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Kojak Drive-In

3.6 (45 reviews)
InexpensiveAmerican, Hot Dogs
Closed 10:00 am - 11:00 pm

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Casual
Quiet
Good for kids
Good for groups

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Burnt bun, hard puck of chicken. Tastes as gross as it looks.
Leanne E.

Cannot believe that THIS is supposed to be a breaded chicken sandwich? A breaded triangle of processed chicken . Disgusting. Like a gas station chicken sandwich. Microwaved, hard and gross.

Homemade chicken noodle soup
Kb2215 K.

Best chicken noodle soup Love the nacho cheese Taco on a pita bread with sour cream And their fountain drinks are good

Hot dog
Dan B.

Kojak Drive-In is a small diner located off of 79th street in Burbank. There's a few tables set up on the inside and a long counter to order. While not particularly clean, it's not too messy on the inside. It's more or less a fairly typical older Chicago-style fast food eatery. In visiting Kojak's I decided to try the hot dog, though I had a serious temptation to try their Big baby cheeseburger. In any event I'll go over the hot dog. The hot dog I received came on a regular non-poppy seed bun. The pickle on the hot dog was thicker than I would like. There was only one slice of tomato covering roughly half the hot dog. There were no hot peppers on the dog. the application of mustard and relish was a bit heavy. The sausage itself was skinless but didn't taste very good, it either wasn't properly heated or wasn't a particularly good brand. I couldn't easily identify the vendor of the dog itself. There were also fries with this hot dog. They were fairly decent tasting though a bit greasy. On this particular trip of hot dog places I had a friend with me who felt whatever grease they cooked it in had a strange taste. I noticed an aftertaste from the fries but nothing that was an unpleasant flavor. Overall, this was a poor quality hot dog. The frank itself wasn't good tasting, it was assembled rather sloppily and just didn't taste good. The fries didn't do it any favor. If I weren't going to do hot dog reviews I would have tried the big baby. Maybe some day I will. But overall I'm going to give this one star and recommend avoiding the hot dogs.

Oh my god so delicious
Chedi N.

Best rib eye steak and fries. I love it . Both were fresh and tasty. Friendly register helped me to choose my meal . It was awesome tasty.definitely come back again . Rib eye steak was juicy and tasty

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Amazing Gyros definitely the best in the area. Shakes are good too. Hot dog with fries

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The best service and the best food. Highly recommend coming in. Pauly is the man. One of the best gyros I've had.

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2 years ago

For the quality of the food, it's highly over priced. If you're hungry, I guess it's edible. More like Nojacks

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I've been going to Kojaks since I was a kid. It's still good and they have a great selection of food. Friendly service.

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Orders were not quite right a couple times. Inside is gross. Staff isn't friendly. Time for a makeover.

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Great food at great prices. I've gone at different times of the day and have always received quick service.

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4.3
(9 reviews)
3.6 mi

What a hidden gem this place is. In the area for work and a bunch of the locals here kept telling…read moreme to try this place out. I'm so glad I did. I ended up going there for dinner two different times during the week. I was here. It's not a fancy place, but I'm not a fancy person lol, they have several different options of items to order. The variety is incredible. This is Home with the big baby burger and if you've never tried one order it and thank me later, I had that one night and then last night I had the gyro platter. Oh my God, the portions are huge ended up, taking it back to the hotel and snacking on it later it comes with fries and there were so much food. I never even got to them on the first round of eating it will be back every time I'm in town for work. Did I mention the prices are extremely cheap and the service was really fast. It's clean and quiet and theyve got a couple TVs but more can you ask for.

Well originally I was craving for Portillos but since this whole week I've been working at Midway I…read morekept seeing this hole and below local restaurant.. This is my first time trying Nikki's and I was actually suprised at the Italian beef. It was not bland compared to Al's Beef or Portillo's but at the same time it was not too salty. I like that they use steak fries. Very chunky. As for the choice of a drink for the meal for $12.99 they had horchatas as well as Jamaican juice and mango or the regular soda fountain drinks. I would have given them four stars for my experience but after seeing that they don't have a bathroom to wash your hands. Service was ok. Ambience was like a hole in the wall or very local which is good. I would come back but next time would like to try their burgers or their barbecue rib tips. I do recommend for such food.

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Italian beef with sweet peppers soak in au juous
Italian beef with sweet peppers soak in au juous
This is what the place looks like and that's all the food I got

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This is what the place looks like and that's all the food I got

Kojak Drive-In - tradamerican - Updated July 2026

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