Nathan’s Famous

My old go to for a nice and quick meal. Richard the Manager is amazing. Wonderful place and overall EXCELLENT service and food. We have been going here for many, many years and several times a week. We have NEVER had any issues and the food always fresh and delicious. We LOVE this place! Highly suggested for any meal

Immaculate, easy parking, friendly staff and manager, latest restaurant equipment, hires locally.
The hot dogs here are better than the Coney Island main restaurant, no kidding.
Of course the fries are so tasty without tons of added salt, addicting.
The specials are outrageous, can’t beat the prices, had to look twice.
The manager gives you coupons and a frequent flyer ticket.
Parking is easy, outside the door in well marked parking spots.
This food is worth the trip, not far off 4^th Avenue or the Belt Parkway Bay 11 Street exit heading West, follow the golf course to 86^th street. Dog park across the street.
Skip Coney and come here.

The staff is very polite and friendly and the place is super! You can tell that everybody likes their job there and it shows in every way! I didn’t have to wait on line long and it has great seating. The food is always fresh and it’s a plus that they have an Arthur Treacher’s as well because I couldn’t find one for the longest! The parking lot is a plus because if anyone has visited Bay Ridge you know what parking is like! The bathrooms are clean and so is the entire place! I will continue to come here over and over again. It’s a great place!

The uninhabited stretch of 86^th street between Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights is a wonderful place. The park is huge, followed by a long walk around the golf course and country club. There are many benches. As you walk towards Bay Ridge, Nathan’s is the first sign of civilization.
This is MY Nathan’s. The Coney Island one is large and impersonal. There’s no seating, and I usually end up with cheese sauce on my shirt. The 86^th street one is spacious and clean, with excellent bathrooms and a parking lot. I’ve never been crowded by other diners or the staff. The staff is incredibly polite and let you relax.
My food has been fresh every time. Exceeds Nathans standards. But do you know what I like most about this one? Besides proximity, clean bathrooms, relaxed staff, and delicious food? THE MUSIC. This location plays great music. Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Motown, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, etc. This is the ONLY fast food restaurant that I visit for the ambiance!

Decided to have a meal here after visiting the vet. Nathan’s is famous for their hotdogs so I ordered the 2 hotdog meal combo which came with fries and a deink. The hot dogs were skinny and long but nice and crispy on the outside. The fries were a huge disappointment. It didn’t stand well and it was all mushy and didn’t taste good at all. Next time I come here I think I’d skip out on the fries and just order the hotdogs.

I’d rather come here than go to Coney Island, and deal with the ratchetness over there, the tourist, the garbage, the unsanitary conditions, I seriously get anxiety at the Coney Island location. This place is nice and quiet, clean, plenty of places to sit, and guess what? It taste exactly like the Nathan’s in Coney Island, oh want to hear the best part? There is always parking because they have a parking lot! So why would I ever go to Coney Island again???

This place is a classic Nathan’s with good food. It is not the Coney Island one but very popular among people in bay ridge. The real reason for the extra star is the sweet old Indian man cleaning the place at 8 at night! He cleaned the place up and down. Kudos to you hard working dude!!!

It was National Hot Dog Day (a fact I learned from a food savvy blogger that I know) and with this in mind I grabbed the time of a friend and said lets have lunch and try to do hot dogs. Now despite all of the food offerings in Bay Ridge there are only a scant few that serve hot dogs and today’s mission was to walk a little farther up 86^th Street to Nathan’s Famous.
Walking in I polled the counter servers what was the brand doing for NHDD and sadly learned that the staff on duty didn’t even know that it was such a «holiday» and that was a shame because if any food provider could benefit from this its Nathan’s Famous. I suggested that they let their manager know so something could possibly be done for later arriving patrons and then I was back to my order.
I opted for a couple of their signature hot dogs and left the toppings to some sauerkraut and mustard along with a small side order of their french fries. I could easily inhale a larger order of these potatoes but I am trying to not overdue it these days. The order came quickly and all of the encountered staff were friendly. At the end of the day the price was around 12 bucks. I was glad to come here for National Hot Dog Day and was sad that I was not closer to Coney Island to do that over there. I’ll be back for sure before the summer ends.

I rarely get a chance to enjoy Nathan’s so I was looking forward to this trip. I decided to swing through the drive thru on my road trip down I-​95. I ordered hot dog nuggets and a double cheeseburger meal.
I enjoyed the hot dog nuggets, they taste exactly like I remembered. When I took a bite into my burger, I realized they forgot to add the cheese that should be a given on a CHEESEBURGER. I was very irritated, but at that point I already paid the exorbitant toll fee into the most boring borough of Staten Island. So they missed out on hearing my annoyance with their mix-​up. Whenever I return in the future I will double check before pulling off.

Drove through here for a chili cheese dog, pretty standard fast food.
There wasn’t much chili flavor, it wasn’t even spicy at all but I like how the cheese was semi melted.
The ones at Coney Island taste better.
Can’t complain though when your hot dog is given to you in a minute, right?

