The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

The Southern Kitchen on McCorkle Avenue in Kanawha City is nothing less than a Charleston landmark. It's been the favorite late-night/ea...

Mayberry's started out in a little storefront location along MacCorkle Avenue near the St. Albans Mall. It seemed very successful in thi...

Wendy's has been advertising their new Carolina Burger. I had no idea what it was until I went in for a regular Ohio Burger. Here's ...

I've found it tedious posting reviews on both this blog and on wvhotdogs.com, and since they are much easier to access over there I am g...

Hot dogs are an obligitory item on locally owned eateries in southern West Virginia. So it didn't surprise me when I went in to The Farm...

When I found out that Hillbilly Hot Dogs had a location in Culloden I was very happy because I had been trying to get to either the Lesage o...

Since they also have locations in Barboursville and Milton, I had already decided to lump the Hurricane location of Farley's Famous Hot ...

At the top of Central Avenue in South Charleston is a unique little convenience store/restaurant. The uniqueness stems from the restaurant s...

How can you pass up a place with a sign that says "Try our world famous Mud Suck Hot Dogs"? I couldn't. For those who aren...

The official West Virginia Hot Dog website is up and running! Check it out and take it for a test drive. It has a few features that Blogger ...

While I was waiting to get around to a review of Bowincals, a once thriving little HDJ chain in and around the Charleston area, something fu...

Right across from Joe Fazio's on Bullitt Street, as part of the BB&T operations center complex, sits a little lunch spot that is ope...

Hey all you WV Hot Doggers, I've decided that it is impossible to make reviews decently browse-able by categories on Blogger so I'll...

Used to be that you could buy a hot dog at dozen different places on the old Rt. 119 between Charleston and Elkview. The Elk River area alwa...

Remember when bowling alleys were bowling alleys? For a while they called them "bowling establishments" to make them sound classie...

The next chapter in the Great Bowling Alley WVHD Search took me to Nitro to check on the dogs at Towne & Country Lanes. Would my hot dog...

It was a beautiful springtime Saturday afternoon and I was craving ramps . I knew there would be a roadside stand in upper Kanawha City sell...

The Gold Dome Restaurant sat at the northern end of the old Kanawha City bridge until the interstate construction buried it under in the ear...

Chessandlena.com has an interesting discussion about the existence and migration of a national slaw line. I think it runs much farther nort...

On Rt. 62 between Dunbar and Cross Lanes, in the land that locals call "Little Tyler Mountain" you will find a little place that i...