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1406 Main St
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Fax: 732-775-6519

Average Rating 4 (10 Ratings)

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By now, the whole world knows about the haunting, ruined pathos of the Asbury Park boardwalk depicted in the youthful songs of Bruce Springsteen. Frank's Deli is a few blocks in from the shore, and it remains more or less just as it was when it opened in 1960: a little pocket of pre-1960s America, that unbearably innocent place you see unspooling in washy old super-8 footage and hear apostrophized in "My Hometown." You could say this looks like a set from the "Wonder Years", but you'd be committing the common mistake of forgetting which came first. This is the real thing. Frank Maggio's son Joseph Maggio is running the grill these days, and there are some new kids behind the counter, but those are the biggest changes since the '60s. Even the prices seem to date from the Ford administration. You're likely to encounter a handful of gnarled, ruddy-skinned veterans in red satin jackets plowing through platefuls of steak and eggs in the middle of the afternoon, but the good, hearty grub comes through at all hours.

10 Ratings and Reviews

  • Subs: Best deal in town (any town)

    Review rating : 5out of 5   Gnuheart - 01/13/2009

    The sub is so big, the waitress always asks, "Are you sure you want a whole sub...do you KNOW how big they are?"

  • a great place

    Review rating : 5out of 5   rpatrick2300 - 01/03/2008

    I have been going to franks for years. you need to stop in and have the best porkroll sandwich. I live in ohio and I cant get the food they serve there, it is a treat HI mikey thank for the pork roll patrick

  • Amazing

    Review rating : 5out of 5   smile42612 - 03/14/2007

    Absolutly Amazing!!!!!!!!!

  • Review rating : 4out of 5   mikexsic - 07/17/2006

  • Health inspectors should know

    Review rating : 1out of 5   believe7903 - 03/02/2006

    I went to Frank's this past summer on the advice that the food was good. Unfortunately, I never got a chance to find out. As i was siiting down at a table my boyfriend yanked me towards him and said Let's go now. I was so confused but followed him out the door, where he told me that he had spotted several roaches crawling on the wall. Totally gross!!!

  • what about the sweets?

    Review rating : 4out of 5   trryneal - 07/11/2005

    Nobody mentioned the great Danish and sweets they bake on
    premises. They are the biggest and most delicious around!

  • Awsome

    Review rating : 5out of 5   kathie6273 - 06/06/2005

    It's as good today as it was in the 60's Frank's was a daily stop on our way home from APHS in 67'.

  • still the same,that

    Review rating : 5out of 5   sundownvacuumsys - 05/12/2005

    Maybe I just thought so,But, it seems to me there was a time they were open all night?Whatever,I've eaten at Frank's since I owned a Brand New 1964 "409" 4-speed Chevy! I don't live close or go to Asbury as I did in the sixties,when I do I stop in for Something that is always good.Three mo.'s ago I did just that!Close your eye's and Joseph becomes his Dad and that's a good thing, Ray C.

  • ukie1657

    Review rating : 5out of 5   wpavlinet - 02/26/2005

    I been going to Frank's for about 8 yrs now and have experienced good food and very friendly people,who appreciate everyone's patronidge.

  • Many Times a Gem

    Review rating : 4out of 5   brosen1323 - 12/27/2004

    I have been there many times. Try The corned beef and eggs. I was born in 46 and my folks lived in Passaic NJ. We went to the shore and asbury was still cool. BR

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