A friend wanted to have dinner around the holidays, and I was feeling like trying something new so I looked up restaurants in Jersey City and saw one named Frankie that I hadn't been to before. The website described it as being Australian food with a wine list that featured natural wines, and so I made a reservation and we took a little trip down under for the evening.
Frankie was a lovely place to go on the cold winter night when we went there, and I'm looking forward to trying it again when the weather is warmer too. The menu is full of really wonderful things, and the night we were there I was in the mood for fish and chips and so that's what I had along with squash soup that was lovely, but I could honestly have had anything listed. The food was fresh and good and the flavors really inviting in the way that having a dinner with a friend can give us the time to enjoy the tastes and scents of our meal. The environment definitely felt like we were somewhere else for the time we were there, and though it was weather for bundling up in, inside we were cozy and comfortable and with the decor there was definitely a feeling of being on a bit of an adventure to somewhere much warmer.
On nights or days in the city it's wonderful to find places like this that give us a new view of life that we might not have had otherwise. I have friends and family who have lived in Australia and though I have not ever gone there myself, in a beautiful way I feel like I was able to get a glimpse of something on my visit to Frankie that might be a taste of another place while on a vacation much nearer to home.
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