Franktown Cafe

Now that the chains have driven all the local restaurants out of business, where do you go for a good meal with a nice, comfortable, non-chain like atmosphere. We’ve been looking. We like Chili’s but it still feels like a fancy Dennys.

So we’ve been on the lookout for somewhere to maybe get a nice meal in a nice place and keep our money local. We’re still looking.

A pretty good imitation of a local restaurant is the new Firkin and Fox. Here’s a good article on aroundcarson.com . We went last Sunday and the sumptuous Victorian english pub decor fits in nice with the town and the historic St Francis Hotel building on Carson Street, downtown. The food was good and the service was good also. It was difficult to be a satisfying conversationalist with my wife though, with football on flat screens everywhere you looked, but it was the NFL playoffs and maybe they aren’t on all the time.

They are still a chain though with 31 in Canada, 8 in the States and 135 “in development”. Which, if nothing else, maybe they will have the staying power a mom and pop might lack.

I also see that there is an article on aroundcarson.com about Khristophers Cafe up by the Walmart on South Carson/395. Sounds good and we’ll have to try it out.