Frankie's Nashville Hot Chicken - Kingston, Ontario

Selena G.

Good spice level on the Nashville hot. Tasted great and had good portion sizes. I especially loved the “dill with it” pickle coleslaw! It’s delicious and pairs well with the spicy chicken.

Amrut K.

The chicken fingers and the burger were great. The only problem is that all the fried stuff gets weird wrapped in the foil. When I came home with the package, it wasn’t that appetizing. This is a must try though. The hot af sauce is good but not the best. Affordable prices though. They charged me 8-9 dollars for the burger and 10.99 for the 5 tenders. Recommended must try

Tyler O.

After ordering I read the reviews and was not excited at all for the food that was about to arrive. If I read the reviews before my order, I would not have ordered.

All that said, the food got here and was great. No issues with anything being undercooked, overcooked, and the hot sauce was perfect. I'd order again.

Ordered the Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich and curly fries. Fries were alright, but the sandwich was solid.

Chris A.

Let down is an understatement.

My wife and I had been excited to try this place having heard some good things from friends. I mean what could go wrong with chicken fingers and hot sauce?

So before I get to the food lets talk the location. This is a restaurant inside a restaurant. That's a terrible idea. Calling in my order I had to order twice because the server didn't know which menu I was ordering from. After repeating my order a few times we got it locked in, two of the strip combos, one with rings, one with the fries. Simple.

Timing, it took double the time quoted to get it all done. I never expect 2pm to be a huge rush but it took 40 min to get the strips cooked which was a bit strange.

Getting these home (I took the bag in hand from the kitchen porter and drove home approx 3 min) we opened them up to find two boxes of disappointment. Both boxes were dripping with grease before we could even open the boxes, orange grease was everywhere literally dripping all over our table.

Opened up there were the strips, breading coming off and with blobs of burnt 'sweet' sauce they were less than appealing. The first one I had was hard and rubbery, terribly unpleasant and yet was nearly raw at the thickest point. Big let down. There was heat, but little flavour and it didn't get better as it went along with a long lasting bitter aftertaste.

The onion rings and fries were both lacking salt or any seasoning. The slaw also lacked seasoning, there was some pickle in it but the brine was so minimal as to not provide the acid/salt/seasoning that this needed.

It's crazy to say that a plate like this was flavourless, but it was. There was heat on the strips, but between the burnt blobs and general cook this just didn't provide any reason to go back for seconds.

Aidan W. (.

Finally got around to trying Frankie's recently. Out of all the hot chicken sandwiches I've had, I can say the best are Popeye's, Frankie's and Mary Brown's.

The chicken was juicy and flavorful; the Nashville sauce was very good, and the pickles compliment It well. It did not taste like a manufactured fast-food product 👍

I would rate my meal 5 stars, but the curly fries are expensive for not being Arby's-Tier good, and they could have been a little more crisp. In the Grand scheme of what they offer, this is not the biggest of deals.

Give it a shot, you may be very pleasantly surprised.

Cole N.

Chicken from here is quite tasty. I've tried their sandwiches as well as the strips and it is relatively worth the price compared to other restos.

Though, the fried pickles and onion rings have been raw/doughy on the inside every time i have tried them.
If you go here i would not bother trying the breaded items.

I would give 3.5 stars if i could.

R C.

I grew up in the south and lived in Tennessee for over 17 years. I tried this place and will say the sandwich is good. It is not the same as real Nashville hot chicken. I did enjoy the quality of the chicken used as it is real chicken and not some fast food compressed stuff. If you are familiar with hot chicken then don't go in expecting the same thing as you would get in Nashville and you'll be happy with this. Another caveat, if you order pickles with your hot chicken sandwich they use sweet pickles instead of the usual dills. I would like to see this place improve the quality of the sauce they use for their hot chicken offering. Real hot chicken is a tiny bit sweet for the sauce and in varying depths of heat. This is straight up a vinegary cayenne type sauce...probably Franks which I don't find to be a great hot sauce. The sauce President's Choice uses is more authentic than this but, this is a "take" on Nashville hot chicken...not remotely as good as Nashville but, passable.

ray M.

Today 4 of us decided to try the new place. If I could give a lower star I would. I had order the Hot Nashville sandwich, sauce on the side. Greasy soggy bun, over cooked almost burnt hard chicken strips. Sauce was oily and unbalanced. This is a definite stay away. Came with curly fries that were over cooked and non consistency in seasonings. My compliments to the photographer who took the picture on the website. Sorry all thumbsdown