I needed a Philly cheese steak, and Franks was more than willing to oblige. It was exactly what I needed: meaty, cheesy, with crisp pepper and soft onions. It was one of the nicest Ive had, the bread didnt get soggy, it wasnt too heavy on the cheese and the meat was cooked to a soft perfection. The staff were incredibly friendly too, making the whole experience really pleasant. Definately somewhere Ill be coming back to.
I admit I tried Leeway after I moved away from Lawrence because of their Twitter. Now its one of the spots I have to hit when Im in Lawrence or passing through ( sorry burger stand). The first thing I tried was the Reuben Dog and I always hope itll be on the menu again when Im in town. It was AMAZING.if youre not eating right away, request the wet stuff on the side so you dont get soggy (I dont care and I think its part of the experience YMMV).This is just a quality beef frank with great flavour. Ive tried salad, fries and tots and theyre all good. The salad is an experience. Its not your regular side salad and is made with high quality ingredients. Fries I didnt find super exciting. Theyre hearty, natural tasting and not overly salted. Theyre definitely not bad--i think Im not particularly excited about fries in general. Tots are usually a little salty for me but I tend to err on the side of undersalting. Theyre perfectly cooked and crispy. Again Im just not excited about tots in general.Packaging is effective and conservative and there is no excess waste. Support Indigenous business and please tip staff!
I unfortunately have procrastinated getting over to Leeway for months. Man am I glad I finally made it. The morning I went was super blustery and overcast - a typical January is Kansas. I went for a staple: chili dog. The frank was delicious but it was the chili: their Texas Red Chili was amazing! I will back soon. There is so much lore to try.
A great big thumbs up from me. This little place is HUGE on flavor and variety. When in the area, skip Wayne and Larrys, skip Merc Deli and hit up Leeway... you wont be disappointed.
Top notch food and I think Ill be coming here more than I should.Bonus: when a guy left his table and coughed a couple times, an employee immediately sanitized the table as soon as the guest was gone. I only get carry out but its good to see they are cleaning properly.
Stopped by to check out the Leeway Franks chili dog. Ive been traveling around trying out chili dogs for awhile now and I was anxious to try this one.The chili dog had a beef frankfurter, yellow mustard, chili, diced white onion and a bun. The best part of the dish was the all beef frankfurter itself. It had a good skin that snapped when you bit into it. The chili was decent. The onion seemed fresh and the mustard gave the dish that vinegary, mustardy note in the back. Overall a good chili dog!#KCFoodie #CulinaryAdventures #ExploreYourCity #LawrenceKS #NatApproved
You wont be able to get a hot dog from anywhere else in the region! High quality dogs and they somehow manage the toppings well enough that it doesnt all just fall off like at other places. Some of the best tots Ive had in years - just the right level of crispy and warm! Love getting either the Chicago dog or the beef and cheese sauce burger.
First time visiting after hearing about the place several times. Food was good. My boyfriend got the Chicago dog with tots and I got cheese tots with jalapeños on top. Seating area is a little small for how busy they got, but theres outdoor seating too. The staff working was nice and our food came out quick. Well definitely eat here again.
I think the food is fantastic, but I just can’t justify paying $15 for a burger and fries. I understand that they try to source the highest ingredients, and this meal would only be a few bucks more than a chain. I’m willing to pay a few dollars more to support local restaurants, but this is just not someplace I’m able to go on a regular basis due to the price. Food is great though
Great food with great quality, as the meat comes from their own butcher shop, just a couple of doors down. Fantastic homemade fries and their taco special is a sleeper hit
Food was great, employees were friendly and cordial, very short wait for food, and an easy place to park/find. I was very impressed.
It isnt the fastest restaurant but they know what they are doing there. I got a bratwurst with tots, both were done to perfection. Will definitely go again!
Literally the best patty melt I’ve ever had.
13 dollars for a breakfast burrito????!!!!! 15 dollars for a breakfast burger???? are you literally kidding me?????? This place charges more for a breakfast burrito than pretty much anywhere in America. You are a casual strip mall restaurant in Kansas, maybe price things accordingly. Thanks
Ive eaten here multiple times and have enjoyed every item Ive ever ordered. What prompted me to write a review after all this time was the hot game and cheese sandwich. Please never take this off the menu. Its hard to believe I could have such strong feelings for a sandwich!
