The Lantern

Friendly service and great food. The Lantern has the best Greek salad around.

Good food, great service and great menu choices. Coming from a large household of picky eaters it’s the one place we can go and there is something for everyone.

Always have fresh food. Made quickly and not expensive. Love their ¹⁄₃ lb. cheeseburgers. My son loves their cheesesteak sandwiches. Never had a bad meal there. Great place!

Came across this local treasure purely by chance. Kept it simple: burgers, onion rings and fries. Went with the Lantern special burger.1/3 pound perfectly charbroiled to order on a fresh bun with a thin slice of Virginia ham and the sweetest onion ever! Added cheese to create a true masterpiece! Rings and fries hot but otherwise only OK. Saw many others ordering their signature hot dog (maybe next time)…and there definitely will be a next time!

We are in dire search of trying to find a good hot dog place so with a craving for one and a search through Unilocal… The Lantern presented itself with 4 ½ stars.
Unfortunately, the place couldn’t present much more than its overly hyped reviews.
The menu and quality of food was reminiscent of a High School football game. The prices matched for a high school allowance too, so maybe that was the theme.
The only other patrons were over 60 years old which I can only contribute that they were there to obtain a nostalgic memory since the interior seemed to be as old as they were.
Luckily, we only lived 10 minutes away because I wouldn’t have wanted to travel any more than that.

The Lantern is a very clean, casual place to have a meal of hotdogs, burgers, disco fries, milkshakes, etc. A small island counter serving complimentary pickles, onions, etc. They have an area with tables on the outside with a walk up window to order ice cream, it’s cute. Good soft serve and hard ice cream. Very pleasant service and good food. I will be going back. :)

Good quick food as we were passing through hungry. Fries were great among other things such as hot dogs and burgers. Fast and friendly service.

The Lantern has consistently excellent food, with charbroiled burgers, Texas hot dogs, all sorts of great fun food. The condiment bar has nice thin sliced pickles, onions, jalapeños, etc. The staff is friendly, and the owner always has an eye on things to make sure everything stays clean. They do have salads– but I’ve never tried them– the Texas dogs are too good to pass up.

We have passed this place by many times so sad we did cause we have definitely missed out on some great eats for the past 6 year’s! Stupid us but low and behold today we tried it and let me tell you the most amazing food you could eat!
Counter ordering and seating old time style! You order and they bring it to you!
We had the lantern Special a cheeseburger with Virginia ham and american cheese a slice of white onion the whole size of the juiciest burger you will ever eat. As I took the first bite of this monster of a meal on the best hard soft roll I ever had the juice just dripped onto the yummy French Fry’s making them even more fantastic. I ordered mine medium and it was perfection!
The onion I’m thinking was a Spanish white one was so crisp and sweet. The beat part is they have a pickle bar and I added crunchy dill garlic chips to my burger of greatness! It doesn’t end yet YES I got a Texas Weiner all the way! The snap of the dog when bitten into was a great treat the sauce and onions and relish was bringing me back to my childhood days of going to Libby’s to get the dogs and sauce with my aunt and uncle. The only really bad thing about this place is they have ice cream soft serve and hard ice cream. What’s so bad you ask about Ice cream? We were so stuffed from the plates of goodness we were mad we couldn’t eat ice cream haha! Going to have ice cream first next time!
Overall what a great find and great service by Ginny and the rest of the staff! This is going to be real hard to resist especially since our son works up the street and they have a drive through! Its a must go and eat kinda place

Great place for fries w/​gravy, burgers etc. Very fast service and reasonably priced. I love this place. Everything on the menu is tasty and a bargain.

I’ve been here a couple times and always enjoyed it, thanks to the friendly staff and the good food. It’s definitely not fancy but it’s a good place to hang out and have breakfast with some friends.

Great food, reasonable prices. The food portions where good. I went in hungry and left full and content.

The best quick spot around. Huge variety of foods, cheap, and decent portions.