For seven years, Jennie Kelley ran one of the most talked-about dining experiences in Dallas out of her own home in Deep Ellum. The underground supper club was called FRANK, it seated 20 people per dinner, and at its peak more than 15,000 people had signed up for the weekly lottery just for a chance to get in. The Chicago Tribune called it one of the hardest reservations to get in the country. When Kelley’s partner Brandon Moore moved in, the deal was simple: the dinners continued regardless. “He got sick once, and we had to have FRANK,” she recalled later. They kept having FRANK until 2019, when the operation finally outgrew what a house could hold.
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