They make their Franks and meat products on site. They are delicious.i have had a frank, a special Cuban beans and cod and today the burger. And lots of tots. The prices seem high, until you consider they grind the meat and make the franks, sausages, brats and hamburgers on site. Not frozen, not cheap meats. Go eat!
I thought it was great :-) best if eaten right out of the gate! Great fries, love the tots. Great burger and dogs.
Very disappointed. We ordered online but still had to wait nearly 15mins when we arrived because it wasn’t ready. On top of that they gave us wrong items. The guy didn’t even apologize or acknowledge his blunder. I accept this when paying normal prices for a hot dog but not when you pay $45 for 4 hot dogs.
Outstanding food! The hot ham and cheese is AMAZING! Burgers are fantastic too! This is definitely on our favorites list now!
Great food! Excellent service.
An amazing hole in the wall American restaurant! It is absolutely amazing - the service is always super friendly and speedy and the food always tastes fresh and has amazing flavor. You can definitely tell that everything is made from real ingredients and fresh to order. Below is their famous burger.
Great hot dogs & burgers, friendly staff.
Great brats!!! We got a couple brats and a hotdog and they were fire!!!! If your fixing for a brat, come here. They also serve beer in a can with a small picnic table area.
If youve never had a hot ham and cheese from Leeway Franks then you just arent living right. Love to eat local, especially when its this damn good
The hot dogs are as good as advertised, but the poutine is actually disco fries. :(
A local treasure. Great daily specials. You can tell the dishes are made from scratch. Some of the best dishes I have ever had came from Leeway. Very friendly service.
Stopped by for lunch on a Friday afternoon. It is a little bit hard to find. Upon entering I noticed that the place was very clean and organized. There are several menus on the wall including an attractive colored caulk blackboard. I ordered a pork cheese-steak sandwich with a mixed order of fires and tots on the side. The pork was spicy and tender, although it was sliced a little thicker than other cheese steak sandwiches Ive had. There were banana peppers and cheese on a soft toasted roll. The fries are thick and have a good potato taste. The tots were tots. Lunch set me back over $13 without a drink. Service was prompt and friendly.
When I say I’ll never eat again I mean it in a good way... This is comfort food to the Max! Love that everything is fresh which makes it extra delicious. I Tried the breakfast burrito and Chicago dog both tasty as hell.🤩
Patty Melt was delicious. The portions are awesome.
Good stuff. Rueben, Philly style.
I waited 30 minutes for an order that was called in. Upon arrival I was told the order would be a couple of minutes but it really took 30. In addition, the Chicago dog had a bratwurst and not an all beef frank. A true Chicago dog has an all beef frank. I will try this place again and see what happens. It was okay, nothing extraordinary.
Fantastic menu and even better weekly specials. Great service and staff. Highly recommend!
Yummiest chilli dog and crispy tots Ive ever had. Family loved the melts and fries. Well be back real soon.
One of the best little spots in Lawrence. They serve gourmet hot dogs, brats and burgers. The menu changes frequently and it seems like every new item is a huge hit. I love their tots and you cant go wrong with their classic brat.
The food is always delicious and I love trying their monthly specials. Highly recommend!
Good food takes time. Dont come to get right in and out. Placed a call in order and they were right on time. Food was accurate and delicious. Hand-created and crafted for deliciousness.
Excellent in-store made sausages. Perfect tots and fries. Everything is madeto order. Friendly service.
Nice simple/delicious menu! Bratwurst and hotdogs. The brats and dogs are big restaurant sized ones and are made to order. You can have a Tots or fries. They also have burgers and other specials. Definitely recommend this place. The food is really delicious and the service is very nice. Its a small space. So beware if they are busy you may want to get it to go. Regardless, definitely check it out!!!
Walked In, Was yelled at by the worker, walked out. While we were there for 30 seconds we noticed it was like $13 for a hot dog. Would not recommend
This might be my new favorite place to eat in Lawrence! The breakfast burrito is life changing.
Delicious Bratwurst! Recommend for a great lunch!
Excellent burgers gravy and fries
Hard to beat Leeway for anything burger/sausage related. There’s just nowhere nearby that produces the level of quality or deliciousness. Don’t sleep on the tots & fries either, both are absolute dynamite! If that wasn’t enough, their new butcher shop next door will send you home with something amazing any day of the week. High quality, locally sourced, sustainable foods, a friendly, knowledgable staff, and fair pricing makes Leeway a sure shot.