2 dogs, small fries, medium drink. for this I watched a friend of mine get banged out tonight for — with tax — a STAGGERING $ 10.86… That’s ELEVEN DOLLARS, folks. ELEVEN DOLLARS for 2 dogs, small fries and a med. drink.
But it didn’t end there; I walk up and presented a Nathan’s coupon for one of their Chicken Sandwiches which clearly reads ‘$ 2.99′. The young Asian girl who rings me up charges a total of $ 3.52. Too distracted by my friend getting ripped off so bad, I fail to realize that at a NY tax level of 0.875%, my total on $ 2.99 SHOULD HAVE been $ 3.26. The coupon was not ‘$ 2.99 OFF’; it was ‘$ 2.99 for the Sandwich plus tax’. Small change or not, it gives you a clear and very disturbing picture of how this store operates. I hope this girl’s manager (unless he’s in on it too) or the store’s DM take note of this and determine if this employee should be terminated because something’s not quite right in the Bay Ridge location and patrons ought to know before they walk in or drive up.
Needless to say, I won’t be returning to the place nor will my friend. We’re done and so far as we’re concerned, so is Nathan’s in Bay Ridge.

Let’s not get too carried away with my three star endowment to one of the few remaining Nathan’s Famous. These are relative stars. AS far as hot dogs go this Southern Brooklyn joint keeps delivering. SO it is hot dogs, burgers, fries and a sale on shrimp. You read right. Nevertheless, I promptly passed on the shrimp and doubled up on the hot dogs. I suggest you do the same

I haven’t had a hot dog in over a year and hadn’t had a Nathan’s Famous hot dog from the store in over 15 years. Well yeah I have in the years bought myself packs from the freezer section but that’s not the same, or is it? So what is the difference between the ones served at the fast food joints from the ones you buy from the market and cook yourself? The meat inside the hot dogs at the fast food joints taste a little better; the fast food joints seem less salty and less spiced up (Or maybe it’s just my perception). I think it’s better at the restaurant. It’s a totally different snap factor when you bite into it when you make it in a pan versus the way they do it on the grill. I am pretty sure the casing for the hot dogs at the fast food joints are different also.
I saw a corn dog on the menu, that was tempting because I haven’t had one in a long while also, for almost the same price as my chili cheese hot dog but I didn’t feel it was a worthwhile spend. I only order a chili cheese hot dog, just to consider it a snack; it cost $ 4.05 with tax it came to $ 4.41, for a hot dog? Not only that, I look at the receipt after I have gone home and the photo of the menu only shows it for $ 3.75. Yeah it was okay, but overpriced for a lackluster BRAND. The condiment bar had your basic onions, relish, sauerkraut, ketchup, mustard and Heinz Malt Vinegar.
I’m not a big fan of cloned chains or the mash Taco Bell/​Pizza Hut/​KFC or in this case Nathan’s/Arthur Treachers because I think though the hot dog itself was good, they messed the cloning factor on this one. The place looks like a fast food joint, in the Nathan’s fashion. Kept clean, but it was the yuck/​cheap décor that failed this Nathan’s. I wouldn’t hold it against you if you passed right on by but I didn’t because of the absence of this stuff in my diet, I felt lured to give it a go due to my quick visit in this part of Brooklyn. Inside is a little tacky, with the cheap and worn plastic chairs and tables. Worthwhile to try for a quick bite at the all famous not in it’s original location.
+Drive Thru
+Big Parking Lot
+Clean Restroom
+Ample Seating
This gets my stamp of Overpriced and Overhyped.

Clutch establishment right on the border of Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge for your hot dog fix and more!
Consider it a poor man’s Nathan’s in comparison to the legendary Conney Island location but it serves an important purpose in this location. You won’t find the lobster or frog legs here but they have something i love even more… Arthur Treachers!
Get your fried fish fix (and amazing hush puppies!) here with a pretty big menu that involved fish sandwiches and fillets or large platters that come with Nathan’s fries, slaw and the fantastic hush puppies.
Slightly under $ 8 will get you the shrimp platter with the fries (chips) slaw and puppies with a drink, it’s a huge platter compared to what you would get at another fast food joint (burger, fries, drink, blah!). Make sure you ask for condiments or you might not get what you want (mayo, tarter, cocktail sauce, etc).
They have a nice sized parking lot and a drive thru but they only stay open until around 11pm which doesn’t help the late-​night cravers. Either way this Nathan’s is good to have for your hot dog/​fried fish, or Kenny Rogers chicken fix.

*get the chicken tenders.
*get the cheese fries.
*dip the chicken tenders in melted cheese from the cheese fries.
*you’re welcome.

What kind of moron gets a burger and fries at a Nathans and writes a review? A first to review no less. I used to work here when I was a kid. Hope they are keeping it clean.

This nathans is certainly not like its sister location in Coney Island, but it definitely holds it own compared to the rest of franchise food around it. A burger & fries with a diet coke here ran almost 10 bucks, but was damn good. The crowd is total degenerates and section 8’ers, and the staff is a bunch of young kids, but what do you expect. I wouldnt want to be seen eating here so luckily its one of the few places that still has a drive thru. Dont make it a habit tho unless you want to be completely finished and unable to see your cox.