Frank Restaurant and Bar - Hobart

Great food and excellent service. The vegetarian dishes were definitely the highlights

Down by Hobart's historic waterfront, Frank Restaurant Bar makes the most of the location with giant windows on three sides, framed with towering black walls. While the long twilight's pastel painted skies are the main visual attraction, there are also brightly coloured dangling statement lights and tattoo flash on the internal glass walls dividing the space into bar and restaurant. Inspired by the Argentinian asado, or barbeque, Frank's menu is designed to be served as a shared, whole of table feast. Where it improves upon Sydney’s South American churrasco joints is in the inspired list of vegetable sides finally a South American restaurant where you could comfortably bring a vegetarian. Our party of four kicks off with Tasmanian oysters harvested from the nearby Pipe Clay lagoon. Here they're served Fresca $4.50/each) with a great, tart chilli pineapple ceviche dressing that leaves a good hole to taste the oyster, and Fire Roasted $4.90/each) with a salsa made from chorizo, peppers, garlic and ash that makes a nice change from oysters Kilpatrick. We start our drinking adventure with...

Had my earlier dinner at Frank restaurant, even though the afternoon menu doesn’t have many choices but overall was fantastic! Friendly staff and enjoyable environment :

Had a pretty nice evening here to celebrate our anniversary, although sitting against the window on a cold night was a little chilly.<br/ <br/ The thing I enjoyed most here was, surprisingly, the vegetable sides! While we did try a hanger steak, and i was quite impressed with the meaty flavour, the veggie dishes were just killer.<br/ <br/ Utilising the char grill, we had a delicious zucchini, chorizo and yoghurt sauce salad that was just kissed with smoke and perked up with some tangy pickles. For the hanger steak, we chose the pumpkin, feta and walnut salad which was perfect! The steak was really rich and meaty, so the salty feta and sweet, charred pumpkin made the perfect match.<br/ <br/ I also really loved the cheese empanada, I could have eaten a bowl of them. The entry level pinot noir on the other hand, was quite acidic and not very nice. Maybe it had been open for a few days already?<br/ <br/ Overall, was really pleased with food and service.

They don't have much vegetarian on the menu but the staff were really helpful. They actually got us a vegetarian stew with coriander rice. We also had the sweet potato with goats cheese. The rice was a bit bland but with the stew it went perfect. While the sweet potato with goats cheese was really good. <br/ <br/ I really loved the vibe of the place and lovely views of the wharf.