Top quality ingredients & a creative, rotating Specials board. The food is always excellent & the staff are some of the friendliest in town. An absolute favorite - I recommend it to everyone!
Best restaurant in Lawrence. I have easily eaten here over 300 times and Ive maybe had 2 or 3 subpar meals. The food is always delicious and the service is always prompt and kind. I will eat here until the day I die...or move away, whichever comes first.
This place is phenomenal and the service was excellent. The menu is unique, but familiar and they may have the best burger in town.
Good burger
This place is awesome! ! They get all their meat locally. Hamburgers, franks, bratwurst, lamb. .....and on and on. Always have different specials and a standard menu as well. The staff is great! My client and I stop in regularly and its been the same stellar experience every time! ! Dont miss out!
Fabulous employees and so kind! The food was made fresh to order, which is appreciated especially for something simple such as a brat or burger. The decor was clean and simple, the food simple yet delicious and priced right! I enjoyed the brat and kraut and my husband enjoyed the breakfast tacos.
Truly phenomenal sausage and sandwich joint with great, creative selections. Service is very friendly, and happily accommodates requested adjustments with your order. I have yet to find a better hot dog/sausage restaurant in the area, let alone in Lawrence.
The best hotdogs I’ve ever had. No joke. Handmade is how they’re best made. Also, a must try: the tots with brown gravy. Watch out, though: they’re closed Mondays. Found that out the hard way.
Excellent locally owned restaurant featuring local and regional products. Try the choppy tots! (Chopped burger over wonderful tater tots w/lettuce, pickle, sauce.)
Definitely coming back! They have. Amazing brats, and breakfast tacos/biscuits
This was one of the best chili dogs i have ever had. This is a must stop. Food hot and fresh.
It is delicious but its pricey and has small portions so had to take a star. Otherwise its hard to beat those meats!
I know youre not going to believe me, but just take my word for it: best burger in town. Also, a really good curated selection of beers. This place is the perfect hole in the wall.
The things that make a place to eat great is of course the food, which at Leeway Franks is always delicious but more importantly the employees. The people that work here are kind, attentive and always professional. They make eating at Leeway Franks awesome! Also if you are looking for a great Chili Dog and dont want to wait long, this is the place to go!
Best food in Lawrence, HANDS DOWN. I love this place with all my heart. I eat there at least once a week. I suggest always ordering off the specials board first as those items are typically limited in quantity available and you never know when they will be back.
Great service. Food is good but not mind blowing. Wouldnt hesitate to go again but not dying to try it against.
Chili Dog was Delicious! Cheeseburger was great! Tots did not disappoint! Will definitely be back! Love coming here when in town!
Had greek styled goat in a toasted bun. Called it goat kebab. Very good. Our group had hot dogs, brats, original condiments and all well-made. Service was good. Cafe was in an old strip mall, so atmosphere left a little to be desired, but it was comfortable. Prices were competitive. Expect A LOT of food, I should have shared mine.
The perfect place! Good choices, great staff. Great food
Not a bad little spot. Went in thinking it would be some dressed up hot dogs but no way. Meat selection was great and the toppings and fries are really good. Hard to spot from the parking lot as its in a strip mall.
Super clean, super friendly and super tasty! The Chili Dog is a spiritual experience and the breakfast sandwich with sausage is the only proper way to start the day. My favorite restaurant in Lawrence, and its not even close.
Fast, friendly service. Fantastic food. Im kind of stuck on the Leeway Frank, but also tried Poutine for the first time here. Definitely a comfort food. Heres to many more years for this place in Lawrence.
Good food and decent selection of beer for as small as they are. I went specifically for the impossible burger patties and they were good. Not the cheapest dive though.
Food is ok, not fabulous. The teeter tots are tasty thought salty. the wait is long
Always fresh and fun. Had bologna sliders and fritos pie this visit...
Best place to get meet. Staff is super cool and smart
Relaxed spot with awesome food. All their meats are prepared in house. Great and filling breakfast, tasty and plentiful. Sandwiches are superb. And their tater tots are wonderful, with crunch and freshly made.
