The West Virginia Hot Dog Blog

Right off of Interstate 79 Exit 133 near Farimont sits D.J.'s 50's and 60's Diner. For years I have seen this little retro looki...

A reader from Fairmont reports that the beloved Yann's Hot Dogs is open once again. He writes: As you have already learned from someone ...

A fellow from London ( not this one ) who travels extensively has started a neat blog that deals with the world-wide phenomenon of sausage s...

As the closest locally-owned Chevron station to my house, I try to buy my gas at South Side Chevron (even if it always a penny or two more p...

This Hot Dog Joint has been on my "must visit" list ever since Epicurious placed it on its list of the ten best hot dogs in Ameri...

I've retooled the main site over at wvhotdogs.com. Some of the changes include: Frames are out. Advertisements are in. A Google search o...

Yuck. Go to Pete's instead. It's just down and across the street.

Ripley is a typical West Virginia small town. It has a Main Street, a Church Street, a Maple Street and a WalMart. It has a beautiful courth...

Now I bet you saw the title of this post and thought this was going to be a brief little post. No, it is a rather long post about a hot dog ...

Circleville, Ohio is the home of the annual "Pumpkin Show" which is hands-down the greatest festival I have ever visited. I had f...

I found the above public domain photo of the world's longest hot dog here . At 104' 9", it was done as a publicity stunt for ...

You know the saying "There's nothing worse than a reformed anything"? Well, it's true and the truth behind the saying is a...

I had hot dogs today. "So what?" you say. They were good hot dogs. From Chris' . I felt like having hot dogs but didn't fe...

I was astonished when I rounded the curve and saw the sign. After all I had just left Clendenin, it with its two excellent hot dog joints Sh...

Update: I figured out a way to recover the old posts and to make them display on individual post pages as "Old Comments." Phew! Th...

After I posted the Clendenin DQ review last week I got an email that said that the best hot dogs in West Virginia could be found at Shafer...

So I get an email from a guy, Eddie, who says the best hot dogs around can be found at Maynor's Sandwich Shop in Elkview. He tells me th...

One of the neatest lunchspots in the Charleston area is hidden in plain sight on McCorkle Avenue in South Charleston. It's called ...

As September comes to a close, so does Dairy Queen month on the West Virginia Hot Dog Blog. It's been fun. I have certainly gained more...

Located right on Rt. 119 North, this little Dairy Queen has been a mainstay in Clendenin since at least the 1960's. A host of restauran...