions. Easy parking and public transport is right outside. Bus and taxi ranks all around Only had to wait ten minutes to get a table so i was impressed considering it was a saturday night. There was a very friendly feel to the place with the low lights and the 60s style cd playing it the back ground. By the time we left we knew all the words to the songs it was played over and over again. The food on the menu look all to tempting and was stuck on my choice as there was a wide range of dishes from pasta, pizza...

beauty81 09.05.2007 · Read review
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Frankie and benny's Witney Oxfordshire, absloute rubbish!!!!!

Advantages: The builders have done good work!! quite nice decor, toilets clean!
Disadvantages: Where do i start?? Everything apart from the above.

...opnion this is the worst frankie and benny's i have ever been to and the staff are just plain rude and the food is below average! So when visiting Oxfordshire do not go to Witney branch of Frankie and Benny's!!!...

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Another Action packed Chan adventure

Advantages: Plenty of action, more of Chans signature comedic martial arts fight scenes
Disadvantages: Plot is somewhat unoriginal, supporting cast are alright but not brilliant

...This is another film I was lucky enough to spot being shown on TV, this time on a Freeview channel and having read that its another Jackie Chan movie that I hadn't seen already, I knew I had to tape this to watch later, which I did and once again, I wasn't disappointed! This movie dates from 1998 and, similarly to the slightly earlier movie Mr Nice Guy (which I've also reviewed here on Ciao), the character Jackie plays has his same name too. The plot is very similar to The Bourne Identity, with Jackie (the character) a government agent who knows about a secret corrupt deal that could endanger us all and, along with other agents, are left to die on what becomes an unmanned helicopter. However, he manages to escape and survives but suffers from amnesia (hence the name of the movie) and doesn't remember anything about who he is...

IzzyS 19.10.2007 (18.10.2007) · Read review
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