The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

For the longest time, it seemed as though the hot dog culture in the greater Clarksburg area had reached a level of complacency. There hadn...

A mid-morning business trip took me back through the Stealey section of Clarksburg, and I was shocked to find out that one of the better HDJ...

After a long, unintended break from doing reviews, I decided it was time to get back to work and see what new offerings I could find in the ...

Sometimes there is nothing better than just playing it safe and sticking with something familiar and reliable. With that thought in mind, I...

Ask anyone in the Clarksburg area to name a place to get good ice cream, and you'll likely hear Toni's Ice Cream mentioned more tha...

In the north central region, there are two hot dog chains which hold court over all smaller HDJs near them, Hometown Hot Dogs and T&L Ho...

The vast majority of the time you're likely to find little deviation from one local chain or franchised restaurant to the next, save fo...

Well over fifty years ago, the Parkette sat at the end of what is now known as Old Bridgeport Hill, just on the border of the limits of Brid...

We've received a couple of e-mails recommending we give the D&P Restaurant a try. Right along U.S. Route 19 in the Edgewood section ...

Clarksburg's Hometown Hot Dogs is housed in a building that could easily win an award for "Most Nondescript". The small brick...

Lodge #78 of the Fraternal Order of Police opened not all that long ago at the former Jim Reid’s restaurant in Nutter Fort. Jim Reid’s alwa...

Once in a great while you're fortunate enough to discover a unique place totally by accident that, much like a rare artifact, becomes a...

The A&W at the Eastpointe shopping center in Clarksburg is actually a combination A&W and Long John Silver’s restaurant. Both are br...

Thelma’s Lunch is one of those places that never seem to either stand out or fade away. You just know it’s there and that it’s always been t...

If there’s one constant in the hunt for a great hot dog, it should be that any claims of “our famous sauce” or “our famous chili” or the lik...