I never thought Id be a regular at a hot dog joint, but this place is bomb. Great ingredients, although Im not sure why they allow American not cheese within their establishment. Hot dogs are great in bulk to go as well. Brat is awesome. Italian sausage is awesome. Tots are ridiculous.
Best burger in town. Grease drips down your arm and the taste is phenomenal. Hotdogs are great also. Great customer experience too.Highly recommend!!!!
This is our favorite place in town! If you are thinking about going, Do It! Amazing, delicious sausage, bratwurst, burgers, fries, tots and more. Great beer selection and service at this local hole in the wall.
Excellent burgers, dogs, special sandwiches. Amazing tater tots. Nice little craft beer selection. Great experience every time!
So i inevitably feel like the outlier, but here is my honest opinion. The food is very good, bordering excellent. The prices leave a lot to be desired. I most recently got the philly cheesesteak. I ordered one for me and one for my wife. Each philly is 15 dollars, making two 32.70 out the door with tax. I find the price to be ridiculous, and quite frankly unaffordable. Even with tots or fries that price is just too high. They could be doing so much more business if it werent for the price gouging. I will not return until they adjust their prices accordingly.
Great place for having hot dogs, bratwurst, chicken fingers. Price for a bratwurst over a be hot dog bun with seeds, with tarter tots was $8... overall is a good and comfy place. Is small so keep that on mind.
Crazy young girl running around slamming dishes around and cleaning tables pushing carts around the dining area making noise and banging dishes behind the counter and dropping them. She also had a friend stand at the counter and all you could hear was them socializing. Awful experience, could not enjoy my food. 1 star for the young man who checked us out as he was friendly and started a conversation and 1 star for the brautwerst it was delicious.The experience/ambiance matters just as much as the taste of food.The poutine was an insult as there was a drizzle of gravy literally and ice cold cheese curds that were not melted.
I fell in love with tots again! Very cute atmosphere, friendly staff! Amazing food! Must go! Highly recommended.
The lamb tacos I had here were so seasoned, I could not tell what the meat was. It was ground, thats all I can say. The seasoning was overpowering to the point I could not finish the order! I love tacos,I fully enjoy spices, I adore lamb meat - there was nothing to love in these tacos. Very, very disappointed. Why go to the effort to have lamb, then ruin it with over seasoning? Sad, very sad. We have eaten here often. The burgers are great!
Excellent. Real. Good. Tasty. Food. In a cosy diner with Friendly People. Delicious. Cant wait to return.
Stopped by Leeway Franks today. Got out of my comfort zone and had the rabbit paprikash. It was amazing! Thank you Lee for a great culinary experience.
Leeway Franks is fantastic. The owner processes all of the meat himself. It could not be any fresher. You can also pick up meat items to cook at home!
Great place for hot dogs and sausages. Also recommend the tater tots
Best damn bratwurst i’ve ever had, and we were a ‘grill at the lake every weekend’ kind of family. Absolutely outstanding. This place got me excited about meat again.
My initial thoughts were $8 for a brat and fries? When I received my meal, I thought, All this for $8! So good! I saw some other menu items I would like to try.
I uploaded a picture but I bought a 14 dollar burger and 4 dollar side of cheese fries. I got a tiny burger...though it tasted great. Plus in the same box less than a handful of fries with a ramekin of nacho cheese, small ramekin. My roommates bought a 10 dollar meal, polish sausage and tots. There were twice as many tots in their meal than fries in mine. They also got a 7 dollar meal for their son. Im assuming the weight of the burgers was more on my end but when opening boxes there seemed to be more food and tots in his kids meal. I was dissatisfied.
Great gem of a restaurant
Real hotdogs. I mean REAL, I suspect the casing was the real deal too. Their Chicago Dog and fries filled me up. Husbands lamb kabob looked delicious, plus was bought at the county Fair from local 4H kids.
Delicious local food! The chili dog is a must try, and the fries are great. If youre in Lawrence and crave hot dogs, Leeway is the best choice!!
Saw this place as we were walking down Iowa and decided to have dinner. I was very impressed! The staff was super friendly and very patient with our indecisive kids lol. Everything was delicious! I recommend the Chicago dog! The ingredients were fresh, the poppyseed bun had great flavor, the tater tots had a perfect crisp.....it was all so good!
A great little place for a fun lunch. The sausages are fabulous with that pleasantsnap you can only get from a real deal dog.
