I'll see if there is any interest in a thread like this.

Nominate your local favorite hot dog, Brat, etc...share a link, video what makes it great. As tailgate season approaches it might be good to branch out and try something new.

I'll start off with a bratwurst nominee

Carle's Bratwurst of Bucyrus, OH an USAF buddy introduced them to me. Simple awesome.

http://www.carlesbrats.com/shop.html

Pat's Chili Dogs, Tucson Arizona

https://roadfood.com/restaurants/pats-drive-in/

Sonoran Hot Dogs

El Guero Canelo

https://www.elguerocanelo.com/

Or BK's (my favorite)

http://www.bktacos.com/

(05-23-2019 08:09 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  Pat's Chili Dogs, Tucson Arizona

https://roadfood.com/restaurants/pats-drive-in/

Sonoran Hot Dogs

El Guero Canelo

https://www.elguerocanelo.com/

Or BK's (my favorite)

http://www.bktacos.com/

Now I'm hungry.

I like the Sonoran dogs from those carts they have outside the Rose Bowl.

When in Berkeley, it has to be Top Dog...

http://www.topdoghotdogs.com/themenu.html

My favorite is the Hot Link, but the Calabrese is also really good. Grab two dogs from here on your walk up to the stadium and you'll finish at least one before you get to the gate.

Mark,

What style of dog; grilled, fried or dirty water?

(05-23-2019 08:55 PM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  Mark,

What style of dog; grilled, fried or dirty water?

I like them grilled. A Hofmann Snappy Griller (white hot coney) It is weisswurst made of Pork and Veal.

Made by Hofmann Sausage

The most famous place to get them are at Heid's in Syracuse Suburb of Liverpool. I only dress it with a spicy brown mustard. Occasionally, maybe some sauerkraut.

Conecuh Sausage......enough said.

https://conecuhsausage.com/

(05-23-2019 09:22 PM)ValleyBoy Wrote:  Conecuh Sausage......enough said.

https://conecuhsausage.com/

I second that...great link sausage. I buy them at the Fort Drum Commissary north of Syracuse and we put it in our tailgate jambalaya and gumbo. I can also find it down in Tampa.

(05-23-2019 09:14 PM)TexanMark Wrote:  

(05-23-2019 08:55 PM)mikeinsec127 Wrote:  Mark,

What style of dog; grilled, fried or dirty water?

I like them grilled. A Hofmann Snappy Griller (white hot coney) It is weisswurst made of Pork and Veal.

Made by Hofmann Sausage

The most famous place to get them are at Heid's in Syracuse Suburb of Liverpool. I only dress it with a spicy brown mustard. Occasionally, maybe some sauerkraut.

OK, my personal favorite is a local product - Thumann's dog done at home on the gas grill.
For all other styles, I like to use Best Beef Franks from the Motherland of Newark, NJ. It is very similar to a Sabrett/Nathans dog.
NJ is a hotdog Mecca, with many famous places to go. Try one of these.
1. Rutt's Hut ripper (Clifton, NJ), which is deep fat fried.
2. Dicky Dee's Italian hotdog (Newark, NJ), deep fat fried with potatoes and peppers&onions then served on baked pizza dough bread.
3. Libby's Texas wiener (Paterson, NJ), grilled on cooktop and served with a Greek style chilli and hot onions.
4. JJ's hotdog truck (Newark, NJ), dirty water dogs done about 100 different ways.
5. Destination Dogs (New Brunswick, NJ), an actual nice bar and restaurant specializes in gourmet hotdogs and sausages.

Ted's is the best. If you disagree, you are wrong.

Also in that clip you can see loganberry pop, another thing you non-WNYers are missing out on.

Kramarczuk's in Nordeast Minneapolis. Absolutely killer bratwurst and other varieties of sausage.

