Welcome to franksbar.co.uk – where we like to live on t’interweb.
Frank’s Bar is a cafe-bar in central Norwich. We have filled our bar with good food, top drinks, marvellous music and general chilled-outness. We’re happy for you to enjoy Frank’s Bar in a range of different ways, whether it be with a coffee, glass of wine, tasty meal, or cheeky nibbles we’re really quite flexible. We like to make Sunday’s special as well by offering a fantastic Sunday Breakfast menu (served from 10.30 – 6.00) and a classic afternoon film (screened in the back room) along with the usual selection of great coffee, good papers to peruse and general loveliness.
Because we try to be down with the cyber-kids, we’ve also got a Facebook Group, Facebook Fan page, MySpace page and have gone twittertastic over here.
We like covering our walls with things, and we like to keep changing it every few weeks. Fortunately Norwich is full of creative types who like to show off their work so we frequently exhibit local talent. We currently have the lovely Kellie Colby exhibiting her ‘Living In The Past’ project.
From 31st January we have the excellent Andi Sapey exhbiting his ‘Gifts from Encounters’ project.
In March, James will be arrested by the police, handcuffed, put in a police vehicle, have his fingerprints and a mug-shot taken and sent down. Don’t worry we haven’t been up to anything naughty at Frank’s Bar (no lovely bank jobs) this slightly humiliating event is all in the name of charity. All we ask of you is a contribution towards bail for the freedom of our Frank’s Bar felon. Some sort of protest and a “Free the Frank’s Bar One” campaign is of course optional.
This is a part of the Norfolk Hospice Hold Up – a scheme where they get good-willed/foolish/enthusiastic people who run a businesses and put them in “jail”. All of the bail money raised goes to The Norfolk Hospice – a great charity who help patients, carers and families living with cancer or other life-limiting illnesses.
Please donate at the bar or on the Just Giving Page.
This month, we will be mostly serving tasty things from our delicious new menu.
We’ve got all sorts of treats ready for you including the tasty (gluten free) chermoula mackerel fillet, socca (vegan gluten free chickpea pancake with slow roast tomatoes, olives & a soft herb salad), or for something more meaty you could try our delicious seared pigeon breasts or the Aromatic lamb, sour cherry & baby chard pilaf.
The menu uses the best local ingredients we can find and will be changing regularly so that we can keep it more seasonal than ever; You can download a sample menu here.
Do remember that its likely to change regularly, the most up to date menu will be displayed on our menu boards.
As fans of music and listeners of 6Music we recently put together a playlist for the lovely people of BBC 6Music.
They were kind enough to play some of our choices, put the playlist on their website and we even had a (slightly nervous) little chat on air with Lauren Laverne about it.
A nice man off of Twitter was kind enough to put it all together in a Spotify playlist jobbie as well (< so you know; that will launch Spotify).
The BBC blog page is here
Some nice people at some nice newspapers have said some nice things about us. Nice.
The Independent went and put us in their Top 50 Bars in The UK:
“…Frank’s is a well-loved petite drinking den in central Norwich that prides itself on fantastically friendly service with the laid-back feel of a living room. Perfect for those who seek the familiarity of a pub with the cosiness of a café”
We also had a mention in the New York Times in an article about Norwich’s literary scene:
“After a hard day’s work, writers gather at Frank’s Bar on Bedford Street, the premier late-night spot…”
We have teamed up with our lovely friends over at Iittala to fill Frank’s Bar with lovely things. Those clever Finnish design-type-folks have put together an amazing range of crockery and glassware for us to use.
The good news is that if you like the look of it and want to fill your place with Iittala loveliness, you can go a few doors down to Clement Joscelyne and pick some up.
Exciting times at Frank’s Bar, mornings have changed forever due to the introduction of our shiny new Breakfast Club menu. We now serve Breakfast 10.30am-12.00pm and Brunch from 10.30am-3.00pm so you can satisfy your morning hunger needs from your choice of pastries, bacon, tomatoes and eggs on toasted sourdough, smoked Narborough trout with or Greek yoghurt & poached rhubarb amongst others. Morning gloriousness.
Click here to view a PDF of the Breakfast Club Menu.