Schmidt's in the German Village of Columbus, Ohio..... Can't beat their Brats or any of their German food. Plus their Creme Puffs.......

https://www.schmidthaus.com/

(05-24-2019 10:26 AM)utpotts Wrote:  Schmidt's in the German Village of Columbus, Ohio..... Can't beat their Brats or any of their German food. Plus their Creme Puffs.......

https://www.schmidthaus.com/

That is great food!

Return visit coming in 2020

Skips Hot Dogs

https://www.skipschicagodogs.com/shopmenu2

Have been going there since high school in the 80s

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If Martinsville Speedway ever hosts a football game like Bristol:

As a Chicagoan, I'll put in the obligatory claim for Portillo's. Great hot dogs, Polish sausage, Italian beef sandwiches, burgers, chocolate cake, and milkshakes (including merging the latter two into a chocolate cake shake). You can argue that particular places in Chicago might have a better hot dog or Italian beef (as I'm partial to Al's Italian Beef), but Portillo's does have consistency across its entire huge menu of Chicago foodstuffs that deliver from top to bottom. If you're lucky enough to have a critical mass of transplanted Chicagoans living near you (such as Phoenix/Scottsdale and Tampa), you might get a Portillo's of your own.

It's probably Chicago's version of In-N-Out in terms of its business structure, where it's a local chain but tightly controlled with all of the locations being owner/operated with a limited supply chain for quality purposes.

(05-24-2019 01:58 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  As a Chicagoan, I'll put in the obligatory claim for Portillo's. Great hot dogs, Polish sausage, Italian beef sandwiches, burgers, chocolate cake, and milkshakes (including merging the latter two into a chocolate cake shake). You can argue that particular places in Chicago might have a better hot dog or Italian beef (as I'm partial to Al's Italian Beef), but Portillo's does have consistency across its entire huge menu of Chicago foodstuffs that deliver from top to bottom. If you're lucky enough to have a critical mass of transplanted Chicagoans living near you (such as Phoenix/Scottsdale and Tampa), you might get a Portillo's of your own.

It's probably Chicago's version of In-N-Out in terms of its business structure, where it's a local chain but tightly controlled with all of the locations being owner/operated with a limited supply chain for quality purposes.

Portillo's to my house in Arizona: 5 minutes

Cubs Spring Training Park is 1.5 miles from that Portillo's

Love me some Italian Beef and Chicago Style Hot Dogs

Here's the best hot dog in Tampa:

https://www.melshotdogs.com/



Also kind of cool - it's in the only remaining building from the old Henderson Field:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborou..._Air_Field

which ceased activity after World War II and ultimately became the land that became USF.

USFFan

(05-24-2019 01:58 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  As a Chicagoan, I'll put in the obligatory claim for Portillo's. Great hot dogs, Polish sausage, Italian beef sandwiches, burgers, chocolate cake, and milkshakes (including merging the latter two into a chocolate cake shake). You can argue that particular places in Chicago might have a better hot dog or Italian beef (as I'm partial to Al's Italian Beef), but Portillo's does have consistency across its entire huge menu of Chicago foodstuffs that deliver from top to bottom. If you're lucky enough to have a critical mass of transplanted Chicagoans living near you (such as Phoenix/Scottsdale and Tampa), you might get a Portillo's of your own.

It's probably Chicago's version of In-N-Out in terms of its business structure, where it's a local chain but tightly controlled with all of the locations being owner/operated with a limited supply chain for quality purposes.

I have to tell you - we have Portillo's here, and the Italian beef (especially the Big Beef) and the combo with sausage is outstanding. Can't knock the shakes, either. Or the ability to get a draft beer. But the hot dogs themselves are puny compared to the ones we can get at Mel's.

USFFan

(05-24-2019 10:26 AM)utpotts Wrote:  Schmidt's in the German Village of Columbus, Ohio..... Can't beat their Brats or any of their German food. Plus their Creme Puffs.......

https://www.schmidthaus.com/

Never had Schmidt's when I lived in Ohio but Toledo's Tony Packo's Hungarian Hot Dogs are to die for.



Tony Packo's